Wikiversity talk:Curriculum committee/List of Schools/Draft by Abd

Organization
This list is similar to what I am familiar with in Illinois colleges. At the community college level, the different 'schools' or 'colleges' become divisions, but the departments/subjects are grouped the same way. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:44, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Right. We are looking at the school issue in various ways. Sidelight examined this from the point of view of the organization of knowledge, coming from an encyclopedic source. I used information from the University of California, which is organized from an academic and instructional or training perspective. I didn't go to the deepest level of this, looking at the course catalogs, but there will probably be valuable information there.


 * And then I just compiled a list of our actual schools, it is in process. From that, we will see what users or the community have thought appropriate. I removed maybe two schools, one may have been spam (it's unclear), one was a 2006 transient user who started the School of Me, essentially. That was explicitly accepted by the user whose hands are all over our structure, such as it is, JWSchmidt. He categorized it as a specialty school, but didn't seem to notice that the user had vanished. I userfied that page. It wasn't a bad idea, the user just didn't follow up, and we are now thinking about Schools as collaborations. His School of Me is now in his User space. He has a few contributions in architecture.


 * Having compiled the list, the organizational job doesn't look so huge any more. There will be plenty of decisions to be made, but the task now seems manageable. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 03:48, 28 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I propose, that we use my draft for the top level, and we organize the subjects here as the next and/or next next level on the tree. - Sidelight12 Talk 04:25, 28 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Please help me understand how having Wikiversity organized like an information repository (an encyclopedia) is better than having it organized like a teaching and learning institution (a college). -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 04:35, 28 January 2014 (UTC)


 * A college is organized by branches of knowledge, only there is an adjustment made for career choice, which omits what we wish to include here. A University that specializes in theology, will offer its courses classified for theology only, and leave out many careers. There are universities that may focus on law, science, or business, and these may omit courses in other fields.


 * In fact, it doesn't matter that this came from an encyclopedia, the encyclopedia is in itself not categorized this way, this is a special on "Branches of Knowledge." Branches of knowledge is important for the categorization of schools. Science, Humanities, Math/Logic, Philosophy are how many universities split departments, only they break this down or lump everything under humanities, business or science, into what they specialize in. Math overlaps because it is used by science and humanities (economics), and there is more in common with Math and logic as they are human applied tools. The lumping the universities do is for convenience to adhere to careers. Wikiversity is to cover all subjects of knowledge whether or not we all believe in every subject. We are concerned with "branches of knowledge", not what came from an encyclopedia. - Sidelight12 Talk 04:50, 28 January 2014 (UTC)