Wikiversity

[Rajeshwaran]

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project,which supports learning
communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It
differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it
instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of
learning, rather than formal content.

Wikiversity is a center for the creation and use of free learning
materials, and the provision of learning activities. Wikiversity is
one of many wikis used in educational contexts, as well as many
initiatives that are creating free and open educational resources.

The primary priorities and goals for Wikiversity are to:

* Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning
materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages.
* Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support
these materials.

[Ashwini]

Learning resources are developed by an individual or groups, either on
their own initiative, or as part of a learning project. Wikiversity
resources include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links to off-
site resources, course notes, example and problem sets, computer
simulations, reading lists, and other as devised by participants - but
do not include final polished textbooks. Texts useful to others are
hosted at Wikibooks for update and maintenance. Learning groups with
interests in each subject area create a web of resources that form the
basis of discussions and activities at Wikiversity. Learning resources
can be used by educators outside of Wikiversity for their own
purposes, under the terms of the GFDL (like Wikipedia).
There are currently nine language Wikiversities - English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, Portuguese and Japanese;
Wikiversity projects in other languages are being developed at the
"beta" multilingual hub.For newly established specific language
Wikiversities to move out of the initial exploratory "beta" phase, the
new Wikiversity community must establish policies governing research
activities. Wikiversity may act as a repository of research carried
out by the Wikimedia Research Network, or others who are involved in
wiki-based, or other research. Wikiversity hosts original research in
addition to secondary research, unless a specific language group
decides upon no research. It is expected that researchers will respect
and update guidelines for appropriate research through a community
consensus process