For the past two months participants in Mozilla’s Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge have worked on Jetpack prototypes to turn the open web into a rich social learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online. Today 10 teams were selected to participate in a hands-on Design Camp. The Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge is [...]
Derek is great at framing messages that sum up the problem (and often hint at the solution). His “imagine if …” statement became the slogan for the new Freedom To Innovate South Africa poster. FTISA has been a crucial organization in support of access to knowledge in South Africa. They played an important role advising [...]
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 people [...]
A few months ago, I received a fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation to work on open and collaborative resources (a code for setting up the P2PU and supporting OER in Africa). The idea of the fellowships is to find entrepreneurs and innovators who are working towards social change and give them the means to achieve [...]
We (UNU MERIT CCG) released the first overview results from the Wikipedia survey today. Erik Moeller has a longer blog-post about the survey and the data. He calls it a “landmark moment”.
Running a survey in 20 languages is not a trivial feat, and some of the people behind the scenes without whom this [...]
It takes two consecutive 11.5 hour flights to travel from Cape Town to San Franciso, and another 3 hours by bus to Monterey for the Hewlett Grantees Meeting. It’s well worth it however, since 4 out of the 5 original Peer 2 Peer University team will be here, and I can’t wait to see you!
Here [...]
The 7 things meme hit me (courtesy of Steve Song) - how silly, isn’t it? At least that’s what I thought, and then found myself thinking more, typing, re-reading, re-typing, removing, adding - turns out, it’s a lot of fun to write about things that people might or might not know about you, and that [...]
Gently nudged by Steve Song, I am re-reading John Seely Brown’s “The Social Life of Information (google books)”. Below are a few excerpts that are very relevant in the context of the www.peer2peeruniversity.org. If you replace “videos” with OER, this sounds very similar to the kind of learning communities P2PU is trying to create. Especially [...]
View from the UN Building on the Rhein in Bonn. The UNU is trying to clarify its vision and strategy for the use of technology in learning - during a two day workshop.
