On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton137@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi, Andrew.

Em 25/12/2011 00:41, "Andrew Owens" <orderinchaos78@gmail.com> escreveu:
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> I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories from many other educators across a range of fields.

May you, please, show me the Wikiversity page where you have tried that?

I havent't thought about WikiEducator, that's a good idea to analyse, thanks to remeber! I'll see if we have a community there in Portuguese as well.

My impression: Wikiversity -> too horizontal. WikiEducator -> the tradiciontal hierarchy.  Besides that, it seems [[user:solstag]] has been using pt.wikiversity succefully on a course on cultural centers and universities here in Brazil.


As a random aside, my university probably has one of the biggest footprints on Wikiversity. Our page can be found at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra .  They've had several classes using the project, have over 7 staff members using in, and have been using it to organise a wiki conference in Australia: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2012 .  The latter is hosted on campus at our university and last year's conference attracted a number of academics.  We couldn't host it on the RecentChangesCamp wiki on its own domain because of issues during the conference regarding wiki open ness, down time, etc.  The people doing the tech for it were in the USA. :(  I think the word my university has been doing has been pretty fantastic. :)  Leigh Blackall has helped make it a success. 


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