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

3. Problem: MOOC Mania

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

5. Mechanical MOOC lives!

6. An Experiment!
Small groups formed based on:
Experience
Learning Style
Time zone

7. A Character

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

9. Findings and Implications

10. Questions??
Vanessa Gennarelli
Learning Lead, P2PU
@mozzadrella