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The Challenge: Encrypt your Email with Thunderbird  The Organizer: Mick Fuzz – volunteer with Tech Tools for Activism and media activist who has worked extensively with video and multimedia projects at community and international levels. The Experience: I like to volunteer. One thing I have volunteered for is to work [...]

Background. P2PU has pioneered the use of badges to recognize skills and projects. We’ve published papers on the subject. Scaled the badge model for a pilot of 500 learners. Won grants for our implementation. But how do badges actually work? And what’s the future of badges at P2PU? Anyone can [...]

Hi there, Vanessa here. Totally psyched to be joining P2PU as your Learning Lead. I <3 P2PU. Since joining in spring 2010, I’ve launched several writing courses, most recently Writing for the Web. My proudest moments at P2PU are times when peers helped me learn skills that were completely new to me, like [...]

This post is by Dirk Uys, our newest staffer and tech team guru. Dirk is exploring the inner workings of Lernanta and sharing his experiences with the community. He recently gave new life to Contributing to Lernanta, an onboarding challenge for volunteer developers started a year ago by [...]

This post was contributed by Karen Fasimpaur originally posted on k12opened.com on May 18, 2012. We are gearing up for an exciting summer at the P2PU School of Ed. (In case you’ve missed it, this initiative is all about free, open, peer-centered professional development for [...]

This post was contributed by Laura Newman of the Open Knowledge Foundation. OKFN & P2PU have been collaborating on the creation of a School of Data.   Earlier this year, we announced plans to launch the School of Data. Thanks to the generous support of Open Society [...]

“How P2PU is Reshaping Professional Learning for K-12 Teachers” by Karen Fasimpaur was originally published on Getting Smart on 7 May 2012. Professional learning for K-12 teachers is an exciting space with great demand and high payoff for successful models. However, much of the professional development currently done [...]

Here’s a round-up of the latest ideas and experiments from P2PU community members as they hack their way through education. Our Director, Philipp Schmidt joins Hack Education’s Audrey Watters on the latest episode of Higher Ed Live to discuss the growing popularity of MOOC’s, some alternatives and the future [...]

  P2PU is excited to announce a treasure chest of new courses and challenges that cover our widest range of topics yet. In addition to new offerings, we’ve been putting in the hours to make courses more social, scalable and easier to find. We’ve [...]

Welcome P2PU’s newest staff member Dirk Uys of South Africa. He’ll be joining our development whiz Zuzel Vera in making P2PU more awesome and more usable for all of us. *** P2PU: Dirk, we’re so excited to have a new staffer. What are you going to be doing for P2PU? [...]