Hi, Andrew.
Em 25/12/2011 00:41, "Andrew Owens" <orderinchaos78(a)gmail.com> escreveu:
I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost
anything
I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically
sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in
any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or
unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same
sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories
from many other educators across a range of fields.
May you, please, show me the Wikiversity page where you have tried that?
I havent't thought about WikiEducator, that's a good idea to analyse,
thanks to remeber! I'll see if we have a community there in Portuguese as
well.
My impression: Wikiversity -> too horizontal. WikiEducator -> the
tradiciontal hierarchy. Besides that, it seems [[user:solstag]] has been
using pt.wikiversity succefully on a course on cultural centers and
universities here in Brazil.
At least in Brazil, if you let students on a place where they can do
anything, they will do nothing. For instance, at wiki.stoa.usp.br, a wiki
platform, integrated with Moodle and Elgg, for the University of São Paulo
community, was succefully used by a professor of the school of
communication and arts. Students just did what the professor said they to
do and they had very specific tasks.
Thanks,
Tom