OKFN/P2PU MOOC School of Data Kickoff Meeting

Attendees:

• Lucy
• Vanessa
• Chris Ewald

Agenda:

• Courses
  • Data Wrangling Basics: 
  • Data Expeditions--not massive online course
• Technical Needs
  • URL
    • What should it be?
      • schoolofdata.org/datamooc
      • Subdomain---so School of Data buys
    • We will host an instance of the MOOC on our servers
      • forward the link from whatever url to our instance
      • DNS is covered in that
  • Signup page up and running
    • Timeline for that--one week
  • Naming the groups
    • List of names from OKFN
      • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mDUBIzvA5-tuCI_SY-kMrYKzYDGCw5wI_YX-QyDvi54/edit
  • Script
    • Grouping recommendations: 
      • Michael's questions: http://schoolofdata.org/2013/01/03/join-the-first-online-data-expedition-flatland-a-romance-of-heavy-dimensions/
      • Group sizes
        • Let's go with a larger group 
      • Do you like learning on your own / in a group? 
      • Expertise
        • I can count to potato
        • Piggy in the middle (neither expert nor beginner) 
        • I am Nate Silver [note - we'll advise them in the splash text of courses more suitable for them] 
      • Area of Interest: 
        • Why are you taking this course? 
          • * to gain a skill for a hobby project
          • * I want/have a job in data-wrangling
          • * to meet interesting people
          • * to save the world's problems through data
          • * to learn how to tell stories with data
          • * to better understand stuff
          • {other} 
        • More from an establishing learning goal perspective
      • International audience: timezone
  • Engagement Dashboard on Mailgun
    • Needs from OKFN
  • Importing data from gdocs - no that's for the small non-p2pu mooc

Actions: 

Vanessa: Groupify Emails
We'll need copy for a call to action for peeps to be grouped

Chris: 
Setup MOOC instance and get IP address

Lucy:
Questions MOOC signup
Splash page

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• Content
  • Signup copy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_-vMBOr-DDUkxyJPSdwn58O3f-j-WISTIuhDCGqmL4/edit#
  • Links: 
    • Long links are ugly
    • Engagement tracking--we can give you an account in mailgun to track engagement
• Posting work
  • Wordpress or P2PU.org?
  • Badges are available on p2pu.org, but folks will need a p2pu.org profile
  • Future (March 2013): Badges will be standalone from P2PU.org, easier to integrate
• User Experience/Use Case for MOOC users
  • Signup process
  • Posting work
  • Evaluating others
• Timeline
  • Signup page:
  • Badge creation: 
  • Badge implementation:
  • Launch course:
  • Complete course:
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2 courses

• Data wrangling basics - January 15th target date - See link under content
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• http://schoolofdata.org/2013/01/03/join-the-first-online-data-expedition-flatland-a-romance-of-heavy-dimensions/ - Not massive enough - about 150 people signed up

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• Mailgun account
• Do they want groups?
• Criteria for breaking apart groups
• Manual grouping?
• Link shortening
• Communication method?