Posts Categorized: General

Greetings from P2PU’s New Learning Lead

Hi there, Vanessa here. Totally psyched to be joining P2PU as your Learning Lead. I <3 P2PU. Since joining in spring 2010, I’ve launched several writing courses, most recently Writing for the Web. My proudest moments at P2PU are times when peers helped me learn skills that were completely new to me, like the first interactive design I…

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Learning Lernanta: The Code that Runs P2PU

This post is by Dirk Uys, our newest staffer and tech team guru. Dirk is exploring the inner workings of Lernanta and sharing his experiences with the community. He recently gave new life to Contributing to Lernanta, an onboarding challenge for volunteer developers started a year ago by community member Jessica Ledbetter. I recently took…

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Coming soon to the P2PU School of Ed

This post was contributed by Karen Fasimpaur originally posted on k12opened.com on May 18, 2012. We are gearing up for an exciting summer at the P2PU School of Ed. (In case you’ve missed it, this initiative is all about free, open, peer-centered professional development for K-12 teachers). Here is what we are planning for June…

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Kick-starting the School of Data!

This post was contributed by Laura Newman of the Open Knowledge Foundation. OKFN & P2PU have been collaborating on the creation of a School of Data.   Earlier this year, we announced plans to launch the School of Data. Thanks to the generous support of Open Society Foundations and the Shuttleworth Foundation, we’re now ready…

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Notes from the Lab: Reshaping Professional Development for Educators

“How P2PU is Reshaping Professional Learning for K-12 Teachers” by Karen Fasimpaur was originally published on Getting Smart on 7 May 2012. Professional learning for K-12 teachers is an exciting space with great demand and high payoff for successful models. However, much of the professional development currently done for in-service teachers reflects old, industrial-era models…

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Notes from the Lab

Here’s a round-up of the latest ideas and experiments from P2PU community members as they hack their way through education. Our Director, Philipp Schmidt joins Hack Education’s Audrey Watters on the latest episode of Higher Ed Live to discuss the growing popularity of MOOC’s, some alternatives and the future of education.   Mozzadrella (aka long…

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Announcing Exciting New Courses at P2PU!

  P2PU is excited to announce a treasure chest of new courses and challenges that cover our widest range of topics yet. In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to make courses more social, scalable and easier to find. We’ve jazzed up learner profiles where you can add your P2PU badges…

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Meet Dirk – P2PU’s New Team Member

Welcome P2PU’s newest staff member Dirk Uys of South Africa. He’ll be joining our development whiz Zuzel Vera in making P2PU more awesome and more usable for all of us. *** P2PU: Dirk, we’re so excited to have a new staffer. What are you going to be doing for P2PU? Dirk: I’m also very excited!…

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Audrey Watters: Reading and Writing for the Web

This is a post from the personal blog of Audrey Watters, a P2PU participant and mentor for a new P2PU challenge: Writing for the Web. Take this excellent challenge with Audrey and other writers of all levels and polish up your writing, blogging and internet influence. *** I’m currently a mentor for a wonderful Peer…

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Finding Courses & Challenges Just Got Easier

Take a wander over to P2PU’s Learn page and you will some nice changes just rolled out by our team. Searching for courses and challenges just got a little easier, and a little cleaner. You can now search by school, tag, and language. The staff and community are making their efforts to highlight great courses…

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