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November 8th, 2012 — In August of this year, a group of leading open education projects announced the launch of a massive open online class (MOOC) that had no instructor or central learning platform. This so-called “mechanical” MOOC combined the ... [More] offerings of three leading open education projects—MIT OpenCourseWare, OpenStudy and Codecademy—loosely linked [...] [Less]

We are giving a webinar next week to help new and seasoned community members kickstart their courses, especially those just beginning to flesh out their ideas for a School of Open course! P2PU Learning Lead, Vanessa Gennarelli, will give an overview of the P2PU course design, and then dive into the step-by-step process of [...]

Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge / Open.Michigan / CC BY Last Friday, Open.Michigan helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy in an offline version of the School of Open’s “Get CC Savvy” challenge, a course originally designed for independent online [...]

We’re absolutely delighted and honoured to be working with the International  Red Cross and Red Crescent on their newest experiment in online youth learning. RedTalk is the Red Cross and Red Crescent Learning network’s online learning experience ... [More] , connecting global experts with community-based volunteers to share their insights, challenge, and learn. Each RedTalk is an opportunity to [...] [Less]

On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders from the various “open” movements to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you haven’t been reading this blog! The School of Open is a community initiative that will provide [...]

Hello peers! So we’ve been working on an experiment over here at P2PU–with SoundCloud, we hatched a plan to revamp the hackathon, peer-learning style. The event was Story Hack Boston, and took place this past Saturday at the MIT Media Lab. 44 storytellers and hackers came together to tell stories. It was totally [...]

Greetings peers–I just returned from a whirlwind trip to Durham for the DML Grantee workshop. All of us grantees gathered together to share how we approach assessment and badging systems.  As P2PU has been doing this stuff for awhile, we were asked by DML to talk about what we’re up to.   DML Demo [...]

Here’s the first of many upcoming research highlights, which will be snapshots of studies about P2PU! Paper Link: PDF Citation: Ahn, J., Weng, C., & Butler, B. S. (2013). The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence ... [More] participation in the P2P University? Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Learning [...] [Less]

This is a cross-posting from Karen Fasimpaur and the team of wonderful people at the School of Ed   Paul Allison through the NYC Writing Project‘s Youth Voices project has structured a learning game around a series of challenges for ELA, history/social studies, arts [...]

I am super excited to announce that P2PU is building a stronger relationship with the MIT Media Lab. We will spend the next year prototyping, tinkering, and experimenting with new ideas in the field of online learning. The Backstory Joi Ito, who has been a friend and mentor for many years, [...]