People

Chair

Open Technologies for Learning: Putting the Learners in Charge

J. Philipp Schmidt is executive director of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) and a director’s fellow at the MIT Media Lab where he leads the open learning initiative. An open education activist, he co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, served as a founding board member for the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Philipp has been awarded Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellowships, is based in Boston and misses Cape Town.