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
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From: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17(a)gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l(a)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=plane…
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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