[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] P2PU to infinity and beyond

[Alison Cole]

Hi Dirk,

This all sounds really spot on. I'd love to see dates attached to these
priorities. Especially the collapsing of courses, which has eluded us for a
year or so.



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> a general, wholehearted +1! i'm sure there will be lots of rich
> discussions about the details, but very excited about this direction.
>
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> On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Dirk Uys wrote:
>
> 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 of great 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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Alison
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