This week I have spent a good amount of time searching and looking at social media accounts, groups, podcasts, and blogs that I want to add to my personal learning network in the field of learning experience design. Some of the accounts or sites I came across ignited the social responsibility sense in me. Being fair, I have always been an advocate of social responsibility.  I worked and managed a non-profit organization for five years which counts for more than third of my working experience. Nowadays, I volunteer by advising new business owners on how to manage and grow their startups. However, what these sites sparked is how can I give back to the community thorough my practice in instructional design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the organizations that got me thinking is Mozilla Foundation<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, they believe that the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. An initiative they have called web literacy<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a great manifestation of how can instructional designers give back to the global society. With tools such as the internet our social impact can cross geographical borders, we became global citizen, a topic that deserves to be elaborate more about in another post. Mozilla\u2019s objective is to bring equitable access to the internet for more people, there solution was to curate a curriculum that covers web literacy skills and 21st century skills<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. They were able to offer this open source of learning by collaborating with a diverse community of educators, practitioners, and technologists. As instructional designers holding knowledge in both learning design and educational technological tools we are of great value to such initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another inspiring example I found to have a great impact on the community of education is the work of Dr. David Wiley<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. He is the author of the 5R framework<\/a> that many colleges and universities use to frame their open education initiatives. He advocates for open education and the use of open educational resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n