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…
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…
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).
The Power of Open – the Creative Commons Annual Campaign
This week marked the official launch of the 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign! Please join our friends at CC in powering the future of openness! This year, they’re offering a limited teal edition of the CC “I love to share” t-shirt to everyone who donates $50 or more (until supplies run out). For those who…
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…
What Would A Volunteer School Of Education Look Like?
One of the big projects we’ve been most excited about that P2PU is the recently launched School Of Education pilot. This pilot represents the first step in finding out if the model of open, community-based peer learning can be used to enrich professional development for K-12 teachers. In a very short amount of time we’ve…
Featured Courses at P2PU – 23rd September 2011
We have a plethora of featured courses to share with you this week (and aren’t you impressed that we know how to use the word “plethora”?) Each and every one of them is really exciting, they cover a range of subject, from music to poetry, philosophy and programming, and we’re delighted to be able to…
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…
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….