[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 4 | February 17, 2014]
About the talk
What will education of the future look like? Open, free and collaborative are some of the attributes of Jan Philipp Schmidt’s vision of education. Schmidt is an open education activist and researcher based at the MIT Media Lab where he works with Joi Ito and Mitch Resnick. He is executive director and co-founder of the Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), the grassroots community for social learning online.
In this talk he shows some examples of his projects, whose main philosophy is that students are in charge of their own learning. Participants act as both teacher and learner, and are thus able to collaborate throughout the entire course development process, beginning with design, and extending through co-teaching and peer evaluation. Don’t miss this talk about a different kind of elearning and MOOCs!
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