Well, CBT is exactly what Wikiversity needs. Not to be just repository of text based educational resources which seem to overlap with other WMF projects. But who will write them?
BTW, Wikiversity is already P2p, isnt it?
Juan
2011/1/22 Teemu Leinonen teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi
On 22.1.2011, at 17.52, Joe Corneli wrote:
At the moment, I don't see a particular reason for Wikiversity to rebuild P2PU infrastructure from scratch, when it could instead be reused to do something cool more quickly and then tweaked with considerable future promise.
I do not see the "infrastructure" to be here a great challenge. Especially with the liquid threads extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads ) the infrastructure is already in there.
I know several P2PU courses are using Wikiversity as a place to host some of their content, and perhaps good things would come from a suitable bidirectional channel :)
Collaborating with the P2PU and all the other open education projects is extremely important. When the movement is growing (as I hope) different approaches with a similar kind of objectives will benefit all.
As for the computer-based training idea: not likely to go from 0 to 8000BPS overnight. Does Wikiversity have a roadmap? If CBT was in the roadmap, it might actually happen ;).
I agree. I am actually proposing this for the community. If it (we) will find it as a good idea writing a road map is a good idea. The emphasis on CBT and self-study (with some software intelligence) would make the role of Wikiversity and Wikibooks more clear — an issue discussed since the day one.
One thing both P2PU and PlanetMath have in common is that they are not wikis, at least not in the traditional sense, though both have wiki aspects. I've often asked myself what PlanetMath's role is in the "wiki world" of wikimedia. Wikiversity could also ask what its role is in the broader and often non-wiki, or not exclusively wiki, world of online educational communities.
If we agree, as we probably should, the definition of a wiki by Wikipedia(* at least P2PU is not a wiki. The P2PU is great, but it definitely much closer community than the Wikiversity.
Wikiversity community should definitely think what is its role in the world of online educational communities and services. Learning from each other without Not Invented Here -syndrome would be great, too. If Wikieducator, P2PU, PlanetMath or LeMill (http://lemill.net/) does something better, the Wikiversity community should do the same. This is what P2PU is also doing. Actually many of their practices were invited in Wikiversity (and some other sites) and they just took them and made them better. That is good!
Best regards,
- Teemu*)A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor
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