Joe, it sounds like a cool idea. Feel free to be bold and work on it. Who would be the college for the for-credit class?
The Wikiversity IRC channel is always open, and users are generally in there to talk further. You can also bring it up on the Colloquium on Wikiversity.
Good luck!
Geoffrey Plourde
________________________________ From: Joe Corneli holtzermann17@gmail.com To: Mailing list for Wikiversity wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 5:40:51 AM Subject: [Wikiversity-l] planetmath teamup?
Hi all,
I wasn't able to make it to the meeting this time (it was at 5AM here), but I'd like to chat with you about possibilities for a Wikimedia/Wikiversity teamup with PlanetMath.org, where I'm on the board of directors. PlanetMath content has been used or cited in several hundreds of Wikipedia articles,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=planet...
I think there are a lot of interesting possibilities for a more formal or structured collaboration, especially now that Wikiversity is on the scene.
To begin to frame my own interests and possible areas of involvement, here are a few slides I made for a talk I gave here at the Open University (where I'm a phd student at the Knowledge Media Institute), about "Crowdsourcing Education".
http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/crowdsourcing-continued.pdf
Towards the end of the slides, I suggest that an incremental step (still a very big increment, at this point) would be to create a for-credit class/course, e.g. something like Calculus I, to be completed entirely online, e.g. via Wikiversity and/or PlanetMath.
Another interesting idea along these lines would be to run a face-to-face computing/mathematics course whose purpose is "do something cool with PlanetMath" -- for example, help develop the platform that would make it possible to run semi-automated math courses (as in the previous paragraph), or other courses for that matter.
To sum up, I think PlanetMath may be in a good position to make a bid to become the "mathematics department" of Wikiversity -- but we'll need to talk more about details!
Joe
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