Open Source Curriculum Fellowship

Enki is dedicated to helping developers everywhere with their careers, and improve the average technical knowledge of everyone, and we need help with this mission!

There are three levels of fellowship available. Each comes with mentorship in educational theory and planning by experts, weekly 1:1s, formative feedback on your work and promotion of your work at the end. All of the work you'll do will be open-source and accessible to the wider educational community. All are remote, with office locations in San Francisco and London.

Student Fellowship

Open to current students of a computer science program or recent bootcamp graduates. Receive a monthly stipend of $800 USD to write open-source education materials that fit in the Enki ecosystem.

Best for:

• Students who want to break into education technology
• Students who want to write about technology
• Students who want to be able to develop their own educational materials

You will learn:

• How to write about technology
• How to create challenges and puzzles that demonstrate concepts
• About whatever you are writing about

Hacker in Residence

Open to software engineers who have at least 5 years of programming experience. Receive a monthly stipend of $1500 USD a month for three months to create a course of your own design. Must possess enough expertise to reasonably write about a topic, and have enough English language writing skills to communicate in a business & engineering team setting. (Content translation opportunities next year! 🌎 🌍 🌏)

Best for:

• Technical people wanting to work in EdTech who don't have a lot of background in education
• Technical people wanting to learn how to plan and develop their own educational materials

You will learn:

• Content production strategy
• Course design and planning
• Basic educational research methods
• Learning efficacy measurement
• Way more about whatever you're designing a course around

Expert Fellowship

Open to recognized experts in a topic. Receive a generous stipend to create enki-platform definitive educational materials that are free and open source. Must have excellent technical knowledge and writing ability, with some content production experience.

You will learn:

• How to determine the effectiveness of learning materials
• How to measure student progress and design interventions for common problems
• How to scale personal educational efforts
• How to quantify personal educational impact
• A lot about whatever you thought you were an expert in

To Apply

Send an email to [email protected] with your cover letter and a link to something like a resume (linkedin counts, just make sure it gives me a good idea of who you are and what you know how to do).

The Application Process

The first step is to file a Pull Request on an open issue and have it accepted, which will get you to the first interview. If you file a pull request that fully covers an objective, it will count as your interview project.

In the first interview, we'll talk over your background and what you'd be most interested in contributing to. Priority will be given to applicants writing about:

• Android Development & Java
• iOS Development & Swift
• Information Security
• Machine Learning

We'll create some educational objectives together, and you'll write some questions based on those objectives. From those questions, you'll create insights. You'll be responsible for creating 1 Workout, consisting of 4-6 Insights, and one Game or Exercise.

You will be expected to create a pull request to hold your workout as it's in progress. Draft work should be stored there, and may be commented on by the community. Get a few rounds of feedback from the community and the internal contributors before you submit your work. While your workout is in progress, you are being evaluated on your working style, not your work itself. Curriculum is best written with mindshare, because it is about producing materials that transfer understanding, and you can't test the transfer of understanding alone.

Once you are finished, you'll receive a final review, where your finished workout will be evaluated and depending on the results of the evaluation, you'll either be given an offer to join the fellowship or you'll remain a community contributor. Fellowship members in good standing can continue for a second 3-month term or may be given a freelance rate to continue curriculum development.

Complete Workouts will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Completeness of the coverage of the objective
• Clarity of the writing and the examples
• Accuracy of the questions and the content
• Relevance to the objective of the questions and the content

Your working style will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Openness to feedback and criticism (have a growth mindset)
• Transparency and collaborative spirit (post draft work that's in progress and ask questions in the contributor's slack as you are thinking, seek mindshare)
• Feedback loop count and length, and overall responsiveness (primarily looking at how long this cycle takes: post work and get feedback, incorporate changes, post changes)
• Autonomy and ownership of your work

You are explicitly not evaluated on the following criteria:

• Familiarity with git and github (though we do expect you pick it up on your own, feel free to ask questions)
• Whether or not you've contributed to open-source projects before
• Needing help with formatting (use the Generator, also we'll help you)
• Time spent waiting for a review (or waiting for anything from us)