P2PU is a free online platform for peer learning fueled by open content. It offers study groups, courses, and challenges in various schools including education, social innovation, and the mathematical future. Learning is designed to be hands-on, driven by learner needs, and involve active discussion and collaboration rather than just reading. Pilot programs showed positive response but also that time is limited for participants and online peer learning is new for many. Upcoming terms will offer new groups and courses focused on writing, connected learning, and hacking poems through remixing existing works.

1. P2PU: Peer Learning Fueled by
Open Content
www.p2pu.org

2. Our Presenters
• Philipp Schmidt, Executive Director, P2PU
• Karen Fasimpaur, P2PU School of Ed
• Vanessa Gennarelli, P2PU Hack This Poem
Organizer
• Alan Webb, P2PU School of Social
Innovation
• Maria Droujkova, P2PU School of the
Mathematical Future

3. P2PU
• Free online platform for peer learning
– Openness
– Community
– Peer learning
• Study groups, courses, and challenges

5. P2PU School of Ed
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
@kfasimpaur

6. P2PU School of Ed
• Designed for K-12 educators
• A new model of professional development
• Hands-on learning driven by each educator's
needs and classroom situations
• About connecting, collaborating, and
creating, not just reading or studying

7. What We Learned in Our Pilot
• Response was overwhelmingly positive
• Learning is social – discussions were active
and powerful
• Great facilitators help make great groups
• Time for teachers is limited
• Online peer learning is new for many

8. Spring Term
New groups and courses open now!
Writing and Inquiry Connected Learning
in the Digital Age with Youth Voices

9. P2PU: Hack this Poem
Vanessa Gennarelli
3/8/2012

10. Introduction
• Why a poetry workshop?
• Why P2U?
• Why hack this poem?

11. Course Design
• Work with pre-existing poems to see what
makes them tick
• Determined learning goals first (poems
are carefully constructed parts)
• Exercises in line with those learning goals

12. Intro Survey
• Find out
learner goals
• Surprises!
• Determine
their comfort
with
technology
• Shared info
with learners
to build social
presence

13. Find a Poem: What
makes it work?
• Prompted learners
to find their own
content
• Several means to
express
themselves
• Introduce
background &
interests

14. “The Pier”-Christopher
DeWeese

15. Community-built
Assessment
• Elements that
made a poem
work
determined
the rubric
• Community
determined
how poems
work--
together

16. Weekly Summaries
• Aggregate
d learning
experience
from that
week
• Build-in
layers of
entry--folks
could
follow
along

17. Learner Satisfaction
Survey
• 4 folks responded
• 25% posted a poem, analyzed a
poem, gave feedback
• 100% of folks read posts
• Most common reason learners didn’t post
was that they ran out of time/too many
other commitments

18. Takeaways for Next Time
• Remix is hard
• Drafts/iterations of pieces
• Create small teams of feedback partners
• Build expectation to evaluate others’ work
• Layer in badges specifically for relevant
and insightful feedback

19. How Can I Get Involved?
• P2PU listserv
• Make a Challenge
• Writing for the Web Challenge (launches
today!)

20. Critiques? Ideas? Other
feedback? Find me.
• Vanessa Gennarelli
• vanessa.gennarelli@gmail.com
• @mozzadrella

21. Alan Webb
@WebbTronic
@CitizenCircles

23. Week 1: Case Studies + Reflection on Strengths
Week 2: Root Cause Analysis + Reflections
Week 3: Vision of a Perfect World -> Solutions
Week 4: Creativity Exercise + Existing Solutions
Week 5: Ecosystem + Existing Solution Interviews
Week 6: Action (back to our strengths)
Week 7: Self case study from the future

24. Several Circles (Einige
Kreise)
Wassily Kandinsky

25. Open content developed with partners and with the
community
Endorsed framework for peer review and evaluation
Local face-to-face participation in Hubs, Co.Spaces
Mentor and Advisor support

26. Cross-university minors & majors in social innovation
Cross-city open courses in social innovation
Challenge creators and prototype participants
Design for Social Innovators
Systems Thinking
Social Entrepreneurship 101
etc.
Community organizers

27. Alan Webb
@WebbTronic
@CitizenCircles

28. Maria Droujkova
P2PU School of the
Mathematical Future

29. Thank you for coming.
We’ll see you on P2PU!
www.p2pu.org