At this point, I find the work on open accreditation to be the most innovative part of the open education space. It’s not just exiting because it cuts at the heart of how the education system supposedly validates learning, but also because it prompts us to ask big questions about the reasons for studying and [...]
So much has happened, that it made sense to jot down a few notes on my thinking on alternative accreditation (I should really say “our” as most of the thinking has been done in collaboration with others, including Christine Geith and Stian Haklev, but I can’t speak on their behalf). I am interested in this [...]
This is part II in an open ended series on useful lessons that P2PU can learn from open source software communities. I am looking specifically at issues around governance, and culture. Governance As open communities grow, governance becomes a (fascinating) challenge. If you want to scale, and P2PU does want to scale, you need more [...]
I have been working with the Mozilla Education crew to think up the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. It’s launching today with support from the MacArthur Foundation! The idea is to spur innovation in browser extensions for social learning. What are the browser extensions that you want to use for your learning projects? No need [...]
I’ll be posting an update on P2PU next week (stay tuned!), but as part of preparing the pilot phase we have been thinking a lot about what we can learn from open source software projects in order to design effective learning communities. The similarities are striking and useful. I’ll write about interaction and communication today, [...]
Ok, I did twist the title of Jeff Young’s latest piece for reasons of pure sensationalism (and recursive puns). I also wouldn’t mind a more diverse readership and ranking higher in a google search for “naked” should help with that. Anyways, Jeff’s article for College 2.0 suggests that less technology in the class-room might lead [...]
Steve Egan has set himself the task of blogging about some of the core issues in open education. This week he writes about assessment. Assessment is a huge issue in open education for (at least) three reasons: The open model questions the role of the traditional “expert”, but it is that “expert” who is typically [...]
Yesterday was one of those great open source days for me. The idea that there is a global community of smart and creative people who share ideas openly and help each other is powerful, but also a little abstract. But when you reach out, and the community responds and makes it all happen, it’s a [...]
Buddypress turned 1 (point 0) recently, which is great, because we would like to use it for peer2peeruniversity.org. Joss immediately posted a little wishlist for features he’d like to see in future versions (and he puts his money where his mouth is – offering to pay for some of the development). So, I thought, why [...]
We just opened sign-up for the Mozilla/Creative Commons/P2PU course on open education prototyping, and already more than 20 people have signed up. Great! Course participants will be working on individual prototypes for open education projects. For those that want to take their ideas a step further, there might be a good opportunity to get funding [...]
