My slides for our group presentation for Open Education Week with Karen Fasimpaur and Jane Park. Full presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/kfasimpaur/p2-pu-openedwk2013
1. P2PU Labs:
The Birth of the Mechanical
MOOC
Vanessa Gennarelli
Learning Lead, P2PU
@mozzadrella
2. What is P2PU?
Free, CC-BY-SA, open to anyone
Core values
Openness
Community
Peer Learning
Facilitated courses on p2pu.org
P2PU Labs projects experiment with group size
and new tools
4. The “Solution” Space
How can we make a better experience that’s
low cost & low-friction?
Tap all of the open materials out there
Build with pre-existing tools
Prompt more intimate groups
Easy to bootstrap
8. Results
5,775 initially registered
Between 2,733 and 1,650 were engaged in the
last week
Dropoff before course started left some groups
half-formed
We introduced an intermediary “ready-to-go” step