Grants:IEG/Patterns of Peeragogy

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project:

Patterns of Peeragogy

idea creator:

Arided

project contact:

holtzermann17gmail.com

participants:

join this idea!

grantees:

• Joseph Corneli (Arided)
• Charles Jeffrey Danoff
• Charlotte Pierce (DayTripperDiva)
• Paola Ricaurte Quijano
• Fabrizio Terzi (S.I.A.R.)
  

volunteers:

• Bryan Alexander
• Paul Allison
• Régis Barondeau
• Doug Breitbart
• George Brett
• Suz Burroughs
• Jay Cross
• Julian Elve
• María Fernanda
• James Folkestad
• Kathy Gill
• Gigi Johnson
• Anna Keune
• Roland Legrand
• Amanda Lyons
• Christopher Tillman Neal
• Ted Newcomb
• Stephanie Parker
• David Preston (Prestonlearning)
• Verena Roberts
• Stephanie Schipper
• Geoff Walker

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advisors:

• Howard Rheingold
  

summary:

How can we collaborate better? We're learning how together, and sharing what we learn.

engagement target:

(please specify)

strategic priority:

Encourage Innovation

total amount requested:

28750 USD

2013 round 2

Project idea

Peeragogy is a framework of techniques for "collaborative learning" and "collaborative work". By learning how to “work smart” together, we hope we can leave the world in a better state than it was when we arrived. We've been working together as volunteers, since January, 2012, to build a public domain Handbook that communicates practical strategies for Peer learning and Peer production. In this project, we plan to use what we have learned to improve Wikimedia projects by sharing and expand our catalog of design patterns as well as our collection of use cases, and translate the book into multiple languages to bring it to a global public. Wikimedia projects are the purest instances of peeragogy and we hope to provide a new language to explain it: as pedagogy theoretically articulates transmitting knowledge from teachers to students peeragogy shall do the same for peers producing and utilizing knowledge.

TFocuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians

Project goals

A brief history of the Peeragogy project will help contextualize our current goals. Joe Corneli and Charlie Danoff met at Wikimania 2010, where Joe was presenting the history and plans of PlanetMath, an early online platform for commons-based peer production, and Charlie was presenting his work on collaborative lesson planning. Fortuitously, they met again online not long after, in the Peer-2-Peer University's second round of courses, where both were volunteer course facilitators. They agreed to enroll in each other's courses to give feedback. As it happened, Joe's course on "DIY Math" did not go well, but Charlie's course, "Collaborative Lesson Planning" provided a context to debug the issues. Out of those discussions, "paragogy" was born, and we published our first paper on the topic on 'Wikiversity. Months later, internet pioneer Howard Rheingold seeded his own work on collaborative learning with some of the ideas of from paragogy, and thus began the Peeragogy project proper. As we worked together on the Peeragogy Handbook, we drew on the varied background of contributors, and documented our collective successes and failures in a collection of patterns and anti-patterns. After the book had matured, peeragogue Fabrizio Terzi began using Wikibooks as a platform for building and sharing translations. Recently, Joe spoke with Jonathan Morgan of Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), who expressed interest in reusing and building upon the collection of Peeragogy patterns on Meta as part of his effort to build WMF's "learning strategy".

We have already interacted in a substantial way with many of the Wikimedia projects. Our goal is to take it to the next level, and strengthen our connections with Wikimedia, by:

• Documenting the peer learning patterns that are in use by Wikimedians on a daily basis
• Inviting more Wikimedians to contribute case studies of their own peer learning activities (whether on or off wiki)
• Coordinating translations of our latest "stable" version of the handbook into multiple languages; and
• Helping to build multiple international peeragogy communities, to take this work further in culture-specific contexts.
• Researching and then writing case studies on Wikimedian Peeraogical instances

Project plan

Scope:

Scope and activities

We propose to become more active "participant observers" in the Wikimedia community, documenting the patterns and anti-patterns of peeragogy that we observe, and relating these patterns to our existing catalog. In order to facilitate an international scope of this effort, we will translate the Peeragogy handbook into (at least) Spanish and Italian, and will coordinate volunteer translation work in other languages, and the development of a global peer learning reportage cycle. At the end of the project, we will have a peeragogical portait of the Wikimedia movement, including observations on its future development.

Tools, technologies, and techniques

We have used a range of tools, beginning with a Social Media Classroom, evoliving into our Wordpress site (peeragogy.org), which at any given point in time contains the "canonical" text, and Pandoc as a format shifter, to produce derived LaTeX and Mediawiki versions of the book. These versions are archived on Github. As indicated above, we are using Wikibooks as a place to coordinate translations. We currently use a Google+ community to coordinate and share work, and have used various tools (e.g. Drupal, Google Docs, Etherpad) for authoring.

