[Crossposting here from the Media Lab Director’s Fellows blog] This week we launched the Learning Creative Learning course with 24,000 participants. One one hand, I am thrilled that we have such a large audience, and especially that they come from all over the world. On the other hand, having so many participants makes experimentation much harder. The…
What Does Success Look Like At P2PU? In the non-profit world, the measures of success are different to those that exist in the for-profit world. And a non-profit that it totally successful should, in theory, be able to work itself out a job. But in reality, non-profits can’t fix the entire world, so we have…
Now that we’re using Google Hangout for community calls, we’re able to broadcast and record them, and host them on YouTube. Which is great. It means our community can now see who says what on the calls, and you don’t have to scroll through pages and pages of notes. So, here’s this week’s call (you…
Learning Creative Learning is an online course for designers, developers and educators. Offered by the MIT Media Lab & yours truly, the folks at P2PU. It’s based on a course Mitch Resnick teaches at the Media Lab. And now it’s online for the first-time through a collaboration with P2PU. That’s pretty cool. We just opened –> SIGN-UP . Please…
At P2PU we’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about badges–and here is our plan for a qualitative, feedback-based system for our third badge iteration. This was presented at the Digital Media and Learning Grantees Conference in Irvine, CA on January 25, 2013. 2013 Update P2PU + Badges from Vanessa Gennarelli
This is an invitation to help redraft/improve this Bill of Rights: https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/11kl-ngaGYA7R3P-2-nfVjEYbA5fJ9Gv67J9Ggx3GAkk/edit Anyone can comment on the document. If you want to edit, just request access through google docs and I’ll add you to the editors. Background: In December I participated in a meeting with other MOOCsters (including friends like Audrey Watters, John Seely Brown, and…
I wanted to write a quick post outlining the process of a ‘course sprint’. I think this methodology can be of use to emerging groups of on-line educators creating open education resources (OERs). This course sprint process was inspired and informed by the Book Sprint process developed by Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals. Background The…
During the last weeks of 2012, we spent some time thinking about the year. To identify which projects we had most enjoyed working on, which activities we were best at, and also talk about things that didn’t go so well and need to improve. And we wanted to remind ourselves where we come from and where…
Hi All, Today we’re going to take you on an inside look at the Mechanical MOOC. We’re going to walk through it’s history, what’s happening now, and where we are headed with it. The MOOC has been an ongoing learning process and we’re made some major strides along the way. For this article, we…
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…