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Connected Educator Month on P2PU!

Connected Educator month (hashtag #ce12) is starting today and runs for the whole month of August! Online communities like P2PU School of Ed are helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reducing isolation and providing “just in time” access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration. However, many educators are not yet participating and others aren’t…

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Check out great new courses at P2PU!

Since we last spoke, your peers have created more than 65 new courses on P2PU. We’d like to share with you our top picks of what your peers have to offer! In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to help your peers design better courses. We’ve created a space for peers…

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Standup Notes from Berlin / 10 July 2012

Today we hacked the format a bit, and added a Show & Tell session at the end, where people showed what they’ve been working on. Scroll down to see the links to these discussions. As always, thanks to Jessy for photographic proof that we are actually here..  Standup notes for 7/10/2012 Dirk Yesterday: finalised a few…

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P2PU Summer Chats – De Universiteit

This year a small group of core P2PU team members and volunteers are spending a month in Berlin pretending that we are not a completely virtual distributed organization, but actually have a physical office. It’s day two and it rocks. In addition to working together we are reaching out to the local networks in Berlin…

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P2PU Is Going Back to Berlin….

P2PU is going back to Berlin! Since we like this city so much, and seem to get good work done there, we’ve decided to set up a temporary office in Berlin in July 2012. Isn’t that just the most exciting thing you’ve heard all week? Thought so… Why are we doing this? When you put…

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Announcing the OKFN & P2PU School of Data!

The following post is by Rufus Pollock, Director and Co-Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Philip Schmidt, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Peer 2 Peer University. Today, we’re announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). We also welcome other organizations…

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New School of Ed Courses are Ready for Signup!

The P2PU School of Ed is happy to announce a new round of free, open-licensed professional learning groups for educators that will start March 5. These courses are available for sign-up now: Student Grant Writing – A group for high school teachers and students interested in writing a grant to fund a local school project. Empower Your Personal Learning — Taking…

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