Guest post: What’s behind the success of Copyright 4 Educators Australia?  

The following is a cross-posting from our friends at Creative Commons. Its a guest post by Jessica Smith, National Copyright Officer for the National Copyright Unit of Australia. She ran the Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) course with Delia Browne as part of the School of Open’s second round of facilitated courses in 2013. The School of Open is a community of volunteers…

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Hello, Carl!  

We’d like to introduce a new face in the P2PUniverse, Carl Ruppin. Most of your have met Carl already, but we thought it was time to give him a proper welcome. Carl has joined us as strategy advisor and operations expert and will be helping us turn good ideas on PostIts and Google Docs into real,…

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Data Explorer Mission Recap  

BACKGROUND From October 19-21, the School of Data (a collaboration between Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University) held a Data Explorer Mission focused on Garment Factory Data–collecting it, collating it, mapping it, and telling a story with data. This course had several points of innovation and experimentation, including: Time: instead of a longer…

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How To Build a Mechanical MOOC  

Ever wondered what the secret is to building a successful MOOC? Believe it or not, you don’t need a ton of money and a specially designed platform. In fact, P2PU and our collaborators and friends at MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Study have managed to deliver introductory Python courses to over 3000 students for less than it…

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Playing with Your Music….  

As you may have noticed from all the noise we’ve been making, P2PU is delighted to be running a new Music MOOC along with our friends at the  MIT Media Lab and NYU Steinhardt‘s Department of Music and Performing Arts “Play With Your Music” (or #PWYM) is a free, 6-week online course where participants will explore, mix and…

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NYU + MIT Media Lab + P2PU Offer “Play With Your Music”: A Free and Playful Introduction to Audio Engineering  

Signup opens today for “Play With Your Music” (playwithyourmusic.org) a free, 6-week online course where participants will explore, mix and remix songs, using the newest tools on the web. Learners will master the ins and outs of audio production, while working with music they already know and love. Anyone with an interest in making music…

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