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 you learning community. Post your strategic and tactical plans for community engagement.

Provide a link to this in this tasks discussion thread.

Remember to join the ONPhD google group; https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/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 the community, think about it being a geographically distributed group or is an existing Community of Practice. Keep in mind, an ONPhD is a new and emerging learning approach. So invent something wonderous...