Alan Webb / John
2 Feb
For reference - https://nighttrain.mybalsamiq.com/projects/p2pucoursepageredesign/grid
- How was the safari?
- Update: Max Harper and Laura White will be helping put together badges and curriculum. Little bit about them.
- Update: Timeline
Step 1
1) Landing Page signup page - I still need to make copy with Alex, needed to wait for some things to fall into place on our end first
- Really crisp
- Get feedback from mailing list
- Be clear on actions from the page
- Consider: Maps and pictures of people Hubs, etc.
Step 2 - what's included in things you want to implement anyway?
2) "course promotion" / "community reviewed groups" - Q: Checklist on course pages linked to helpdesk articles, before 'publishing' a course to Learn page?
- Draft courses to be approved
3) "Group course / challenge creation" / "Group course page" - Q: hierarchy including course, group, chapter, challenge?
- Would probably have to include a way within a "course" to list active groups within it right? Thoughts?
- Currently have a challenge set
- Possibly: If you include a link to a challenge set, it embeds it
How to market to the whole of P2PU - kind of like meetup everywhere
Step 3 - more discussion needed
4) Make remix a more prominent feature of courses - Phil thinks this is good but that its an important design challenge to go through and get right. Your thoughts?
5) Checklists for "Masters" program participants on user profiles - list and check off badges and courses - Q: what is your thinking on personal profiles right now?
6) Making discussions public or private
7) Embeddable widget of the course group lists (e.g. a wordpress plugin or other widget options)
8) Calendaring / Responsibility-claiming for topics within given groups
Q: If I am writing sponsorship proposals, how much should I ask for for P2PU? Helpful if its stuff that I can say is attached to that list above (even things you would do anyway)? Attach prices to some of these things above?
Hire a developer for 3 months - $25k ($100k / year)
Give $10k - Support hiring a developer for 1 month and some time from a designer to support creating the infrastructure for the prototype course (Design Thinking), priorities include:
1) Badge support from designer
2) Global course landing page
You get:
Give $15k - Supports 2 more months of development, for building infrastructure of the Master program. Priorities:
3) Remixable courses
4) Checklist for Masters participants on the profile
You get:
Give $25k - Supports 3 more months of development to spsonsor advanced functionality. Possible priorities include:
5) Making discussions public or private
6) Embeddable widget of the course group lists (e.g. a wordpress plugin or other widget options)
7) Calendaring / Responsibility-claiming for topics within given groups
You get:
Sponsor the launch event, not SoSI, the course. Option: put on an awesome event to raise $50-60k - 4 weeks of effort for Alan, John can help.
Alan Webb/ Philipp
1 Feb
- Moved updated lab notes into separate etherpad -> http://pad.p2pu.org/lab
- Ashoka U
- Open Education Week
- Product development
18 Jan
- P2PU is a lab for social learning online
- Discussion:
- Who is the customer?
- End-user who needs education or education innovators who reach the end-users?
- Discussion in Berlin: P2PU is all about "community" and about giving anyone the opportunity to find their passion and pursue it. Can we be the lab that moves the system in this direction, but we won't reach everyone ourselves? Does that feel right?
- The Goal is:
- Hypothesis-driven projects
- Prototypes of new models
- Large scale experiments
- Enable innovation that reaches millions
- Project areas:
- Re-imagine online learning - Learning challenges, Mentoring
- Assessments that work like the web - Badges pilot, learning challenges, badges
- New credentials - Badges
- Blended learning - SoSI
- Technology and tools
- "The Wire" blog aggregator
- Pilot site / model - wiki & mailing lists
- Drupal based learning management system
- Lernanta social learning platform
- Django OBI integration
- Role of the P2PU platform (Lernanta)
- Might need two platform approach (production and lab.p2pu.org)
- Platform for experimentation
- Social learning product that evolves through experimentation
- Allows others to extend / expand / experiment
- Accomodates differenet approaches, models
- Strategic implications
- Experimentation is the engine of innovation
- Drives development of the platform
- Drives development of separate tools
- Increases our understanding of how to improve social learning online
- Frames P2PU as a series of experiments, with or without partners
- Success not 100% tied to product
- Natural fit for existing P2PU identity / community
- Alignment around values and a desire to innovate education, not around the use of a particular platform
- Some experimentation takes place outside of p2pu.org
- Examples for what P2PU as a lab looks like:
- SoSI - <fill in how SoSI is a model for experimentation / partnership with Ashoka etc.>
- Badges - Wrote white paper with Mozilla. Built first prototype using OSQA and piloted in School of Webcraft. Spun off into independent badges infrastructure project hosted at Mozilla with support from MacArthur Foundation.
