We’re back! After a couple of week’s hiatus, P2PU is delighted to announce that we’ve got a raft of great new courses and challenges for y’all to peruse, ponder, consider and mull over. And if any of you are confused, perturbed or stumped by the difference between a course and a challenge, have a look…
Post by P2PU Community Member Karen Fasimpaur. There have been some exciting things going on at the School of Education courses on P2PU that we want to share. In Multimedia and Graphics to Facilitate Deeper Learning, developer and facilitator Steve O’Connor, a fifth grade teacher in New York, has developed a series of excellent interactive…
The OpenCourseWare Consortium are old friends of P2PU, and so we’re delighted to share the news that 5-10 March 2012 has been declared the first annual Open Education Week. A global event, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER).
This week marked the official launch of the 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign! Please join our friends at CC in powering the future of openness! This year, they’re offering a limited teal edition of the CC “I love to share” t-shirt to everyone who donates $50 or more (until supplies run out). For those who…
Various members of the P2PU community have submitted some brilliant proposals for next year’s SXSWEdu. If you have a moment, it would be great if you could vote for the sessions on Panel Picker. They are: Open Peer Learning – the School of Ed @ P2PU Building a Collaborative Learning Space What Next for Open…
Helping people learn with each other is the most important thing for P2PU to get right. In a few weeks we will be launching “Webmaking 101” to try new ways of helping (many) more people learn together. It’s a pilot project for the Mozilla School of Webcraft at P2PU that is based around the concept of “learning…
One of the big projects we’ve been most excited about that P2PU is the recently launched School Of Education pilot. This pilot represents the first step in finding out if the model of open, community-based peer learning can be used to enrich professional development for K-12 teachers. In a very short amount of time we’ve…
We have a plethora of featured courses to share with you this week (and aren’t you impressed that we know how to use the word “plethora”?) Each and every one of them is really exciting, they cover a range of subject, from music to poetry, philosophy and programming, and we’re delighted to be able to…
DIY U: Getting Started With Self-Learning Pilot runs through September 2011 on P2PU.org! P2PU is excited to announce an overdue collaboration with Anya Kamenetz, author of The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential, to create a new course centered around motivated learners who are ready to experiment with an innovative approach to learning. Together we…
The good times just keep on rolling… Our fantastic developers have just announced the latest set of changes to p2pu.org and we think you’ll really like them. Better Email Notifications: Organizers now have the same options as participants for configuring which notifications they receive by email (including un-subscribing from courses they organize.) You can choose…