What is a study group?

'a study group gathers people who work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.'
http://pastie.org/1893409



Screencast - Create a Course @ P2PU
by Alison Cole 
http://vimeo.com/24138754

What is a study group? on P2PU Q&A
http://qa.p2pu.org/questions/109/what-is-a-study-group

2:11 in Phillip's Video
http://vimeo.com/11158136

http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002/tickets/280-use-of-mutiple-terms-instead-of-course-or-study-groups

from
http://pad.p2pu.org/community

12 May 2011

• Terminology

Terminology

• Report from the board meeting is that "courses" should still be supported 
• Alison + Pippa have started discussing ways of idenitfying how best to transition between "courses" and "study groups" 
  • Joe: both = good, also add "working group" and other choices?
• How to handle the transition between "developing" and "in progress"
• How can users "hide" their group until they feel confident of making them public
• is the language change something to do now? or later...
  • simple interface changes we can make now
    • "Help Develop" as a secondary action to participate that is primary invitation when a group is "under development"
    • BK: how important is the language discussion (eg facilitator v organiser)
      • have to have 100% consensus
• courses vs study groups and other terms can make people locked into certain behaviors
• create learning project?
  • course, study group, weekend workshop, etc.
• just terminology or also differences in functionality (e.g. permissions)
  • I'm thinking functionality too -- so depending on what terminology you select permisions change for the users perhaps since it is all a "project"?
  • Joe: +1
• Philipp: suggestion on new flow
  • don't need 100% agreement
  • remove study group from main page, and just add "learn"+1
  • ppl can think of whatever they're signing-up for as whateve (study group, course)+1
  • allow organizer to "name" project from some choices, or adding a description of how it works
  • Kind of texts in lernanta that include the words study group -- http://pastie.org/1893409.
• suggests not voting but allowing people to decide themselves as they create
• Alison: suggestions
  • removing terminology where it doesn't need to exist
  • organzier  suggest their experience and be more prominent on the main page  (expert, novice, etc?) ... Charlie: sort of like it used to be on old  courses?
  • Joe: lots of (optional) drop-down menus at course creation time = good