Introduction

This section is about learning, knowledge exchange and management, education, epistemology (ways of knowing) and related developments.

It is maintained by Steve Ediger, Chris Smith [1], Sean Fitzgerald [2] et al.

We are still in the process of porting concepts from the general encyclopedia to this specialized area.

Here's a good overview of recent technological developments (Web 2.0) and how these participatory technologies could be used for teaching and learning, by Bryan Alexander, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 32–44 [3]. Chris Smith also maintains a link page of Web 2.0 resources for Learning [4]

Key essay by Yochai Benkler: Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials [5]

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

1) The Connectivism blog [6]

2) Global Mentoring blog [7]

3) Open Content and Education blog [8]

P2P Hall of Fame: Educational Theory

Who should be in our P2P Hall of Fame on Educational Theory?

Candidates are: George Siemens [9](connectivist learning theory); Jean-Francois Noubel [10] and Pierre Levy (collective intelligence); David Wiley [11](open content and open education)

P2P Hall of Fame: Educational Practitioners

Candidates are: Steve Ediger (Woodstock school in Northern India); Bryan Alexander [12](Web 2.0. in teaching); Chris Smith [13] (Shambles.Net, IT for international schools)

P2P Hall of Fame: Recommended Initiatives

Candidates are: Lucy Hooberman's Mentoring Worldwide initiative [14]

Citation on peer teaching

Theresa Williamson on The power of peer teaching

"Everybody knows the proverb about how it's better to teach a man to fish than just to give him a fish, but there's a step beyond that: it's better that a man's neighbor is the one teaching him to fish, his peer. If some expert swoops in from afar you miss half the value of the interaction because of the inequality in that relationship. But if it's his peer teaching him? Then the man is much more likely to offer something in return. You are much more likely to create a real sustainable relationship rather than just a new dependency."

- Theresa Williamson, Founder, Catalytic Communities (http://www.nextbillion.net/node/1723 )

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