The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. P2PU - learning for everyone, by everyone about almost anything.
One such course is Sustainability Studio run by Dr. Christine Geith of Michigan State University who has worked in this area via her role as Executive Director of MSU Global.
Sustainability Studio is a project-based course where you’ll make a difference locally with a small group that focuses on one of the core environmental, social or economic aspects of sustainability. If you have a project, or you want to know more about sustainability, then sign up for the free course.
For most Australians this month we could probably do one with a flood theme. Then next month we could do one with a bushfire theme… and a drought theme… and a…
January 24th, 2011 at 11:35 am
Hi there Paul - thanks for sharing news about Sustainability Studio. So far we have projects being organized in water stewardship, eco-consciousness, well-being and farm art.
Citizen Circles did a blog post about the course:
http://www.citizencircles.com/blog/2011/01/18/highlight-sustainability-studio/
Cheers,
- Chris
January 24th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
[…] Paul McKey, one of our co-facilitators, wrote a post in his Synergistic Design blog http://www.paulmckey.com/2011/01/17/sustainability-course-at-p2pu/ […]