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P2PU & DrumbeatOpen Web Career Track

Mozilla Drumbeat Community CallFebruary 1, 2010

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• What is P2PU

• P2PU & Drumbeat

• Open Web Career Track

• Mashing Up the Open Web

• Going forward

Outline


Peer 2 Peer University

• ‘Social wrapper for open educational resources’

• Community of learning groups

• University level courses

• Recognition and validation

• Free, accessible to all

• No certification or accreditation... yet


P2PU Course Structure

• Course proposed

• Mentor assigned

• Courses run in cycles

• Six week courses

• Application ‘hurdle’

•Weekly checkins

• Peer review / interaction

•Complete or no evaluation

• Participants can re-run a course


Application StatisticsCycle 1 - 227 Applicants for seven courses

http://p2pu.org/Application-StatisticsMonday, February 1, 2010

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Previous CoursesCycle 1: 09/09/09

• Behavioral Economics & Decision Making

• Copyright for Educators

• Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature

• Land Restoration & Afforestation

• Neuroethics & International Biolaw

• Open Creative Nonfiction Writing

• Poker & Strategic Thinking


Upcoming Courses (2x)Cycle 2: 03/14/10

• Behavioral Economics

• Copyright for Educators

• Cyberpunk Literature

• Non Ficton Writing v2.0

• Mashing Up the Open Web

• Solve Anything! Building Ideas Through Design

• Transformational Art

• Running a Campaign

• Green Action: Creating Sustainable Communitites

• Urban Disaster Risk Management

• Intro to Economics & Finance

• Introdução ao pensamento de Paulo Freire

• Cidadania Hacker – Novas Formas de Ação na Esfera Pública Interconectada

• Cidadania e as Redes Digitas

• Music Theory


P2PU & Drumbeat

• Global in scope

• Community focused

• Interest in educating general public on open

• Technology / Internet

• Participatory

• P2PU is an educational conduit for Drumbeat, individuals, and other organizations


Open Web Career Track

• Series of P2PU courses

• An alternative to ‘mainstream’ certification

• Focus on open technology and practical skills for the web


Open Web Career Track

• Planned

• Mashing Up the Open Web (now)

• Contributing to Open Source (next)

• Ideas

• Fundamentals of the Web: HTML / CSS

• Open Tools for Web Developers


Mashing Up the Open WebOverview

• What is open and why is it important?

• Practical skills

• Project based learning

• Repeatable by participants

• Follow-on course: ‘Contributing to Open Source’


Mashing Up the Open WebComponents

• What is open?

• Practical technologies for creating mashups

• Why is open important to building a better web?

• Leveraging open data

• How can I be open?

• Reflections


Going Forward: Now

• Course ideas

• Curriculum gathering

• Finding course organizers


Going Forward: Next

• Planning additional courses

• Community review of courses

• Ideas on certification / accreditation


Q & A
