Technology Advances

Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything.

P2PU stands for: peer to peer university.

P2PU‘s model is based on their idea is that taking an online course should be more like learning on the job than taking a traditional class.

This approach encourages people to work together on projects and to assess each other’s work with constructive feedback.

Users can also design courses with help from P2PU. Course design is broken down into discrete steps and course content is vetted by peer users and P2PU staff.

Courses are hands-on and varied. 

Not all of the courses focus on new technologies. 

ALISON—Advance Learning Interactive Systems ONline—provides free online courses in job-friendly skills.

Ranging from the basic but essential (Fundamentals of Google Docs or Touch Type Training) to the more specialized (Programming in Adobe Flash) as well as those that could be useful for anybody, job seeking or not (e.g. Protect Yourself From Identity Theft).

Of the 400+ available courses, the most popular is also one of the most comprehensive. ABC IT is a 15-20 hour comprehensive introduction to IT literacy. It integrates basic concepts of computing, Microsoft Office applications and touch type training, as well as wider-picture discussion of how computing can be an everyday feature of life and work.