On Monday Berlin celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years ago.
Since Tuesday I’ve been participating (there is no way one just attends something like this) in a p2pu workshop in Berlin.
One can’t help feeling that there is an unfolding order, p2pu has the potential to bring down the barriers which prevent most of the young people in the world from aspiring to tertiary education.
Appropriately we are using a face to face peer learning strategy, without hierarchy and expert presentations, instead lots of interaction, brainstorming and consensus seeking. Its not over, we are meeting again this afternoon, but its a useful moment to reflect on the workshop.
The genesis of p2pu is open education track at the 2007 iSummit held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The conversation that began there culminated in the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education but it didn’t end there. One the ideas generated has emerged into the peer to peer learning initiative we call p2pu, thanks to the vision and hard work of Philipp Schmidt .
Thanks also to the contributions of a team of incredibly creative, self motivated volunteers. Last night we met up with some of the people involved in Open Everything Berlin, very edgy, energetic people. But they think that we are even edgier.
