Sign-Up

Anyone can follow a study group on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.

Standard Set

This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Answers

• 
  Tenecia Brown   July 4, 2011, 8:46 p.m.

  Bio:

  Tenecia Brown is an accomplished strategic planner and project management professional that consults Executives in the areas of Education, Web Design, and Merchandising.  Tenecia partners with strategic and creative experts and has served clients in Austin, Houston, and Washington D.C. Tenecia is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. Her fields of study include: Strategic Planning, Project Management and Business Strategy.

  Location: Houston, TX

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic?

  As a fairly new individual in the world of academia, whose prior work experience derived from the corporate and non-profit world, I believe in P2PU's mission and the work this organization has set out to accomplish.

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  As a proponent of life-long learning, I hope to achieve a greater sense of understanding and purpose within the academic environment. I also hope to gain insight on the similarities and differences between "school" and "education", since the two are not, in my opinion, mutually exclusive. 

   Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  Yes I am interested in assisting with the study group organization because I have a passion for bridging the gap between the baby boomer and millennial generation of learners and educators. 

• 
  Anshu   June 21, 2011, 8:51 a.m.

  Bio:

  Student of Computer Science and Engineering

  currently studying to get RHCSA certified

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  i would love to share what i know.

  i would love to help the study group organization.

• 
  Leo   June 17, 2011, 7:46 p.m.

  Bio:

  I'm a project manager for a Communcations group in the Midwest.

  Location: Wisconsin

  Standard Set Answer:

  Greetings,

   

  I've been folllowing the P2PU movement for the last several years and wanted to get more involved. I've thought about covering a course in podcasting and am interested in taking courses also.

   

  I'm also an instructinal designer and am very interested in how open source tools can make knowledge readily accessable to the massess.

   

  Leo

• 
  Monica Resendes   May 24, 2011, 3:42 p.m.

  Bio:
  I'm a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. My current focus combines work in educational technology for history, knowledge building environments and new technologies for formative assessment. I've also grown very interested in open ed designs and platforms and hope to learn more about this exciting new world both as student and a facilitator at P2PU :)
  

  Location: Toronto

  Standard Set Answer:

  • What made you interested in this topic?

  I'm currently facilitating a P2PU course with Stian Haklev (Intro to CSCL) and am very interested in participating in an ongoing discussion around 'best practices' for open online courses the likes of which are hosted by P2PU. I'm also a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. My doctoral research is focused on the design and development of knowledge building environments and the use of network technologies for teaching and learning history. P2PU provides a fantastic platform for putting some theoretical and pedagogical ideas into practice.

  • What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  I hope to engage in ongoing conversation which can both enrich my understanding of how the P2PU platform and community both embodies and pushes the frontiers of computer-supported collaborative learning in an open, online environment.

  • Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  I'd be willing to put my two cents in about whatever issues or concerns arise!

• 
  Charles Jeffrey Danoff   May 11, 2011, 3:54 p.m.

  Bio:

  I started my career at The Peer 2 Peer University in cycle 4 (fall 2010) by co-organizing Collaborative Lesson Planning. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself since then and look forward to my further studies here.

  Location: 60093, USA

  Standard Set Answer:

  • What made you interested in this topic?
    • Joe's boyish good looks and because I am interested in the present and future of p2pu in general.
  • What do you hope to achieve by participating?
    • Get exposed to lots of great ideads from everyone else here and get feedback on my work/ideas.
  • Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?
    • Y
• 
  Nadeem Shabir   May 2, 2011, 12:40 p.m.

  Bio:

  I'm based in Birmingham, in the UK. I work for Talis Education where I'm busy working on building a global education graph. I'm very passionate about all things P2PU where I'm also a serving member of the Board of Directors

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  I've been working closely with P2PU since the first round, and am committed to working with the community to help evolve p2pu

• 
  Agatha   April 30, 2011, 11:27 a.m.

  Bio:
  

  Location: 10th Quarter

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic?

  I became interested in this topic because I would like to learn more about peer-to-peer learning. I've noticed that it works in many ways witht the people around me and it gave me thoughts as to how education could be improved outside the traditional school. It also made me intrigued as to how learning should really be and I would like to know more about the thoughts of other people about it.

