P2PU Community Call
3 January 2013
General Progress Report
Attendees
- Vanessa
- Dirk
- Bekka
- Philipp
- Luka
- Chris
Agenda
- 4 Ps and an i Report Back
- Progress (what we've been working on)
- Q: What's the status of School of Data MOOC?
- We need to have a kickoff meeting (tmr) about tech needs for that--Scoda wants to launch ASAP
- They have a curriculum, and a recommended grouping script
- Issues will be:
- Who buys the URL
- Who hosts the signup page
- Signup copy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a_-vMBOr-DDUkxyJPSdwn58O3f-j-WISTIuhDCGqmL4/edit#
- Where people will post their work to--will it be wordpress or p2pu.org?
- Badges & P2PU profiles--there's some duplication here
- Linking content--using bit.ly links to track engagement
- Is bit.ly better than the tracking from mailgun? Mailgun has great link tracking - not sure if bitly is better though
- Shouldn't we just use mailgun (since we built the MOOController party to make automatic link tracking possible) - Agreed
- Potential solution from Chris--admin account in Mailgun
- Naming the mechanical mooc groups
- OnPhD - this is very cool, btw - https://p2pu.org/en/groups/onphd-candidacy/
- Content strategy
- Reading list:
- Planned outcomes: content calendar, content outcomes/metrics for success
- Renewed our membership of OCWC
- Monitoring busy courses (loads of activity in the following courses this week:
- Badge maker
- Programming with Twitter API
- Technovation Challenge
- Webmaking 101
- MOOC Sequence 3 grouping
- Doing a confirmation email step for this sequence
- MOOC Blog Post
- Updated tech plan 2013 - https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1AoM5tp36f6cqSvuvFRzEehPOinColGeSXsmxVnrefOQ/edit
- please add comment in the doc - dirk will relook and upload next week
- MIT Media Lab / P2PU course - this is a course about creative learning technologies - it will be messy and hacked together, probably with video stuff and using Google + tools.
- Priorities (focus for next week)
- Badges dev hiring!!!
- Assessment Manifesto---get 'er DONE
- Content Strategy planning w Bekka tmr +1
- Mechanical MOOC curriculum review
- Decide on tech help for badges
- Newsletter
- Communications calendar
- Survey design
- rescheduled meeting with IndyHall Adam
- Post tech plan to blog next week
- Finish development process document
- Work on translation course
- P2PU Strategy call summary / post
- MOOC next stpes - funding proposal
- Media Lab course
- MOOC Grouping early next week
- CSS Framework
- MOOC Controller planning call (Saturday)
- School of Data MOOC
- Problems (walls I ran into on the way)
- 9AM, 1 Jan 2013 felt like I had run into a wall
- VMG is in an intensive course for the next two weeks - so give her a break!
- Process (org stuff)
- Share questions before call
- Ideas (what's on the horizon)
- FYI team--Vanessa is going to be speaking at the Content Strategy Conference (Confab): http://confabevents.com/events/minneapolis-2013/speakers/
- Also DML Badges meeting--->truth, Mozz is headed to LA to ROCK DML
- Philipp is speaking about The Future of the Future of the Future of the University / Jan 30, Berlin, http://collaboratory.de
- Surveying the Mechanical MOOC 0
- Steve Carson ran a survey with first batch of Gentle Intro to Python folks. June and Steve are looking at the data.
- Did we have any input into the types of questions asked? I think we have a lot of stuff we want to know from our users, and it makes sense for us to ask them questions more often, and well, rather than less often.