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• P2PU School of Webcraft: Developer training that’s free, open and globally accessible.
• The problem: developer training that's expensive, out of touch, and out of reach.
• The solution: peer learning on demand. Powered by mentors and learners like you.
• Self-organized study groups. Using existing open learning materials.
• Providing skills and certification that build careers on open web technology.
• You can get involved. Take a class; propose a course; make a contribution.

Developer training that's free, open and globally accessible

Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University are creating the P2PU School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. Our classes are globally accessible, 100% free, and powered entirely by learners, mentors and contributors like you. Our goal: create a vibrant, peer-led system that helps people around the world easily access and build careers on open web technology.

The problem: developer certification that's expensive, out of touch, and out of reach

Traditional developer training is often too expensive, out of touch with current practise, and different from what students and employers really need. Many certificate courses focus on a single proprietary technology, limiting students' exposure to the broad mix of tools today's developers need. Four-year programs can be impractical and overly theoretical, with curriculum that quickly becomes out of date. And a lack of practical experience fails to provide students with portfolios or give employers a sense of their actual skills as a developer.

The solution: peer learning on demand. Powered by mentors and learners like you

P2PU School of Webcraft will deliver the skills and certification anyone, anywhere can use to build web development careers. Through online courses that draw on existing open learning materials, students will focus on hands-on skills that involve building projects collaboratively online. Courses are grounded in real-world projects, utilize the latest technical tools and skills, and are totally organized by a vibrant community of peers. Enabling participants to build portfolios of work, gain the practical open source experience employers want, and collect badges and certification industry will recognize and respect.

Anyone can propose new course ideas and learning materials any time -- allowing P2PU to move faster and stay more up to date on current technologies than traditional programs. Offering practical training in areas like HTML5 and social web technologies mainstream schools still don't touch. With an emphasis on pragmatic skills like reading code that traditional programs lack.

Self-organized study groups. Using existing open learning materials

Excellent open learning materials already exist. P2PU School of Webcraft provides the social learning container and peer accreditation to turn these materials into a robust training and accreditation alternative. Through self-organized study groups, peer learners not only gain technical skills, but also an attitude and approach to web development -- "hacker habits" -- that reflects the way great developers think, solve problems and collaborate.

Skills and certification that build careers on open web technology

Our goal is to provide training and certification that allows anyone, anywhere to build careers on open web technology. We believe technical training and certification no longer needs to be expensive, exclusive or proprietary. By training a new generation of developers in open source values and skills, we can spread opportunity and self-empowerment while spreading open standards and values that improve the open web itself.

You can get involved. Take a class; propose a course; make a contribution.

Have a course you want to teach? Interested in honing a particular web development skill? Got learning materials or ideas to contribute? Get involved at drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft

[Sidebar]: Propose a course for September 2010

P2PU School of Webcraft launches its first cycle of six-week courses in September 2010! There's still room for your course ideas -- deadline for proposals is July 18. Learn more at drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft

Courses already proposed for September:

• Mashing Up the Open Web
• HTML5
• Web Development 101
  
• Principles of Project Management
• Building Social with the Open Web
  
• Reading Code
  
• Semantic Markup
  
• Organic SEO Basics
• What is PHP?
  

Project info-graphic

Doodle only -- NOT actual design. Designer is working on first design pass now.

Notes & Feedback

Moved all comments to the Discussion page. --Philipp 10:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)