[p2pu-dev] DB Dump for Datamining p2pu

[Stian Håklev]

Hi Dan,

I totally agree on both points, and have thought a lot about this. I think
it's important for the future of P2PU to be data and metrics driven, both
for internal improvements and understanding, to support really interesting
research on open/online learning, and to support funding requests etc.
Therefore it's crucial to capture as much data as possible about
interactions on the site, and to be able to interface with external sites to
suck in data from them. I was thinking of having a system of "bridges" that
would connect with for example Big Blue Button, Google Groups, Flickr,
external blogs etc, and match external and internal IDs, generate stats, and
also be used to suck in feeds of data... I will try to write up something on
this in a bit.

Stian

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> >... main interest would be geared towards "retention" ...
>
> Retention could be quite problematic to track. There are no attendance or
> assessment records kept and most courses employ dissimilar external
> communication tools which might have no archive and are certainly outside
> the platform database. Quite frankly many course don't have a closuring
> event and lagging members (or the course as a whole in some cases) just sort
> of fades to grey. You might have better luck with tracking "enrollment in
> another course the next session" as a measure of continued engagement.
>
> This thread might be better continued in another place other than to note
> that the dev people need to bake more data fields into the existing and new
> platform to be able to track this type of metric as well as provide support
> for linking P2PU identity to identity in external tools. For the most part
> using an external tool disassociates a member's P2PU identity with the
> identity in the external tool. I had dozens of cases where course members
> preferred to use a different gmail email address to communicate via Google
> Groups which was different that the email address they used while
> registering with P2PU. No amount of P2PU platform integration of
> communication services is going to entirely solve this problem as there will
> always be the need or desire to use a new external communication tools. For
> larger courses or when doing assessments, research, surveys or other
> tracking you are going to have to come up with a way to preserve identity.
>
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