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18 Apr 2026 » Improving Things is Hard - Why Edtech Innovators Are Not The (Real) Problem
22 Aug 2024 » The Cost of Convenience
06 Feb 2022 » Delegation & Decisions
06 Jan 2022 » Hello Again World
13 May 2016 » Tablets on tables
27 Oct 2015 » Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain
01 May 2015 » Mozilla Developer Institute
02 Oct 2014 » LinkedIn launches University Rankings
04 Aug 2014 » Retention - Why MOOCs can't have it both ways
01 Jul 2014 » Disruptions everwhere
23 Jun 2014 » Connecting Adult Learners
09 Jun 2014 » Food related projects
10 Apr 2014 » Connected Learning intervew
26 Mar 2014 » Big news in the MOOC world
23 Mar 2014 » Making decisions in 7 breaths
17 Mar 2014 » Amateurs and other experts
09 Mar 2014 » Curious Learner
27 Feb 2014 » Some Thoughts on the Technology for LCL2
26 Feb 2014 » The MIT Media Lab Coat
21 Feb 2014 » Mindfulness on my mind
10 Feb 2014 » Open licenses. Still confused.
05 Feb 2014 » Marko Athisaari at the Media Lab
31 Jan 2014 » The Peer Learning Pyramid (Scheme)
26 Jan 2014 » The Schmitter Sandwich
26 Jan 2014 » EduCon Philadelphia
08 Jan 2014 » Limits to measuring
24 Dec 2013 » Hindsight
19 Dec 2013 » Good people of P2PU, I thank you!
04 Aug 2013 » Reflections on philanthropy (mostly by others)
17 Jun 2013 » What we can learn from Self Organized Learning Environments / Sugata Mitra
17 Jun 2013 » How to build a project
21 Jan 2013 » P2PU Strategy post / Blog identity crisis
17 Dec 2012 » Learning Like the Web
09 Dec 2012 » Analytics and The Art of Learning
08 Dec 2012 » Good tools make you smile
26 Nov 2012 » The great ideas in edtech are old. And that’s an opportunity.
05 Nov 2012 » How children (and everyone else) succeed
17 Oct 2012 » How to get a Shuttleworth fellowship
15 Oct 2012 » Too big too fail – One problem with MOOCs
08 Mar 2012 » Let’s make badges not stink
06 Mar 2012 » Some going-ons at P2PU during the last few months
22 Feb 2012 » How to know you’re doing something right
07 Feb 2012 » A question of core values (comment in Times Higher Ed)
20 Jan 2012 » Apple Edu = It’s a revolution, just not ours.
12 Jan 2012 » Flash Grant for Hackerschool
21 Nov 2011 » Learning with a little help from your friends
16 Nov 2011 » 16 Nov 2011
19 Oct 2011 » Please build this – Simple task and time tracking
19 Oct 2011 » Eureka. It’s a lab – not (just) a platform.
13 Oct 2011 » Why P2PU should be a platform and not a product
19 Jun 2011 » The Fellowship Year in Review
17 Jun 2011 » Disrupting Education at Harvard Business School
16 May 2011 » I don’t need a certificate to beat you in chess
22 Apr 2011 » Hacking Certification
04 Apr 2011 » The Machine that runs P2PU
21 Feb 2011 » School of Webcraft – Plans for 2011
07 Feb 2011 » DML Ignite – Badges (Funny 4)
22 Jan 2011 » Sustainability Smarthistory Kickstarter
15 Jan 2011 » MIT and the future of open courseware
04 Jan 2011 » Peer learner + Peer learner -> Mastery
13 Dec 2010 » Is P2PU a bigger threat than bears?
18 Oct 2010 » Networks, groups, communities? Moving past definitions
28 Sep 2010 » Open Governance Course – Community Norms
18 Aug 2010 » Open Governance – How can open communities make good decisions and get stuff done?
13 Aug 2010 » P2PU at SXSW. Acronyms galore!
27 Jul 2010 » P2PU Call for Courses
07 Jul 2010 » How To – Make a nice map of the open web
02 Jul 2010 » Do the < head > sign – P2PU School of Webcraft looking for course developers
