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

[Alison Cole]

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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