{"id":417,"date":"2011-01-20T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:25:24","slug":"p2pu-evaluating-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/417","title":{"rendered":"P2PU: Evaluating applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finished going through all the applications for my Entrepreneurial Marketing course and notified everyone of their enrollment status (or at least I hope I have).<\/p>\n<p>Having to choose was not easy. Having to send &#8220;sorry you didn&#8217;t get in messages&#8221; was worse. As was receiving\u00a0 &#8220;can&#8217;t you let more people in&#8221; messages back. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/sorry \">Here was my response<\/a>. Ugh.)<\/p>\n<p>Some general notes of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got a total of 84 applications. Of those, only 3 were so brief or incomplete that I didn&#8217;t even score them. My original class size was set at 25. I ended up accepting 41.<\/li>\n<li>The most popular entrepreneurial enterprises folks are looking at include: Web 2.0 and other technical pursuits (like other open ed projects, P2PU seems skewed that way), web design and\/or photography, health\/nutrition, and music. There were also a handful of NGOs, non-profits, and personal passions\/pursuits.<\/li>\n<li>Commonly cited examples of effective marketing given in the sign-up task included Apple, Facebook, and fast food in general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read all the applications and scored them, but also kept a notes field and a field to indicate my more subjective feeling about the applications (including a go or no go in some cases). After totaling the scores and sorting, the vast majority of the applicants that I had subjectively thought would be strong participants also scored well. There were a few that for one reason or another didn&#8217;t. Most of these I added in anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Things I would do differently next time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publish the scoring rubric with the sign-up task<\/li>\n<li>Better manage communications with applicants (I tried to notify people when I got their applications, but the number of applications and the dynamics of the internal messaging system on P2PU tripped me up, and I was never sure I got to everyone or didn&#8217;t message some twice.)<\/li>\n<li>Consider adding a sign-up task question geared toward peer learning, e.g. &#8220;How or what do you think you can contribute to this class as a peer learning experience?&#8221; This might be a good way to emphasize the peer learning aspect which not everyone seemed to really get. (I did add this to my rubric scoring but it was not always obvious since I didn&#8217;t ask a specific question.)<\/li>\n<li>Ask people to spell out acronyms. I spent a fair amount of time researching stuff I didn&#8217;t know&#8230;a good learning experience, but&#8230;. (I will do this in the course intro as well and ask folks to ASK if they don&#8217;t know what something is.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I liked being able to add comments to the applications (but  unfortunately have been unable to figure out how to view these as a  participant &#8212; I&#8217;m still looking). I think this could be a way to help  people refine their learning objectives for the course even before it  started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finished going through all the applications for my Entrepreneurial Marketing course and notified everyone of their enrollment status (or at least I hope I have). Having to choose was not easy. 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