[Net-Gold] OPEN SOURCE LEARNING: Wikipedia ponders Wikiversity

[David P. Dillard]

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:44:54 -0000
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Subject: [Net-Gold] OPEN SOURCE LEARNING: Wikipedia ponders Wikiversity

Wikipedia, the Free Online Encyclopedia, Ponders a New Entity:
Wikiversity
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
Complete story at Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121601t.htm
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Fans of Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can
edit, have proposed the creation of Wikiversity, an electronic
institution of learning that would be just as open.

It's not clear exactly how extensive Wikiversity would be. Some think
it should serve only as a repository for educational materials;
others think it should also play host to online courses; and still
others want it to offer degrees.

On a Wikiversity Web site, Cormac Lawler, a doctoral candidate in
education at the University of Manchester, in England, says the
mission of Wikiversity is to use the open-source model -- based on
software that anyone is free to modify -- to develop learning
materials, teach, conduct research, and publish. Collaborative
learning would be stressed, and students themselves could determine
course content and activities. Mr. Lawler, who is a lead proponent of
Wikiversity, says he wants the project to focus on original research.

The Wikiversity Web site says the proposed enterprise "could become
much more than 'yet another university' -- it has the potential for
rethinking the mode of education itself, or, at least, for furthering
the model of collaborative education."

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