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"In our seminal report on How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education, we introduced you to P2PU, a grassroots, open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls.\r\n\r\nSince last summer, P2PU has grown to 30,000 users aka &amp;quot;peers&amp;quot; under the care of its 7-person team that's strategically spread across the globe. In the past few months, the nonprofit has opened up in 3 new languages, so in addition to English and Spanish, you can now take classes in\u00A0Swedish, Dutch and Chinese translations.\r\n\r\nUnlike offerings from the recently launched Coursera, which we covered this morning, courses aren't taught in a traditional sense by professors and video lectures, but are set up as challenges via a\u00A0step-by-step, multimedia process. While you're engaged, other P2PU peers\u00A0are working on the challenges with you.\u00A0Oftentimes, the classes come with activities that encourage group\u00A0participation.\r\n\r\nToday, P2PU is announcing 15\u00A0new courses\u00A0with topics like\u00A0Entrepreneurial Marketing,\u00A0Design Your First Big Game,\u00A0Writing for the Web\u00A0and\u00A0Curating Content. All classes are free to anyone in the world and at this time, teachers aren't paid as the nonprofit's main goal is to keep the experience free.\r\n&amp;quot;I'm a web developer and people ask me how to be a web developer all the time,&amp;quot; says John Britton, P2PU's Product Manager. &amp;quot;So instead of telling each of my friends how to do this, I created a P2PU course for them to take.\u00A0I'm watching as they go through the steps and can see what they're doing so I can jump in and help them out when needed.&amp;quot;\r\nP2PU has numerous partnerships with companies such as Mozilla that have built schools on its platform including\u00A0School of Ed\u00A0and\u00A0School of Webcraft, which offer classes like\u00A0Collaborative Lesson Planning\u00A0and\u00A0Programming with the Twitter API, respectively.\u00A0In addition to its new offerings, P2Pu courses are now more social,\u00A0scalable\u00A0and\u00A0easier to find. Learner profiles have also been improved so you can now add your P2PU badges to your\u00A0Mozilla Backpack.\r\n&amp;quot;I currently work at a great college and am constantly impressed by the faculty I work with. They are\u00A0remarkable. However, I do see them struggling -- trying to prepare young people for jobs that don't even exist yet. I can see where &amp;quot;just in time learning&amp;quot;\u00A0 like that found here on P2PU can be a better solution,&amp;quot; says educationist\u00A0Leah Macvie.\r\nLooking forward, a P2PU\u00A0ambassador program\u00A0is under way and the\u00A0School of Data\u00A0and\u00A0School of Open\u00A0are soon to pilot their first courses.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 P2PU\r\n\r\ninacio pires\u00A0via shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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