(I wasn’t sure about posting this on the P2PU blog or my personal one. The views and opinions are my own. They do not necessarily reflect the community’s thoughts. — Philipp) I like data and evidence. My father is a civic engineer and I spent (too) much of my youth traipsing around building sites learning…
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P2PU & Media Lab = Everybody Learns
I am super excited to announce that P2PU is building a stronger relationship with the MIT Media Lab. We will spend the next year prototyping, tinkering, and experimenting with new ideas in the field of online learning. The Backstory Joi Ito, who has been a friend and mentor for many years, ran a Digital Journalism…
It’s Alive! The Mechanical MOOC offers “Gentle Intro to Python”
We’re delighted to announce a new experiment in online learning: MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy, OpenStudy and P2PU are partnering together to offer a new kind of massive open online course (MOOC). Our first course is “A Gentle Introduction to Python.” The Mechanical MOOC is a man (or machine) of mystery. It sends out emails to thousands…
(Berlin) Stand Up – 24 July 2012
A lot of people took the day off yesterday and we are fully starting into our last week at the Berlin Summer office today. I’m blatantly re-using the School of Open sprint image, because it rocks, and the Sprint happens today. Vanessa Yesterday I had a lovely day to myself and finished the assessment plan….
(Berlin) Stand Up – 17 July 2012
Vanessa Yesterday I was in Sweden. Today I will be catching up badge maker challenge – because there has been a lot of activity. Meeting about assessment plan. Talking to someone about curriculum development about collaboration. Talking about Mechanical MOOC with Steve Carson. This afternoon following up on research. Niels Yesterday I finished my mini holiday….
Rebooting University
When in Paris … don’t do as the Parisians do. That’s one of the things I learned at this weekend’s Nightscience / Teaching through Research workshop at the Institute for Innovation of Teaching through Research at University Rene Descartes in Paris. While most of France (and Google’s home page) celebrated the storming of the Bastille…
Stand-up Notes from Berlin / 5 July 2012
While P2PU is spending a month in Berlin in July, we’ll be keeping you up-to-date with what we’re working on by posting notes from our daily standups. Everyday at 10am our team meets for 15 minutes to discuss what we did yesterday, what we’re working on today, and any blockers or dependencies we need to…
The P2PU Review of 2011
One year is a long time. A lot has happened at P2PU over the 12 months. And while this time “between the years” is always a good opportunity to look back, I struggle to sit still and not look ahead to 2012 as well. Here are some 2011 take-aways going from the very high-level right…
How to scale peer learning online
Helping people learn with each other is the most important thing for P2PU to get right. In a few weeks we will be launching “Webmaking 101” to try new ways of helping (many) more people learn together. It’s a pilot project for the Mozilla School of Webcraft at P2PU that is based around the concept of “learning…
Learning Assessment – Learning About Assessment
In April this year, P2PU received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to “track and validate deeper learning in online peer learning.” Deeper learning is a term Hewlett coined to describe the types of engagement that we associate with open education – combining factual knowledge and hard skills, with dispositions and habits that are topic…