Presentation

Peer to Peer Models in Education

Robin Good, Newmastermedia, Italy and Michel Bauwens, Foundation for P2P Alternatives

1) Comparison between ancient societies and P2P society compressed WMV file, 15.7 MB

2) What is P2P? Does it just mean file sharing? compressed WMV file, 2.7 MB

3) What does P2P mean for learning communities? compressed WMV file, 3.8 MB

4) How does P2P change learning inside the community? compressed WMV file, 3.0 MB

5) P2P and informal courses Compressed WMV file, 3.7 MB

6) Is there something you can do easily to start moving in the proper direction? compressed WMV file, 4.3 MB

7) How does P2P challenge educational institutions to change systems & practices compressed WMV file, 3.1 MB

8) Are there P2P technologies that don't require high-speed Internet connection? compressed WMV file, 1.1 MB

9) What about connections between P2P and connectivism? compressed WMV file, 2.2 MB

10) How about P2P and just in time learning, anything comes to mind? compressed WMV file, 2.6 MB

11) What can institutions take as initial steps toward this? compressed WMV file, 2.7 MB

12) Is there a link between P2P and education? compressed WMV file, 2.4 MB

Michel Bauwens is a leading thinker about the implications of Peer to Peer (P2P) technologies and culture for social change. Robin Good of the MasterNewMedia website is a highly respected expert on new communication and collaboration technologies and their use. In May 2008 Robin Good interviewed Michel Bauwens and engaged in the conversation which we can now view about the implications of P2P for education. The topics in the interviews included the meaning of P2P, the opportunities for education and P2P technologies that may be appropriate in countries with constrained bandwidth. These interviews demonstrate that P2P is far more than technology and file sharing. At the most fundamental level P2P is "is a network, not a hierarchy (though it may have elements of it); it is 'distributed', though it may have elements of centralization and 'decentralisation'; intelligence is not located at any center, but everywhere within the system." (Bauwens 2008). P2P also describes the collaborative social arrangements which are necessary for large scale voluntary projects such as writing and editing Wikipedia articles.