P2PU Community Call
Thursday 29 August 2013

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/9fd646c554c81b13b5f57ac4ebc768f27244489d

Attendees:

• Marisa
•  Erika
• Bekka
• James
• Philipp

    

List of Projects (delete those that have no news) :

• MOOC Maker (Dirk)
• P2PU Homepage (Erika)
• Courses UX (Dirk)
• P2PU Internal Tech (Dirk) 
• 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)
• Deeper Learning MOOC (Karen F?)

Agenda

• Progress (what we've been working on)
  • P2PU Strategy (almost ready to go to board) - thank you everyone for input
  • New MOOC project (partnership with High Tech High). This was originally a ML project, but doesn't make sense there. Better to run with P2PU. We are getting a small sub-grant to support. 
  • Badges:
    • Sprint 3 well underway: https://trello.com/b/nxvdZ6fR/badges
    • Wireframes for dashboard in design: https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/file/d/0B5tWnajPyvXDbWJNUENYblRWa1U/edit 
      • Will solicit feedback from community--but input welcome now
    • improved creation flow (image is uploaded in real time)---YAY!!!!
    • very improved responsive design I dare you to look at them with your phone!
  • Assessment:
    • Post 1 of several almost finished
  • Data Explorer Mission
    • 1 of 3 curriculum complete
    • Date finalized Oct 18-20
  • School of Open
    • Amazing presentation by Jane at CC summit
  • Research
    • 2 proposals in to MRI for next round
  • P2PU CSS framework
    • DLMOOC CSS -> CSS Framework the work will be coupled
  • Top navigation developed as a plugin
    • still needs documentation
  • We found archive server and it is back online
  • Uploaded new report (School of Ed)
  • Met with OKFN Open Ed team
  • MOU for Marcelo (Analytics)
  • Marisa Ponti paper on Mechanical MOOC got accepted to HICSSS - will share link
• Priorities (focus next week)
  • Music MOOC kick-off conversation (found a great person to work with, need to get it started)
    • try this: http://www.jamwithchrome.com
  • DLMOOC
  • Writing MOOC--begin to wrangle the tiger team
  • Assessment--complete post one, draft post two
  • Research: JCAL call for papers, several new researchers interested in working with P2PU
  • Badges: research projects--reach out to Jane, SOO, Karen, Paul, Billy to see how they are using projects / any changes that need to be made
  • Communications - planning blog posts and messaging for next few weeks
  • Schedule of reports
  • getting ready for OKCon
• Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
  • Not clear who is the right anchor/contact at P2PU for the "MOOCs", e.g. Python MOOC (run by Steve Carson), Music MOOC, Writing MOOC, DL MOOC, ... 
• Process (org stuff)
  • Discourse is starting to be fun - How to point more people to it, get more responses to new posters, get more of the P2PU community involved?
• Ideas (on the horizon)
  • Philipp will go to Germany Sep/7 - Sep/17 (Speak at Lion's Club, University Presidents' Dinner, Wikimedia OER Keynote ... and hopefully get a new VISA to the US)
    • Might miss a few of our regular meetings during those 10 days
  • Vanessa will be full time in SF starting October 15
  • Vanessa will be attending a conference on The Future of Work: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/88fead66fc2e321c60be021f34e5d6a32124c1a9

Discussion

Topics?


Discourse

• Discourse is starting to be fun - How to point more people to it, get more responses to new posters, get more of the P2PU community involved?
  • Can we cross populate to other platforms? Like post the digest to twitter / to the blog
    • Good idea. Also to p2pu-community mailing list for a while? 
    • Who will do it, how will we actually do this? -? what does this mean?
  • Todo (Bekka):
    • P2PU-community mailing list -> Turn into announcement only - Bekka to announce and do the switch
    • Post community call notes to discourse, and send email to community list (pointing people to discourse for discussion) - Bekka to maintain / followup.

MOOCs 

• Not clear who is the right anchor/contact at P2PU for the "MOOCs", e.g. Python MOOC (run by Steve Carson), Music MOOC, Writing MOOC, DL MOOC, ... 
• Music MOOCS and Writing MOOC have no "point person"
• What would being this person involve: 
  • Business development: partner management / liason / recruitment
  • We need a project manager / Project management: Trello / d
  • Tech: Content on the splash page, where do you store the information, mechanics of the course
  • Decision around what the course would look like / design decisions
  • Learning: tools, timeline, models, partnership management
  • Weekly stand-up meetings for the project? (with VMG and one tech representative to avoid disconnects)
• What would being this per

Media Lab X - A design course for new learning platforms
MAS.S70 (Special Topics in Media Technology)
E14-493 / Wed 10-12:00

Philipp Schmidt, Pattie Maes, Mitchel Resnick, Ethan Zuckerman

One way to open up the walls of the Media Lab is through online learning - connecting students and staff on the inside, with individuals and diverse communities on the outside. 

Recent innovations in online learning have focused on improving instruction (the delivery of lectures and content). MLx looks beyond instruction to explore how project-based and peer-to-peer learning, practices we use every day at the Media Lab, could be supported online at scale. The goal of this course is to explore what online learning looks like, if it is invented at the Media Lab. 

In particular, we will take a close look at learning with communities: helping communities identify what they want to learn and what they can teach; helping us explore learning models that are more symmetrical than traditional classroom-based paradigms.

MLx is a design course, in which students create prototypes for new learning platforms. Students will work alone or in small groups, with the support of coaches and mentors (primarily Media Lab faculty). IDEO staff will guide students through the design thinking methodology. 

The course will meet weekly. It is made up of a mix of seminars to discuss relevant learning theory and literature, review recent online learning projects (and hear from the innovators behind them), and give students a chance to share their progress with each other. In the off-seminar weeks, students will meet with each other, and with coaches and mentors to work on their projects. 

Final deliverable: Project teams present and demo their prototypes or mock-ups

Logistics

• First session: Sep 4th (Intro session)
• Weekly meetings (some weeks these are seminars, other weeks students meet in project teams or with their coaches)
• Time: Wed 10-12:00
• Venue: E14-493