This blog post was written by Dany Javier Bautista (@danyjavierb) a School Of Webcraft participant in Colombia. Dany organized a presentation about SoW in Bogota, printed t-shirts and flyers, and spread the word to 4500 attendants. He also invented the SoW ambassador programme in the process. We think he’s fantastic. An English translation will follow…
The wonderful dev team at p2pu are tirelessly working away at making our site simpler, better-looking and nicer to use. One of the latest features in 0.9 release is the ability for users to tag themselves as part of their profiles. So now, you can tell the world what you’re good at, what you’re…
Welcome to the P2PU (mostly) monthly update. This is our way of filling you in on all the news about our site development, new study groups and courses, and general P2PU news from the month of June. We’ve moved! The move to our wonderful new site p2pu.org took place last week, and it couldn’t have…
This weekend the long-awaited move from the old P2PU site to our new home finally happened, and we’re really excited. Can you tell? What’s different? Our new site is fresh, intuitively designed, and easier to use. It’s built for peer learning. In addition to courses, learners are welcome to create informal study groups and…
First P2PU Board Meeting P2PU registered in California earlier this year, and held its first full board meeting in early May. We were very excited to appoint 8 board directors, including new appointees Cathy Casserly (ED Creative Commons) and Mark Surman (ED Mozilla Foundation). The meeting was fun and super productive. We’ll be looking to add…
As most of you are probably aware, P2PU will be migrating to our new website in June 2011. The new site is currently in beta, but we would love your first reactions and feedback. It has a brand new look and feel, is way more flexible for people who are looking to run courses or…
For any of you who might be unsure how to create a new course or study group on the beautiful new P2PU beta site, check out this great screencast by Alison Cole. http://vimeo.com/24138754
Welcome to the new look P2PU Weekly update. We’ll be sending you all the news about site developments, new study groups and courses, and general P2PU news, once a week, straight to your inbox. Want to see what’s happening on the new P2PU Beta site? If you haven’t yet had a look at the new…
In April this year, P2PU received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to “track and validate deeper learning in online peer learning.” Deeper learning is a term Hewlett coined to describe the types of engagement that we associate with open education – combining factual knowledge and hard skills, with dispositions and habits that are topic…
I am happy to announce that Peer 2 Peer University has appointed eight amazing open education innovators to its board of directors. “As a board member and long-time champion of P2PU, I’ve been delighted to see it grow from a base of passionate volunteers into a significant grassroots community of peer learners. P2PU uses social…