Regardless of who is teaching, it might be fun to have a category for browsing teachers as well as classes. As a user, I would also love to “pitch” ideas for classes that don’t exist yet.

As for the standing desks, I was skeptical in the beginning of class… and then I tried it! I am a total convert! Standing desks for everyone!

Good luck on your presentation.

- Are you planning to provide a curriculum structure or are you leaving the programming language, learning goals, projects, etc. up to the “tutorer”?

- Would you support an online community among participants where they can display the fruits of their labor, see what others have done, etc.

- Is there a meet-up potential for students / tutorers who happen to be nearby?

- Perhaps there can be a festival of sorts where at the end of a “semester” students and tutorers around the city/country gather in one place to celebrate or hold a “science fair” equivalent for programming? (providing a “big show” goal for students to work towards)

Your project’s objective made me think of TinkerTags: http://www.tinkertags.com/ TinkerTags came out of a project from Stanford where a group of students wanted to teach youths in technically-disadvantaged communities about programming. To get kids interested, they decided to use sneakers by embedding 9 LEDs on the sides and letting kids program the light patterns using a visual programming environment. There’s also an online community component where kids upload their patterns and can download patterns others have made.

Pointers are this things hard to explain, long to understand, and impossible to live without once you get them. Does this apply to your project also? How would you overcome the difficulty in explaining what the project actually is?

My question would be about something very specific to your motivation and example. How would you encourage or embrace peer feedback among the course building and “attending” or participating?

You are doing a great job at following the syllabus, and collecting materials from the source. With that, you have part of the UX class; I’d say about 35%. The other 65% or so, will come from practice, trial, error and feedback. Is this something you are interested in including, or do you see this as anther aspect of the educational process not included in your project?

So, what is there needed for you to succeed? How are you making this happen, financially wise? It’s a time bartering economy, but the marketplace still needs to operate right?

Anyway, I’d really like to see something like this out there. So many businesses out there with the self mission to disrupt and innovate, and you can actually make it happen at their core, their home, their b-school

However, I think it would be valuable to try to get an outsider perspective. Let me put it this way: The Gates, Zuckerbergs, Dorseys, and the like, would certainly benefit from a world where there would be more technically educated people to work for them (there is scarcity in this realm). Hey, the world would benefit from it, and that’s the point also. Sure, this would also mean more competition, but I think we are far from over saturating that market still. So why do I agree?

It’s the creative part that’s interesting. I believe the world not only needs more creative coders, it needs more creative people. And coding is a good way to develop creative skills.

Have you checked wordpress’ website footer note (all the way down to the right)? Go there. I’ll wait.

Yep, Code is Poetry. To them Code is Poetry, because their fluency with code allowed them the be creative with it, to design a new way of facing an old problem, to out-win their competition. So even thought we love creative coding, I’ll push you to remember that the coding is the means, to an unknown creative goal.

That said, kuddos for the strategy on using grad students. Fresh knowledge, energetic people, and money is always welcome. I’d love to see some more ideas on the business model. You know, I’ll be happy to teach myself!

Again, i would volunteer my time.

On the website effort, i would like to hear what criteria separate an expert from an amateur. Possibly having a visual system to show people quickly how stats on members.

What are your plans to ensure valuable content created by members?

Is there a particular part of ITP life that you would want to focus on? How do you imagine students opting in?

What are the goals of these areas? how do they inform being a business owner? I would love for you to detail, possibly a diagram, how these pillars contribute to being a successful businesperson. Also, if time is currency, what stops filibuster type actions? I guess that would be a form of counterfeiting? Please go into the mechanism of transactions!

The syllabus is a great visual cue to understand our project. Let’s say you gave us your syllabus for this class day one. Then, someone else on the class pointed to different resources (bibliography, interviews, blog posts) for the same topic on one of the syllabus’ items. Then, us the users could compare both ways of “teaching” or supporting that lesson. From that point, voting, commenting and sharing the selection is almost trivial, because most of the value is in the gathering of several curated resources on the same topic.

Sam, i totally agree about how hard it is to create that space. I have a bunch of questions for you about your prior effort, specifically, did you have a target demo you wanted to participate in that market? You mentioned that you had prior experience with a corporation that wanted to train their global workforce. Have you ever been approached by non-profits? Talking to friends who work with those groups, they seem to favor projects that push soft skills. Have you come across educational projects that target the growing retiring / senior class?

On that note, it could also be good to think about what types of guests/speakers you could bring in and how that ties into your content.

I also love the attention tracking idea and have seen a HUGE need for something like this. Current attention-tracking technology mostly tracks what the user clicks on (detecting what the user does in the same browser and also if they leave the window and go elsewhere). But actually gauging what the user is looking at and engaging with… that’s super useful and needed. Do it!

The beauty of StackOverflow is that it is targeted toward a specific demographic – programming. Do you think a specific platform is more effective than a broad one? What distinguishes a link that is “educational” from one that is not? If you leave it up to the community, you have to trust that they will upvote tutorials over cute cat videos : )

The question is – how do you incorporate links, projects, professional contacts, etc into a concise resume without it being cluttered? Should a portfolio replace the traditional resume? If so, what about people that design their own websites as their creative portfolio? What about the person that wants to quickly scan 100 portfolios? How do you design for browsing?

This is a fantastic idea, and I’d love to hear more about what you plan on doing with it!