The Test4Theory team is excited to announce their first P2PU challenge to help people to become a volunteer contributor to scientific projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). You might be more familiar with CERN’s giant particle accelerator, the famous Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The [...]

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Karen Fasimpaur, we love you.

Half a year ago we teamed up with Anya Kamenetz to bring a social wrapper to her book, The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential. We created a study group on P2PU and amazing things happened. We realized we wanted this kind of support to be available to learners anytime, anywhere. [...]

Last week we told you about a new  P2PU School of the Mathematical Future course that blurs the boundaries of university and open learning. Developing Mathematics: The Early Years (also known as ED218 at Acadia University) has 25 participants, 7 of which take the course for credit at Arcadia University. For [...]

“We are convinced that to change the world we must first improve education. We firmly believe that education should be open and must be equal for all regardless of economic or social status of each.”

- Trisfera, Panama City

The totally awesome student group Trisfera of Panama is kicking off a [...]

The new year is fast approaching and with it the resolutions we make in hopes of becoming better versions of ourselves. We already know you’re hoping to shed a few pounds, spend more time with your family and simultaneously fill up your wallets – but we also know that learning never ends and that [...]

How can an international, multi-lingual, time-zone spanning, generation-gapping volunteer learning community organize, unify, and continue to grow? Community member Dany Bautista of Bogota, Columbia might just have the answer. He has been busy at work developing an ambassador program for P2PU.

Here’s Dany’s outline of what an ambassador program could look like:
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“I believe our biggest accomplishment [at the Berlin workshop] was the incorporation (at least in me) of a certain sense of urgency and excitement about the need to continuously improve the platform to ensure p2pu.org becomes a trusted, effective and awesome space for learners online.”

- Niels Sprong, long-time P2PU contributor

On November [...]

DIY U: Getting Started With Self-Learning
Pilot runs through September 2011 on P2PU.org!

P2PU is excited to announce an overdue collaboration with Anya Kamenetz, author of The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential, to create a new course centered around motivated learners who are ready to experiment with an innovative [...]