Vision
In 2022, the Training Team will empower users to achieve their goals with WordPress through actionable and practical learning experiences that bring the community together.
Values
The Training team values clear, open-source, quality content that fosters diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging among its contributors.
For WordPress users who want to grow, Learn.WordPress.org is a platform that offers high-quality learning opportunities. Learn WordPress is the official source of information and learning about both the software and its community, and is free to use. It is produced for the community by the community.
Stakeholders
Whose input shapes what we do? Who are we doing this for? (users, providers, influencers, governance)
Also visit the post: Who can Learn WordPress help
- Users
- WordPress Open Source Software Project
- Project executive leadership
- Make teams
- Contributors
- Meetup & WordCamp organizers
- Extenders with livelihoods related to WordPress
- Informal community gatherings (social media groups, owned forums/events/Slack/socials)
Representation of Stakeholders
We aspire to have representation from diverse organizations and individuals within and beyond the WordPress ecosystem, including:
- Scale/sizes of organizations
- Locales
- Freelancer marketplace
- Enterprise/agency
- Product and service providers (plugin/theme devs, SaaS, Integrations)
- WP Communicators (bloggers, podcasters, hosts)
- Hiring organizations (contract or employer)
- External trainers/instructors
- Accessibility, Internationalization, and Diversity
- Open Source Software
Methods and Priorities for team goals
- Needs Analysis
- Define learning experiences
- Onboard subject matter experts
- Site functionality
- Team organization
- Contributor onboarding, tracking, outreach
- Cross-team collaboration
- Official WordPress certification
Obstacles
What could potentially make these goals difficult to achieve and what specific actions can be done to overcome any obstacles? Dependencies, risks, etc.
- Awareness about LearnWP and value proposition
- Quality/accuracy control of materials
- Keeping pace with WP releases
- Limitations of the Learning Management System (LMS)
- Site functionality and design
- Gathering issues and ideas at the right phase of planning and implementation
- Time
- Availability for existing and new: content creators, site developers, volunteer/self-sponsored contributors, sponsored contributors
- Familiarity with tools and procedures
- Ongoing impact of COVID
- Distinguishing the audience (learner, facilitator/teacher)
- Competing stakeholder priorities
- Team agreement on types of learning experiences, alignment of content types to the vision
- The scope of Who can Learn WordPress help is a vast audience.
Evaluation
How will we know we have achieved success or successfully completed our tasks from the chosen methods.
- Feedback forms for those who have used a lesson plan, completed a workshop, completed a course
- Anticipated content creation:
- 6 courses per year
- 4 social learning spaces per week
- 1 workshop per week
- Data collection methods needed in conjunction with determining goals for each:
- Results from 2022 Annual WP Survey
- Support team indication of common questions in forums. Informal cross-team collaboration inquiring about common trends and ways Learn WordPress can be a resource for Support.
- Increased visitors to LearnWP
- Download stats
- Mentions of LearnWP in media
- Average course completions
- Google Analytics
- VideoPress metrics
- Popularity metrics
- Social learning spaces attendees – new and repeat
- Number of WP contributors
- Quantity of training team contributors and content created
Milestones
March 1, 2022
- Use GitHub Projects in LearnWP repository for managing team activity
- Implement a Faculty program (like Community Deputies, name to be determined)
- Brainstorm and discovery for the creation of a Needs Analysis
- Plan promotions with the Marketing Team
- Create Instructor/Facilitator resources portion on LearnWP
June 1, 2022
- Conduct Needs Analysis
- Create content useful for WordCamp Europe
- Release roadmap of new content (that isn’t tied to WP releases/features)
- Assess content that has the largest impact
- Overhaul the “Submit an Idea” form. Build in conditional logic for workshop, lesson plan, and course.
- Ongoing promotions collaborations with other Make teams such as Marketing, Polyglots, Docs, Accessibility, Community
September 1, 2022
- Curriculum Advisory Board (working title) planning and outreach
- Site functionality roadmap
- Redesign of site based upon UX audit and Needs Analysis
- SEO for site structure
- Content filters based upon interest or profession
- Defined learning pathways
- Merge lesson plans and workshops
- Content for onboarding contributors (Make teams, Meetup organizers, WordCamp volunteers)
- Ongoing promotions collaborations with the Marketing Team
- Create content for WordCamp US
December 1, 2022
- Plan the discovery phase for official WordPress.org certification
- Comparing other Open Source Software methods
- Compare other Open Source Software training models
- Compare any proprietary certifications and training prep
- Collect the issues, what works, what didn’t work well
- Define Cohorts – strategy and handbooks
- Define courses toward certification with pathways and outcomes
- LearnWP Admin Dashboard to track stats and contribution
- Option of portfolio-worthy projects for users to run alongside courses
- Ongoing promotions collaborations with the Marketing Team
Props
Attendees: Thanks to @azhiyadev @webtechpooja @courane01 @hlashbrooke @west7 @arasae @rkohilakis @chrisbadgett @docpop @peteringersoll @kemmy99 @meher @webcommsat who participated in 3 team goal setting meetings.
Proofreading: Thanks also to @webtechpooja @webcommsat for proofreading this summary of the goals for 2022.