This blog post comes to you from Adam Bush, the freshest addition to the P2PU Crew. He’s the founding Director of Curriculum of College Unbound: a college degree program in Providence, RI working to contend with retention rates for first generation college students by equally incorporating voices outside of the academy in the teaching and evaluation of its…
What’s Writing 4 Change? Peer 2 Peer University has teamed up with College Unbound to offer an 8-week course on Writing for Change. The goal of the course is to help learners accomplish social change through writing effective and compelling op-eds, grant applications and project proposals. This course is for anyone who needs…
We all want to help learners be successful. What “success” means and how we measure it means different things depending on your point of view. Additionally, issues of privacy and security haunt the conversation. Join us to hear how we think about this emerging field. Join our crew: Vanessa Gennarelli of P2PU, Eli Feasely, Data Scientist…
A lot is happening in the badges space, and while it’s not clear what the next steps are for P2PU, we thought it would be good to share our thinking about these development. The Badge Alliance is a new organization that was spun out of Mozilla and is stewarding the badges ecosystem. Philipp is…
Disclaimer: This post will require you to tolerate some techie words and be encouraged to do some technical things. The level of skill required is ‘click buttons’ not ‘type magic words’. We are always investigating better ways to help you to create open online learning communities. Part of that means creating a home…
Today we approached the second installment on questions of scale in our series “The Big Questions” with Nathan Maton, Community Strategist at the Khan Academy, Terry Heick, Director at TeachThought, Andrew Sliwinski, Senior Educational Technologist at Mozilla Foundation, and Alex Ruthmann, Associate Professor at NYU. Take a look as we tackle: – Context setting: is…
When it comes to online learning, does it matter what you teach, or is the methodology the interesting bit? Should learning experiences be designed in the same way, whether you’re teaching plumbing or physics, and whether you’re teaching it to highschool kids or Baby Boomers? These were the questions we found ourselves thinking about after…
This morning Nathan Maton from the Khan Academy, Alex Ruthmann from NYU and Andrew Sliwinski, co-founder at DIY.org and yours truly came together to discuss scale in online learning and how to support self-directed learners. Our focus for these chats is to learn from each other, so we ended up sharing pointers, tips and experiences from our respective communities. Watch the video (we…
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be hosting a series of roundtable discussions on the “Big” Questions: Scale in Online Learning with Nathan Maton from the Khan Academy. This week we’ll be talking about self-directed learners–how to orient them, support them, and help them find the right people. Our guests are TeachThought‘s Terry Heick, our…
In 2012 I left a sweet gig at Flat World Knowledge, an education startup, to become the Learning Lead at P2PU. At the time I had an amazing manager, my phone and coworking space were paid for, the pace and excitement of what we were doing was electric. It was a difficult decision. …