[p2pu-dev] P2PU Homepage

Philipp Schmidt philipp at p2pu.org
Thu Nov 17 14:18:15 UTC 2011


Joao: Great to hear from you again and congratulations regarding the
degree.

We've been speaking a lot about increasing the sense of community and using
color more strategically fits very well with that suggestion.

P

2011/11/5 João Menezes <tonyhomes at gmail.com>

> Hey there everyone, [?]
> Sorry for my absence lately, I'm about to get my degree this month and
> I've been rushing with it for some time now.
>
> Great to see evolution with P2PU Design-related topics. I remember
> commenting something about P2PU branding in the past, and I see we can
> explore it a bit more. As participating in P2PU is something cool and fun,
> there could be more spots of color in it. I'm not saying color must replace
> the minimalist interface we currently have neither get in the way of any
> elements. As color is an emotional/subjective resource, it has the ability
> to make P2PU unique.
>
> Here are some references I took from Abduzeedo.com that explore both
> simplistic and colorful interface elements (being them banners, photos,
> icons, headliners, etc):
>
> https://booki.sh/
> http://wearepandr.com/
> http://10k.aneventapart.com/
> http://virb.com/
> http://pinpointsocial.com/
> http://columnfivemedia.com/
> http://duet.me/
> http://foodsense.is/
>
> Again, I'm not saying the website must be the antique collection of
> colorful boxes we had last year. I just feel it connects better with the
> spirit of P2PU being more emotional and not so systemic.
>
> Keep it up!
> João
>
>
> PS: Heard there are some P2PU sessions at Mozilla Festival this year - way
> to go! :)
>
>
> 2011/11/3 Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org>
>
>> A few points. There's a few too may threads to interject them in between
>> the lines.
>>
>> Overall this looks great!
>>
>> I like the infographic that tells the story of "how it works". Perhaps
>> the "recognition" button should have a badge icon instead of a graduation
>> cap?
>>
>> I have issues with the "as featured in"  stream of publications that have
>> featured us. Most pubs have mentioned us in passing in articles that focus
>> on the bigger picture of education and haven't actually directly endorsed
>> our mission anyhow.
>>
>> A visitor should get a strong sense of a DIY community upon first glance
>> of P2PU. This is way more important and, like Jessy, I feel it's missing
>> from the front page. I'd rather see a brief showcase of people and courses.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >What needs to be changed? What needs to be removed?
>>>
>>> Read till end.
>>>
>>> There was an interesting post on Reddit today from an intern at the Khan
>>> Academy on the subject of using "*Machine Learning to Assess Student
>>> Mastery*". While repetition and testing is not the paradigm P2PU uses,
>>> it is interesting to see the level of mathematics (logistic regression)
>>> being applied to assess student proficiency at Khan. In the results section
>>> of the post, A/B testing was mentioned as being used to evaluate different
>>> math models for calculating learner proficiency. This apparently isn't the
>>> only area where A/B testing is used at Khan to drive decisions.
>>>
>>> To put A/B testing in perspective of web site design decisions, check
>>> out three slides in this presentation starting on slide 7 where two
>>> different registration forms are presented:
>>>
>>> http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/3296257?startSlide=7
>>>
>>> Well apparently Ben Kamens - lead dev at Khan - is using a A/B testing
>>> framework at Khan:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/kamens/gae_bingo
>>>
>>> This framework makes it dead simple to inject alternatives into the Khan
>>> platform and to automatically collect data from a sample of users
>>> concerning which alternative has the better outcome or metric.
>>>
>>> This framework runs seamlessly on Google's App Engine (Khan runs on App
>>> Engine) but is allegedly framework agnostic (works with webapp, Django,
>>> Flask, whatever).
>>>
>>> So to comment on the original question "*What needs to be changed? What
>>> needs to be removed?*" it would be very interesting and cutting edge to
>>> answer some of these questions based on live A/B testing of the P2PU
>>> platform.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Alison
>>
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