On 19/11/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Mailing lists is certainly a possibility. However, be aware that things like IRC channels are outside the scope of the project. The official IRC channel isn't hosted by Wikiversity (well, WMF), so why should the unofficial ones be? People are free to start a channel on freenode as and when they feel like it. As for a live conversation, I might be able to develop a teacher-student classroom real time conversation system. It won't exactly be feature rich, so no whiteboard or learning material library, but it should offer authenticated teachers ability to upload learning materials and manage the conversation, and it serves the purpose. We could even host it on toolserver. I've got clearance for a toolserver account, but being on leave (officially and unofficially) I haven't bothered to set it up yet. Any suggestions?
Just to note that there was, at some time, talk of integrating MediaWiki with an online learning system, or at least making it pluggable. That didn't seem to kick off, but perhaps it's worth revisiting?
Rob Church