{"id":433,"date":"2011-02-01T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:58:47","slug":"end-of-wk-one-in-p2pu-mktg-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/433","title":{"rendered":"End of wk one in P2PU Mktg course"},"content":{"rendered":"

With week 1 of the Entrepreneurial Marketing<\/a> course coming to a close, I thought I’d summarize some observations.<\/p>\n

– Participation has been strong<\/strong>. A week before the course even started (just after notifying folks who were enrolled), people started posting and even setting up new forums for week 1 assignments and other topics.<\/p>\n

– At the end of week 1, there have been 227 forum posts<\/strong>. Wow. Pretty much too many for me to keep up with.<\/p>\n

– By my rough count, over 80% of the participants have posted something in week 1<\/strong>. That’s considerably higher than any other online learning experience I’ve been involved in the past. (Only one person dropped out before the start, which I invited if folks didn’t think they could commit to the whole course.)<\/p>\n

– Communications, for me at least, have been a bit haphazard. The internal messaging system in P2PU is difficult for me to use\/track (no archives, etc.), and I don’t have participant email addresses. (I asked for them but didn’t get enough to use them instead of the system messaging.) This has been difficult.<\/p>\n

– I also suspect that with the large number of system notifications going out, folks are missing the broadcast messages. To try to address this, I’ve set up a “Course admin messages” thread in the forum. We’ll see if that helps.<\/p>\n

– The synchronous chats didn’t work very well because of scheduling. There were no times when everyone or even a majority of folks could make it, so I picked two times that a good number of people said worked for them. The first session had only 2 participants (though it was a lively and valuable conversation). The second session I messed up the time on, but don’t think anyone else was there either. (If so, I humbly apologize for the mixup.) Apparently, many missed the message about the chat times. (See above.)<\/p>\n

We’re trying the chat thing again for next week. (This time I did a sign-up in advance<\/a> to see if we can get a critical mass.) We also had a suggestion to try an audio and\/or video Skype session, which we may do.<\/p>\n

I made the chat sessions optional so it’s also possible that there just isn’t a lot of interest in them. I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

– I am feeling like the number of folks in the course is, as I suspected, too many. But maybe that’s just a reflection of my need to be “on top of” everything, which may not be important in a class like this. I guess we’ll have to wait to the end and see how everyone else feels. :)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve learned a lot already and hope others have too. Stay tuned for more reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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