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Interested in the latest tools in digital storytelling? Curious about this whole “peer learning” thing? Want to make stuff using the SoundCloud API? Come to Story Hack Day! When: Saturday, September 29th @ 9am. Plan on hacking until 6. Where: MIT Media Media Lab–75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA Who: Anyone who is passionate [...]

A small little release went through today, but hopefully the impact will be felt What changed you ask? First and foremost, the learn page receive a bit of attention! 10 points if you can point out whats different… ok, I will tell you. Language preferences for course listings are simplified and persistent. The default is to look [...]

We’re delighted to announce a new experiment in online learning: MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy, OpenStudy and P2PU are partnering together to offer a new kind of massive open online course (MOOC). Our first course is “A Gentle Introduction to Python.” The Mechanical MOOC [...]

We’ve had many discussions about what we would like to achieve with Lernanta and where we want to take it in the future. This is our current take on it: Our technology supports people who make learning happen! Who are these mysterious folks? Broadly, they create opportunities for others to learn. By the [...]

Our Executive Director Philipp Schmidt issued a call to action in his post “Let’s Make Badges Not Stink.” But, inevitably some badges will stink. Perhaps even on our platform–we’re creating a “Badge Issuer” that will encourage anyone to create a badge for their P2PU course. So how can the P2PU brand, voice, [...]

  This post is brought to you by P2PU super-user Leah MacVie – she’s fantastic!   Branding yourself is a bit like building a really good ice cream cone. You select flavors that represent you in a way when you carefully craft an ice cream cone- flavors, colors, toppings. [...]

Fair reader– We’re looking for feedback on a mockup of the new homepage. We plan to incrementally improve it. P2PU <3 iteration! To wit, we ask for your help with the following tests: Test A can be found here. Test B can be found here. The test will be [...]

Yesterday was rich with conversations about badges. Early in the day HASTAC and Mozilla hosted a webinar with Judd Antin, a User Experience Researcher from Facebook, on the Social Psychology of Badges. Later in the evening, I was fortunate to be part of a conversation about assessment hosted by P2PU Community Member Paul Allison [...]

Hooray! We have a new rolled out some changes over at p2pu.org! Here’s a quick rundown of what changed: First and foremost: our very first version of our API! For now it is read only, meaning that people can see thing but they cannot change things. We are exposing things that are already publicly [...]

Piet did a great job of recapping all the work (and play) we did around School of Open in Berlin. I don’t have much to add on that front, except to say that I’m really proud of all the work we did together as a team and as a community, and [...]