CourseMaterialsProject/GenericProjectOverview/extra

This page provides an overview of the project to create learning materials. These materials are associated with the goals, outcomes and objectives aligned with and in service to a for-credit course offered through a University.

The Wikiversity project is to support the use of these materials in other contexts, including for students who may wish to complete the course while not enrolled in a University.

This project may (or may not) conflict with some guidance previously posted on Wikiversity:

The Wikimedia board has explicitly guided Wikiversity away from offering courses which include Wikiversity-offered evaluations coupled to earning credit towards a degree.

A possible exception might be when the evaluative component is in fact provided by an accredited educational institution which explicitly makes use of a specific Wikiversity course. Such an arrangement might allow students to use Wikiversity as a medium for providing course content for use by a credit-awarding institution. Note: this is hypothetical; however courses at real institutions do seem to have made use of Wikiversity as a space for sharing some of their work.


 * Courses

= Generic Materials = This project will support development of materials for several courses:


 * WikimediaCourse (Summer 2024)
 * Information Technologies (to be created) (Spring 2024)
 * Designing and Writing Interactive Texts (to be created) (Spring 2024)

Materials related to course overall
Each course created under the auspices of this project will include the following sets of "generic" materials (i.e. not directly related to a specific offering of the course). In this way, these materials serve as open educational resources, and are meant to facilitate teaching the course or components of the course in other environments.


 * course overview and description
 * goals
 * outcomes
 * objectives
 * resources
 * assignments
 * rubrics

Materials related to a specific offering of course
These materials are related to a specific offering of a course during a particular semester or time period. As such, these materials should be in a separate namespace, or at least sub-page namespace, so that the project can be replicated with multiple offerings.
 * course offering details and schedule
 * links to live/recorded zoom sessions
 * description of course operations for SUNY Poly students
 * description of course operations for open students
 * link to Wikiversity (or other) space containing student work, submitted by all students (including registered students agreeing to open source their work, and open enrollment students agreeing to open source their work, if any materialize)

Project Evaluation and Assessment
Following each specific offering, it would be helpful to include an evaluation and assessment of the materials as they were used to teach the class.