[p2pu-dev] P2PU to infinity and beyond

[Dirk Uys]

Hi everyone.

Philipp and I had a chat about where we would like to take our platform
(lernanta):

Our technology supports people who make learning happen

Who are these mysterious folks? Broadly, they create opportunities for
others to learn. By the way, this doesn't mean we don't want our technology
to support the learners themselves, quite the contrary. We think that
making course builders happy is the best way to make learning awesome and
everybody happy.

Most members of the core P2PU community create courses (consisting of
content and a group of people learning together, typically with a
facilitator). That model will remain our cornerstone for the foreseeable
future.

But there are a million other ways that people can learn with each other
and we want to enable more of them. In order to do that we partner with
people who want to build technology that goes way beyond the course model.
We started making our core technology more modular to make it easier for
these folks to expand it, and we are planning events and outreach to grow a
community of technologists around P2PU.

What this means:

Homepage

   - We want to more clearly communicate that learning at P2PU happens in
   many different ways and that there is an amazing community of course
   builders and innovators building this thing. In addition to featuring
   courses, we plan to use our home page to better promote lab projects that
   are ready for use. We will also showcase new ideas coming from the
   community, and make it easier to get involved. P2PU.org will be your entry
   point to a variety of learning opportunities and your pathway into the
   community.


   - Next steps:


   - Prepare a wireframe / proposal for feedback from the community.


   - If you have specific ideas for this, please share them on the list for
   discussion, or contact dirk at p2pu.org directly.


Core platform & apps

   - A set of core features & services that we provide. Currently this
   includes: Profiles, Courses, Course list, Achievements & Badges, and
   Schools.


   - Next steps:


   - Improve and simplify the course experience (collapse courses, study
      groups, challenges into one model that keeps the best features
and gets rid
      of everything else).


   - Modularize the underlying architecture, so that different parts speak
      to each other through clearly defined interfaces that can be opened up as
      public APIs in the future.


Lab projects

   - This is our space to experiment with new tools. Some built by us. Most
   built by our awesome community. Things that work, will be more centrally
   supported and potentially rolled into the platform. The API built by Jose,
   Alex K's Mentoring at P2PU and the Mechanical MOOC are first examples
ofgreat lab projects.


   - Next steps:


   - Make it easier to expand the platform: roll out the API (and expand it)
      , provide a CSS style guide that makes it easier to build lab
      projects with the P2PU look & feel, etc.

Any feedback is welcome!

I'm also going through the project pipeline board (
https://trello.com/board/project-pipeline/4ec0f020c137ff072a5d8afa), the
development board(
https://trello.com/board/development/4f3d1ecc3a1fad867ad57e76) and the
Challenge Development Sprints board (
https://trello.com/board/challenge-development-sprints/4ed8ff4175e6467872117dcc)
to align them with what's going on.

Cheers

Dirk
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