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by hillgentleman 25 May '07

25 May '07

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Threaded_discussions_with_NavFrames Please comment.

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Wikiversity in Italian language created
by River Tarnell 18 May '07

18 May '07

hello, a new Wikiversity has been created in the Italian language. it can be found at <http://it.wikiversity.org/>. - river.

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free online degrees?
by Michael Wehrle 05 May '07

05 May '07

I just came across this list and wanted to pose a question to all list members as I am new to wikiversity. Are free online degrees through wikiversity in the works? And if not, why not? What is keeping them from being able to offer completely free online degrees? -- Best, Michael W. mwehrle(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Wikiversity-l] free online degrees?
by Joseph Wang 04 May '07

04 May '07

I have a non-profit GPL database of distance learning courses at http://www.gnacademy.org/ and I'd really like to integrate that data with wikiversity. The Globewide Network Academy is the result of a previous effort to start an online university and I think there are a lot of lessons we learned in the 1990's that would be useful for wikiversity-l. There are already a lot of places that already can grant degrees online. Some of them such as Charter Oak, Thomas Edison State College, and Excelsior College give academic credit for prior learning and it wouldn't be difficult to structure wikiversity learning experience that can get converted to academic credit. Combine accreditation from TESC with MIT open courseware and social networks provided by wikiversity, and it seems pretty straightforward to come up with an accreditted degree program. Part of what I've been doing is to try to create a degree plan for physics, but unfortunately I haven't had time to contact anyone at TESC, Charter Oak, or Excelsior. The other thing that I'd like to see is a market place for tutors. Right now University of Phoenix hires adjunct faculty to work at extremely low pay, with most of the money going to the university. What I'd like to see is a marketplace where teachers and students can interact directly, this would allow people who now have to teach at University of Phoenix to deal directly with students with some huge cost savings. The idea that I'd like to present is one of an "academic ecosystem" in which there are a lot of institutions each contributing one part to the academic experience. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Wang Ph.D. - joe(a)gnacademy.org China Derivatives Researcher and Software Developer - QuantLib http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Roadrunner

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Planet Wikimedia reminder :)
by Erik Moeller 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

I would like to remind those of you who are bloggers to consider joining Planet Wikimedia, which has grown nicely in recent weeks: http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ (Polish also active, German about to go live) It shows recent wiki-tagged posts from Wikimedians on one page. You can add your blog by putting a request for inclusion on: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia Included blogs should tag their wiki-related posts, or be exclusively about the topic. This policy has made Planet Wikimedia, in my opinion, highly on topic and useful, and I would love to see it scale to hundreds of blogs eventually. Hence, no exceptions. ;-) For those of you from smaller projects: Think of this as an excellent opportunity to promote the best work your project is doing, to get new people excited about it. As an example of this principle, take a look what some English Wikinewsies are doing in the "Original Reporting" group blog: http://wikinewsreports.blogspot.com/ If you don't have a blog yet, you can set one up easily, e.g. at: http://wordpress.com/ or http://blogger.com -- Peace & Love, Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees. "An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic

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Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions
by CHIZIIS＠aol.com 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi Lizy, Thanks for getting back to me. Yes I do give lectures but I believe you will soon get to know me. How about you? Yes I'm really single and love to know you well too. Hoping to hear from you. Kind regards. Isaac Dear Isaac, About what do you give lectures and how will I soon get to know you? I don't give lectures but I like to attend them at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Where do you live? Elizabeth ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

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Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikiversity-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2
by Puthalath Prathab 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Thanks, I am interested know more E-commerce and the trouble shooting. Regards Puthalath ----- Original Message ---- From: "wikiversity-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikiversity-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:09:39 PM Subject: Wikiversity-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2 Send Wikiversity-l mailing list submissions to wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikiversity-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikiversity-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikiversity-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions (CHIZIIS(a)aol.com) 2. Re: Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions (pennygadgetwatch(a)aol.com) 3. QUESTION REGARDING TO CONTINUES INPUT (x x) 4. Please, add links to your village pumps... (Milos Rancic) 5. Re: Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions (isaacaggrey(a)webmail.co.za) 6. Re: Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions (Daniel Cannon) 7. Report on OER conference (Cormac Lawler) 8. Re: Report on OER conference (Teemu Leinonen) 9. Planet Wikimedia reminder :) (Erik Moeller) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:39:52 EDT From: CHIZIIS(a)aol.com Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions To: wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <c9c.cfd29b1.334993d8(a)aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Well, I don't know who you are, but if you give lectures, I'm intrigued. Are cute and single? Elizabeth ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

