Better Looking, Better Learning II  

More Spider-sense mindmaps! As a conclusion for an intense design thinking last week, we’ve got mapped key attributes on how our users interact with P2PU. We took into consideration the feedback we registered from user studies, interviews, comments and suggestions. Words have special powers here – adjectives try to envision a global perspective over the…

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Hier ist es möglich  

This update was written by Chris Ewald, our new ninja sysadmin and frontend developer… Lernanta now has a configured development environment! We are leveraging chef, vagrant, and git to create an automatically deployable environment. For developers that want to contribute to p2pu, this gives us a simple and easy entry point for new code contributors. The wiki page…

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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…

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Better Looking, Better Learning  

I’m João, a designer from Brazil, and I’m helping P2PU with proposing better interactions among peers. We’ve been using the design thinking platform here in Berlin to discover, connect and construct those interactions. Our first steps fit very well those of a doctor – a thorough diagnosis of the ecosystem behind peer-to-peer learning. One of the…

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Opening Bei Niels  

This post was written by head chef Niels, and all photo credits go to Philipp. One thing I’ve learned over the past few years about building communities is that they form way easier around a table full of food than around gmail addresses (though the latter seems to work well enough when  you toss building…

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Standup Notes from Berlin / 12 July 2012  

Niels Workshop stuff, ad words, Google analytics Research on courses John Adwords analytics Tech meeting, priorities for next couple weeks Making everything into courses (new format – wireframes, mockups) Chris Finished dev script (servers can be spun off really quickly, entry to new developers really easy now) p2pu.org/lernanta/dev People page today – working on CSS…

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Standup Notes from Berlin / 11 July 2012  

These notes were taken by Alex Kehayias – thanks, Alex! Photo, as always, by Jessy, the panorama ace.  Dirk Finished another release Today checking if it’s working Technical blog post on the new stuff, notifications, etc Discussing metrics needs Niels Opening of Bei Niels a success Tonight is not on, need to figure out logistics…

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Standup Notes from Berlin / 10 July 2012  

Today we hacked the format a bit, and added a Show & Tell session at the end, where people showed what they’ve been working on. Scroll down to see the links to these discussions. As always, thanks to Jessy for photographic proof that we are actually here..  Standup notes for 7/10/2012 Dirk Yesterday: finalised a few…

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