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P2PU

21st CENTURY OPEN SOCIAL LEARNING

This is a moment oftremendousopportunity inglobal higher education

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The currentmodel isbroken!

ACCESS

COST

QUALITY

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WHAT HAS CHANGED?

OpenCourseWare Consortium:
> 13,000 courses online

iTunesU: > 100 Million downloads

Wikipedia: 3,200,000 articles

Free and open access to the world's greatest educational resources and millions of people to learn with.

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The currentmodel is stillbroken!

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But now everyone can fix it.

Learning for everyone
by everyone
about almost anything.

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A lot of Content is free. What else is missing?

We create study groups for individuals to learn together, using open educational resources.

We help participants get recognition for their learning achievements.

WHAT IS P2PU ?

Social wrapper for OER

University level courses

Professional development and life learning

Recognition and validation

Free and accessible to all

Open Course Material ( CC BY SA)

No formal accreditation .... yet!

P2PU COURSE STRUCTURE

Course proposed

Mentor assigned

Course run in cycles

Six week courses

Application hurdle

Weekly check ins

Courses lead and leant not taught

Peer review/interaction

Complete ( assessed by students and course leaders) or no evaluation

Delia+ Lila+ Jessica+ Tobias+ Andrew+ Podromos

Copyright for Educators

STUDY GROUPS

Ability to join or form study groups single most important indicator for student success

Teaching and learning from each other is the best way to learn

MANAGEMENT

SO FAR

2009: Pilot phase with 7 courses

Drupal site developed

2010 First round of courses

12 English, 3 Portuguese

388 sign-ups

SO GOOD

Great volunteer community

Robust growth

Pilot: ~17,000 visits

First round: ~30,000 visits (100k pg)

Buzz: NYT, Fast Company, blogs, etc.

2009 P2PU PILOT COURSES 09/09/09

Behavioural Economics

Copyright for Educators

Introduction to Cyberpunk literature

Land Restoration and Afforestation

Neuroethics and International Biolaw

Open Creative Non Fiction Writing

Poker and Strategic Thinking

2010 CYCLE 1 COURSES

Behavioural Economics

Copyright for Educators

Cyberpunk Literature

Non Fiction Writing V2.0

Mashing up the Open Web

Solve anything ! Building Ideas Through Design

Transformational Art

Running an Election Campaign

Green Action: Creating Sustainable Communities

Urban Disaster Risk Management

Introduction to Economics and Finance

Music Theory

Introducao ao pensamento de Paulo Friere

Cidadania Hacker- Novas Formas de Acao na Esferna Publica Interconectada

Cidiadania e as Redes Digitas

P2PU.ORG TECH TOOLS

P2PU use a variety of Tech Toolsreal time communication

asynchronous communication

All course material plus participants work freely available on p2pu.org during and after cycles

P2PU tech platform constantly improved leaders and learners experiences using user feedback

Delia+ Lila+ Jessica+ Tobias+ Andrew+ Podromos

Copyright for Educators

Copyright For Educators

50 students from US, UK, Australia

Divided into groups of four according to country

Each group worked together and submitted group answer to 6 practical case scenarios

Each group assessed by a course leader based in their jurisdiction and a copyright law expert

Each group peer reviewed the other groups' weekly answers

CREATING AND BUILDING THE P2PU COMMUNITY

All P2PU material licensed under CC BY SA so we can build and create more OER though P2PU

encourage P2PU participants to lead future course iterations and/or to create new courses

And most important free and open space learning and content course learning

P2PU Collaborators and Supporters

University of California (Irvine)Shuttleworth Foundation Hewlett FoundationCreative CommonsiCommonsKeio University and.. most importantly the volunteer course leaders/designers and the p2pu gang

WHAT ABOUT DEGREES?

Learning for learning's sake is a luxury few can afford.

Learning needs to translate into opportunities.

Strengthen and complement (not replace) existing institutions

Teacher training in South Africa and Australia

PATHWAYS TO FORMAL CREDIT

ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION

Open sourcing accreditation

Fill the gaps

Involve the community

School of Webcraft

I have been mentoring young folks who want to learn Web design and what I have discovered is that there are literally NO college level curricula in my area that would teach them Open Web technologies. Their options are either to learn Web technologies that are 4-5 years behind what's out now, or to take a degree in computer science. I would like to see this project succeed because I believe there is a great need for it.

SCHOOL OF WEBCRAFT

Training & certification

Free & open community curriculum

Project based peer-learning

Mashing up the open web

Assessment of hacker's disposition

First courses start September 2010

SCHOOL OF WEBCRAFT

Ultimate environment to learn open standards and web development

New courses include Introduction to HTML5 and Building the Social Web

for novice web developers and for the uber elite

using current and up to date technologies

SCHOOL OF WEBCRAFT

Four iterations(12-15 courses)in 2011 (double number of courses each time

Provide assessment not just for technology skills, but also for "hacker's habits"

Addresses a real need - employers are frustrated that existing degrees or certificates don't say much about the quality of a web developer

Aim to provide access to high quality web development education (that leads to real jobs) is expensive in many parts of the world

DIGITIAL JOURNALISM- KEIO UNIVERSITY

Keio University course led by Joi Ito

open to P2PU students to participate and collaborate with the Keio Uni students

Exciting experiment- demonstrates high levels of motivation, participation and collaboration of P2PU students

P2PU META COURSE

aims to improve the P2PU course experience for both participants and organizers. 6-week hands-on workshop on how to develop and run an on line course

practical guidance on using a set of freely available software applications and services

Participants work on their own course which they can offer as new p2pu course in the future

Helps future course facilitators reflect on how to best encourage, facilitate and support open social learning.

WHAT NEXT ?

New 6 week cycle due start in September 2010

P2PU aims to double no of courses each cycle.

New collaborators- universities, non profit org, industry etc

Accreditation

Research and evaluation of P2PU

THE FINAL WORD

More Volunteer Course Designers and Leaders

More Students From More Places

More Courses in More Languages

AND OF COURSE.... MORE EXPERIMENTATION

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