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Start your Open and Networked PhD by declaring your candidacy

This challenge is your first stage in an Open and Networked PhD (ONPhD) - establishing your candidacy.

You will be listing past research projects and publications - or equivalent; writing a plan that demonstrates your understanding of the ONPhD approach, and outlining the intended research project/s. Your plan will also contain ready offers of supervision and mentorship from experienced researchers, and evidence of a preparedness to follow ethical boundaries in the research work.

On successful completion of this challenge, you will be deemed an OnPhD Candidate at the Peer to Peer University, and Wikiversity.

P Time it should take to complete:
60 hrs

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Engage the community

How are you going to engage the learning community and your learning network

Engaging community is a very important part of the Open and Networked PhD. What is your long term community building approach to assisting your completion of an OnPhD?

Outline your plan for engaging a learning community.

Provide a link to this in this tasks discussion thread.

Remember to join the ONPhD google group; http://groups.google.com/group/open-and-networked-phds

And Add yourself to the ONPhD candidate list on Wikiversity; http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/PhD#Examples_of_PhDs_and_candidates_using_Wikiversity

The P2Pu Open Masters program can provide one approach, and provides an excellent example of how to organize a focused learning group in a geographical area. With the ONPhD be creative in how you engage a community, think about it being a geographically distributed group or an existing Community of Practice. Keep in mind, an ONPhD is a new and emerging learning approach. So invent something wonderous...