P2PU Community Call
20 June 2013
General progress Report
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Attendees:
Agenda
- Progress (what we've been working on)
- Reports - Berlin report is out: http://reports.p2pu.org/berlin/
- huge thanks to Joao, Bruno, Dirk, Erika for all the help YAYAYAYAYA
- Draft of Data policy is with Delia - hopefully won't have to go to more lawyers
- Planning logistics for Boston meeting - When, where, open? I'm about 90 min away - JEM<- second! Tim G (I'm ~hour)
- Move to Discourse - whoohoo!
- Data Explorer Mission postmortem: http://info.p2pu.org/2013/06/18/data-mooc-results-findings-and-recommendations/
- A lot of the discussion centreed around finding a time to meet
- Most successful group characteristcs were: core team
- Spontaneous prompts to participation
- Addressed each other by name - people to each other
- shared links
- Sent summaries to each other for people who couldn't make meetings
- 2 groups - those who understood peer learning, and others who wanted a more "traditional" MMOC experience
- takeaways: onboard people to peer learnig, grouping, build social presnce
- Talking to particiapnts: http://info.p2pu.org/2013/06/17/data-explorer-mission-from-the-inside-an-agents-story/
- Assessment ideas almost ready to share
- Demoing partner badges
- Introducing Marvin: http://info.p2pu.org/2013/06/18/introducing-marvin/
- Working on Mechanical MOOC grouping and messages that needs to be sent to experimental groups
- Prorities (focus next week)
- Newsletter/mailing lists management
- Mailchimp, Wysija?
- might need a new approach
- also talked about diff formats for diff social media platforms
- Bringing Joao into front page discussions
- MOOC report
- HP Grant with Karen
- Get assessment principles to the point of sharing
- Start building out School of Open Badges with Jane - Timeline? - JEM
- Revamp "How We Learn"
- Write experimental emails for Python Mechanical MOOC
- Write copy for Badge integration with P2PU
- MOOC research proposal
- MOOC grouping
- Implementing feedback for the new course UX
- Investigating technology to use for the updates to the home page
- Integrating Badges with p2pu.org
- Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
- Discourse had some problem with signing in (twitter, github)
- Process (org stuff)
- Paul will be in Berlin this week--do we want to talk to him about anything?
- Ideas (on the horizon)
- Office hours - do we want/need it more than once a week?
- just sign in whenever you can and with luck you will find someone there to bother
- Discussion
- People don't always get peer learning, no matter what we do. Idea: Ask people to draw pictures, write descriptions, make videos, etc. Then we'll make a short compilation video.
- Can this be connected with the language barrier (Peer is not the first english word nonenglish people learn) - good point - Has this been dealt with elsewhere for P2PU?
- Alternatives: social, decentralized, community, "teach and learn from anyone," "everyone's a teacher and a learner," "everyone has expertise," connecting and sharing, giving each other feedback