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

Jane Park janepark at p2pu.org
Thu Aug 16 21:11:33 UTC 2012 

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hi Jane
>
> I agree that we should feature schools more prominently. Currently they
> are linked from most pages in the footer and in the sidebar on the learn
> page. Do you have any suggestions how we could improve school visibility?
>

Would it be possible to bring up the footer that contains links to
Schools/badges towards center of home page? I doubt many people scroll all
the way to the bottom.

Also, on the Learn page -- the fact that you can view by School is not
obvious. "Open" by itself doesn't say much to a lay person. If it could be
more apparent that they are Schools-- maybe with mini badges and full text
"School of Ed" "School of Open" etc. Or otherwise highlight (maybe via
color scheme) how Schools are different than "featured" are different from
"tags"..

>
> Adding School of open to the current footer hopefully wont be a complete
> project, but we can add it to the pipeline.
>

I ask pretty please to make this a priority..

>
> Cheers
> d
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Jane Park <janepark at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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