Hacking Education (P2PU, a case study)
The current model of higher education is broken. It is too expensive, doesn’t scale, and has come under pressure to maintain relevance in many areas of today’s society.
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an open community for learning. Anyone can start a course or study group, anyone can join an existing group, and later this year we will start offering certification opportunities for our users. Together with Mozilla, we are applying the P2PU model to web developer training in the School of Webcraft.
In this session I will talk about our experience at P2PU during the last 2 years and discuss how lessons from the “open knowledge” movement can be applied to educational content, learning practices and certification to help build a new open education system.
by Philipp Schmidt on July, 1st at 12:30 in Track I
Philipp Schmidt is executive director and co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University, a grassroots open education projects that takes open educational resources and turns them into learning and certification. P2PU was featured as an innovative approach to the future of education by FastCompany, The New York Times, El Pais, boingboing and others. Philipp is based in Cape Town and holds the position of FreeCourseWare Manager at the University of the Western Cape, where he has explored the potential of opening up teaching and learning practices in developing country institutions. Philipp is a founding board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, co-author of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and started the OpenCourseWare project at the United Nations University MERIT institute. Previously he worked as a policy researcher at bridges.org, and as management consultant at the Accenture Center for Strategic Technology.
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