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Why is HP studying Social Media?
Why is HP conducting research on social media? HP believes that information is becoming the greatest resource we have for addressing problems in business and society. Social media is increasingly...
View ArticleOpen Science Microformats – Initial Thoughts
Why Microformats for Science Microformats allow for automated detection on a page or exposure in a feed or other activity stream. This capability and the simple local markup of the components means...
View ArticlePingbacks and “Conversation Overlays” on the Web
Why have pingbacks not revolutionized the web already? Because they are not easily ubiquitous (only certain sites support them), and because there's still no way to pivot your view of the web into...
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html-based tag cloud API: json output
Here’s the output from the tag cloud project I demoed at DevHouseDC tonight. It’s a purely html-based tag cloud generator which returns JSON with a <style> block, a <div> block for the body...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Learning, Recognition and Scaling
Philipp asks how we can scale learning, and discusses two axes that P2PU is pursuing: peer-based learning, and an emphasis on challenges over courses. Imagine the learning ecosystem as a graph, where...
View ArticleScience Markup
This post builds off this earlier one on open science microformats. Microdata appears to be a middle ground between microformats and RDFa. It’s not totally clear if RDFa and microformats will...
View ArticleReflections on Challenges
Vanessa and i had a back-and-forth this week, reflecting about P2PU’s learning concept called challenges. for context, p2pu currently separates content into groups and challenges. challenges are sets...
View Articlestatusnet install 1.0.1 on nginx
(warning: rough notes!) create nginx config file/apache rewrite rules BEFORE running install.php script (googled this and it was pretty straight copy-paste from what others have done for nginx). the...
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Learning as a Spectrum
Lately I’ve been asking myself, What is the line between learning and just… being. When does something become learning? Especially in open learning, there isn’t as much of an (artificially enforced)...
View Articlewhere and why of learning on the web
someone has some material they would like to share, so others can learn/share in that knowledge. when/why would they put it on p2pu.org versus, say, just making a series of blog posts? for example, i...
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