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Key Articles

1. Stephen Downes: An introduction to connective knowledge; The Threefold Opening of Education
2. Stephen Downes.Free Learning. Essays on Open Educational Resources and Copyright. [1]. Collection of materials on the p2p values embedded in open education. Also contains important republished mini-essays such as: Copyright, Ethics and Theft‎
3. Key essay by Yochai Benkler: Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials [2]
4. Ilkka Tuomi: Learning in the Age of Networked Intelligence
5. George Siemens: Learning and Knowing in Networks: Changing roles for Educators and Designers; towards Networked-Directed Learning
6. From Expert led to peer driven social learning : 6 p2p learning trends summarized by Nancy White and Josien Kapma
7. Henry Jenkins: Learning by Remixing
8. JOHN WILLINSKY. The Educational Implications of Networks
9. Dave Cormier: The Community as Curriculum
10. David Wiley and Erin K. Edwards. Online self-organizing social systems: The Decentralized Future of Online Learning. [3]

Key P2P Learning Theories

• What Skills Do We Need Today?

1. George Siemens, and his Connectivist learning theory, is one of the scholars most intensely constructing what I would call a 'peer to peer learning theory'.
2. David Cormier on Rhizomatic Education
3. Terry Anderson (and Jon Dron): Three Social Sources of Learning: maps out three different types of “many” in social learning environments[4]
4. Josef Jacotot's Pedagogy of Equality: Nina Powers presents ‘On Ignorant Schoolmasters’, Jacques Rancière, published as Chapter 1 of Jacques Rancière, Education, Truth, Emancipation, by Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta (London, Continuum: 2010), pp. 1-24.

Key Blogs

Blogs that monitor P2P-like developments in the world of learning and education are:

1. The Connectivism blog [5], a new educational theory for the peer to peer age
2. Ewan McIntosh understands the learning needs of the digital natives
3. Open Content and Education blog [6], freeing educational content
4. Flosse Posse [7] monitors the use of free and open software in the educational field
5. OL Daily by Stephen Downes [8], monitors how online can help in the creation of a more open and participatory learning environment.
6. eLearn Space blog [9], for discussion of eLearning developments
7. [10] monitors learning theories and epistemology from a deeper historial and philosophical background, as it related to e-learning, warning for digital myth-making.
8. Global Mentoring blog [11], bringing peers together for learning
9. Will Richardson's Learning with the Read-Write Web
10. The New Media Literacies blog, helping teachers to help children getting familiar with new media
11. Open Courseware blog
12. Open Education News
13. Chris Lott's Ruminate

Stephen Downes recommends the following blogs as 'best of breed'. And here are 25 edublogs you don't want to miss

For directories of educational blogs, see

1. Schoolblogs
2. Edublogs
3. Top 100 Education blogs
4. The Edublog Awards of 2007
5. The top 50 educational blogs by engagement, i.e. number of comments, links, etc...
6. Links to School Bloggers: very extensive
7. 100 recommended education blogs

Further Reading

A bit of history to start:

• Peer to Peer Origins of the European University: Interesting historical recall of the origins of the European university system, in 12th cy. Bologna, when the students were in charge.

Kai Hammermeister:

1. The Structure and Silence of the Cognitariat, Christopher Newfield (3 types of knowledge workers, 3 types of sharply unequal education)
2. Miles Berry: What Does an Open Source Approach to Education Look Like
3. George Siemens: The New Forms of Connectivist Education
4. Is Compulsory Education needed in a Gift Economy
5. Towards a Place for Study in a World of Instruction
6. In Transcending the Individual Human Mind through Collaborative Design, Ernesto Arias et al. explain why peer to peer learning design is essential in complex societies.
7. 10 Reasons why schools should use free software
8. Assessment 2.0: modernizing assessment
9. Commons-based Peer Production and Education. J. Philipp Schmidt (P2PU.org). Short essay for the Free Culture Research Workshop. Harvard University, 23 October 2009, which touches on the issue of Reputation and Open Accreditation [12]

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