Philipp Schmidt is co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) – the grassroots community for social learning online, and based at the MIT Media Lab where he works with Joi Ito and Mitch Resnick to make the web a platform for learning. He is an open education activist, innovator, and entrepreneur. Philipp co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, served as a founding board member for the OpenCourseWare Consortium and has been awarded Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellowships.
Philipp Schmidt
Articles
October 13, 2014
I remember vividly when I received my first account on a UNIX computer that was connected to the Internet. In the early 90s, the Internet in Germany was still in its infancy...
Category: Digital LearningJune 19, 2014
A lot of the work we have been doing as part of the connected learning community has focused on children and young people. We design digital tools that create new ways for...
Category: Connected LearningMarch 10, 2014
The Great Peer Learning Pyramid Scheme
I often get asked questions like these: Does peer learning really work? Don’t we need experts to learn from? Can the (proverbially) blind really lead the blind? Those are good questions and...
Category: Educational PracticeAugust 16, 2013
Computers and the Internet are really good at copying information and sending it to lots of people at low cost. That's why many of the recent innovations in online learning focus on...
Category: Digital Learning