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This is a post from the personal blog of Audrey Watters, a P2PU participant and mentor for a new P2PU challenge: Writing for the Web. Take this excellent challenge with Audrey and other writers of all levels and polish up your writing, blogging and internet influence.

Take a wander over to P2PU’s Learn page and you will some nice changes just rolled out by our team. Searching for courses and challenges just got a little easier, and a little cleaner. You can now search by school, tag, and language. The staff and community are making their efforts to highlight [...]

P2PU is going back to Berlin! Since we like this city so much, and seem to get good work done there, we’ve decided to set up a temporary office in Berlin in July 2012. Isn’t that just the most exciting thing you’ve heard all week? Thought so… Why are we doing [...]

Join community member Jose Flores in this volunteer effort to build a read-only API for P2PU. Description: This project entails the creation of an Application Programming Interface (API) that will expose some of the information available in the P2PU platform to third party consumers. A web API can be described [...]

If you have followed our blog posts or community calls you might already know that we have recently completed a pilot under the title “Webmaking 101” with the School of Webcraft. Amongst the new and exciting things we tried out in that pilot was a set of community badges, that highlighted [...]

This week’s guest post is from Leah McVie, educator, photographer, and open ed enthusiast. She is an active P2PU DIY U participant who is diving into the open badges community. She is currently exploring ways to mix the open education philosophy into institutional practices. She blogs on

We’re going local! As part of the global celebration of Open Education Week, P2PU community members in London are hosting a local learning party! Learn how to create Challenges on the p2pu.org platform, play some games and be part of 24 hours of free online education. We might even head to the pub [...]

Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively [...]

This week’s community call was something a little different. Under the expert guidance of Chloe-the-challenge-guru, we had a party. Literally. This week’s challenge party was the badge edition, and we focused on brainstorming badges to associate ... [More] with new challenges that have been created on p2pu.org, and how to build rubrics and assessments for [...] [Less]

The Test4Theory team is excited to announce their first P2PU challenge to help people to become a volunteer contributor to scientific projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). You might be more familiar with CERN’s giant particle accelerator, the famous Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Participants [...]