Notes from the Lab  

Here’s a round-up of the latest ideas and experiments from P2PU community members as they hack their way through education. Our Director, Philipp Schmidt joins Hack Education’s Audrey Watters on the latest episode of Higher Ed Live to discuss the growing popularity of MOOC’s, some alternatives and the future of education.   Mozzadrella (aka long…

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Announcing Exciting New Courses at P2PU!  

  P2PU is excited to announce a treasure chest of new courses and challenges that cover our widest range of topics yet. In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to make courses more social, scalable and easier to find. We’ve jazzed up learner profiles where you can add your P2PU badges…

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Meet Dirk – P2PU’s New Team Member  

Welcome P2PU’s newest staff member Dirk Uys of South Africa. He’ll be joining our development whiz Zuzel Vera in making P2PU more awesome and more usable for all of us. *** P2PU: Dirk, we’re so excited to have a new staffer. What are you going to be doing for P2PU? Dirk: I’m also very excited!…

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Audrey Watters: Reading and Writing for the Web  

This is a post from the personal blog of Audrey Watters, a P2PU participant and mentor for a new P2PU challenge: Writing for the Web. Take this excellent challenge with Audrey and other writers of all levels and polish up your writing, blogging and internet influence. *** I’m currently a mentor for a wonderful Peer…

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Finding Courses & Challenges Just Got Easier  

Take a wander over to P2PU’s Learn page and you will some nice changes just rolled out by our team. Searching for courses and challenges just got a little easier, and a little cleaner. You can now search by school, tag, and language. The staff and community are making their efforts to highlight great courses…

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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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Help Develop This: A read-only API for P2PU  

Join community member Jose Flores in this volunteer effort to build a read-only API for P2PU. Description: This project entails the creation of an Application Programming Interface (API) that will expose some of the information available in the P2PU platform to third party consumers. A web API can be described as a series of calls…

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Voice Your Opinion on Community Badges  

If you have followed our blog posts or community calls you might already know that we have recently completed a pilot under the title “Webmaking 101” with the School of Webcraft. Amongst the new and exciting things we tried out in that pilot was a set of community badges, that highlighted skills such as giving…

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Community Op-Ed: A Meshing of Mediums  

This week’s guest post is from Leah McVie, educator, photographer, and open ed enthusiast. She is an active P2PU DIY U participant who is diving into the open badges community. She is currently exploring ways to mix the open education philosophy into institutional practices. She blogs on leahmacvie.com. ============================== When I go to work I…

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