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
- 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