Advisors

The P2PU Advisers have offered to act as a sounding board, and help us navigate any thorny and difficult (and interesting) issues. They bring a diverse mix of backgrounds, and expertise, and we appreciate that they have offered to help us make the P2PU real. All Advisers act in their personal capacity. The Advisers carry no responsibility for the content of this site or the activities of the P2PU.

• Ahrash Bissell Consultant on Innovation in Education and Science; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,  Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, Mozilla Foundation, previously ED of CC Learn
• Steve Carson, External Relations Director - MIT OpenCourseWare, (OCW blog)
• Leslie Chan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Associate Director of Bioline International (home page)
• Christine Geith, Assistant Provost and Executive Director of Michigan State University's MSU Global
• M.S. Vijay Kumar, Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology - MIT (home page)
• Gary W. Matkin, Dean Continuing Education - University of California, Irvine
• Mark Surman, Executive Director - Mozilla Foundation (blog)
• (Jacob) Jaap Tuinman, former Vice-president Academic, Memorial University of Newfoundland  and Vice-Chancellor/CEO, British Columbia Open learning Agency and BC Open University
• David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, Chief Openness Officer at the Open High School Utah, opencontent.org, home page

What the advisors say about us

"Making educational content open is just the first step in making educational opportunity more widely available.  P2PU takes the next leap, making interactive communities freely available to anyone with the motivation to learn." -- Steve Carson --

"We are born to learn. We learn from our parents, our teachers, our experiences, but mostly from each other. Normal schooling systems compartmentalize and stifle learning. Through open engagement in topics of interests with your peers, learning can be both more effective and more compelling. P2PU brings this promise to fruition, and coupled with the capacities of the Internet and open educational resources, it brings this promise to the globe." -- Ahrash Bissell --