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One of my challenges coming to the conference is to find a way to allow the learner to track their participation in an open course. I want to avoid shoving people into a system in order to track them. I want them to be able to work in their own environment...

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These are my rough notes from conversations yesterday.

**Intervention – why is it important** //Bang. The intervention for moocs is exposing the data of the experience of all learners to the learners #lak11 via doug clow// //Intervention// In recent open courses we have seen that there are definitely learners who are prepared to work with the material in the course along the lines that they are generally constructed. We have regular live sessions, the material is broken into weeks, the suggested material listed. In the most recent open course, I attempted to write a separate stream of information

What is an experience in an open course? In a sense, the ispot model is founded on the idea that what is 'right' can be identified and commented upon. This can lead to other judging 'correctness' and then acknowledging it. There is a judgement being made and a

How do i identify a positive experience? Assuming i can discover what a given experience in a course might be, the next step is trying to develop a metric that can allow measurement of that experience. It might be 'collaborate with others' and you could develop a

How does that experience get shown back to student? It really sounds like it's going to have to be a live widget. Sound like the kind of thing that might require a little funding, but if you could get one, it could give live feedback from the central repository... i wonder if we could use an existing service to send along the information. Piggy back, for instance, on twitter.

How does it get compared to other students?