Last week, as part of the events taking place all over the world on celebration of Open Ed Week, Karen Fasimpaur from the School of Ed hosted a webinar all about peer learning and P2PU. Vanessa (Genarelli, the Leading Light of Learning) and Jane (Park, School of Open wrangler extraodinaire) were there too. In case…
Happy Open Education Week! We are happy to announce that the School of Open community has launched its first set of courses… The Library of Congress / No known copyright restrictions Sign up for these facilitated courses this week (sign-up will remain open through Sunday, March 17). These courses will start the week of March…
This post was sent via carrier pigeon and smoke signal from Vanessa and the posse in the Badge Cave. Which is nothing like a Bat Cave… You may have noticed, dear Community members, that Dirk and Vanessa (and now Erika & Chris!) have had Badges on the brain. Day and night, we’ve been pushing…
The Technovation Challenge on P2PU is a project run by of Iridescent (a US-based non-profit) that brings together scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, and teachers. The challenge equips girls to become technologically literate, and gives them the skills they need to be able to initiate and lead disruptive innovations. Girls in this challenge are learning how to build mobile apps….
As promised, the School of Open is launching its first set of courses during Open Education Week, March 11-15, 2013. This means that all facilitated courses will open for sign-up that week, and all stand-alone courses will be ready to take then or anytime thereafter. The School of Open is a community of volunteers developing…
Wikimedia Office in Berlin / Hari Prasad Nadig / CC BY-SA On March 2nd, the Creative Commons & P2PU School of Open will join forces with Wikimedia at the Wikimedia Germany offices in Berlin! As part of Open Education Week, CC Germany and Wikimedia Germany are kicking things off early with a workshop to introduce…
We’re totally overwhelmed with all the great new videos coming out of our community at the moment. You guys are just astounding. And while it may be a bit to take in all at once, we thought it would be good to share them. So grab some popcorn, shut the door, hunker down, and spend…
Are you embedded in a P2PU MOOC? Are you learning Python (gently) or thinking about Creative Learning? If so, we want your stories! This is your chance to hone your frontline reporting skills and tell us what it’s like to be in the depths of the MOOC experience. Have you learnt new things? Made new…
Creative Commons is hosting an Open Science Course Sprint, pulling together people from all areas of science, data, and education to explore Open Science and Data in celebration of Open Data Day on 23rd of February . Would you like to help? If so, read on! In a Nutshell The group will be building a…
[Crossposting here from the Media Lab Director’s Fellows blog] This week we launched the Learning Creative Learning course with 24,000 participants. One one hand, I am thrilled that we have such a large audience, and especially that they come from all over the world. On the other hand, having so many participants makes experimentation much harder. The…