OKFN/P2PU MOOC School of Data Kickoff Meeting
Attendees:
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
- 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
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
- 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:
2 courses
- Mailgun account
- Do they want groups?
- Criteria for breaking apart groups
- Manual grouping?
- Link shortening
- Communication method?