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Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is a nonprofit online open learning community which allows users to organize and participate in courses and study groups to learn about specific topics. Peer 2 Peer University was started in 2009 with funding from the Hewlett Foundation and the Shuttleworth Foundation, with its first of courses in September of that year. An example of the "edupunk" approach to education, P2PU charges no tuition and courses are not accredited. However, some courses in "The School of Webcraft" provide the opportunity for recognition of achievements through the Open Badges project. P2PU offers some of the features of massive open online courses (MOOCs), but is focused on people sharing their knowledge on a topic or learning about a topic offered by another user with a DIY wiki-type mentality. Unlike typical massive open online courses, anyone can create a course as well as take one. Additionally, because of its less hierarchical nature, P2PU activities need not necessary be ''Courses''; the admin of the learning environment can select from ''Study Group'' and ''Challenge'' as well as creating their own term. ==Academic profile== P2PU's peer to peer philosophy is meant to put a "social and pedagogical wrapper" around open access and educational materials. There is some evidence to suggest that greater social participation in P2PU may lead to more invested learning than other online education. For instance, in an early P2PU course on cyberpunk literature, research noted "a shift from the subject-authority pattern of relations generally associated with teacher-led education to the agential pattern of relations associated with peer-led education." Class participants communicate live through technologies such as Skype and IRC as well as asynchronously through the P2PU website, allowing geographically dispersed classmates to have discussions. P2PU is organized into ''Schools'' which include: *Social Innovation - Focused on social innovation. *School of Webcraft - Backed by Mozilla *School of Open - Coordinated with Creative Commons *School of Education - Focused on pedagogy *Mathematical Future - coordinated with ''Natural Math family learning network'' and ''Math 2.0 interest group''. P2PU's school of Webcraft courses were early adopters of a badge reward system, and with their task completion system there are elements of gamification and gamification of learning. Some of the courses that have been or are currently being offered include, Mental wealth: know it and grow it A global exploration of the perceptions and stigma attached to mental health Open Science: An Introduction Where you can learn about the open access movement related to such things as medical research data to help cure diseases. Compassionate Nerds: A course that seeks to explain why despite billions of dollars to tackle social problems they remain and what can be done about it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peer to Peer University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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