Over the last few months we’ve been reflecting a lot on who we are and what we do. At our annual face-to-face meeting in 2013, we took some time to refine this – think about what we’re good at, what’s been working for our community, and what we want to do next. Since then, we’ve…
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P2PU is looking for an Executive Director
Peer 2 Peer University is looking for its next Executive Director. The successful applicant will direct the organization’s ongoing innovative activities, manage staff and define overall strategy based on new opportunities and needs. As P2PU is a small virtual organisation with 5 staffers who are located in 3 continents, this position is not tied to…
#Rhizo14’s Secret Sauce: Unraveling Learning on the Web
Quick Friday post on how things are progressing in the “Rhizomatic Learning” course on P2PU.org, brought to you by the edupunk sparkplug Dave Cormier. With the proliferation of learning platforms on the web and abundance of resources, Dave envisioned a course where the “community is the curriculum.” Rhizomatic learning asks us to rethink our assumptions…
Mindsets and Motivation: 2014, Start Your Engines
The Motivation Landscape. In the wake of Badges, the spectre of behaviorism, and the proliferation of learning platforms on the web, how are we as practitioners and researchers to move forward in light of what we’ve learned? How have recent discussions about motivation, growth mindsets, and malleable intelligence affect how we design for learning? What’s…
Rhizomatic Learning at P2PU
We’re delighted (and more than a little dazzled) to announce that Dave Cormier will be running a course on Rhizomatic Learning at P2PU starting this month. Not sure what Rhizomatic Learning is? Then this is the course for you, of course… In a nutshell though – Rhizomatic learning is a story of how we can learn…
Peter Gabriel Chooses Philipp Schmidt for Wired Smart List 2013
(Illustration: Lauren Crow for WIRED) That’s right, folks. Like a sledgehammer. He may be too modest to tell you himself, but we couldn’t be prouder of our fearless leader Philipp. He’s been selected by Peter Gabriel for the WIRED UK Smart List 2013 (scroll down to number 20) “In terms of access and cost, our universities can never…
Hello, Carl!
We’d like to introduce a new face in the P2PUniverse, Carl Ruppin. Most of your have met Carl already, but we thought it was time to give him a proper welcome. Carl has joined us as strategy advisor and operations expert and will be helping us turn good ideas on PostIts and Google Docs into real,…
How To Build a Mechanical MOOC
Ever wondered what the secret is to building a successful MOOC? Believe it or not, you don’t need a ton of money and a specially designed platform. In fact, P2PU and our collaborators and friends at MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Study have managed to deliver introductory Python courses to over 3000 students for less than it…
Playing with Your Music….
As you may have noticed from all the noise we’ve been making, P2PU is delighted to be running a new Music MOOC along with our friends at the MIT Media Lab and NYU Steinhardt‘s Department of Music and Performing Arts “Play With Your Music” (or #PWYM) is a free, 6-week online course where participants will explore, mix and…
NYU + MIT Media Lab + P2PU Offer “Play With Your Music”: A Free and Playful Introduction to Audio Engineering
Signup opens today for “Play With Your Music” (playwithyourmusic.org) a free, 6-week online course where participants will explore, mix and remix songs, using the newest tools on the web. Learners will master the ins and outs of audio production, while working with music they already know and love. Anyone with an interest in making music…