On experiment

[eduOS]

Look at this:
http://asu-cpi.github.io/honest-pi/
I found it just now and want to share it with you. @banj

[banj]

I'm so interested and excited by this, and frustrated by the way these projects seem to get stalled out. Collaborative research writing seems like a perfect application for github tools, but this experiment is currently suspended—what's a boy to do?

[JustinLongo]

I'd be really interested in trying another experiment in collaborative research writing.

Seems to need a few things to get it going, however, including:

1. a core leadership team
2. a committed contributor group
3. an incentive structure, and
4. the right topic.

I thought we had 1, 3 and maybe 4 with the honest-pi experiment, but it still fizzled. But the leadership team also failed to engage.

[eduOS]

Thanks very much for joining us. @JustinLongo

1. I'm writing at least one answer per day on Quora while searching those potential subjects who may show interest in our experiment; and, I'm trying my best to contact some teachers in the U.S. to employ our platform to teach, especially those teachers who are teaching Chinese to natives.
2. I'm considering using language exchange strategy to motivate students on both sides of the table to contribute and review(proofread and polish) for each other.
3. I thought if the instructional design is good enough participants will be willing to spend time on it. I'am reading the relavant theories, however.
4. Yes, I have no more ideas yet.

I encounter two snags:

1. What kind of data can we capture from GitHub using its API via Python. Yeah, learning analytics will be used in my master dissertation.
2. The be-all of the experiment is to cooperate with two teachers, one in U.S. teaching natives Chinese and another in China teaching natives English. The later is much easier for me.

[cirosantilli]

The only thing that works is to find a way to make money out of it.

Probably the best way to go is to local for local teacher contacts and use your personal charisma to show them existing technologies, help them make one course step by step, see how students react, and improve, creating new technologies as needed, i.e. do the full cycle.

Then build businesses / better technologies from that.