by Alex Kehayias The P2PU Mentorship program, a free service that connects people to mentors, is almost ready for the public! The development version is now available for your feedback and review at http://mentordev-qu6we2kn.dotcloud.com/. Click around and let us know what you think. Tweet @alexkehayias with your thoughts/bugs/kudos. The development version is being actively worked on…
Notes by Vanessa Philipp: Yesterday: Dirk’s performance Today: working with School of Open Piet: Yesterday: School of Open–balancing act between brainstorming abstract and granular Today: Make sense of the brainstorming, something usable & actionable Bekka: Yesterday: Course promotion tweets and blogging Today: Taking some well-deserved time off, celebrating Nelson Mandela’s bday, staff meeting Jessy: Yesterday:…
For the first two days of School of Open workshopping, our process has teetered between in-the-clouds theorizing and on-the-ground brainstorming. This often results in chaos but I think we’re actually getting somewhere. Forward progress: We’re starting to get a better idea of exactly what the School of Open could be — not only learning modules…
Vanessa Yesterday I was in Sweden. Today I will be catching up badge maker challenge – because there has been a lot of activity. Meeting about assessment plan. Talking to someone about curriculum development about collaboration. Talking about Mechanical MOOC with Steve Carson. This afternoon following up on research. Niels Yesterday I finished my mini holiday….
Since we last spoke, your peers have created more than 65 new courses on P2PU. We’d like to share with you our top picks of what your peers have to offer! In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to help your peers design better courses. We’ve created a space for peers…
Connecting ideas is all about decoding complexity. Making things simple to use and to live with. Having relevant, meaningful interactions. Having that in mind, we continue our adventure through some Berliner design thinking sessions. This is our third post out of a series of we-don’t-know-how-many-posts-yet. Lots of work has been done and there’s lot more…
We are having a hackathon on the 19th-22nd of July. Some people are going to be at Agora in Berlin, but it would be great if anyone wanted to join virtually. We also want non-developers to participate in the hackathon, so please come and join us. The plan is to start, build and finish stuff by…
Building the School of Open. It’s a multimedia installation. Materials: post it notes, old refrigerator. / mollyali / CC BY What did we do today? Logistics and Agora community For one thing, we got Molly and Piet set up with all the logistics — lunch cards, $ for the U-bahn (Berlin metro system), wifi at…
When in Paris … don’t do as the Parisians do. That’s one of the things I learned at this weekend’s Nightscience / Teaching through Research workshop at the Institute for Innovation of Teaching through Research at University Rene Descartes in Paris. While most of France (and Google’s home page) celebrated the storming of the Bastille…
16 July 2012 – Notes from Berlin Standup Alan: This weekend was great, we went to the CIA listening tower Today: The morning is email catchup. Then moving into operationalising plans for the fall – getting feedback on the handbook, writing the blog posts we’ve committed to doing. Jane: Weekend was great – spent…