User:Chris.uhlik

I'd like to see some user page templates from which I could select a starting point for my user page. I am not an expert profile page designer, so I'm afraid my profile page will suck. Maybe I can search for other user profiles that have been voted up as particularly well designed. Then I could copy their design... How would we add such a feature to wikiversity? Does wikipedia have a mechanism for hi-lighting pages that have been particularly well designed?



Hi, I'm Chris Uhlik. I am an engineering director at Google in Silicon Valley, California. My wife has a master's degree in education technologies and is home-schooling 4 children ages 14, 12, 10, and 7. We strongly emphasize the use of online educational content in our approach to homeschooling. I am particularly interested in how the Internet and volunteer collaboration can be used to bring high-quality, and effective education to the world's population at very low costs relative to traditional methods of teaching and education. I believe that effective education combines:


 * high quality content (accurate, engaging, balanced)
 * a great user interface
 * a social learning experience
 * an integration with human interaction to facilitate a social learning experience with teachers, teaching assistants, senior students, peer students, and junior students
 * addresses a variety of learning modes including reading, lecture, examples, exercises, assessments, challenges, guided discovery, and free exploration.
 * motivating the student
 * rewarding all participants

Contributions to the Wikiversity
My contributions are mostly related to TBD.