In this course peers will work together to design new ways to address the global demand for learning opportunities. Our primary textbook will be the Peeragogy Handbook (currently in a 3rd edition). Participants will contribute to critical review, expository writing, media production, and creative design. One outcome would be a collaboratively produced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based on the course materials. During the course, we will design and develop additional innovative interventions. Peer learning will be practiced throughout, by tailoring the syllabus, developing new ways of processing and presenting the course material, through supportive peer feedback, and in collaborative final projects.
In our interactions we will try to follow community guidelines. The guidelines themselves are a work in progress so they may be updated.
Recordings
Transcript
- Written wrap summarizing what we did
- Vitor prestened his notes from the Modes of Learning course he took
Recordings
Taken from Hermano's Google Doc Notes Peeragogy Semester 2 session
Chuck did a summary of what has happened in prior sessions
Participants made personal presentations: which have ranged from papers, readings, project of their own
Hermano has pointed to the Amazon experience which is presented
Joe has proposed that we share personal practices and projects relating them to peeragogy
Vitor commented on his presentation "leaders of learning" of the last session which follows the track proposed by Joe.
Joe believes short presentations are a great format for sharing.
Vitor shared this presentation about the business model canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gbx0NLgCBkpAACSTJRZWUa0P_eras0EN6US_TF6Zlbc/edit?usp=sharing
Joe suggested that Hermano could present his practice with peeragogy using Google docs on a startup accelerator program he runs.
Hermano participated in Howard’s course in 2010 but has met him in 1998 on his Brainstorms virtual Community and it was really amazing
Howard couldn’t read his PhD because it was in portuguese, but he has read his introduction and his thank you to him as his thoughts originated the research. His thesis dealt with cooperation observing the open source development communities.
Hermano present: Cooperation, more theoretical Practice within incubator - more practical How to cooperate in virtual environments, beyond Zoom - fresh and much of the material is in English Travelend between many documents to show how open source community cooperates. People work asynchronously. Digital collaboration doesn’t need to be synchronous. Should be extended through many toosl
Chuck has chosen the second option
Possible project - connect up different KeyBase, Hangouts, WhatsApp
Future presenters Hermano will present on digital collaboration - April 30th Joe could present about founders and coders - May 14th
We could also invite Howard as a future presenter
Hermano will attach this document to GitHub
What do you think of this as an agenda? Are there any changes you would like? Also I shared the agenda for week 4 of the pilot course. Do we want to incorporate any of that?
- Introductions and discuss how everyone is doing
- Everyone choose a Rheingoldian role to play below in the meeting
- Review this document
- Do people want to choose readings to present?
- Do people want to have any guest speakers join upcoming sessions?
- Do people want to incorporate one of their current projects to see if we could accelerate it?
- Open
Develop a networking strategy: Who else should we involve in our learning? We will start reaching out to other people to co-design final outcomes for the class. We will review the "Data Fair" from Data Science for Design as one way to organize such outreach, and discuss which methods will work best for us. For example, students may experiment with uploading text to Wikipedia and engage in discussions there.
- Optional reading: Patterns of Peeragogy
- Hermano gave an amazing presentation about digital collaboration in online communities with examples spanning from the 1980s to now
- Hearmano present about how to cooperate in virtual environments
We followed-up on our discussion from session two where Vitor suggested creating a presentation to make it easier for newcomers to get up to speed. This led to Vitor and Hermano sharing their experiences learning about the project. We concluded by talking about having Vitor and Hermano join us in working on our current paper.
- Introductions and discuss how everyone is doing
- Review this agenda
- Decide what we will use for notes: zoom chat, Google Doc, other
- Everyone choose a Rheingoldian role to play below in the meeting
- Do people want to have any guest speakers join upcoming sessions?
- Do people want to incorporate one of their current projects to see if we could accelerate it? (e.g., presentation, paper, handbook, business model canvas, etc.)
- Open
- Since not everyone had met everyone else yet, we had several introductions. This led to new perspectives and richer discussion.
- The main topic on the agenda was the paper for the upcoming anticipation conference. We didn't edit the documents much, but we did go over them and discussed them.
- We don't want to assume that everyone or even most the intended audience of that paper is familiar with pattern and pattern languages. From the last conference, it became apparent that a large part of the audience consists of designers but they didn't seem to say all that much about pattern languages. Thus, we should be careful in what we assume of readers and take care to define and explain our notions.
- We should be sure to include non-western persprctives on pattern theory. One noteworthy instance is the work of Takashi Iba and his group.
- We discussed how these topics of anticipating the future and pattern languages relate to peeragogy.