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Report on OER conference
by Cormac Lawler 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi all, I attended a really fascinating conference in Rice University (Houston, Texas) a fortnight or so ago, hosted by the Hewlett Foundation, dedicated to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). I was there with Erik Moeller and SJ Klein, along with representatives of many OER projects and organising/funding bodies, such as UNESCO, UNICEF, OLPC, MIT, Open University UK, Moore Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and many more. The report about the OER movement written for the conference is available from <http://www.oerderves.org/?p=23> - the authors recommend, amongst other things, the development of an "Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure" as a next phase of developing simply OERs. I heartily recommend reading this report - it contains some excellent points about this movement/process, as well as many links to relevant projects and papers. Interesting ideas that have been sparked in my mind as a result of this meeting and various readings include: * Granularity - what is the smallest piece of a particular resource that can be tagged and reused? Is it the whole document, a part of the document, an activity, an applet, an embedded video, a sentence/question..? How can resources (or parts of resources) be aggregated to create a learning resource/schema appropriate for a particular person's or class's learning context? It seems to me that the more we recognise the fact that our resources will be used in a variety of contexts, the more we are required to define those multiple uses of the material, in order to allow for its greater flexibility in its use and reuse. However, this doesn't have to be done at the moment of uploading, of course, which brings me to.. * Semantics/Tagging/Metadata - It seems imperative to tag material as specifically as possible, in order to allow for greater ease of searching. How does a teacher currently look for resources specific to their context? In Wikiversity, our current system of tagging (ie categories) is ok, but it is fairly hit-and-miss as to whether they would find something specific to a class of 11-year-olds, or university postgraduates. So far, in Wikiversity, our system of specifying what a resource is for has not been so good - and this is something that I think we need to look into. Should we simply implement a system like Semantic MediaWiki <http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page> and see how it works? * Licensing - this is a real headache amongst OER projects - how do we deal with material that is licensed under a Non-Commercial license on Wikiversity? Simple answer: we can't. There needs to be a good deal of work done on trying to harmonise licenses so that they can be used together - at least in practical contexts, like a teacher aggregating them into a book. A new initiative of Creative Commons, CC-Learn, will be attempting to work on this issues, and help free-content projects better work together. If you're in a reading mood, David Wiley (who I met at the meeting) has drafted a book chapter about a hypothetical future of the NC license - it's at: <http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/313#more-313>. * Developing world and mobile devices - The vast majority of the world's population lives in the developing world, and if we are to truly revolutionise the world of education, we must not only recognise this fact, but do something real about it. Doing something real means making education available and accessible to all. The internet is a great step in this direction, but most people in the world do not have a computer or easy access to one - much more common is mobile devices, like phones. The more we make content accessible to non-computer devices (as well as to computers, of course), the more they will be accessible to a huge proportion of the world's population. Finally, I should mention a collaboration between Wikiversity and Connexions <http://cnx.org/> (and others), about which we had a pre-conference meeting. This collaboration is in planning at the moment, and funding bid is underway (project management will be by the Connexions team), but it will basically consist of a technical bridge between Wikiversity and Connexions so that both projects can directly and easily import resources from the other for their own use. It will initially involve the development of material (on a particular subject) that can be imported both ways. This is a "proof of concept" - that resources can be made interoperable between projects - rather than a full-scale project, and hopefully it could spark a bigger, more developed project that would take many more projects into consideration. The content developed will be licensed under the CC-BY licence, and will also be used by the One Laptop Per Child project. There are a number of ideas for the subject matter of this collaboration, though it is to be relevant to children in the developing world - ideas range from "How This Works" to "Digging a well/irrigation ditch". Teachers Without Borders will also be providing input on the subject-matter of the collaboration. Overall, OER has achieved "nascent movement status" (conference report, p. 6), and is "poised to explode in coming years" <http://onthecommons.org/node/1124>. I think that working with other projects, like Connexions, will be of significant benefit to everyone - and that we should continue to reflect on how we work individually and what we can learn from eachother. I'll set up now a set of pages that can help further these ideas - I'll post about this to the Colloquium, and give links here on the list. Cheers, Cormac

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Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikimania 2007 - Call for Submissions
by CHIZIIS＠aol.com 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Well, I don't know who you are, but if you give lectures, I'm intrigued. Are cute and single? Elizabeth ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

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Please, add links to your village pumps...
by Milos Rancic 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

... at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedian_pubs Of course, if such thing already exists, let me know that.

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