- Learning Challenges (Re-imagining the online course experience) - Realized that scaling traditional course model online didn't work. Want to make learning peer-based, engaging, hands-on. Developed a challenge model and platform to support it. Currently experimenting, refining it.
- What we learned:
- User like challenges (80% of Webmaking 101 participatns would recommend to friends)
- School of Webcraft - Defined the idea of a school. Picked a content area that was amenable to learning innovation (no entrenched competition, users generally online and innovative, low barriers to entry for alternative certification). Experimented with process for identification of important skills. Fostered a community of users. Currently rolling out other experiments (learning challenges, badges) through SoW. And started other schools based on experience with Webcraft.
- What we learned:
- Courses won't scale as quickly as demand
- Long-term success of schools depends on long-term commitment from partners
- How do we move in this direction?
- Run hackathons to experiment with new ideas
- Bring together developers and education folks to build prototypes
- Beef up metrics, research, data expertise
- Data sharing policy (and defined processes) to enable research partnerships
- Focus onboarding process on reaching innovators and bringing them into the community
- Technology implications:
- Make it easier to expand the platform (unless that's what we offer as consulting)
- Define interfaces so Lernanta can link to other tools
- Separates lab experiments from production site
- Process to improve production site based on experiments
- Vision of "Remix" button
11 Jan
- Hub DC Design Thinking Course & Open Education Week Plan
- Open Ed Week proposal 20 Jan
- Submit a proposal for a seminar and offline event
- Announce the course (start date in late March)
- If just this, might do a pre-recorded voice-over
- Call for participation (and get the word out to your friends)
- Call for remix
- Call for possible collaboration
- Model of courses and conferences
- Model of multi-local, remixable courses
- + Event with Hub DC
- Development plan
- Chime in on ways to keep groups and cohorts in the discussion on challenges and groups
- Make sure that John is aware of the priorities for this project and deadlines
- The earlier he can get this into the project pipeline the better
- DML Round II Submission
- Option 1) Focus on general 21st Century Skills badges
- Option 2) Content specific badges (eg design thinking, social innovation)
- Making badges for design thinking overlaps with other projects / interests - we'd get double benefit out of it
- Alan put into right space a really short paragraph about "other ways of potentially sharing"
- Ashoka U Interest in Peer Masters Concept
- George Mason interested in setting up a Masters in Social Innovation
- Alan's vision:
- Scalable and flexible programme
- Could study through informal networks / the Hub
- Could accumulate informal research and pull together into a PhD/Masters
- Provide a space where content can evolve much faster than institutions can
- Early stages conversation
- Second Muse
- Great potential - support from Second Muse
- Berlin - July looks most likely
- Connect with Second Muse re beta house
- Alan to intro Bekka and Alan by email
- P2PU Labs strategizing
22 Dec
Agenda:
- P2PU Labs strategizing and how I can help push that vision forward (btw, what do you think of MITx announcement?)
- Brewing Hub DC collaboration, over a Design Thinking course to launch at OEW, leading potentially to a bigger SoSI partnership across the Hub network. I'll also update you on what's happening at the Ashoka U Exchange, as both the process and the tech development plans of both will probably be related and mutually reinforcing, in my mind. I think those are the last two pieces I want to talk out with you before I put together the microgrant application.
- Scheduling of stuff over Jan, Feb, and Mar - where each of us will be in the world and where we can meet a few times, if schedules allow.
Plan:
- Create a Design Thinking course
- Collaboration between Hub DC / SoSI
- Figure out how to make online/offline work
- Needs development work (!!!)
- [5 Mar 2011] - Launch during OEW
- Could be announcement for sign-up if dev needs more time
- Create badges attached to the course (but not limited to this course)
- Present the pilot at Hub association meeting in late March to get others Hubs to start additional courses following the same model
- Q: What about others (non Hub)?
- A: Non exclusive, but leveraging existing network / build brand recognition
- Potentially -> Grow into Masters Programme in Social Innovation disseminated through the Hub and hosted on P2PU (SoSI)
Next steps:
- Submit micro-grant application to support Alan's time
- Put together a short description that can be shared internally
- Discuss wireframes with John / Zuzel / Chloe
- Confirm what resources are needed:
- Developer time
- Chloe's time designing assessments / badges
- Either through a HackJam or if needed co-funding, or fit into P2PU pipeline, etc.