Pippa Buchanan

School of Webcraft has been running open web development courses at P2PU for 8 months now:

• Over 35 courses
• More than 2400 participants
• Badge pilot launched.
• Many community members involved in multiple courses.
• and already, 5+ study groups using the new system

So far, two major cycles of courses have run with a third just begun.

• 5 Webcraft study groups created and open for participation on Lernanta
• Beginning Game Development with HTML 5
• HTML5 Introduction
• Introduction to Contributing to Lernanta
• Python Programming 101
• Interactive Open Video with Popcorn.js
• 3 courses running on the existing system
• Dive into Python
• HTML & CSS from the beginning
• JavaScript 101

In the past week 3 more study groups have been established and several existing course ideas are in the process of transitioning to the new system.

The total number of courses beginning at one time is less than in previous rounds, but this reflects a move towards a decreased focus on “course cycles”, new study groups opening regularly and more detailed metrics measuring participation over time.

To give you an idea of how course and participant numbers have evolved, in September 2010, our first round there were:

• Over 1400 people signed-up and were accepted.
• 18 courses.
• User Experience Design ran in 3 languages!
  • Portuguese, Spanish and English

In the first quarter School of Webcraft also introduced the pilot phase of the Badge and peer-assessment system allowing Webcraft participants to demonstrate their skills, be assessed by their peers and earn badges.

• Javascript Basic Badge Challenge | Reto de Javascript Básico
• Javascript Expert Badge Challenge
• PHP Expert Badge Challenge
• PHP Basic Badge Challenge
• Open Source Contributor Badge Challenge