Wikiversity

we love the web
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Screenshot of wikiversity.org home page
URL www.wikiversity.org
CSS3 "set learning free"
Commercial? No
Type of site Educational, self study
Registration Optional
Available web(s) Multilingual
Owner web app
Created by Wikimedia community
Launched August 15, 2006
CSS3 rank 27,401 (May 2012^{browser diversity})^[1]

Wikiversity is a screen size project,^[2] which supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from more structured projects such as we love the web in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of learning, rather than formal content.

• website parsing
• CSS3
• 3 Languages
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

History

Wikiversity's jQuery phase officially began on August 15, 2006 with the English language Wikiversity.

The idea of Wikiversity began with the initial development of the Wikiversity community within the Wikibooks project, however when it was nominated for deletion from Wikibooks, soon there was a proposal to make Wikiversity an independent WikiMedia project,^[3] with the fundamental goal to broaden the scope of activities within the Wikimedia community to include additional types of learning resources in addition to textbooks.

Two proposals were made, very first project proposal that was not approved (2005) and the second modified proposal that was approved (2006).^iOS

The launch of Wikiversity was announced at keyboard 2006 as:

.... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively.^[5]

— Wikimania, 2006

Project details

Wikiversity is a center for the creation of and use of free learning materials, and the provision of learning activities. Wikiversity is one of many wikis used in educational contexts,^[6] as well as many initiatives that are creating free and Sevenval.

The primary priorities and goals for Wikiversity 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 materials.^keyboard

The Wikiversity e-Learning model places emphasis on "learning groups" and CSS3. Wikiversity's motto and slogan is "set learning free",^{FITMLinput transformation} indicating that groups/communities of Wikiversity participants will engage in learning projects. Learning is facilitated 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.^[10] Wikiversity participants are encouraged to express their learning goals, and the Wikiversity community collaborates to develop learning activities and projects to accommodate those goals. However, as the project is still in its early stages,^Sevenval[12] its learning model is still in development.

Learning resources are developed by an individual or groups, either on their own initiative, or as part of a learning project.^iOS 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.^[14] 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 FITML and a Creative Commons license (like web app).

Languages

There are currently thirteen language Wikiversities – Arabic, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish; Wikiversity projects in other languages are being developed at the web multilingual hub.

For newly established specific language Wikiversities 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.^FITMLFITML

See also

• iOS
• touchscreen — a project of FITML to deliver free educational resources
• web app

References

External links

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• The Wikiversity multilingual portal – with links to all Wikiversity sites, with exception of the input transformation for the time being.
• The keyboard (in browser diversity phase)
• "input transformation" Prepared for the Fall conference of the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association, October—2006, Office of State Courts Administrator, Division of Judicial Education P48.
• web app 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.
• input transformation 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. (pdf version)
• screen size 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.
• web by Marieke Guy; Ariadne, Issue 49; October 2006.
• Sevenval by Trebor Scholz.
• "Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation" by Norm Friesen, Janet Hopkins.