24 Jun 2010 » The darn drop outs and lurkers
22 Jun 2010 » The AppStore vision of (not so) Open Education
01 Jun 2010 » Paying for infrastructure – Creative Commons Catalyst
20 May 2010 » Reading list – "OER beyond content" in the development context
17 May 2010 » Money for love – Eeeeeethaan, you don't have to put on the red light
14 May 2010 » Leading like Linus
09 May 2010 » The green fields that lie beyond content
21 Apr 2010 » Thoughts on "Disrupting Class" and "Leadership Without Easy Answers"
25 Mar 2010 » Open Accreditation – Next steps
14 Mar 2010 » Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge announces winners
08 Feb 2010 » Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge invites 10 teams to Design Camp
13 Jan 2010 » Imagine if there was no secret science!
13 Dec 2009 » Mozilla Jetpack For Learning Design Challenge enters phase II
08 Dec 2009 » Alternative accreditation – first ideas and upcoming workshop in Boston 2010
01 Dec 2009 » P2PU – learning from open source (2)
27 Oct 2009 » Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge – We want your ideas!
02 Oct 2009 » Here is the match for that jetpack on your back
06 Aug 2009 » P2PU – learning from open source software (1)
22 Jul 2009 » If your teaching is hot, you're fine in the nude!
17 Jun 2009 » Notes on assessment in open education
28 May 2009 » The Wire (pre alpha) – aggregate blog posts and comments
21 May 2009 » OpenCourseWare Consortium announces new ED
08 May 2009 » An everyday OCW story from South Africa
04 May 2009 » Buddypress growing up – adding to the wishlist
16 Apr 2009 » Put your hands together for the Wikipedia survey volunteer translators
19 Mar 2009 » Interested in designing the open education platform of the future?
17 Mar 2009 » Kicking off the Mozilla Open Education course
03 Mar 2009 » Empty Inbox
16 Jan 2009 » 7 Things You Might Not Know About Me
09 Jan 2009 » Tipping my hat to John Seely Brown's vision of the future university
27 Nov 2008 » Foggy day – clear vision?
25 Nov 2008 » Thoughts on an open approach to crime
17 Nov 2008 » Pratham Books goes CC (BY-NC-SA)
15 Nov 2008 » The Mother of Open Content Online Surveys
03 Nov 2008 » Hooray – cheaper and better network services on the horizon in South Africa
19 Oct 2008 » Peer 2 Peer Univerity (P2PU) website up
17 Oct 2008 » And that's why students rock
09 Oct 2008 » dodgy digits – putting a positive spin on things
07 Oct 2008 » High-Speed Video Lectures
05 Oct 2008 » wikify your brains
28 Sep 2008 » What is the problem? OER in search of a common goal
24 Sep 2008 » Providing electronic foundation courses
22 Sep 2008 » Release early and often – thoughts on "open"
04 Sep 2008 » Derek get's a 3.0 for his presentation
03 Sep 2008 » Sharing Nicely – Pecha Kucha Style
31 Aug 2008 » david wiley does the cape town declaration twist
28 Aug 2008 » iSummit 2008 – open education feedback
25 Aug 2008 » open everything introduction made slideshow of the day
24 Aug 2008 » "open everything" quite something
31 Jul 2008 » Return of the Track
31 Jul 2008 » Go People!
28 Jul 2008 » Open Everything Cape Town (Aug 22) – Come join the conversation
23 Jul 2008 » survey of web 2.0 use in higher education
07 Jul 2008 » Open Courseware Consortium Growing Up
30 Jun 2008 » Lists of lists of lists
25 Jun 2008 » Entrepreneurial Education is not the same as market-based education
24 Jun 2008 » OER Workshop for educators
