20th
P2PU Is the Future of Education
California has started to encourage the development of electronic textbooks, and it seems like educational materials are becoming more widely available in digital formats since the costs of distribution are declining as the internet is more accessible. I saw an ad for online K-3 homeschooling lessons on Facebook, and I figured there must be more open organizations who are developing lesson plans and courses. The Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) seems to be just such an organization. I think it is incredibly awesome that education is being crowdsourced and made freely available online. I just wonder how folks will try to profit from these efforts. I assume the “accreditation” is the tricky part for any online education, but I’d think the GED test should handle the K-12 accreditation. It’s the university-level accreditation that might always cost students money. But maybe not?
