User talk:Graemeb1967

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Calculus Course
Hi Graemeb1967,

I noticed that you are a very active on the Calculus page here. I'm a bit confused - when I go here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Calculus I see the center column of "Wikiversity Topics". When I click on something, say "Precalculus", I get taken here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Precalculus. All of the links on this page seem to be to wikipedia, not wikiversity, articles. Isn't there supposed to be a much different motivation for writing for these two different projects? Wikipedia being much more complete, encyclopedic, where wikiversity should be explanatory and expository, shorter, simpler, etc.?

I have been trying to start a big push to ensure the materials here are as useful as possible: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_Technical_Topics_At_Wikiversity - I encourage you to take a look and give us some feedback!

I am also trying to encourage formal collaboration and content contribution and refinement by students at brick and mortar institutes. It seems to me that if we have a couple of students who refine the material as they go through the course for real, it would only take one or two semesters of iteration before we get some decent content. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Colloquium#Current_Student_Volunteer_Campaign If you have any ideas on how to start this type of thing (how to contact a school/university "officially" rather than me just sending them a letter ,etc) I'd be happy to hear them /discuss.

Daviddoria 15:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)