This is the P2PU Archive. If you want the current site, go to www.p2pu.org!

Open Governance and Learning

Course Material

Syllabus for Open Governance and Learning

Marisa Ponti's picture
Mon, 2011-01-10 11:18

Open Governance and Learning

 

Week 1

Shaping the course together
Goals:
 
- Getting to know the other participants
- Review the course syllabus and extend/update as a group
 

Week 2

Guest: Michel Bauwens - P2P Foundation

 
First, let's clarify some terms: Governance or Government?
 
Why are we using the term "governance" here instead of "government"? Why are we talking about open governance and not open goverment?
 
The two terms seem to refer to two different concepts. For example, it has been said that "open government is [like] opening your home to the general public.  Open governance allows them to rearrange the furniture as they see fit". Find readings and look at definitions of governance and government, how they differ, and some examples of applications. Question the definitions you encounter by asking: "In which contexts to the terms apply? are they the same or not?", "what is the goal of governance and what is the goal of government?". The questions asked during week 3 of the previously-run P2PU course "Open Governance" also stimulate thoughts and reflections -- http://p2pu.org/general/open-governance

This table also provides a useful visualization of the implications of Governance http://p2pfoundation.net/images/P2P_Governance_Visualization_2large.png
 
The task will be to discuss in the group the differences between the two terms and the different situations to which they apply.

Week 3

Guest:  Phillip Schmidt - P2PU Founder

Let's start to examine how open governance works in P2PU. Browse the Internet and look for documents about P2PU history and its current governance strategies. In alternative, you can choose another relevant organization of your choice, ideally another peer-based and open online educational community such as Curriki.org,  for example

Ideas for examples include:
  • .... (feel free to add others)

Start a blog to write your thoughts. You can work on the  task individually or with other peers.  Finally, we can assemble the various contributions to generate a group report in EtherPad.
 

Week 4

Building on what we found in week 3, we will now widen the scope to ask: How does open governance (or related systems of horizontal governance, self-governance, or commons management) work in the various places in which it is currently found?

Let's discuss in the group and update the report in EtherPad with the comments that emerge from the discussion.

Week 5

Let's  use the input from the previous weeks to design a course for P2PU  (anyone can design and run a course on practically any subject!).
 
Either design a course based on what you've learnt here so far, or create some organizational patterns to help future course designers.
 

Week 6

Guest: Wouter Tebbens - founder of the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) and the Free Technology Academy (FTA)
 
Let's focus on the relationship between open governance, organizational learning, and peer-based learning. We think that P2PU is a special blend of   peer-based learning and peer-production, and open governance supports   the interchange between individual learning and organizational  learning.  By having access to information, resources, and opportunities for  participation, P2PU course participants can influence the way  governance  works "locally" in their courses, both at the level of the  course's  social contract and its syllabus.  
 
Focus  on what you have learnt in this course and/or interview willing  participants from another course and report back about what they feel they have learnt.
 

License Information - Privacy Guidelines - Terms of Use