Hi Philipp Congratulations on the the next round of courses @ P2P! The core mission of the OER Foundation and WikiEducator is to facilitate and nurture the development of sustainable OER ecosystems. The real value of the free culture lies in the remix and colloboration -- not where the content resides ;-) Apology for my long post -- but an indication of my excitement in seeing the potential. Working together we achieve far more than working alone.
I must commend P2P in choosing a license which meets the requirements of the free cultural works definition. In this way we can realise the REAL potential of digital and free knowledge a rare resource which grows in value by sharing. I visited your site -- there are a great list of courses @ P2P. Very COOL. I also like the Dashboard layout of the courses -- and you've inspired me to hack a wiki equivalent of this course structure -- so we may be able to help you out on the authoring front for new courses. I'd love to see more courses from WikiEducator being taught @ P2P :-D. I suspect the OER Foundation may be able to help with exploring and experimenting with a few of the credentialisation challenges facing innovative projects like P2P and WikiEducator. I'm thinking about developing and remixing a range of course materials for a graduate (postgrad) level elective in OER. The idea is to have a set of high quality materials on OER as OER for an elective, in for example an Masters in Educational Technology or Postgraduate certificate. The idea is that individual institutions would credentialise - -but the P2P community could certainly assist with teaching services hey? I was particularly interested in the Copyright for Educators Course ( http://p2pu.org/copyright-educators-cycle-2-mar-2010) -- the WIkiEducator community has a need to extend our teaching materials on this topic. I have a little funding (not much :-( ) which I'd like to invest in adding value to training support in Copyright for Educators. Lets talk. I'm in discussion with a number of Univeristies about the postgrad elective on OER and I'll certainly add P2P to list. Lets make free culture futures happen. Wayne On 26 February 2010 18:28, Philipp Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear WE community: > > I'd like to beat the drums a little bit for the new round of courses > at P2PU. Sign-up is still open for a few days and it would be great if > some of you were interested in participating. See below for a list of > all new courses. We'd also love to find ways to work closer with WE > (maybe future course content could be developed and hosted on WE and > run on P2PU?). > > For those of you, who need a "certificate" for the informal learning, > the Mashing up the Open Web course is the first in a series of courses > that will eventually lead to an open degree backed by the Mozilla > Foundation. Hacking eduction, one day at a time. > > Best - P > > > ANNOUNCEMENT > > The Peer 2 Peer University announced its second round of free and open > online courses earlier this month opening sign-ups for 14 courses. > Some of the courses were offered in the first phase of the pilot which > launched last September, but seven are brand new, including the first > Portuguese language courses organized by Brasil’s Casa de Cultura > Digital. The P2PU community has grown and is excited to have these new > courses and their organizers on board. > > The P2PU community consists of a diverse group of people. They are > writers, teachers, designers, doctoral and alternative grad students, > artists, copyright specialists, scientists, and blues guitar players. > Above all, they are learners–peers working together to learn from each > other. > > Sign-ups for all courses are available at http://www.p2pu.org/course/list. > > The following courses are on offer this cycle at P2PU (unless > otherwise noted, the course language is English): > > Introduction to Economics and Finance - A basic introduction to the > role that Economics plays in business. > > Cidadania e Redes Digitais (in Portuguese) - This course will discuss > the concepts of Citizenship and Digital Networks in the online space. > > Civic Hacking (in Portuguese) - An examination of new means of action > in the networked Public Sphere > > Climate Resilient Cities - This course will investigate how to build > sustainable climate resilient cities by addressing the underlying > causes of vulnerability, understanding the link between poverty and > climate vulnerability, through urban analysis, integrated research and > practice, to incorporate a range of strategies. > > Copyright for Educators Cycle 2 - This is the second cycle of the > very-popular course for educators who want to learn about copyright, > open content material and licensing. It is open to all educators > around the world. > > Creative Nonfiction Writing V2.0: Exploring Conflict through Open > Writing - The goal is to cover the conflict perspectivally, not > comprehensively. (This is not a course in journalism.) One might also > uncover something new about the self in this process of open writing. > > Green Action: Creating Sustainable Communities - This course has two > main objectives: 1) To examine and understand sustainability as a > visioning and organizing principle for communities. 2) To apply this > knowledge toward developing the beginnings of a sustainability plan > for our own communities > > Intro ao Pensamento de Paulo Freire (in Portuguese) - An introduction > to the thinking of educational theorist Paulo Freire (author of > Pedagogy of the Oppressed) > > Intro to Concepts in Behavioural Economics and Decision Making - Have > you ever wondered if people are really rational? We will explore > concepts from the field of behavioural economics and apply what we > learn in areas related to our personal interests. > > Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature - The course aim to illustrate > the contrast between "space opera"/pulp science fiction and cyberpunk > > Kitchen Science - This course is designed to be an experimental and > hands-on approach to applied chemistry as seen in cooking. > > Managing Election Campaigns - This course covers the mechanics of > managing election campaigns, including campaign organization, campaign > finance, analyzing and using voter data, managing volunteers, and > understanding the legal environment. > > Mashing Up The Open Web - An introduction to open web standards. This > course is not for complete novices, some web experience is required. > Participants will work on a self defined project that leverages open > datasets and web services to create a mash-up. > > Music Theory - An introduction to the fundamentals of music theory. > This course is designed to lay the foundation for understanding music > theory and how to apply it in a practical way. > > Solve Anything! Building Ideas through Design - This course is a > team-based creative lab, and we will explore and experiment with two > questions: what makes ideas successful? How does one develop an idea > in response to a problem, and then nurture it into a product, service, > or experience? > > Transformational Art; The Mural Project - This cours will explore the > emergence of one's authentic self through integrating the language of > the indigenous & western consciousness. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. 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