Point Person: Alison@p2pu.org
Overall Target (from Anya's funders): non traditional students
- People who describe their journey as incomplete
- Not primary focus on people who already have degrees
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/
Organizers:
Luka: LBCarfagna@gmail.com, 412-848-8588
- Role: Interview participants, facilitate DIY U call
Anna: Annalinks@gmail.com, 206-384-9847
- Role: research particpants, facilitate DIY U call
Alison: alison@p2pu.org
- Role: Challenge design, P2PU help, badge Integration, and showcasing interesting results
== Roadmap ==
JANUARY
- Redesign DIY U [Alison, Anna, Luka]
FEBRUARY
- Launch DIY U - Feb 1 [Alison]
- Develop "DIY U Credential" Challenge [Luka]
- Develop "DIY U" Badge [Alison]
- Compile research into trends [Anna, Luka]
- Survey participants [Anna, Luka]
- Implement improvements based on research [Alison, Anna, Luka]
== Design Draft ==
- Convert http://www.scribd.com/doc/60954896/EdupunksGuide into P2PU challenge
- Pick your path
- Create a Space to work in
- What does success look like?
- Make a list of the skills & credientials you need to have
- Build a personal learning network
- Indentify leanring opportunities, communities of intertest
- Find a Mentor(s)
- informal formal guides in your chosen path
- Get to work
- Find an apprenticeship, course or project to commit to
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NOTES
24 JANUARY
- Current draft: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/
- Task: read through task list, make improve, add media [ by Jan 31 ]
- Task: outreach plan
- Luka:
- PhD student @ BC
- researching DIY learners
- in depth interviews
- Anna:
- public humanities @ Brown
- previously worked in humanities
- led to interest in adult ed, outside walls of academy, personal enrichment/socialization
- led into resesearch into community learning, peer learning, how communities sustain themselves
- Luka: Getting buy-in from target audience will not be as easy as early-adopter crowd
- Credentials process is integral for that target audience
- How can we integrate "get credential" into P2PU?
- Alison: can we develop a second challenge for "Get a DIY Credential"?
- Task: Add a DIY U participant call
- recurring, monthly or biweekly
- add info to the challenge page
- Research requests: http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo
- How-to: edit settings of course: p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/edit
Next Call:
- discuss first week
- walk-through of metrics
- challenge # 2 Get a DIY Credential?
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Design considerations from: http://images.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-ChallengedBasedLearning.pdf?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
- Multiple points of entry and varied and multiple possible solutions
- Authentic connection with multiple disciplines
- Focus on the development of 21st century skills
- Leveraging of 24/7 access to up-to-date technology tools and resources
- Use of Web 2.0 tools for organizing, collaborating, and sharing
- Focus on universal challenges with local solutions
- Requirement that students do something rather than just learn about something
- Documentation of the learning experience from challenge to solution
OLD GROUP:
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u-getting-started-with-self-learning/
Aug 15-19: Build basic structure / agree on logistics
- Put together basic set of tasks/challenges:
- Personal learning plan
- Personal learning network
- Finding people with expertise
- Demonstrate value to your network
- this is a challenge to present as a once-off task - Could this be framed in a way that encourages regular checkin?-agreed--all of these tasks really could/should be framed as ongoing commitments. Maybe cohorts of people who join at specific times/dates commit to checking in with each other over a period of time.
- I'd drill down into the idea of "demonstrating value" a little bit more.
- esp Showing Up Does this involve keeping a learning journal / blog? < building this portfolio space is worth an entire Task / (or even course) in itself.
Aug 22 - 30: Dev/Tech (Anya on Break)
- [Ali] Discuss/ design features that might be needed (see Features section below)
Sep 1 - Announce Pilot Kicks-off
- Blog post about the DIY course [Anya]
- what exactly are people signing up for?
- p2pu is experimenting with group model for personal learning
- new features under development (and looking for input) but not ready for pilot
- the "real" course starts Sep 30 (or whenever)
- Screencast on how to make a personal learning plan [Alison]
- Pilot:
- Limit size (5-10 ppl)
- Good mix: some people from P2PU, and some total newbies
- Make sure process works for larger audience when we launch Sep 30
- Use for feedback on feature discussion (see Features section below)
Sep 6 - xxx? begin Test Pilot
Sep 6 - Sep 30
- Implement any new features that might be needed (see Features section below)
LAUNCH --- Sep 30: Launch Edupunksguide.org / P2PU course
- provide community support
- ongoing DIY course
Oct 24 edupunksguide.org full website launch w/ annotations/comments
- relaunch polished version of DIY (with link from edupunksguide.org)
Nov
Dec: Holidays ;-)
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Features / Dev (in order of priority)
- (1) Tasks can be tagged/marked completed
- Only show in new group type "Personal Learning Plan"
- Permissions: creator or mentors can mark as completed / incomplete
- Sidebar: indicate completion with checkbox icon per task
- Tasklist: indicate completion with checkbox icon per task
- (nice to have) trigger notification to creator and mentors
- Alternative until it gets implemented [add (done) to the task title]
- (2) New group type: Personal Learning Plan (or just learning plan)
- Top priority is to have a new "type" in order to enable (1), all following features are lower priority:
- Users create their own personal learning plans with a series of tasks they plan to work though.
- Mentors will be personal contacts (who are specifically asked to come to the site and sign-up as mentors) as well as volunteer mentors from the P2PU community.
- Suggested changes:
- Allow an additional "kind" of learning experience in create course form
- Permissions:
- = > Mentors (participants) can edit content
- = > Sign-up is moderated (or closed) -- see below detail on sign-up process
- Terminology: Change term "participants" to "mentors"
- Change terminology in "sidebar" (and other occurences of term "Participant")
- Terminology: Change button text from "Participate" to "Mentor"
- List / Browse:
- Two options:
- If we can mark them as distinct then list on http://p2pu.org/en/groups/ under heading "Personal Learning Plans" - respect checkbox "Not listed"
- If that's too complicated, then don't list at all (regardless of "Not listed" option)
- For discussion -> Sign-up process: The default sign-up is a little confusing to someone coming to "mentor"
- Ideally --> If it's not too complex, change the sign-up form for mentors (remove a lot of the text, only show custom questions)
- http://p2pu.org/en/groups/css-bliss-beyond/sign-up/answer/
- If modifying sign-up process is too complex, then ask creators to add/delete users manually (no sign-up process at all) -- this can be done in the meantime at edit/participants until the learning plan features are implemented.
- (Not for now / reconsider in the future) - Tasks have dates attached to them
- John (by email): We decided not to use dates when we last talked about this.
- Philipp: Dates are complicated. How would this work? Describing the use-case (Alison logs into her personal learning plan, etc.) might help.
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Discussion
- [Pippa]
- I think this will be really interesting - and it will be interesting to see what other tasks / challenges people respond with.
- From my perspective it's easy to identify LOTS of things to learn and even with a plan to have them fall by the wayside :-). Is the goal of this course to identify a plan around a very specific learning goal (eg. Learn to play guitar / speak French) or to learn everything you've ever wanted to learn (A Liberal Arts Degree). The task currently specifies that "earning a degree" doesn't count as a goal, b/c it's not an end in itself :)
- It would be useful to rephrase the Planning task to specify that the plan is most useful for one particular goal and that you might want to repeat the process for additional goals. Having a time frame might also give people the idea of an appropriate size learning task.