The Temple Community Platform (TCP) is a cloud-hosted platform built on top of WordPress that consists of three distinct innovations:
- New type of learning management system (LMS) that applies social and open concepts to change learning and student development.
- A structured measurable professional development program that gets undergraduate students ready for the workplace.
- A model and associated software for offering 100% online graduate degree programs at low cost to achieve very high retention and satisfaction.
The platform is showcased at the main WordPress.org site. Take a look and make sure you leave a rating. The key design principles include:
- Open: All activity is open (e.g., a new post in a course is automatically published on the Internet, a widget displays ‘who is online’, e-portfolios are available on the Internet).
- Enable social connections and flow: All members can connect, communicate and share with each other (e.g., view profiles, message, share links)
- Individual control: Members independently generate and control their content and manage their identity (e.g., create a site, choose how to earn professional development points, dashboard analytics help students compare their development and progress to others)
- Discovery: Tools that encourage discovery of new members, new activity, and content (e.g., community activity list, leaderboard, search, tagging, permanent URLs, PRO point calendar).
- Aggregation: Activity and content is collated (e.g., sites are automatically published through RSS, badges, graduation analysis and peer comparison analysis on the PRO dashboard).
Team members
If you have any questions about the platform please contact Laurel Miller at Laurel.Miller@temple.edu.