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Drumbeat Board Update
June 2011

Project Name: School of Webcraft


Status

• Made huge progress on platform (P2PU tech lead, and open source community in place). Beta is online and on track for full migration in June 2011, ahead of original schedule. 
• Currently hiring a Product Manager to provide overall leadership on courses, content, community, communication
• In the process of rebooting the learning model to address motivation challenge for course organizers
• Reframing the learning model: increasing flexibility to support traditional courses through to flexible study groups.
• Spinning off badges work into separate project
• Received Hewlett Foundation grant for work on assessment and analytics (needed for badges)
• Submitted ~4.3M USD proposal to Department of Labor OER grant program

Metrics

Quality

• Rebooting the learning model
• First impression points to higher stickiness within courses

Participation

• Rebooting model requires adjustment of metrics
• Separate out peripheral users (low activity) and active learners
• Adjust for dip in growth, and faster scaling up

End Q2:

• 25 study groups/ courses
• 500 active learners
• 1000 new users in community / mth
• end May: 
  • 16 groups, 270 participants, 824 followers (9 identifying as "Under Development")
  • 3 active courses (old site) 92 participants 
  • 2 active course drafts (old site, transitioning to new)  28 pending signups

End Q3:

• 70 groups/courses, 1500 active learners, 15,000 users

End Q4:

• 150 groups/courses, 3000 active learners, 50,000 users

Adoption

• NA. Impact on job opportunities only expected in Q3/Q4

Roadmap status

Q2 - "Early adopters"

Courses (status: on track, but model changed)

• Starting to prioritize course development based on community feedback

Scale/Learners (status: rebooting)

• Rebooting model requires adjusting Q2 goals down

Badges (status: on track)

• Evaluation and pilot completed, launching next iteration during Q2
• Spinning off infrastructure focused work as separate project

Platform (status: better than planned)

• Migrating during Q2

Learning (status: on track)

• In the process of rebooting the model

Global (status: behind)

• Courses in 3 languages so far
• Not a priority during Q2, because rebooting and platform dev required more resources
• new model and platform supports localisers

Q3 - "Growing acceptance"

• Big communication push around re-launch/migration to new site
• Will have first evidence for impact of new model