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Category: open education

Sustainability Smarthistory Kickstarter

I am at the P2PU NY Camp organized by John Britton, and in one of today’s session Alan Webb led a brainstorm to identify additional ideas for long-term P2PU sustainability (see this page for our notes). And 5 minutes later this email from Beth Harris at Smarthistory (the amazing multi-media web book about art and [...]

MIT and the future of open courseware

MIT OCW just launched its first five MIT OCW Scholar courses. These courses are not just openly licensed, but especially designed to support independent learners who want to make use of them. That means, all the materials you need to master the subjects are now available to you. Bravo! Despite its resounding success (70 million [...]

Peer learner + Peer learner -> Mastery

Great quote / image about peer learning (thanks for forwarding, John Britton!).

Open Governance – How can open communities make good decisions and get stuff done?

At Peer 2 Peer University, we pride ourselves in being an open education community. I have a fairly good idea what it means for content or software to be open, but I find the complex human dynamics that make up open communities much more intriguing than the arguments over which license is the right one. [...]

P2PU at SXSW. Acronyms galore!

John put together a proposal (see below) to talk about Mozilla/P2PU School of Webcraft at SXSW Interactive (an amazing geek fest in case you haven’t heard of it). We need your help to get to Austin, Texas: Please register for an account on the panel picker website: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/users/register Confirm your email address Vote up our [...]