VERSION 2 OF THE PEERAGOGY HANDBOOK PUBLISHED FOR FREE DOWNLOAD ON PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
31 December 2013

PEERAGOGY.ORG - CHICAGO - 31 DECEMBER 2013 - Editors of the award winning Peeragogy Handbook are delighted to announce the revised, second edition of the Handbook will be published on Public Domain Day 2014 (1 Jan. '14). The Handbook is the world's first book explicating Peeragogy, a collection of techniques for collaborative learning and collaborative work. This version features a new foreward from well-known author, Stanford University Educator and Founding Editor of the Handbook, Howard Rheingold.

The Handbook has drawn praise from leading Peer-to-Peer theorist Michel Bauwens, Research Director of the Free/Libre Open Knowledge Society (a project at the IAEN national university with support of the Ecuadorian Ministry of Human Resource and Knowledge), “Rheingold and a great team of collaborators have preceded the rest of humanity in exploring the new dynamics of technologically-enhanced peer learning.”, said Bauwens.

Med Kharbach, Editor and Owner of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, also wrote, "[the] Peeragogy handbook is now online and for FREE. I highly recommend that you download and keep it with you. It contains a treasure trove of tools to help you in your learning." Last year, On Public Domain Day 2013, the first edition was published. It was selected as one of the P2P [Peer to Peer] Foundation's best P2P books. Peer learning is the oldest form of human education and is being amplified by today's technological tools. The Handbook was created to help peers around the globe attain their educational goals and improve their projects. To fit the copyright license to the project vision, all of the Handbook contents are given a Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication. It is free to download and then anyone is free to reuse, revise, remix or redistribute it.

"If a group of people want to use online media and networks to learn together (co-learn), this handbook will help to self-organize peeragogy." wrote EdTechReview. A portion of the first edition handbook was selected for inclusion in The Open Book, which explores the social and technological manifestations of this emergent movement. It was built by the community, with thanks to The Finnish Institute in London and the Open Knowledge Foundation and in honor of the first Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki.

On January 1st, 2014, the PDF e-book version will be available for free download from http://peeragogy.org and interested readers will be able to sign for an e-mail list notifying them when the print version is available.


About the Peeragogy Project:

Peeragogy.org is administered and edited by a group of peers who also publish the Handbook, maintain the accompanying social media communities and experiment with their own case-studies in Peeragogy via the Peeragogy Accelerator. Joe Corneli and Charles Jeffrey Danoff began researching peer learning theories in late 2010 calling it Paragogy. The next year Howard Rheingold amended the term to Peeragogy and in 2012 launched the Peeragogy Handbook: an ambitous project to produce a text of peer learning techniques open to contributions from anyone in the world. The first edition was published on January 1st, 2013 and over the past year the Editorial Board of Corneli, Danoff, George Brett, Kyle Larson, Charlotte Pierce, Paola Ricaurte and Fabrizio Terzi worked with other contributors on the second edition.


For additional information, contact:

Charles Jeffrey Danoff
Peeragogy.org Co-Editor
+1.847.773.7673
charles@danoff.org