Philipp here. I am taking a position at the MIT Media Lab and am joining the P2PU board. Which means I have to step down as Executive Director of P2PU. There, I said it. Read on for the details. Last year I relocated from Cape Town to Boston to spend a year at the…
P2PU is delighted to be part of a new collaborative exploration of deeper learning and in-depth investigation of what education could and should be about, which will be starting in January, 2014. High Tech High, Peer 2 Peer University, and MIT Media Lab are proud to present the launch of a new free massive open online…
(Illustration: Lauren Crow for WIRED) That’s right, folks. Like a sledgehammer. He may be too modest to tell you himself, but we couldn’t be prouder of our fearless leader Philipp. He’s been selected by Peter Gabriel for the WIRED UK Smart List 2013 (scroll down to number 20) “In terms of access and cost, our universities can never…
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…
This is a cross-post from the original Creative Commons blog post by Jane Park Milton Keynes / CC BY I took up residence in Milton Keynes, England, for one week in October as the Linked OER Research Hub Fellow for theSchool of Open. The School of Open is a community of volunteers from all around the world who are developing free…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…