Philipp Schmidt and Delia Browne, 2 of the P2PU co-founders. Pic copyright courtesy of and copyright El Pais.com P2PU has had some fantastic media coverage since we launched, and here’s another great story to add to the list: this piece in El Pais, the largest daily paper in Spain. We’re very proud to say that…
The beautiful Catalan city of Barcelona has been swarming with Open Ed activists, hackers, teachers, learners and free culture punks for the last few weeks, and P2PU has been in the thick of it. And despite a few setbacks (stomach flu, colds and Barcelona’s famous pickpockets) the 2010 Workshop was a resounding success. As a…
While Peer 2 Peer University is nothing like a traditional university, we do believe that creativity should always be recognised and encouraged. With this in mind, we are proud to announce the presentation of the Martha Rans Cyberpunk Prize. This prize, donated by a member of the P2PU community, is awarded to a participant in…
Exciting news: Mozilla, Hacks/Hackers, Medill School at Northwestern University, and The Media Consortium are collaborating to run “Open Journalism & the Open Web,” a FREE, six-week interactive online course that will bring together journalists and programmers. Registration is now open. Limited space is available — there are spaces for twenty programmers and twenty journalists —…
Can adopting open educational resources make education more accessible to learners and empower educators to share? This is the question that informs the Adopting Open Textbooks course at P2PU. The course is a 3-step process to adopting open textbooks for educators facilitated by the College Open Textbook Collaborative. The 3 major steps are discovering open…
The Peer 2 Peer University announced its third round of free and open online courses today, opening sign-ups for a growing list of courses dealing in su bject areas ranging from Collaborative Lesson Planning to Manifestations of Human Trafficking. P2PU is also excited to announce the launch of the P2PU School of Webcraft, run in conjunction with…
Last week’s newsletter was painful. I needed a break. We all did. So let us return to the simple things, to bread, tomatoes and cheap red wine, to black and white. To suspenders. And to Google Translate, which turns out to be the perfect complement to Adriano Celentano, one of my dad’s favorite singers (yes,…
See that there? See that sterling example of 100% made-in-South-Africa-t-shirty-P2PU goodness? Isn’t it just lovely? We think so. This is just an example of the new batch of P2Pu t-shirts that came back from the printers today. We know it’s been a while, and we’re sorry that some of you have ah to wait to…
You wanted it. And you got it. Although it wasn’t an easy choice. At P2PU we know exactly what it means when you gotta be strong and you gotta be fast. But we went with something else, because we like white doves, black ninjas (why ninjas?) and are not afraid to show our vulnerability, because…
We’ve proven that we can do smooth and we can do hip and hop – but this week we are taking it up a level. We are pulling out all — and I mean ALL — the stops. We literally burn our guitars on stage in golden underwear. Because P2PU is a wild thing! Wild…