Posts Categorized: General

P2PU Ambassadors

How can an international, multi-lingual, time-zone spanning, generation-gapping volunteer learning community organize, unify, and continue to grow? Community member Dany Bautista of Bogota, Columbia might just have the answer. He has been busy at work developing an ambassador program for P2PU. Here’s Dany’s outline of what an ambassador program could look like: Profile of a…

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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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We Can Work It Out: Reflections From The Berlin Workshop

“I believe our biggest accomplishment [at the Berlin workshop] was the incorporation (at least in me) of a certain sense of urgency and excitement about the need to continuously improve the platform to ensure p2pu.org becomes a trusted, effective and awesome space for learners online.” – Niels Sprong, long-time P2PU contributor On November 8th amazing…

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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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School of Education Update

Post by P2PU Community Member Karen Fasimpaur. There have been some exciting things going on at the School of Education courses on P2PU that we want to share. In Multimedia and Graphics to Facilitate Deeper Learning, developer and facilitator Steve O’Connor, a fifth grade teacher in New York, has developed a series of excellent interactive…

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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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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…

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