User:Arided/Paragogical Profile

=Introduction=

I'm interested in what goes on at the nexus of learning and peer production. I'm currently working on a Ph. D. thesis about "Peer supported problem solving and mathematical knowledge". As part of this project, I've been working on getting new software for PlanetMath ready for production use. Once this is launched (which should be soon), I'll begin my key user studies. That's all happening nowish!

=Peer Learning Profile=

Aside from (but also sometimes in) what I do in my day job, studies, and "personal life"...

I can offer to help with or teach:


 * Remixes -- e.g. web to print, or (more complex!) Encyclopedia to Learning Environment, etc.
 * Roadmap assistance for projects of mutual interest
 * A technology-oriented "expansion" to the Peeragogy Handbook, in the form of a Bootable USB, plus tech notes.

I want to learn:


 * How to monetize my programming, math, and pÆragogy skills (e.g. with an interesting career...)
 * How to be a better “mentor” (e.g. for git, LaTeX, Drupal, math, etc)
 * How to make my contributions (above) increasingly replaceable i.e. I don’t want to be a “bottleneck”
 * How to build a Distributed University...

=General background and interests=

For more details, please see my CV.


 * mathematics (BA, 2002)
 * anthropology of mathematics
 * economics of common resources ("koinomics") and practices of peer production
 * artificial intelligence
 * philosophy

=Current affiliations and activities=

My main focus at present is finishing my thesis and getting PlanetMath's new software in good working order. However, on a longer timescale, I'm involved with all these things:


 * Since 2008: Board member at PlanetMath.org
 * Since 2010: Ph. D. Student @ The Knowledge Media Institute, UK. (Revised expected submission date: March 31, 2013).
 * Since 2010: Contributor to the Planetary project, which began as an effort to rebuild PlanetMath's software using contemporary web technologies
 * Since 2011: working on paragogy.net, a site about peer learning and peer production, in collaboration with User:Charles Jeffrey Danoff.
 * Since 2011: discussing new models for learning and development work in free technology
 * Since 2012: participant in the peeragogy project, which aims to demonstrate the power of peer production in education

=Zoomed-in next steps (Q1 2013)=


 * switching PlanetMath over to the new platform
 * user study on the new platform
 * collaboration with Tim Teräväinen on statistical models of learning, using an extension of work he has been developing in his Ph. D.
 * finishing my thesis

=Zoomed-out future timeline: the next decade=

Can you advise on any of these?


 * I will continue to help maintain and develop the Planetary and PlanetMath, but I'm especially interested in recruiting new contributors (2013, 4 hours a week)
 * Research in Science Studies, see this page on "Peeragogy.EDU" and this abstract (2013, 5 hours a week)
 * Get back to doing some stuff I was working on in AI, and some other programming projects, including a bootable USB (2013, 3 hours a week)
 * I'm particularly interested in text, hypertext, and inference, I have some unfinished work with Ray Puzio that would be nice to finish at some level and publish
 * I'm also interested in learning and using some new (to me) Lisp dialects/platforms, e.g. Clojure, ClojureScript, and Lush.
 * Jobs: Clearly, 12 hours a week isn't a lot of time, so I'm hoping my next job will give me more freedom to work on things like I've described above, either work in an academic setting that focuses on innovation (like this one), or at startup, as part of the Free Technology Guild... or both (2014)
 * I have a lot of written material on ice that I'd like to adapt into a bona fide novel (2014)
 * Assuming I have the funding sorted out, I might want to pursue training in psychoanalysis... or maybe just do some applied brain work in my job (2015-2019)
 * I wouldn't mind using PlanetMath and the FTG to learn more, do open research and development work, etc. (2020-2023)