P2PU Communtiy Call
22 August 2013


We're hanging out here: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/20886db477211dae6a9d9fd43ccc532630de496a?authuser=0&hl=en-GB

Attendees:

• Vanessa
• Erika
• Bekka
• Carl
• Philipp

List of Projects (delete where necessary):

• MOOC Maker (Dirk)
• P2PU Homepage (Erika)
• Courses UX (Dirk)
• P2PU Internal Tech (Dirk) 
• Boston Workshop (Bekka) 
• Lab Reports (Bekka) 
• Communications (Bekka)
• Offline MOOC (Karen)
• Assessment Framework (Vanessa)
• Badges platform (Vanessa)
• Data Explorer Mission 2 (Vanessa)
• P2PU Strategy 2013 (Philipp)
• Python MOOC (???)
• School of Open (Jane)
• School of Ed (Karen)
• School of Data (Question about how to list here - managed independently)
• Music MOOC (TBD)
• New Projects (Philipp)

Agenda

• Progress (what we've been working on)
  • Scuba certified in Honduras / repping P2PU at Creative Commons summit
  • new home page tweaks
    • link to the dashboard and other stuff that user needs
    • responsive design tweaking
      • the last deploy had some issues for the small devices (smartphones)
  • Badges got dynamic input validation when creating them
  • Reports got new School of Ed report added to them as well as new home page http://reports.p2pu.org
• Priorities (focus next week)
  • Assessment blog post
  • Badges usability and UX changes / user feedback on projects
  • MRI research: help Thieme and June
  • Data explorer: meeting with OkFN team this afternoon
• Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
• Process (org stuff)
• Ideas (on the horizon)

Discussion

Three distinct examples of different visions for P2PU

Experts for OER methods - P2PU 1.1
https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1thzV-WOrNBZO7CveL4OAPv57WAsn8lpvrdxgSDYO7Gk/edit

• More of an ideas-driven plan, less focus on the tech development / support side of things
  • This means, we might not host / operate a platform for learning
• Is social learning an OER method?
• Audience for peer learning are educators (not learners)
• Why are success metrics crossed out?
• How often do we talk about OER now (how important is oeR to what we do)?
  • This scenario could also be framed around open education and learning (less focus on R)

Empowering the world by championing OPEN - School of Open 2.0
https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1BiOxXlbrB8TH_6RwZHaHRcw5FG3HwqZsm6IvQxOEUg4/edit

• We push on "open" in order to create a more participatory world
  • I wonder about this in very passive world that we are leaving in, I mean it sounds like a really huge shift
• Do we want to broaden this to include things that aren't technically part of "open" (e.g. creative writing as a mechanism to be more participatory)

Alternative to formal higher education - University 2.0
https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1wnoezYe_1JvfCggpSLDmr68EppxiKYJNDF0Gt6ytjfE/edit

• Could move focus towards content / curriculum development for new types of jobs
• Is this focused on the 10% of people who are the creative leaders (first world connected market) or the 90%?
  • Good question to keep in our heads!
  • There is overlap between 21st century skills and what the 90% would benefit from (and what employers are asking for)
  • Can we issue something, so people can have proof - yes defintely a big part of this strategy process - nail our colors to the mast and be accountable - could lead to organisational KPIs, personal KPIs, etc

General feedback:

• VMG:  Both excited and frightened by each scenario
• for some people, peer-learning is the most important value, for some its open, for some its community; does one need to be paramount? (is it inevitable in any mission statement?)