For our Music MOOC Play With Your Music (PWYM) 5282 folks signed up to learn together. We wanted to put them in groups based on their musical taste hoping to improve group cohesion and collaboration. We decided to use The Echo Nest since they have an API that helps with doing just that! The Echo Nest…
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Three updates to make your life easier!
We would like to highlight 3 actions that just got easier on P2PU! Want to leave a comment on a course? Just head over to the discussion tab and have your say! You only need to be logged in to P2PU, no need to register with disqus before you can comment! Would you like to…
Building a toolkit for open educators
At the start of this year we sketched out a rough tech roadmap. Now is a good time to report on some of the work we’ve done since then, and our plans for the rest of the year. One big shift we made is to move away from thinking of P2PU as one big software…
Introducing Marvin
At the start of the year we spent some time on behind the scenes work. We had a long overdue software upgrade that we needed to perform on our main server. At the same time we took the opportunity to improve how we maintain the systems to run the tools we use for P2PU. Maintaining…
Our technology plan in a post Mayan era
It’s that time of year when we reflect on what we have done the past year and plan for the year ahead. Before we tell you about the projects that will be happening in 2013, we should talk a bit about our overarching strategy for technology. We build tools for open learning on the web…
Release Notes: tagging, languages, another School… happy days!
A small little release went through today, but hopefully the impact will be felt 🙂 What changed you ask? First and foremost, the learn page receive a bit of attention! 10 points if you can point out whats different… ok, I will tell you. Language preferences for course listings are simplified and persistent. The default is to look…
Future of lernanta
We’ve had many discussions about what we would like to achieve with Lernanta and where we want to take it in the future. This is our current take on it: 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…
Lernanta release 2012-08-08
Hooray! We have a new rolled out some changes over at p2pu.org! Here’s a quick rundown of what changed: First and foremost: our very first version of our API! For now it is read only, meaning that people can see thing but they cannot change things. We are exposing things that are already publicly visible…
Updates to notifications – just letting you know
We recently revised how we do notifications. A mayor part of the update is allowing people to reply directly to a notification by email. Any module in P2PU can send a notification to a user. If the module supports receiving a reply to the notification, it passes a callback URL to the notification module when…
standing up in Berlin #p2pupopup
At the first standup that happened at our popup office in Berlin everyone shared what they want to be busy with for the next few weeks!