In this newsletter Digital Skills Detroit: This fall we launched the first cohort of learning circles in Detroit focused on digital literacy and inclusion support by The Rocket Community Fund and partnering with Tech Goes Home (TGH) of Boston, United Way of Southeastern Michigan (UWSEM) and Black Tech Saturdays (BTS). See the project site for…
We are excited to announce the availability of course lists for teams! We created course lists specifically for teams to make it easier for new and existing facilitators to find relevant courses when creating learning circles. Now, team organizers have the ability to curate a selection of courses that will be recommended to facilitators when…
In this newsletter 🌪️ The year has sped past and so much has happened. We saw a deluge of volunteer facilitated learning circles in Pittsburg (way to go 👍)! We said goodbye to Lydian and Grif (cue the sad emojis 😭). And we launched the learner dashboard 🚀. As some of you gear up for…
As part of our work with College Unbound (CU), we are introducing a dashboard for learners. The purpose of the dashboard is to create a persistent place where learners can access learning circle information and functionality online. We hope to improve the dashboard and make it simpler for participants to convert their learning circle participation…
Hi, friends of P2PU! We’ve loved seeing the new learning circles cropping up this summer. Have any questions, suggestions, or victories to share? Let us know at thepeople@p2pu.org – we’re always glad to hear from you. 👋 The P2PU Team Farewell Party on August 10th! Grif and Lydian are moving on to new positions! We’re thankful to…
While learning circles are happening in-person around the world (maybe not right now), these aren’t the only communities that we are fostering. Part of what we’re building with learning circles is a global community of facilitators that share their lessons and best practices. Over the last two years, a small group of facilitators have been…
We ask facilitators and participants a few questions at different times during the life cycle of a learning circle. We want the questions to be thoughtful and the information gathered to be useful. After getting some input from facilitators in Boston last year, we started working on improving the process. Overall it was a process…
We’re excited to share recent updates we’ve made to the learning circles tools to help you better run learning circles! Team organizer dashboard interface Last year we introduced the ability to form teams of facilitators managed by one or more organizers. As team sizes increased, it became apparent that we needed to improve the user…
It is with a heavy heart that we take leave of Bekka. From 1 March Bekka is working full time on completing her PhD – we miss her already! Bekka has been with P2PU from the start when a bunch of crazy visionaries first came together in Berlin many moons ago. Since then Bekka has…
While we love online learning, we recognize that for some it can be intimidating and impersonal. Not only are you learning a new topic, but you have to learn new tools and new ways to communicate. Online learning communities can have their own lingo and ways of interacting, just like any ‘real-world’ community. For many…