Class of 2012 by P2PU / CC BY-SA (See all Class of 2012 workshop participants) It’s been an exciting year for School of Open, from the P2PU residency in Berlin, to the curriculum building meeting in Palo Alto, to the various course building workshops we ran in Helsinki, London, Mexico City, Berlin, and more. Our…
We’ve always been fond of a musical metaphor here at P2PU, and our end of year roundup is no different. But rather than record a Christmas single or send out awkwardly posed photocards, we thought we’d use a timeline to remind us all of our standout moments from 2012 and say thank you to all…
It started with the kind of problem that hatches romantic comedies: I lost a ring. And not just any ring–one my girl Elena had bought me during a recent BFF-a-thon in Stockholm. Not only was I super bummed, but I felt like I’d let a solid piece of karma escape through my fingers. So I…
Q: What do you call a dinosaur that smashes everything in its path? A: A Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! Okay, so our dinosaur jokes may not be up to much. But our community certainly knows their Triassic from their Cretaceous critters. These beautiful beasts have been created by P2PU participants in one of the most popular courses on p2pu.org;…
I give you the takeaways from a very special Community Call. As we close 2012, it’s time to prompt a reflective practice. To wit, I asked those on the call today: 1. How would you define the P2PU community? 2. What are your big goals for 2013? Hopefully our self-definition becomes our “compass”…
(I wasn’t sure about posting this on the P2PU blog or my personal one. The views and opinions are my own. They do not necessarily reflect the community’s thoughts. — Philipp) I like data and evidence. My father is a civic engineer and I spent (too) much of my youth traipsing around building sites learning…
The Technovation Challenge is a competition run by Iridescent in the US, which aims to equip highschool girls with the skills they need to become technologically literate. Since launching in 2010, over 800 school-age girls have programmed 163 mobile phone apps and learned to launch a startup company. This year, as part of their plan to open…
Here at P2PU, we’re not all that used to getting donations. In fact, we had no idea how good it feels when people give you money out of the kindness of their hearts. But in the last week we’ve received donations totalling over $150 from users of the Mechanical MOOC and we’ve never felt so loved. We’ve got…
November 8th, 2012 — In August of this year, a group of leading open education projects announced the launch of a massive open online class (MOOC) that had no instructor or central learning platform. This so-called “mechanical” MOOC combined the offerings of three leading open education projects—MIT OpenCourseWare, OpenStudy and Codecademy—loosely linked together by an e-mail…
We are giving a webinar next week to help new and seasoned community members kickstart their courses, especially those just beginning to flesh out their ideas for a School of Open course! P2PU Learning Lead, Vanessa Gennarelli, will give an overview of the P2PU course design, and then dive into the step-by-step process of creating…