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ere is the Google translation which I edited slightly of the section about P2PU. Peer2Peer University Virtual University is currently the most popular and most sought-after project in open education. If students want to study virtual university courses, they can set up a site proposed courses, and arrange for study time, in-line to meet each other counseling. Each class on both a volunteer counselor, responsible for learning and orderly proceed. In the Hewlett Foundation to provide seed capital of 70 thousand U.S. dollars in support, Peer2Peer launched the first batch of a total of 10 pilot courses, course content from behavioral economics to information visualization. These elements have a considerable number of online viewers, students are all self-study fans.

Matt writes about his experience facilitating a School of Webcraft course. Good comments from participants in his course. 

Short notice about the P2PU journalism course at Global Voices website. I left a comment mentioning the URL to the P2PU course page as well (it only referred to the ustream).

Blog post on on Harvard Journalism site about Hacks/Hackers Mozilla course with P2PU.

Lifehacker post that brought a lot of traffic to the course site. No actual mention of P2PU unfortunately.

About Joi Ito digital journalism course, by one of the participants.

Putting free courseware online was a first step in reimagining education. What now? Wiki U's, smart courses and, maybe, learning. P2PU mentioned on page 4. Quotes from Neeru and David Wiley.

Spanish tech blog article listing Spanish P2PU courses

Brief podcast about Jan 2011 course launch, comparing P2PU to unconferences.

School of Ed

The "School of Open," which would aim to collaboratively develop and run curriculum and courses on copyright and CC license training for educators, librarians, and others, was the most popular, gaining lots of buy-in from affiliates and external partners. "Open Policy / Legislation exchange" was seen as being able to be incorporated in the "School of Open," with some policy-strategic conversations remaining offline and private to the CC community.

Another writeup in German, although it states that the courses will have 100-150 students, whereas we are targetting 8-14.

Taking poker course.

Interview with course organizer Chris Geith