P2PU School of Webcraft: Developer training that's free, open and globally accessible

Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University are creating the P2PU School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. Our classes are globally accessible, 100% free, and powered entirely by learners, mentors and contributors like you. Our goal: create a vibrant, peer-led system that helps people around the world easily access and build careers on open web technology. Learn more...

We're launching our first round of courses in September 2010

Our first cycle of six-week courses begins in September 2010! We're working with web developers who've volunteered their time and expertise to facilitate peer run courses on a range of great subjects:

 

Get involved! Take a class. Propose a course. Make a contribution.

Have a course you want to teach in January 2011? Follow our guidelines for proposing courses here.

Interested in participating as a learner, getting certified, or honing a particular web development skill? The first School of Webcraft session starts mid-September, 2010; sign up for a course here.

Got learning materials or ideas to contribute? Get involved in our community.

The problem: developer certification that's expensive, 
out of touch, and out of reach.

Traditional developer training is costly, out of touch with current practice and disconnected from what students and employers really need. Many certificate courses focus on a single proprietary technology, limiting exposure to the broad mix of tools today's developers need. Four-year programs can be impractical and overly theoretical, with curriculum that quickly becomes out of date. And a lack of practical experience fails to provide students with portfolios of work or give employers a sense of their real skills as developers.

The solution: peer learning on demand. Powered by learners and mentors like you.

P2PU School of Webcraft will deliver the skills and certification anyone, anywhere can use to build web development careers. Through online courses that draw on existing open learning materials, learners focus on hands-on skills that involve building projects collaboratively online. Courses are grounded in real-world projects, utilize the latest technical tools and skills, and are totally organized by a vibrant community of peers. Enabling participants to build portfolios of work, gain the practical open source experience employers want, and collect badges and certification industry will recognize and respect.

Anyone can propose new course ideas, allowing P2PU to move faster and stay more current than traditional programs. With practical training in areas like HTML5 and social web technology mainstream schools still don't touch, and emphasizing pragmatic skills like reading code that traditional programs lack.

Online study groups using existing open learning materials

Excellent open educational materials already exist. P2PU School of Webcraft provides the social learning container and peer accreditation to turn these materials into a robust learning and accreditation alternative. Through self-organized study groups, peer learners not only gain technical skills, but also an attitude and approach to web development -- "hacker habits" -- that reflects the way great developers think, solve problems and collaborate.

Building careers on open web technology

We believe technical certification no longer needs to be expensive, exclusive or proprietary. By training a new generation of developers in open source skills, we can spread opportunity while spreading open standards that improve the open web itself.

Get involved! Take a class. Propose a course. Make a contribution.

Have a course you want to teach in January 2011? Follow our guidelines for proposing courses here.

Interested in participating as a learner, getting certified, or honing a particular web development skill? The first School of Webcraft session starts this September, 2010; sign up for a course here.

Got learning materials or ideas to contribute? Get involved in our community.