[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] Learn page

[Vanessa Gennarelli]

An autofill feature here w/b awesome--it's good for error prevention.
Flickr's self-tagging feature led to a usability disaster--just check for a
misspelling of "Massachusetts<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=massachusets&f=hp>"
to see what I mean.

I think Stack Overflow has an autofill feature that suggests & clusters
together overlapping concepts, so there aren't repeats--I think John
Britton told me about it?

I like where the copy for the directions is going v. much :).

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:

> We might even want to be more blunt with that language. "Add tags to
> describe the subject matter of your course so it can be found easily. Use
> both broad and specific terms for maximum searchability."
>
> Also, it would help if admin review tags and add appropriate phrases if
> deemed necessary.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> Flickr had a great guide to tags which they would point users to to help
>> them tag their photos more effectively.
>>
>> One idea might be to paraphrase some parts of that guide and add them to
>> the course creation process at the point where people tag their course.
>>
>> Off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like: "tagging your course
>> helps people to find it, and will mean you get more signups. Some good
>> examples of useful tags are ones that describe the type of learning
>> experience (course, challenge, study group) the subject (music, HTML, Web
>> making, psychology, physics) the learning style (self-study, group work,
>> portfolio building)...." blah blah blah.
>>
>> Building taxonomies is harder than people think, but we
>> can definitely help them curate their stuff better. I'm totally okay with
>> admin retagging stuff to make it more findable too.
>>
>> B
>>
>>
>> On 14 August 2012 16:41, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I think admin should be able to edit/improve course tags for the sake of
>>> curation and improving searchability. Admin already help organizers by
>>> fixing typos and links in course pages.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at the learn page, so far I have a few comments:
>>>>
>>>> Featured, Schools and Tags all seems to act like links - they act the
>>>> same regardless of where you come from. They also clear any language
>>>> selections you've made before - like unchecking "All Languages" and
>>>> resetting the selected language to the current locale. That basically
>>>> kills the whole language preference!
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking that we should divide the elements on the Learn page in 3
>>>> categories:
>>>> - Links/catalogues - links to lists of courses (community picks,
>>>> showcase, school of open, ... )
>>>> - Tags/filters - filtering using tags the way other sites like stack
>>>> overflow does it
>>>> - Search preferences - currently only language preferences carried
>>>> over to links and tags
>>>>
>>>> If we sort that out and implement a very basic search that searches
>>>> through keywords and the course names I think we are already well on
>>>> our way to improving course discovery!
>>>>
>>>> One other concern is that currently a few courses takes over the tags
>>>> completely! I'm not saying it's not good courses, but other courses
>>>> needs some sunshine too :)
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Dirk
>>>>
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Vanessa Gennarelli
Learning Lead, Peer 2 Peer University
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