Project Plan: Quarterly Course Announcement!
Owner: Alison
GOALS
- Give exposure and find audiences for courses
- Bring more users into P2PU
OVERVIEW
- P2PU sets a deadline for courses to be included in next quarterly announcement.
- Announcement pushed out to the web, word spreads like wildfire!
Announcement Calendar 2012
Feb 22 (pushed ahead)- April 18
- June 4 - July 9
- karen - fyi, this round of School of Ed courses will start on a staggered schedule with the first on June 4 and the last on July 9
- July 18
- October 17
Announcement Details
- P2PU sends a press release of featured courses and link to the complete course catalog to media outlets
- "Learn" page is P2PU's course catalog: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/
- Courses of interest are featured on "learn" page and highlighted in press release content
- All courses on "learn" page have been reviewed by P2PU community
- Press releases are distributed to the press the week in advance
Process
Review Groups
Curate Learn page
- Work with the organisers to make sure it's all neat and tidy (spelling, task titles etc) - Rope Vanessa In
Create a blog post
- Spread to our networks, and use other people's networks
Quick Fix for Dirk:
We need to make sure that people get their reviews! Notifications need to be sorted.
P2PU staff and community members review all new courses. You have recieved a reveiw. Please take a look, and see what your peers think
WORK PLAN
Trello card: (https://trello.com/card/board/community-reviewed-groups/4ec0f020c137ff072a5d8afa/4eca4440773493cb4a5dc39a)
Week of May 7
- Review April promotion for points of improvement w/ P
Week of May 14
- Reach out to new partners to run courses
- Makr/Arduino
- Floss Manuals
- School of Data
- School of Open
- Latam courses (Dany)
Week of May 21
Week of May 28
Week of June 4
- Outreach for new courses/organizers
Week of June 11
- Review al new courses/challenges
Week of June 18 - July 8
Week of July 9
- Compile promotion list: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/july18
- school of data
- school of open
- other new courses
- Review courses & assist organizers w/ final touches
Week of July 15
Background Notes
Week of Feb 27 ?
- Add promotion dates to P2PU calendar
- Compile list of stategic media outlets/promoters (general)
- ENGLISH
- Press List compiled ?
- SPANISH (Dany Javier helping - expect list by 3/9)
- Compile target lists for schools
- Begin outreach for celebrity challenge endorsements with key community members
Week of March 5 ?
Week of March 12 ?
- Update copy in messaging from site when new course is created
- Send to community for review
- Add information to help desk:
how course review works- how P2PU announces courses on and off schedule
- announcement schedule
Consense on group consolidation (course/study group/challenge)
Week of March 19
- Create course & challenge infographics (Alison/Chloe)
Week of March 26
- Reminder message sent to all group creators about upcoming April announcement date
- Draft press release material
Week of April 2
Week of April 9
- Finalize press release draft material
- Finalize highlight list
- Tidy up school pages
- Begin outreach
Week of April 16
Details about dev work releated to this on this thread http://lists.p2pu.org/pipermail/p2pu-dev/2011-October/002001.html
(Context): rounds were kind of like semesters - they were used at P2PU to help get people into the site, getting them help and doing marketing for the courses in these rounds.
At the last board meeting, this was discussed, and some of the board members feel strongly that we should keep using them - or find a way to preserve the benefits of these rounds (spikes in traffic, good promotion)
Concerns:
- The amount of work that goes into orientation for rounds is high.
- At the time were there any people working full time at p2pu?
- Yes - Ali & Bekka
- now that we have more staff is it worth making it a dedicated thing
- Concern: some people who didn't want to be part of the round felt like they were being denied a service.
- Good things about round (which we want to keep)
- We had fewer problems driving traffic to "small" courses
- We got big spikes in traffic (which lifted us up to a new plateau)
- Now that we have a stronger idea of "roles" in courses, could that help organizers differentiate between those who put in the time to plan a syllabus and those who volunteer to help facilitate meetings?
- example: Brooklyn Brainery (they fill _all_ courses)
- idea: (opt-in! not mandatory) -> monthly / bi-monthly batches of courses. artificial deadlines for people that want to run courses +1 CV +1PS
- If we can encourage people to get their courses ready for an artificial deadline, then it can be a useful tool for getting promotion and sign-ups
- Curation (is a problem) at P2PU.
- perhaps batches / semesters provide an artificial deadline to meet a certain quality, being part of the batch has benefits
- we can use batches as a way to _curate_, only let the best stuff through - will also lead to people submitting more quality stuff (if their courses get voted up)
- not everyone makes the cut
- how do we (who) define quality?
- Philipp: it is easier to filter from the positive than the negative perspective - pick the best, rather than booting out the worst.
- pick the cream of the crop, only the best will be featured
- Who does this?
- How - is it possible that there could be a curator of batches/cycles?
- Ali - certian metrics are actually a very good indicator -
- More than one co-organiser
- Having three or more tasks
- A simple rubric of what is required might make it easier.
- idea: could we have a course that guides people to make courses? so PD becomes a course? i.e. the final goal of that course has people making their own.
- we've had this for a long time - not succesful so far - few people want to take a course first, to then do their own (it's a huge time commitment)- if it is something that is short and fast?
- If we have rounds P2PU needs to:
- 1) Send a call for organizers + courses
- 2) Have a course creation deadline
- 3 Curate a set of courses for the announcement
- Define a set of "guidelines" that we use for curation - so everyone knows
- But publish a course catalogue that includes all new courses
- 3) Have direct steps through the creation process
- Find co-organizers
- Develop learning outcomes THROUGH tasks
- Set dates for course to run + expectations of organizers and participants
- 4) Have a standard promotion process and clear outline of this process on the site
- This can be integrated into the course creation process
- Q: are rounds standard and folks can opt out OR is rounds a bonus we offer and folks opt in?
- PS: optional opt-in
- No, we should help! (of course!) - i want to help (light blue is chloe) ~~
- Set up as a proper p2pu project (module owner: Ali)
- make a project block on http://pad.p2pu.org/the-list (I can help)
- Include timeline planning and process clarifications in here too.
- Chloe: helps wth rubric + infographics
- Process - user submits their course to P2PU promotions
- Question: For a currently operating study group, would a course for an upcoming round be separate from it or within it? - Charlie