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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The OpenCourseWare Consortium has been one of the original OER pioneers. Earlier this year, we were able to announce that the membership of over 200 institutions has published more than 8000 (!) courses. As a movement and an organisation, we have arrived at an interesting and challenging moment. The focus is shifting from content to [...]
My colleague Juliet Stoltenkamp, the head of e-Learning at the University of the Western Cape, and I have been meeting with lecturers from different departments to speak about OCW and encourage them to publish some of their courses. Today we met with Karen Wallace from Chemistry and her feedback and comments really struck a chord [...]
We just sent out the announcement for an upcoming hands-on Mozilla course on open education. It’s organised by our friends from the Mozilla Foundation, with (some more friends) from ccLearn - and covers open licensing, open tech, and open pedagogy in a snappy 6 week package.
There are case-studies, prototyping, web-seminars and we are looking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
