Philipp Schmidt | Fellow

(Jan) Philipp Schmidt is an open education geek who is interested in the future of higher education. He is a co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University, a project that uses open educational resources to create high quality learning communities for self learners.

Philipp worked as an IT consultant in the Accenture Center for Strategic Technology, opened (and closed) a new economy start-up, and led the research activities of Cape Town based NGO bridges.org. For the past few years, he has also spearheaded open education activities at the University of the Western Cape, the United Nations University MERIT, and he is a board member of the Open Courseware Consortium.

He has a background in computer science and economics and has written and spoken widely on free software in Africa, open technology standards, collaborative peer production, and open education. He blogs at Sharing Nicely.