We’re delighted to announce a new experiment in online learning: MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy, OpenStudy and P2PU are partnering together to offer a new kind of massive open online course (MOOC). Our first course is “A Gentle Introduction to Python.” The Mechanical MOOC is a man (or machine) of mystery. It sends out emails to thousands…
We’ve had many discussions about what we would like to achieve with Lernanta and where we want to take it in the future. This is our current take on it: Our technology supports people who make learning happen! Who are these mysterious folks? Broadly, they create opportunities for others to learn. By the way, this…
Our Executive Director Philipp Schmidt issued a call to action in his post “Let’s Make Badges Not Stink.” But, inevitably some badges will stink. Perhaps even on our platform–we’re creating a “Badge Issuer” that will encourage anyone to create a badge for their P2PU course. So how can the P2PU brand, voice, tone and core…
This post is brought to you by P2PU super-user Leah MacVie – she’s fantastic! Branding yourself is a bit like building a really good ice cream cone. You select flavors that represent you in a way when you carefully craft an ice cream cone- flavors, colors, toppings. Many of you may have heard…
Fair reader– We’re looking for feedback on a mockup of the new homepage. We plan to incrementally improve it. P2PU <3 iteration! To wit, we ask for your help with the following tests: Test A can be found here. Test B can be found here. The test will be open until Friday, August 17th. Please…
Yesterday was rich with conversations about badges. Early in the day HASTAC and Mozilla hosted a webinar with Judd Antin, a User Experience Researcher from Facebook, on the Social Psychology of Badges. Later in the evening, I was fortunate to be part of a conversation about assessment hosted by P2PU Community Member Paul Allison for Connected…
Hooray! We have a new rolled out some changes over at p2pu.org! Here’s a quick rundown of what changed: First and foremost: our very first version of our API! For now it is read only, meaning that people can see thing but they cannot change things. We are exposing things that are already publicly visible…
Piet did a great job of recapping all the work (and play) we did around School of Open in Berlin. I don’t have much to add on that front, except to say that I’m really proud of all the work we did together as a team and as a community, and that I plan to…
Connected Educator month (hashtag #ce12) is starting today and runs for the whole month of August! Online communities like P2PU School of Ed are helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reducing isolation and providing “just in time” access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration. However, many educators are not yet participating and others aren’t…
Estimated number of epic conversations: a gazillon. And still going.