BookOutline

We'll begin with a sort of Foreward-in-progress that describes the "shape" we want the book to take (a Plan of the Work so to speak). This will also sum up how we want people to interact, what relevant business models might be, and so forth and so on. It could take a while to get this right! - luckily we now have an outline of material to work with. Note that a straightforward initial "mixdown" of the pages here is available on the page Paragogy_Book_D2 (this should be suitable for printing). The paper Paragogical Praxis remixes some of the material as well.

Revision plans
We need to engage more deeply with the works we cite. And we need to make things "flow" better (the draft was authored as separate essays - will it work as one book?). It would be good to find a friendly critic or two who would be willing to read the entire book and comment on things "inline". For starters, we can play this role. Using Etherpad would likely make editing easier, but it doesn't currently integrate with Mediawiki. Tags would probably help as well (could be done with categories in Mediawiki). There are some Semantic Mediawiki plugins that could make multi-page editing easier -- that could be fun to play with.

Publication models

 * Online publication on Mediawiki, licensed via CCZero (this wiki)
 * A "living" book published via Etherpad and open for editing
 * A short ebook of the first "snapshot" (e.g. Kindle and/or PDF)
 * 40K, make a "1 hour read" (or two of these, one for each part), see http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/09/italy-40k-books-no-paper-no-problem/
 * Lulu, see for example http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/the-real-apology-of-socrates/4358757
 * A short paper book (probably around 130 to 180 pages)

Interaction models

 * Throw contents of book into Etherpad and have an editing party.
 * Invite selected peers to add to paragogy.net
 * Modify paragogy.net to run something less like a wiki and more like a CMS (e.g. a site based on Drupal+Etherpad, like Planetary)

Business models
This drifts somewhat further afield, but does help sketch or motivate the "why" of the book.


 * Create a "marketplace" (agora) along the lines described in this article on the Free Technology Academy's wiki about a "Free Software Guild"; see also Sole Proprietorship
 * Build a paragogical high school curriculum (like the International Baccalaureate programme) and start an online and/or charter school that pilots this curriculum
 * Create a plugin that works with e.g. Amazon but that crowdsources more critical reviews about products - contributors gain referral bonuses and paragogy.net takes 5%. (Researching products could be part of the paragogical curriculum.)

= Outline=


 * Preface
 * About this book (moved onto THIS page, see above)
 * Strategy
 * Vision Quest
 * Motivating discussion (Why?)
 * Why are we interested in paragogy?
 * What makes learning fun? and boring?
 * Five principles
 * Changing Context as a decentered center.
 * What makes learning work?
 * Starting over
 * Meta-learning as a font of knowledge.
 * How does learning work in practice?
 * Reflections on the process
 * Peers provide feedback that wouldn’t be there otherwise.
 * Learning... with peers
 * Leningrad Gothic
 * Learning is distributed and nonlinear.
 * Learning as adaptation
 * Loose ties
 * Realize the dream if you can, then wake up!
 * The dream realized
 * Waking up from the OER realized dream
 * A dream controlled
 * Interviews
 * Question Pool
 * Theory
 * Learning in networks
 * Learning about collectives
 * What is paradata?
 * Practice
 * Ideas about "attention" from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace and their implications for "infotention" and studying.
 * All that glistens...
 * Note: the following essays can also be read on one page: ForwardsAndBackwards
 * References
 * Conclusions
 * Limitations
 * Vision
 * Connections
 * Implementing
 * Key Message
 * Challenge
 * Offer
 * Relevance
 * Case studies
 * PlanetMath
 * PlanetMath Overview
 * PlanetMath Outlook
 * PlanetMath Science
 * Art and Literature
 * Pop Music
 * November Novel Writing Month
 * Sensemaking and the literary underground
 * Copyright
 * Officiating Ice Hockey
 * Academic Peer Review
 * Language
 * Language teaching
 * Language learning
 * Computer languages (i.e. hacking)
 * P2PU
 * P2PU Interview I
 * Paragogy.net
 * Software Platform Ideas for Paragogy.net
 * Business Models for Paragogy.net
 * Sole Proprietorship (Not applicable for paragogy.net, because Joe and Charlie are Co-Creators, but interesting to examine as a Paragogical case study on its own merits.)
 * Editing strategy for the Paragogy book
 * Infinite Jest's James Incandenza
 * Collaborative Lesson Planning
 * Field studies ("In the wild")
 * Bootstrapping (cf. OER book)
 * Appendix: Earlier papers
 * Afterward
 * The albatross
 * Notes on The Real Trial of Socrates
 * Notes on The Mirror of Production
 * Coda
 * AAR