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Featured Courses at P2PU – 2 December 2011

This week we have some brilliant new courses and challenges on offer, which are guaranteed to feed your body as well as your mind. For you, for free. Because we really do care that much. CSET Science and Math Many countries and all states in the United States qualify their teachers by requiring that they…

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Featured Courses at P2PU – 25 November 2011

By now, you should all have had the chance to check out the post-Berlin blog post summing up our amazing workshop. This week’s diverse and fascinating featured courses are a brilliant reminder of what makes P2PU such a special community – where anyone can learn just about anything. Y’all are amazing, and we wouldn’t be…

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Featured courses at P2PU this week

We’re back! After a couple of week’s hiatus, P2PU is delighted to announce that we’ve got a raft of great new courses and challenges for y’all to peruse, ponder, consider and mull over. And if any of you are confused, perturbed or stumped by the difference between a course and a challenge, have a look…

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First Annual Open Education Week Declared: 5-10 March 2012

The OpenCourseWare Consortium are old friends of P2PU, and so we’re delighted to share the news that 5-10 March 2012 has been declared the first annual Open Education Week. A global event, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER).

P2PU @ SXSWEdu

Various members of the P2PU community have submitted some brilliant proposals for next year’s SXSWEdu. If you have a moment, it would be great if you could vote for the sessions on Panel Picker. They are: Open Peer Learning – the School of Ed @ P2PU Building a Collaborative Learning Space What Next for Open…

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New Features on p2pu.org – V 1.3

The good times just keep on rolling… Our fantastic developers have just announced the latest set of changes to p2pu.org and we think you’ll really like them. Better Email Notifications: Organizers now have the same options as participants for configuring which notifications they receive by email (including un-subscribing from courses they organize.) You can choose…

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P2PU Launches School of Ed Pilot

P2PU  today announces a pilot program for a School of Ed to bring the model of open, community-based peer learning to professional development for K-12 teachers. This pilot program will include seven free, online, open-licensed courses for teachers. The content focus of these courses is on using innovative methods to encourage deeper learning for students….

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