They have an idea (they got from the Wikiversity and some other site) and they are implementing it better than anyone else. Will this be sustainable and lasting model of open education online? Not sure - we will see.
Hi Teemu:
I like P2PU a lot, but one very technical shortcoming in my view is their wiki (http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/12427308/FrontPage, http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/changes). There has been considerable talk about how to replace it, but nothing has happened yet.
I wonder (and this is just as a user of both Wikiversity and P2PU) whether it would be possible to create a "P2PU" namespace within Wikiversity, and use that as the P2PU wiki? That would be one way to synergize the two projects, and it *might* be preferable to do that than for P2PU to start their own Mediawiki-based wiki elsewhere. What do you think?
Maybe it would be a lot to handle even in this one case - but it does at least provide a candidate answer to the question in the subject line -- namely, what if Wikiversity is about providing wiki support to OER-related projects and open education communities? I could see that as something with considerable appeal beyond just P2PU.
Joe