Drumbeat/p2pu/weekly call/13 May 2010

Status Update

Philipp

• Not much to report, seems to be a steady stream of people who want to help in some way.
• Assessment & Accreditation, many different groups are coming together
  • MacArthur
  • Carnagie
  • Ithaka
• Need to work a bit on linking to potential employers, to corporation.
• Do we have all the resources in place to go forward?

Mark

• Big Picture, Drumbeat:
  • MoFo Board meeting, where is Drumbeat going to be in the next 9 months. Where will Drumbeat get in 2010.
  • P2PU Open Web Skills at top of list of what the board is excited about
  • Across the board, in the next couple months want a clear picture of what success will look like for each project
  • Need a map of necessary resources and trajectory of the project going forward
  • Funding approved for project up to $25k now, more later
  • Excited about being disruptive in education and how people get careers

• Specifics of what we'll going to do in the near future.
  • Only three months before next cycle, want 5-10 other people leading courses.

• Concerns
  • Curriculum, next round of courses
  • Accreditation hasn't started yet, don't know what we can get done yet.
  • Existing curriculum doesn't have project based stuff baked in
  • How do we build up the experts and get them engaged and confident in the project
  • Huge amount of visibility, not being credible is a risk

• p2pu vision going forward, how you engage with experts, fairly clear overall curriculum with expectation of open web programmers but training experts not to teach top down

Ahrash

• 'Massive disaggregation of every facet of the educational enterprise.'
• Farm out loose feedback notes for editorial review
• Evaluate total learning... list of courses + degree (ex: 1 year physics)
• several conversations between p2pu, carnagie, macarthur, ithaka around authentic assessment to alternative accreditation
• p2pu is a great testing platform for educational research
• challenge - proposal out for funding three workshops @ macarthur, another proposal for another workshop
• assessment experts together with p2pu people to talk about assessment. ground this project on open web dev project
• Timing is unknown, nothing has been funded yet. Word is that people are excited and we want to move it forward, waiting to pull the trigger.

John

• 'Mashing Up the Open Web' was a success
• reflecting on what worked well in the course, blog post on the way
• what is our goal for courses for august?
• course of things that are interesting to the organizer
• contacted a number of experts, continuing with interviews wikifying notes.

Idea

1. Competency Map
2. Call for proposals, demonstrate where your class falls
3. Experts validate materials sit on the map

• 5-10 courses on 'interesting' stuff see how they map, fill in the gaps
• create competency map, create course, superimpose course on map (won't fill all needs)

Action Items

• Make a spreadsheet of all contacted people for everyone to see on google docs
• Write up discussions from people about p2pu open web
• debrief on mashing up the open web
• Competency Map - first cut by end of may
• Call for courses out at end of may (with competency map)
• course leaders ready and syllibi by end of june
• open call with people who are interested in running a course
• write up around weekly public call, next week leaders... following week publicize (john send email to list)
• philipp - lucian, pippa ... more (focus on worker bees)

Lightweight Assessment

• totally nieve attempt at peer assessment... five habits of an open web developer
• expert vetting of overall curriculum map, largely agree that it encompasses skills and knowledge of open web development
• evidence of acquiring skills by students

Mark

Reflections, what we do next:

• First cut at quickly: curriculum & competency map
• set of things we're trying to assess for
• Early ideas of ways to use early assesment
• Group of experts
• Group of organizers (urgent)