Wikiversity

Wikiversity
URL	http://www.wikiversity.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Educational, self study
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Multilingual
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Wikimedia Community

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation projectWelcome speech, Jimbo Wales, Wikimania 2006 (audio), which supports learning communities, ad hoc teams, their learning materials, and resulting activities. Wikiversity\'s beta phase officially began on August 15, 2006 with the English language Wikiversity. There are currently five language Wikiversities - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - and new language Wikiversity projects in other languages are in development at the "beta" multilingual hub.

Project details

Wikiversity is in development as a center for the creation and use of free learning materials, and the provision of learning activities. Its primary priorities and goals are to:

• Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages
• Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materialsApproved Wikiversity project proposal, Wikiversity

The Wikiversity e-Learning model places emphasis on "learning groups" and "learning by doing". Wikiversity\'s motto and slogan is "set learning free".Wikiversity:Learning, WikiversityWikiversity learning model, Wikiversity The idea is that these groups/communities of Wikiversity participants engage in learning projects. Learning is through collaboration on projects that are detailed, outlined, summarized or results reported by editing Wikiversity pages. Wikiversity learning projects include collections of wiki webpages concerned with the exploration of a particular topic.Wikiversity learning projects portal, Wikiversity Wikiversity participants can (and do) express their learning goals and the Wikiversity community collaborates to develop learning activities and projects to accommodate those goals.

Learning resources are developed by an individual or groups, either on their own initiative, or as part of a learning project. Wikiversity resources include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links to off-site resources, course notes, example and problem sets, computer simulations, reading lists, and other as devised by participants - but do not include final polished textbooks. Texts useful to others are hosted at Wikibooks for update and maintenance.Wikiversity:What Wikiversity is not, Wikiversity Learning groups with interests in each subject area create a web of resources that form the basis of discussions and activities at Wikiversity. Learning resources can be used by educators outside of Wikiversity for their own purposes, under the terms of the GFDL (like Wikipedia).

For newly established specific language Wikiversitys to move out of the initial exploratory "beta" phase, the new Wikiversity community must establish policies governing research activities. Wikiversity may act as a repository of research carried out by the Wikimedia Research Network, or others who are involved in wiki-based, or other research. Wikiversity hosts original research in addition to secondary research, unless a specific language group decides upon no research. It is expected that researchers will respect and update guidelines for appropriate research through a community consensus process.Scope of research on Wikiversity (in development), Multingual Wikiversity hubWikiversity research guidelines (in development), Multilingual Wikiversity hub

References

See also

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Wikimedia Netherlands 2007 conference held on wikis and education

• OpenLearn - a project of Open University to deliver free educational resources

External links

• The Wikiversity multilingual portal - with links to all Wikiversity sites.
• The English language Wikiversity (in beta phase)
• Wikiversity Gains Momentum at PC World
• Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia, Ponders a New Entity: Wikiversity by Andrea L. Foster; The Chronicle of Higher Education; December 16, 2005.
• Wikiversity online learning project Nautilus, blog for past and future Nature Publishing Group Journals.
• "Resources for Professional Development"[1] Prepared for the Fall conference of the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association, October—2006, Office of State Courts Administrator, Division of Judicial Education P48.
• "Conference Review" by Peter Mulholland; Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care; Vol.4, Issue 4, 2006. (pdf version)
• Topps, D. "Sharing medical educational resources using free and open-source software." in 7th Annual WONCA Rural Health Conference - Transforming Rural Practice Through Education. 2006. Seattle, WA, USA.
• "Access to Global Learning: A Matter of Will" by Steven R. Van Hook; Education Resources Information Center; (ERIC Document No. ED492804); April 27, 2006.
• "Organic Education: Nine Best Internet Tools" by John Paull.
• "Using Wiki to Promote Collaborative Learning in Statistics Education" by Dani Ben-Zvi; Technology Innovations in Statistics Education; Volume 1, Issue 1, 2007, Article 4; Page 4.
• "One Laptop Per Teacher: Content and Curriculum for (in-service) Teacher Training" by Ian Kennedy, Delia Pass and Roxan Cadir; Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2007; pp. 2564-2569
• "Bootstrapping a Semantic Wiki Application for Learning Mathematics" by Claus Zinn.
• "Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age" by Axel Bruns; Proceedings ICE 3: Ideas, Cyberspace, Education.
• "The Challenges and Successes of Wikibookian Experts and Wikibook Novices: Classroom and Community Collaborative Experiences" by Suthiporn Sajjapanroj, Curt Bonk, Mimi Lee and Meng-Fen Grace Lin.
• "Wiki or Won\'t He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis" by Marieke Guy; Ariadne, Issue 49; October 2006.
• "Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool" by Piotr Konieczny; International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning;January 2007, Vol. 4, No. 1.
• "New-Media Art Education and Its Discontents" by Trebor Scholz.

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