[p2pu-dev] FWD: Accessing Member Email Addresses

[B. Maura Townsend]

Dan, I think the issue is that you have it set up so that non-members
cannot read the content of the discussions, as you said in your first
message:
>      Who can view?
>	Only members can view group content viewable without opening the group up to

You can make the content available without allowing it to be
effectively unmoderated.

BMT

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Those are the settings I initially set up - neither the group is listed in
> the Google Directory nor can someone join without approval and I would
> basically equate that to being accepted into the course via the signup tasks
> negotiated via the p2pu platform. I could relax either of those settings but
> I have not gone through the test to see if those changes expose
> email addresses to people not in the course. Now you might have
> a visceral negative reaction to those settings but I would suggest the
> following be considered.
> To me the openness should focus on the content of the courses such as
> creative commons materials used or produced and the work product
> participants create while doing assignments and discussing issues. The chit
> chat of introducing members to each other, casually announcing where one is
> from or the work they do in not really of the same caliber of information.
> Quite frankly much of this noise is ephemera of little long term use. Also,
> I don't think you would get the same "forming, norming and
> strorming" dynamics work in smaller groups produce if you opened up the
> discussion for all the world to listen in on.
> The other issue is that if anyone can drop in on a course in progress
> without making a contribution, performing the signup tasks and join the
> activities as if they were in the course a you sort of devalue the
> commitment other members of the course made by performing the requested
> acts and meeting the prerequisites. Moreover, from marketing perspective
> P2PU should be developing its branding and setting standards to make it the
> go to place for online learning cognizant of the principles of openness and
> peer learning upon which is founded. Now maybe dev isn't the place for
> this discussion as it is technically focused but these are things to
> consider.
> If you want me to change the settings of the groups let me know after
> considering the above points.
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