Fab Academy

Intro

• http://fabacademy.org

The Fab Academy has a well-developed business model for education. It is OSE's leading competitor to education. OSE's unique value proposition is full open source tool chains, and technology that matters, vs fully proprietary toolchains and technology for employers. Employers note - see main course descripiton [1].

Benchmarking

• Costs - [2]. Around $5k as one example. $2500 for Fab Central. Local instructors get $1750 after materials.
• Accreditation - [3]

Curriculum

Fab Academy essentially has it laid out - study it and port to open source

• http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/computer_design/index.html

Fablabs

• Example Fab Lab- look at Stoughton Fab Lab - [4]

Projects

Actual projects -

• http://archive.fabacademy.org/

Notes

• From Ferdi - Fab academy is not popular in Germany because Germans are not used to paying for education