Introduction I’m fascinated by the idea of measurement itself having an effect on behavior. For example, it has been show that simply letting people see how much electricity they are using at any given time, leads people to decrease their usage. Data is also necessary to experiment, and measure the effect. I was fascinated by [...]

As we are building the P2PU community, we are constantly thinking about how to organize communications, how transparent we should be, how we can make the community welcoming and attract more volunteers, etc. Initially it started as mostly communications between the five founders, then after Berlin, we felt like a really strong bigger community, and [...]

Preparing for a course My supervisor at OISE is co-teaching a course with two of his PhD students called “KMD: Knowledge Communities: Patterns and Practices”, and he very graciously invited me to give a talk about “open education resources, P2PU, implications of new media for learning communities, etc”. They would require a brief intro, a [...]

Although I had been aware of open movements for much longer, and gradually gotten interested in the open education movements, my real involvement started with David Wiley‘s Intro to Open Ed in 2007. I learnt a whole lot, not the least about the translation of MIT courses into Chinese, and the production of Chinese “OCW” [...]

I have begun tweeting at conferences where it is appropriate and feasible. It serves multiple purposes, providing me a way of reflecting on what is being said, as a back-channel with other conference attendees, and to share some of what is happening with the outside world. Although 140 characters is obviously very short, I have [...]