Hello all, I am forwarding this mail which I got from Stian, hope it might be of interest to some-one.
Dear friends of P2PU! We are very excited to share some good news. Last week at the Open Ed conference in Vancouver, we launched the Peer 2 Peer University pilot phase and opened sign-up to our first set of free and open online courses: * Behavioral Economics and Decision Making (Neeru Paharia) * Copyright for Educators (Andrew Rens, Hauwa Otori) * Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature (Bekka Kahn) * Land Restoration and Afforestation (Alison Cole, SongAnh Nguyen) * Neuroethics and International Biolaw (Ana Rosa Tenório de Amorim) * Open Creative Nonfiction Writing (Jane Park) * Poker and Strategic Thinking (Niels Sprong) Please have a look at our new site (http://www.p2pu.org), consider joining one of the courses, and help us spread the word. We are looking for our first batch of self-learners. Sign-up closes on 26 August 2009! P2PU is hacking together all the things a university does with volunteers and social software so education can be free. There is an abundance of educational material currently online that self-learners can take advantage of, however there is no social infrastructure to support that learning. P2PU is trying to solve that problem by organizing learners into learning groups, with meeting times, assignments, and assessment. We would like to thank our advisory group for their input and guidance, and the Hewlett and Shuttleworth foundations who provided seed funding for the project. Hooray - we are underway! Best regards, The P2PU Team (http://www.p2pu.org/Team) --- PS: A more official version of the announcement is posted at http://www.p2pu.org/News_17August09 -- Cheers Shantanu _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
