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We Won!

By On May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

 

P2PU is over the moon and tickled pink to be able to announce that we are one of the winners of the Open CourseWare Consortium’s 2013 Site Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). 

Along with Notre Dame OpenCourseWare and  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya OCW,  P2PU has been named as the recipient of the [...]

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No getting lost in translation here…

By On April 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment

If you haven’t noticed anything different yet, we pushed out a new release of lernanta on p2pu.org today!

The first mayor change is that a few heroes contributed new translations and updated existing ones! You can now read and use P2PU in English, Korean, Swedish, Chinese, [...]

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It’s Video Wednesday…

By On February 20, 2013 · 1 Comment

We’re totally overwhelmed with all the great new videos coming out of our community at the moment. You guys are just astounding. And while it may be a bit to take in all at once, we thought it would be good to share them. So grab some popcorn, shut the door, hunker down, and spend [...]

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Calling All MOOCsters

By On February 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Are you embedded in a P2PU MOOC? Are you learning Python (gently) or thinking about Creative Learning? If so, we want your stories!

This is your chance to hone your frontline reporting skills and tell us what it’s like to be in the depths of the MOOC experience.

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Open Science Sprint with Creative Commons for Open Data Day

By On February 18, 2013 · 1 Comment

 

Creative Commons is hosting an Open Science Course Sprint, pulling together people from all areas of science, data, and education to explore Open Science and Data in celebration of Open Data Day on 23rd of February . Would you like to help? If so, read on!

In a Nutshell

The group will [...]

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This Week’s Community Call – in Glorious Technicolour!

By On February 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Now that we’re using Google Hangout for community calls, we’re able to broadcast and record them, and host them on YouTube. Which is great. It means our community can now see who says what on the calls, and you don’t have to scroll through pages and pages of notes.

So, here’s this week’s call (you [...]

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Learning Creative Learning – A Media Lab & P2PU co-production

By On January 29, 2013 · 7 Comments

Learning Creative Learning is an online course for designers, developers and educators. Offered by the MIT Media Lab & yours truly, the folks at P2PU. It’s based on a course Mitch Resnick teaches at the Media Lab. And now it’s online for the first-time through a collaboration with P2PU. That’s [...]

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School of Open: Highlights from the Class of 2012

By On December 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment


Class of 2012 by P2PU / CC BY-SA
(See all Class of 2012 workshop participants)

It’s been an exciting year for School of Open, from the P2PU residency in Berlin, to the curriculum building meeting in Palo Alto, to the various [...]

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Teaching girls to be programmers – Technovation Challenge on P2PU

By On December 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Technovation Challenge is a competition run by Iridescent  in the US, which aims to equip highschool girls with the skills they need to become technologically literate. Since launching in 2010, over 800 school-age girls have programmed 163 mobile phone apps and learned to launch a startup company.

This year, [...]

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The MOOC says “Thank You”

By On December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here at P2PU, we’re not all that used to getting donations. In fact, we had no idea how good it feels when people give you money out of the kindness of their hearts. But in the last week we’ve received donations totalling over $150 from users of the Mechanical MOOC and we’ve never felt so [...]

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