Monday, September 10

Mozilla open badges--send to backpack
review a badge--not disabled

Course Creation Research

• Optimizely: https://www.optimizely.com/

Assessment
http://pad.p2pu.org/p/vanessa

Bigger Questions:

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From Dirk:
II.
- This section seems a little short since these are the problems that
we are trying to address. I'm guessing you may have done so on purpose
though, so not a big problem for me
- Complexity: is this really a problem? Mostly for badge creators or
for learners when they need to apply/review?

III.
- Will badges be decoupled from courses and schools? I kind of like
the idea of badges not being specific to a single course or school
- How do we determine if a users is experienced?
- I like the idea of skills being more prominent. Maybe we should
limit tags to skills or rebrand tags as skills? They both can also
coexist.
-- Something like searching for courses by skills could be a good way
for people to find courses
-- Showing "Learn more than 1000+ skills online with your peers" and
some popular skills on the homepage can be good for PR
- There's a missing "are" in "There definitely experts among us"
- I don't completely understand the expert user pop-up box - is it
some way to ensure that a user is actually an expert?

IV.
- Will skills be tied to content/schedule? "skill acquired by week"
- Does course creation and badges correlate? Are badges created inside a course?
- Should learners see all the skill that they can learn in a course?
- Would skills acquired in a course be limited to the skills defined
by the course?

V.
- Should we introduce the concept of groups/cohorts at the same time
as assessment?

VI.
- Can we maybe show an example of what the visualization would look
like? Would it take manual input or would the skills graph be
automatically generated?
-- I like this idea!
- Does this correlate in some way to the "Knowledge map" from Khan Academy?

VII.
- Great feedback from excellent people!
- Where is the "why is this plan an improvement" section that Allan mentions?

General:
- How do we display evidence for badges?
- Do we show evidence per skill?
- Are skills 0/1? IOW, does it take only 1 peer to believe that I
mastered/have a skill?
- Does being tagged with a skill mean that: "I mastered the skill",
"Discussed the skill", "Improved on the skill"?
- Sounds like there is an expert user role that's not being explained
by this plan? Something like a user that makes an independent
assessment of a users skills who's feedback we can use to test the
effectiveness of this plan?