Lernanta - P2PU Website

Most people who pass through the virtual gates of P2PU consider running a course. Which sometimes looks less like a course, and more like a challenge. Or reading group. Or even a MOOC. Whatever their learning experiences look like, we’ve always offered support to organisers and facilitators via our “How to Create a Course” [...]

It all started with me stumbling around on MDN trying to find a good open source project to try and contribute a little to because 99% of the work I do is not accessible to the public. There were two driving factors behind this. One, I selfishly want a more publicly accessible [...]

Contributors and translators: we <3 you. So much, we put together a little number for you to express our thanks: Track / Artist / P2PUer Selection 1. “Divine” / Sebastien Tellier / Philipp 2. “Standing in the Way of Control” / Gossip / Vanessa 3. “Hang With Me” / Robyn / Vanessa 4. “Danke [...]

We’ve launched several experiments in the future of learning–several iterations of Badges, scalable experiences like the Mechanical MOOC, and p2pu.org itself. On the flipside of these exciting initiatives, we’ve been working with researchers to ... [More] unearth trends and successes amongst these projects. As we consider our policy to release our data to [...] [Less]

Maybe you saw this outside your window this morning: That was our release on badges.p2pu.org Big stuff for P2PU this week, including the much-anticipated very-exciting stellar and celebratory news…  You can now push Badges to the Mozilla Open Badges Backpack. If you’ve earned a Badge on badges.p2pu.org, [...]

  P2PU is over the moon and tickled pink to be able to announce that we are one of the winners of the Open CourseWare Consortium’s 2013 Site Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE).  Along with Notre Dame OpenCourseWare and  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya OCW,  P2PU has been named as the recipient of the Technical [...]

We provide multiple pathways to learning here at P2PU–if visual is your thing, here’s the walkthrough of Data Explorer Missions on our Community Call (start around minute 19:00): Last year Peer 2 Peer University and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched an initiative to to meet the global demand for data-wrangling skills–enter [...]

If you haven’t noticed anything different yet, we pushed out a new release of lernanta on p2pu.org today! The first mayor change is that a few heroes contributed new translations and updated existing ones! You can now read and use P2PU in English, Korean, Swedish, Chinese, Spanish, [...]

Last Week… I came back from yoga to my Brooklyn apartment, and our Tech Lead, Dirk Uys, was asleep. On my couch. He was in town from Durban, South Africa en route to Boston for a hackathon. I fixed coffee, poked that dormant mound of jetlagged developer, and we called Erika, our front-end wizard [...]

Nothing is more frustrating than being asked to read a poorly scanned in document. Whether the text is way too small or barely visible or crooked on the page, sometimes it’s just impossible to really enjoy the reading experience. I can manage, but what about those who can’t? P2PU friends, this post takes [...]