Wikiversity talk:Vision

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After reading this article I have no idea what is the vision of Wikiversity. Though, the description of Classical education (which may be biased) was entertaining, it helps me very little to understand the function of Wikiversity. Is this an attempt to define vision based on a problem-solution organization? If so, neither the problem nor vision has been developed.--68.222.30.194 21:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

pls visit b:User_talk:Humble_Guy, I have suggestions....

please visit my suggestion too: Odzilla --Catpad 08:48, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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I think it's good to have this simplified page as one we can link people to to explain what Wikiversity is (though we need to keep these introductory pages in line with each other). I think it's a good idea to work on a single sentence vision statement, as well as an extended vision statement (one or two paragraphs). I've made a start on such an extended vision statement, and I've left it that "Your own vision is welcome...", having previously said that there are many individual visions for Wikiversity (which there are - eg Vision/Historical perspective). I wonder if, instead of this page becoming a patchwork quilt of everyone's individual visions, we should encourage people to be as bold as they like with their own individual visions by setting up a page (perhaps a subpage of this one) which outlined their views? Cormaggio talk 12:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiCredentials
Hello Friends, Teachers and Fellow Students, My name is Gaon, and I firmly believe Wikiversity should include " WikiCredentials " ( WikiCreds ) upon the completion of Testing courses. This would inspire Millions around the world to learn and challenge our societies present accredidation system... and change our culture's perception of credentialism.

It is time for freedom of thought to Flourish, where anyone can learn and be accredited, regardless of age, mental capacity, location, economic status or the inability to pay tuition. Wikiversity could rival and surpass the Best education available, If we have the desire and diligence to fulfill this Grand Vision........

it would be The Most Good for the Most People, Literally, Billions of people.

Do we have what it takes to fulfill this expansive, innovative and BOLD endeavor?

Kind regards, Intelligent Discussion Welcomed.

Sincerely Gaon Yincang Abhinava 03:09, 23 July 2011 (UTC) 7/22/2011 10:08pm
 * Gaon created a page which I have moved to Wikicredentials, and started a Colloquium discussion which I've moved to Talk for the Wikicredentials page. --Abd 14:01, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Share your learning curve
Recently I found a TED talk from Joris Luyendijk, a Dutch journalist (see link below).

TED-filmpje

In this TED talk he explains that people should share their lightbulb-moments. When many people do this, knowledge gaps will be bridged.

I think the wikiversity project should include the thought of sharing lightbulb-moments. This is something else then only sharing learning resources.

What do you think?

Tim, Timboliu (talk) 11:26, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikiversity versus wikibooks
In 2014 all 5000 pages on the Dutch wikiversity (still in beta) were removed because the did not meet the quality standards of the Dutch community. In 2015 we want to start with a new learning project around programming language Scratch. The plan for 2015 is to involve the Dutch community in creating this learning project. Some questions arose. One of the questions was: "why not create a wikibook instead of creating learning material on wikiversity?". What is the difference between wikibooks and wikiversity? Timboliu (discuss • contribs) 19:38, 2 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Wikibooks is open content textbooks. Wikiversity is open learning projects and resources.  For an example of the differences, consider a book and a lesson plan.  A book explains the concept.  A lesson plan pulls together a variety of resources to help learn the concept.  Technically, one might even argue that an effective lesson plan must include reading, media, and hands-on activities to address all learning styles.  The common understanding of 'textbook' is insufficient to meet that perspective.  And unfortunately, there are too many resources at Wikiversity that are nothing more than textbook chapters or encyclopedia articles.  The only significant learning activity provided was for the author, rather the user community.


 * But, rather than asking us to define the difference between Wikibooks and Wikiversity, you would be better off asking the Dutch community what they perceive the differences to be, if that's where the content will be created. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:17, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Propposals

 * Our vision is to live in a world with a virtual Worldwide University where everybody can freely learn and develop about anything and everything to better themselves and society. --