[p2pu-dev] Making applications public

Pippa Buchanan Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 08:27:08 UTC 2011


Well, the peer-based assessment behind badges allows users to see other
model posts and I think that sign-up should offer the same learning from
others opportunity.

+1 from me.

On 19 April 2011 23:03, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is quite interesting - I remember us discussing this in Toronto, and
> Zuzel coming up with the ingenious system of accepting applications. We
> decided to only make the accepted applications public, and to only make them
> public to accepted members, in case of sign up tasks that could be copied
> (ie download this textbook and solve the first assignment).
>
> Fast forward to the CSCL Intro course which I am organizing. Right now I
> have a lot of followers, but not that many participants (which is fine, we
> already have a good group of people, but I'd like a few more). We have a few
> participants who didn't supply much info, so I replied to their post and
> asked them to provide more (and I love how easy the system is , compared to
> what we had at the old site!!)... and we had some that were really great.
> Originally I was planning to wait until the end of sign up period to review
> applications and let people in fair and square. But then I was thinking, I
> don't think I'll get a huge amount of qualified applicants anyway, and it
> might be nice to have the accepted people's applications show up on the
> application page, to "model" good answers, and create a bit of buzz around
> applying to participate, rather than just "following"...
>
> So I accepted four people, and then went to look at the page from a
> not-logged in browser... Ah, cannot see anything. Because of course you have
> to be accepted in the class to see it. Which means that these applications
> cannot serve as "models" to others coming to apply...
>
> So I didn't want to file this as a bug report, because I am not sure we
> want to change it - I could see reasons for doing it this way, but I wanted
> to share this experience with you. It will be interesting to see how other
> courses use the application functionality, and whether they like it as it
> is, or would like anything changed.
>
> Stian
>
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