- Check-in and discuss how everyone is doing
- Review this agenda
- We will use zoom chat for notes
- Everyone choose a Rheingoldian role to play below in the meeting
- Anticipation paper
- Peeragogy event
- Open
By the end of the course, peers will be able to synthesize interventions relevant to global economic challenges. They will gain design and media production skills relevant to creating a Massive Open Online Course. It is expected that peers will also train the affective dimensions of their engagement with difficult issues, by practicing rigorous self-assessment and developing constructive feedback for their peers. Specifically, peers successfully completing the course will build a portfolio of evidence that they can receive major challenges with compassion, respond with an awareness of diverse needs, value others’ perspectives and voices, organize effective networks and strategies, and characterize constructive collaborative efforts and ways to support them.
- Recordings: Make a video or audio recording
- Screen share: Show what is going on
- Wrapper: Share what we do with a wider audience
- Notetaker: Write down what people say
- Research:
- Whiteboard: Visually render discussion
- Searchers: search the web for references mentioned during the session and other resources relevant to the discussion, and publish the URLs in the text chat
- Contextualizers: add two or three sentences of contextual description for each URL
- Summarizers: note main points made through text chat.
- Lexicographers: identify and collaboratively define words and phrases on a wiki page.
- Mappers: keep track of top level and secondary level categories and help the group mindmapping exercise at the end of the session.
- Curators: compile the summaries, links to the lexicon and mindmaps, contextualized resources, on a single wiki page.
- Emergent Agendas: using the whiteboard for anonymous nomination and preference polling for agenda items, with voice, video, and text-chat channels for discussing nominations, a group can quickly set its own agenda for the real-time session.
J. Corneli, C. J. Danoff, C. Pierce, P. Ricaurte, and L. Snow MacDonald, eds. The Peeragogy Handbook. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL./Somerville, MA.: PubDomEd/Pierce Press, 2016.
The latest version of the Handbook is available for free on Peeragogy.org. You can also download the PDF version.
A 4th Edition is in development for publication on Public Domain Day, Jan. 1, 2021.
(Pick one or two of these to present, or argue for a substitution.)
- Sher. Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
- Ralya. Unframed: The Art of Improvisation for Game Masters
- Illich. Tools for Conviviality
- Rosovsky. The University: An Owner's Manual
- Ostrom, Understanding institutional diversity
- Alexander et al. The Oregon Experiment, "The City is Not a Tree".
- Batchelor. After Buddhism, last chapter?
- Benkler. Collective Intelligence
- Weber. The Success of Open Source
- Unger. Knowledge Economy
- Jacobs. Dark Age Ahead
- Aber. The Sustainable Learning Community
- Hill. Essays on Volunteer Mobilization in Peer Production
- Ranciere. The Ignorant Schoolmaster
- Mulholland. Re-imagining the Art School
- Hassan. The Social Labs Revolution
- Banathy. Designing Social Systems in a Changing World
- Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
- de Filipe Governance in online communities
- "The convergence of digital commons with local manufacturing from a degrowth perspective: Two illustrative cases" by Vasilis Kostakisa, Kostas Latoufis, Minas Liaro, and Michel Bauwens
- Book of Peer Production
- Journal of Peer Production Issue #14: Infrastructuring the commons today, when STS meets ICT
- Charlotte Pierce
- Charlie Danoff
The links below are from
- Joe's Original Proposal
- Course Outline and Notes
- Much of this syllabus was taken from those course notes
- Wrap: Peeragogy Innovations Pilot 1
- You can find links to videos in the February 2020 Peeraogy Wrap
Below are documents from our experiments around 2014 with running an accelerator to accelerate progress of our individual projects.
- Paper formally summarizing our thoughts
- Presentation about the Accelerator
- 'Zine about the first accelerator
- Announcement outlining what we planned to do before week one
- Hackpad with week by week course content
- Chat Transcript from week 3
- Accelerator Page on Commons Abundance Network website detailing our plans with comments
- Wikimania 2014 Submission to share lessons learned from the Accelerator
- Google Doc loosley organizing notes and general accelerator materials
If people in the course would like eventually to contribute to the Handbook, here are some possible roles and the license to sign is below.
That includes chasing people who have promised chapters.
Another major task that we had slated is to produce more activities and mini-handbooks. A related task is an increasing “patternization” of the content. Some of the old chapters can be shortened and turned into new design patterns or short narrative sidebars.
The comments generated in the Augment reading group which will conclude on Tuesday give lots of hints about possible changes and improvements. Particular attention should be given to the introductory chapters.
- minihandbook: check practicality
Then there is the technical editing, and getting everything to look nice. We had discussed possibly involving a professional designer, but it doesn’t look like we have the funds to pay anyone.
Another relevant role is running and facilitating meetings. It is pretty remarkable that we have been having meetings in this project almost weekly since 2012! Assuming we keep up that pace on the way to publication we are talking about approximately 24 production meetings in the first half of next year.
Another task that we have kind of fallen down on in the past is marketing the book. I think that in recognition of the tremendous amount of effort that everyone has been putting into this, we should step up our game in this regard for the fourth edition.
- Navigate to this page
- Then submit an email to peeragogy@gmail.com like this:
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- Confirm email receipe with course co-ordiantors.