[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] P2PU to infinity and beyond
Jane Park
janepark at p2pu.org
Wed Aug 15 23:32:37 UTC 2012
We need a way to feature Schools more prominently! Entrypoint into learning
and creating as part of a School. My interest is, of course, School of
Open. :)
An aside, I don't see anything in your pipeline about getting additional
schools featured on home page? School of Open logo is just about ready..
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
> Hi Ali
>
> Dates are a little difficult, the rabbit hole is always deeper than
> anticipated and priorities shift over time :) I don't know how we can
> change this?
>
> Cheers
> d
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jessy Kate Schingler
> >> http://jessykate.com
> >> Sent with Sparrow
> >>
> >> 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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> >
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