Biography

J. Philipp Schmidt is executive director and co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)–the grassroots community for social open learning. An open education activist, he co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, served as a founding board member for the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and has been awarded Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellowships. He is at the Media Lab for a year and otherwise based in Cape Town, South Africa.