Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge / Open.Michigan / CC BY Last Friday, Open.Michigan helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy in an offline version of the School of Open’s “Get CC Savvy” challenge, a course originally designed for independent online learners. For those yet unaware, the School of Open is…
We’re absolutely delighted to highlight the newest experiment in online youth learning of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. RedTalk is the Red Cross and Red Crescent Learning network’s online learning experience, connecting global experts with community-based volunteers to share their insights, challenge, and learn. Each RedTalk is an opportunity to…
On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders from the various “open” movements to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you haven’t been reading this blog! The School of Open is a community initiative that will provide online educational resources…
Hello peers! So we’ve been working on an experiment over here at P2PU–with SoundCloud, we hatched a plan to revamp the hackathon, peer-learning style. The event was Story Hack Boston, and took place this past Saturday at the MIT Media Lab. 44 storytellers and hackers came together to tell stories. It was totally baller. A Bit…
Greetings peers–I just returned from a whirlwind trip to Durham for the DML Grantee workshop. All of us grantees gathered together to share how we approach assessment and badging systems. As P2PU has been doing this stuff for awhile, we were asked by DML to talk about what we’re up to. DML Demo The…
Here’s the first of many upcoming research highlights, which will be snapshots of studies about P2PU! Paper Link: PDF Citation: Ahn, J., Weng, C., & Butler, B. S. (2013). The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence participation in the P2P University? Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Learning Analytics and…
This is a cross-posting from Karen Fasimpaur and the team of wonderful people at the School of Ed Paul Allison through the NYC Writing Project‘s Youth Voices project has structured a learning game around a series of challenges for ELA, history/social studies, arts and media, and science. These challenges are tied to Common Core…
I am super excited to announce that P2PU is building a stronger relationship with the MIT Media Lab. We will spend the next year prototyping, tinkering, and experimenting with new ideas in the field of online learning. The Backstory Joi Ito, who has been a friend and mentor for many years, ran a Digital Journalism…
Interested in the latest tools in digital storytelling? Curious about this whole “peer learning” thing? Want to make stuff using the SoundCloud API? Come to Story Hack Day! When: Saturday, September 29th @ 9am. Plan on hacking until 6. Where: MIT Media Media Lab–75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA Who: Anyone who is passionate about telling…
A small little release went through today, but hopefully the impact will be felt 🙂 What changed you ask? First and foremost, the learn page receive a bit of attention! 10 points if you can point out whats different… ok, I will tell you. Language preferences for course listings are simplified and persistent. The default is to look…