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Data Explorer Mission

At the Cockpit: How the Data Explorer Mission Works

By Vanessa Gennarelli On April 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

We provide multiple pathways to learning here at P2PU–if visual is your thing, here’s the walkthrough of Data Explorer Missions on our Community Call (start around minute 19:00):

Last year Peer 2 Peer University and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched an initiative to to meet the global demand [...]

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No getting lost in translation here…

By rebeccakahn 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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How We Make the Glue (Without Getting Sticky)

By Vanessa Gennarelli On April 17, 2013 · 3 Comments

Last Week…

I came back from yoga to my Brooklyn apartment, and our Tech Lead, Dirk Uys, was asleep. On my couch. He was in town from Durban, South Africa en route to Boston for a hackathon. I fixed coffee, poked that dormant mound of jetlagged developer, and we called Erika, our front-end wizard [...]

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The Accessible P2PU Course

By Leah Macvie On April 5, 2013 · 3 Comments

Nothing is more frustrating than being asked to read a poorly scanned in document. Whether the text is way too small or barely visible or crooked on the page, sometimes it’s just impossible to really enjoy the reading experience. I can manage, but what about those who can’t?

P2PU friends, this post takes [...]

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OKFN & P2PU Partner for a Featured Expedition: “Data Explorer Missions”

By Vanessa Gennarelli On April 2, 2013 · 1 Comment

Image CC-By-SA J Brew on Flickr

  Your Mission: Tell Stories with Data

Learn how to tinker with, refine and tell a story with data in this 4-week course. Each week you’ll be commissioned to work with others on a project that will hone your data-wrangling skills. Lessons will be [...]

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Travel & Learning

By philipp On April 1, 2013 · 2 Comments

This is a great moment to think carefully about the purpose of the university. Especially for those who are associated with it. But then, we (they?) have been told this before. And we might be tempted to wait and see if the recent developments in online learning are yet another storm in a water-glass,  which will [...]

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Get Feedback on a Project You Love: P2PU Launches a New Version of Badges

By Vanessa Gennarelli On March 21, 2013 · 4 Comments

As Grantees of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, Peer 2 Peer University has created a platform for anyone who wants to make and issue Badges. We launched badges.p2pu.org at the DML Conference in Chicago last week to an amazing response. Folks were very receptive to our project-based and feedback-driven approach. Here’s a [...]

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Open Learning Webinar – the proof!

By rebeccakahn On March 16, 2013 · 2 Comments

Last week, as part of the events taking place all over the world on celebration of Open Ed Week, Karen Fasimpaur from the School of Ed hosted a webinar all about peer learning and P2PU.  Vanessa (Genarelli, the Leading Light of Learning) and Jane (Park, [...]

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Welcome to the School of Open, Class of 2013

By janepark On March 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Happy Open Education Week! We are happy to announce that the School of Open community has launched its first set of courses…


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Sign up for these facilitated courses

this week (sign-up will [...]

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What is P2PU Building? An Update from the Flight Deck

By rebeccakahn On March 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

This post was sent via carrier pigeon and smoke signal from Vanessa and the posse in the Badge Cave. Which is nothing like a Bat Cave…

 

You may have noticed, dear Community members, that Dirk and Vanessa (and now Erika & Chris!) have had Badges on the brain.

Day and night, we’ve been pushing [...]

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