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Nick Doiron

I organized two courses on P2PU and took part in the Knight-Mozilla News Learning Lab.  I'd like to continue working with P2PU because of the role it plays in new enthusiasm for the open web ( http://commonspace.wordpress.com/mozilla-learning-proposa/ )  Just exploring the site recently, seeing if I should join or start a course, I ran into a few roadblocks.

- I found out about a "Build your own Facebook" course and was surprised to see nearly 300 subscribers. If I join, are there are a good number of active users?  If I don't join, which School has similar courses that I could join instead?  It's difficult to see this from the course page. http://p2pu.org/en/groups/create-your-own-facebook/

- I clicked on "Intro" and read the organizer's write-up, but there is no timestamp.  This makes it difficult for me to figure out when the course began.

- I clicked on Sign-up, read directions, and then see many others' sign-up answers.  The placement of the "Post answer" button is unexpectedly above what I just read.  I see some people who I wouldn't want to work with, but a few who describe a similar skill level in MySQL and PHP. Can I join some kind of study group with these people? Maybe writing a reply is the best mechanism for this? Teaming up might seem unnecessary, but when I ran my videos course several people suggested that I could use P2PU to create separate video and programming groups.

- Side note: I find the auto-answer to every one of my course's sign-ups ('Welcome Aboard  You're a participant now') good-natured, but impersonal. Is there a way I can type special responses?

Regards,
Nick Doiron


Dan Diebolt
You need to orientate your development so that each unit of allocating a development resource results in x1000 units of usage and innovation. Right now you have sort of hard coded all the aspects of the platform. Concepts like "Tasks" and "Study Groups" are sort of immutable and may be inapplicable to some learning endeavors or quite frankly fall out of fashion over time. Build more fundamental features into the platform that will allow the users and course organizer to customize:

Project Tin Can
http://scorm.com/tincan/

Their API has an "I learned this" bookmarklet to report back to the platform a learner's successful learning experience on an external domain.

http://cdn1.scorm.com/wp-content/assets/tincandocs/TinCanAPI.pdf#page=16