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The P2PU Review of 2011

Posted on December 29, 2011 by philipp

One year is a long time. A lot has happened at P2PU over the 12 months. And while this time “between the years” is always a good opportunity to look back, I struggle to sit still and not look ahead to 2012 as well. Here are some 2011 take-aways going from the very high-level right [...] Continue reading →

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How to scale peer learning online

Posted on September 30, 2011 by philipp

Helping people learn with each other is the most important thing for P2PU to get right. In a few weeks we will be launching “Webmaking 101″ to try new ways of helping (many) more people learn together. It’s a pilot project for the Mozilla School of Webcraft at P2PU that is based around [...] Continue reading →

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Disrupting Education at Harvard Business School

Posted on June 17, 2011 by philipp

I’ll be speaking on a panel at the “Innovation in Higher Education” conference at Harvard Business School. I was asked to comment on the “disruptive innovation” potential of P2PU and the work we do outside of traditional institutions. Innovation in Higher Education Wednesday July 6th, 2011 On HBS Campus: Cumnock 230 Disruptive innovation is a [...] Continue reading →

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I don’t need a certificate to beat you in chess

Posted on May 16, 2011 by philipp

Just submitted my “Testing Our Assumptions” proposal for the upcoming Open Ed Conference (Oct 25-27 2011). I am interested in hacking certification – and was happy to accept David’s invitation to act as a Strand Champion for “Open credentialing, open competency certification, and open degrees” at the conference. Rather than submit a more formal presentation [...] Continue reading →

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Learning Assessment – Learning About Assessment

Posted on May 15, 2011 by philipp

In April this year, P2PU received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to “track and validate deeper learning in online peer learning.” Deeper learning is a term Hewlett coined to describe the types of engagement that we associate with open education – combining factual knowledge and hard skills, with dispositions and habits that are topic [...] Continue reading →

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P2PU Appoints Board of Directors

Posted on May 10, 2011 by philipp

I am happy to announce that Peer 2 Peer University has appointed eight amazing open education innovators to its board of directors.

“As a board member and long-time champion of P2PU, I’ve been delighted to see it grow from a base of passionate volunteers into a significant grassroots community of peer learners. P2PU uses social [...] Continue reading →

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Hacking Certification

Posted on April 22, 2011 by philipp

I have been interested in certification (and assessment related to certification) for a while. I believe it will drive the next big step for P2PU.org as well as for the open education movement as a whole. Getting it right is important. Thanks to Brandon Muramatsu and Vijay Kumar I’ve spent some time this week trying [...] Continue reading →

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The Machine that runs P2PU

Posted on April 4, 2011 by philipp

I posted an update on the administrative underbelly of P2PU over at http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/04/04/p2pu-the-machine/. It covers a lot of the important (but slightly mundane) details of incorporating as a non-profit organization. While it’s annoying to fill out endless forms, many of our users are curious about how things work behind the scenes (surprisingly they work just [...] Continue reading →

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School of Webcraft – Plans for 2011

Posted on February 21, 2011 by philipp

This is a post about our plans for the Mozilla P2PU School of Webcraft – a joint effort to provide web developers training and certification that is free, open, and globally accessible. At the same time this is a post about P2PU as a whole – which encompasses many courses on many subjects, and even [...] Continue reading →

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DML Ignite – Badges (Funny 4)

Posted on February 7, 2011 by philipp

Erin and I are doing a whole range of things at the upcoming Digital Media and Learning conference. Including, maybe, what they call an ignite talk. Here is our proposal (which I can’t take credit for – besides a short conversation in the back of a NY Cab). I look forward to creating some “vivid [...] Continue reading →

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