In South Africa in April, Angela and I met with Wayne Mackintosh, the
director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning:
http://cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/
He was quite keen on Wikiversity and has really followed up on it. He's
involved with a project called eXe, a pretty neat open source eLearning
authoring environment. One of the outcomes of him tinkering with
Wikipedia is a web interface to EasyTimeline based on eXe:
http://newped2.auckland.ac.nz/exe/exe/timeline/form.html
It really shows the potential of the toolkit, and I think we definitely
need similar widget tools for Wikiversity itself (for authoring tests
and the like). As it happens, playing with the above is a quite good way
to learn the operation of EasyTimeline: select an example and play with
the widgets.
Best,
Erik