04 Jun 2008 » open everything roadshow opens – a 1/2 day conversation about the art, science and spirit of "open"
10 May 2008 » Patents Cheat-Sheet – Preparing for WIPO workshop
26 Apr 2008 » open courseware consortium meeting dalian
02 Apr 2008 » ooxml accepted by ISO – quick thoughts on what this means
01 Apr 2008 » you can't compete with the web
07 Feb 2008 » United Nations University launches Open Courseware Portal UNU-OCW
23 Jan 2008 » Fantastic Open Education Opportunity
22 Jan 2008 » Cape Town Open Education Declaration Launched
14 Jan 2008 » What the #$%@ is this @#$%?
30 Nov 2007 » Cape Town Open Education Declaration (preview)
01 Nov 2007 » Problems using self-archived articles in South African universities
29 Oct 2007 » Commonwealth of Learning on Open Licenses – My comments
29 Oct 2007 » A Fair(y) Use Tale – a RipMixLearn triumph
28 Oct 2007 » Summary: learners' reflection in technological learning environments
28 Oct 2007 » active learning triangle / how reliable are its predictions?
17 Oct 2007 » Joi Ito on altruism
01 Oct 2007 » Who cares about learning anyways?
14 Sep 2007 » Open Educational Resources Article on GUNI site
14 Sep 2007 » open education town meeting
10 Sep 2007 » OpenEd: Week 1 (late)
10 Sep 2007 » Content as Infrastructure
30 Aug 2007 » unu / unesco meeting recommendations on open education
29 Aug 2007 » assessment and accreditation – the missing pieces in the open education world?
12 Jul 2007 » How do you govern open collaboration projects?
03 Apr 2007 » Der Spiegel schreibt kritisch ueber Kiva – Mein Leserbrief
07 Mar 2007 » evaluation workshop fun
08 Feb 2007 » open (but hard to find) educational resources
18 Dec 2006 » uwc freecourseware made it onto lessig blog
18 Dec 2006 » publisher switches to CC license
29 Oct 2006 » Online again – Thoughts on Quality
23 Jun 2006 » short video from brasil
06 Jun 2006 » 25 years HIV/AIDS
30 Apr 2006 » new models in learning
30 Mar 2006 » more from the catia meeting / remittances meets micro-finance … killer app babies
30 Mar 2006 » good news from africa – IXPs support increase in local Internet traffic
23 Mar 2006 » the of and to a in that is ……..
06 Mar 2006 » how-to write about africa
06 Mar 2006 » change of focus / out of focus / serious stuff moving to A2K blog
01 Mar 2006 » sobering stats for phd students (not that we'd have time to drink in order to really need them)
23 Feb 2006 » lufthansa miles and more (from the "how-not-to-do-customer-support" department)
17 Feb 2006 » carefully crafting a sarcastic or serious email? chances are the reader won't be able to tell which it is …
15 Feb 2006 » podfading …
14 Feb 2006 » D(ont)R(estrict)M(y rights)
12 Feb 2006 » throw off the bowlines, and start adopting open standards in public administration now
09 Feb 2006 » the lid is off the network – FON
02 Feb 2006 » why neoclassical airplanes don't fly – first UNU-MERIT podcast
22 Jan 2006 » novelty not required for US patents anymore?
19 Jan 2006 » home in cologne (for FLOSSPOLS)
19 Jan 2006 » FOSS case study — Commonwealth of Massachusetts
18 Jan 2006 » personal privacy day
16 Jan 2006 » wonderful world wide web part II
21 Dec 2005 » christmas – marketing world cup for aid organisations
20 Nov 2005 » swimming pool in iceland
03 Nov 2005 » wonderful world wide web
24 Oct 2005 » on my way to catia
23 Oct 2005 » growth is in the bag (well …)
12 Oct 2005 » FOSS in SA / a never-ending story
10 Oct 2005 » is this getting silly or what? RIP RIM in US
10 Oct 2005 » choke