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P2PU is hiring a Django Developer, all the details are below. Even if you’re not a developer, you can help. Tell all your friends we’re hiring by tweeting/sharing the following:

“Get Paid to Write Open Source Code” @p2pu is hiring a Django Developer. bit.ly/w4hvbL

— P2P University (@p2pu)

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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This week we have some brilliant new courses and challenges on offer, which are guaranteed to feed your body as well as your mind. For you, for free. Because we really do care that much.

CSET Science and Math
Many countries and all states in the United States qualify their teachers by requiring that [...]

“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 [...]

We’re back! After a couple of week’s hiatus, P2PU is delighted to announce that we’ve got a raft of great new courses and challenges for y’all to peruse, ponder, consider and mull over.
And if any of you are confused, perturbed or stumped by the difference between a course and a challenge, have a [...]

Post by P2PU Community Member Karen Fasimpaur.

There have been some exciting things going on at the School of Education courses on P2PU that we want to share.

In Multimedia and Graphics to Facilitate Deeper Learning, developer and facilitator Steve O’Connor, a fifth grade teacher in New York, has developed a series [...]

The OpenCourseWare Consortium are old friends of P2PU, and so we’re delighted to share the news that 5-10 March 2012 has been declared the first annual Open Education Week. A global event, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER).

This week marked the official launch of the 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign! Please join our friends at CC in powering the future of openness! This year, they’re offering a limited teal edition of the CC “I love to share” t-shirt to everyone who donates $50 or [...]

Various members of the P2PU community have submitted some brilliant proposals for next year’s SXSWEdu.
If you have a moment, it would be great if you could vote for the sessions on Panel Picker. They are:

Open Peer Learning – the School of Ed @ P2PU
Building a Collaborative [...]

Helping people learn with each other is the most important thing for P2PU to get right. In a few weeks we will be launching “Webmaking 101″ to try new ways of helping (many) more people learn together. It’s a pilot project for the Mozilla School of Webcraft at P2PU that is based around [...]