In order to carry out this work, we will primarily use methods of participant observation: one of our deliverables will be an analysis of the specific techniques of online ethnography that are most applicable.

We have built a strong volunteer community, and we are inviting some of the key contributors to date to join this focused phase of the project and help us build a focused study of a key peer production and peer learning community.

Budget:

Total amount requested

$28,750

Budget breakdown

Grantees	Task	Cost (USD)
Fabrizio	translation coordinator to/from (Italian) -	$3750
Paola	translation coordinator /from (Spanish) -	$3750
Charlotte	managing editor and patterns coordinator	$3750
Charlie	assistant editor and case study recruiter	$3750
Joe	field work and reportage	$3750
General project fund	"internal bidding"	$10000
Total Amount		$28750

Note: We think it will be useful to be made available small pots of money for "internal bidding" to other members and contributors who need funds to organize meetings, cover writing, equipment or transcription costs, etc.; if these funds are not used by the end of the project, they would be returned to WMF. Documenting the use of this internal budget will be one of the deliverables in the project. We would like to work with WMF at the outset to develop a suitable budgetary oversight mechanism for dealing with the range of incidental expenses that cannot be predicted at the outset of the project.

Intended impact:

Peeragogy Wikipedia Educational program:

Peeragogy Wikipedia Educational program

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Meta:Babylon Translation requests
  • Peeragogy Handbook V2.0 multilingual wiki
• Wikipedia Education Program Wikipedia Peeragogy Education Program?
• Wikipedia:Communicate OER open educational resources

Target audience

The Wikimedia community in meta and micro senses.

More specifically, the outcome of our work will be useful as a "strategy" document, an informally produced follow-up to the Strategic Planning wiki that was produced in 2009-2010. At the same time, the artifacts we produce will be useful to other people who want to develop strategies for collaboratively working, and learning, the Wiki Way.

Fit with strategy

Encourage innovation: We will provide a sort of mid-term audit of the 2010 strategy, and help build forward towards a broader strategy for the Wikimedia movement.

Sustainability

The Peeragogy Handbook is public domain and is available both as a free download and for purchase as a soft-cover book. We plan to release a new version of the book yearly on January 1st (Public Domain Day), as long as the project is sustained. We hope that working together with Wikimedia will infuse our project with significant community spirit and vitality -- as indicated above, one of our central goals is to contribute to i18n of strategic discussions and international collaboration.

Measures of success

• Number of contributed translations (we will contribute 2 of these, but we would like to see more projects successfully working, and building their own peeragogy communities)
• Number of contributed case studies (these will be drawn from Wikimedia experiences and from other people using peeragogy)
• Number of new or modified patterns and anti-patterns (one useful check is whether we have case studies that exhibit each of the patterns at work)

Participant(s)

• Fabrizio Terzi lives in Bergamo, Italy, where he has been involved in civic activism and teaching computer literacy. He is a self-taught graphic designer, and has traveled extensively, working as a bartender and pianist.
• Paola Ricaurte Quijano lives in Mexico City, where she is a professor of media studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Charlotte Pierce is an "indie" publisher and branch coordinator for Independent Publishers of New England. She has a Masters degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• Charlie is an English as a Foreign Language teacher at the College of Chicago and writer living in Chicago. He has previously taught in Switzlerland, China and Japan.
• Joe is a PhD candidate at the The Open University, UK. He recently submitted his thesis on "Peer Produced Peer Learning: A mathematics case study".

Peer Learning Network (PLN)*

• Peeragogy in Action G+ Community
• Peeragogy: Wiki Team
• Pedagogía de pares

Discussion

Community Notification:

Please paste a link to where the relevant communities have been notified of this proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions, here.

• Notified veteran English WikiBooks and Wikiversity User:DarkLama --Charles Jeffrey Danoff (talk) 07:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
• Mentioned the project on the Wikipedia Education Program talk page. --Arided (talk) 14:32, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Endorsements:

Do you think this project should be selected for an Individual Engagement Grant? Please add your name and rationale for endorsing this project in the list below. Other feedback, questions or concerns from community members are also highly valued, but please post them on the talk page of this proposal.

• Community member: add your name and rationale here.

Charlotte Pierce: As peeragogues, we have proven our staying power, but to sustain and broaden our work, some sustenance is needed.