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?
  
  I hope to gain insights and knowledge about P2PU and of how I could apply it to my life.

• 
  Anonym   April 27, 2011, 3:36 p.m.

  Bio:

  I am from San Antonio,Texas born and raised. I love computers and science. Gonna be a world class physicst when I am older but for now books by Greene,Hawking, and others contend me. I avidly watch Doctor Who and Fringe. 

  Location: San Antonio, Texas

  Standard Set Answer:

  1) Want to help P2PU grow

  2)  Gain interest in the P2P movement

• 
  Andrew Henderson   April 26, 2011, 1:31 a.m.

  Bio:

  Front End Developer (HTML5, CSS3, jQuery)

  Twitter: @AndrewHenderson

  Work: SuperWebDesignGuy

  Location: Los Angeles, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  I'd like to be a part of improving P2PU as a valiable learning resource, purely for selfish reasons (so I can use it!)

  :)

• 
  Stian Haklev   April 25, 2011, 10:08 p.m.

  Bio:

  Check my blog http://reganmian.net/blog/about_me

  Location: Toronto

  Standard Set Answer:

  Have been with P2PU from the very beginning, my thoughts about peer-learning, platforms and communities constantly evolving. Also doing a PhD on a related topic. Currently organizing a course on computer-supported collaborative learning, where I get a lot of inspiration for thinking about how learning at P2PU could become more engaging and rewarding. Very interested in thinking about the different facilities for interaction and dialogue on P2PU, and interactions with external tools, can support more meaningful and deeper conversations. 

• 
  Jeff Weber   April 16, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

  Bio:

  A background in investments, finance and technology, and a life-long learner.

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  What makes you interested in this topic?

  I'm interested by the prospect of peer-to-peer learning, and believe its future promising.

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  Learning more of the peer-to-peer methodology, with a goal toward greater participation in the future.

• 
  Marisa Ponti   April 13, 2011, 2:44 p.m.

  Bio:

  Marisa earned recently her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Gothenburg. Her doctoral thesis is a qualitative study theoretically informed by actor-network theory, aimed at examining how sociotechnical aspects of work organization influence the initiation, development, and conclusion of collaboration between LIS academics and professionals in distributed research projects. Her research interests include the use of technology to support collaboration in learning and research. In particular, she is interested in studying the potential of Web 2.0 to enhance learning and research, and investigating whether this new concept can be applied to science to make research communities more open (also to other groups not traditionally involved in research, such as professionals), and increase the speed in which new knowledge is created and disseminated.

  Marisa's academic background is multidisciplinary. She holds an Italian laurea in Sociology from the University of Rome, and a M. Sc. in Information Management from Syracuse University, USA. She participated in several European funded projects related to technology-enhanced learning.

  Recently Marisa received a three-month grant to conduct a small exploratory study on a P2PU course and examine how technologies affected the creation of knowledge and social presence.

  Location: Göteborg, Sweden

  Standard Set Answer:

  Q) What made you interested in this topic?

  A) I am doing research on P2PU and the peer-to-peer "model" in education.

  Q) What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  A) I hope to share information and knowledge from my own academic work and gain insights and new knowledge from others.

• 
  Vladimir Támara Patiño   April 12, 2011, 1:09 p.m.

  Bio:

  Ha sido docente universitario (U. Nacional, U. Andes, Javeriana, EAN, San Martín, ECCI) en diversas áreas de ingeniería informática.  Ha desarrollado diversas aplicaciones especialmente orientadas a organizaciones de derechos humanos y colegios.  Gracias a Dios está ejerciendo ministerios eclesiales en la Iglesia Menonita.

  Location: Bogotá, Colombia

  Standard Set Answer:

  Want to make suggestions and report problems.

  First suggestion:  Add a Donate button anywhere to make donations with paypal (is there one already? I want to make a minimal donation). 

  First bug report in new.p2pu.org:  I added one link fe.pasosdeJesus.org to my test course lc, but now in http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/groups/lc/ I see several activities that I didn't do, e.g:  http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/activity/2629/ ...  http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/activity/2633/  Is that normal?