Wikiversity talk:What is Wikiversity?

Changed names from people to processes. I'd like to get rid of the class system that underlies most universities by labelling actions rather than people. Roadrunner 01:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * Wikiversity is not a degree-granting institution. It does not have professors or staff or registered students. There are simply people here teaching learning and discussing in many different subjects.

Wikiversity is also not steam shovel and is not useful for toasting bread. Is there any particular reason to describe what Wikiversity is not?

Roadrunner 02:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

wikiversity is a cyber-collegium where learning happens, and where teaching, schools, educational burocracies, knowledge factories and corporations, and power-relations may hopefully be disrupted, dismantled, changed and even, re-made.

--70.32.180.118 18:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)professor chaos --- Wikiversity is  is intended for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. The mission of Wikiversity is to empower people to achieve their educational goals using resources produced by the free culture movement. The goal is to create a community of people who support each other in their educational endeavors.

USSER: JOICEBAE 06:55, 02 AUGUST 2022 Wikiversity is a platform that gives assistance to learning communities with learning tools and teaching aids. One can be able to ask questions on Wikiversity and be provided with accurate information to that question that can be useful and shared with the next person. USSER: ROXYMAYA 04 October 2022,21:32

Wikipedia article on Wikiversity

 * 1) The Wikipedia article on Wikiversity is still pretty anemic in terms of the very topic of this page, and could use some help.
 * 2) At w:Talk:Wikiversity, someone has written an essay that perhaps better belongs somewhere on Wikiversity; I don't know my way around this well enough to know where it might go. - Jmabel 04:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks Jmabel, I've moved the essay above to User:Morley/Clarifying the Wikiversity proposal for now - where it may be used to discuss, strengthen, or make Wikiversity policy. I might get around to developing the Wikipedia article one day - though the truth is that different people have different views on what Wikiversity is (imagine that: an edit war over a Wikimedia project!). But no, that's probably overstating it - we could at least have a good overview - but please note, we're still trying to do that here :-). Cormaggio 10:49, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Differences
Can any one tell that is there any guideline-article here related to the differece between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. If not it's better to add a guideline as Difference between Wikipedia and Wikiversity. - Vaikunda Raja 21:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I would say Wikiversity is almost the same as Wikibooks. Its like 2 alternate sets of the same thing - learning material. Check any well-known thing on both of them(eg violin) and admit that there is no point in keeping them seperate.


 * Wikibooks hosts textbooks. Wikiversity does not host textbooks. Wikiversity started at Wikibooks and was kicked out of that project. Wikiversity is for learning materials that are not hosted by other Wikimedia projects.


 * "..... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively." (source)


 * Wikiversity participants can learn about a topic and then use what they have learned to improve textbooks at Wikibooks or encyclopedia articles at Wikipedia. Take a look at Category:Learning activities. --JWSchmidt 20:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * One of the problems was that about half of the stuff hosted here was orginally hosted on wikibooks, thus anything that was moved over was orginally writen FOR wikibooks. Those pages you won't be able to see any difference betweeen the two.--Rayc 21:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for explaining.

Ideological explorations from roots for answering this question above
Hello, dear friends:

Thanks very much that your discussions have made me settle myself here. I think this question is quite great and needs to be solved from the roots' differences between the two, then to the details.

'Wikiversity' is a new created term combining both 'wiki' and the word-root of 'University' - 'versity'. Therefore, its creation and development need to maintain both the two categories' requirements, targets, developing zones and sustainability.

If it came to 'Wiki', as it was stated 'without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users'[], I thought 'freedom for commons, world-wide expressions, explicit descriptions' can be highlighted as three very important features for the making-out of all wiki-members voices'. Alongside this logical line, then, compared with other virtual 'universities' or 'online learning websites', wikiversity's weight-centre is much easily centralized upon ‘postmodernist learners and creators' self-reflexivity from certain learning materials’ freely. (Here, the definition of 'postmodernist learners' are different from merely 'students' - learners' definitive extensions are much widely distributed upon any persons in any stages of life who have the desires to get knowledge and skills; meanwhile, contribute their own knowledge and skills in particular subjects or generally overall). If you want to share knowledge and skills, or identify them clearly, or classify them freely, and or systematically conclude them with the internal structures, you can all come to Wikiversity for helps or give your helps to others. In order words, Wiki gave universities much more freedoms to popularize their knowledge and skills explicitly with diverse peoples all around the worlds - 'no leaders and little implicit structure' but full of explicit universal truths, principles, laws and truths exchanged among different 'mind-sparks'. Wiki also gave commons and universities the opportunities to make the communications between each others. Universities can get the nutrition from talking with commons about certain societal or natural topics under the background of globalization; meanwhile, commons (especially for some young generations who are far away from the civilizational core areas of our worlds and desire to get more knowledge and skills but hardly; and for some teachers who have the strong motivations to teach people surrounding them but feel very hard to collect even one piece of teaching materials in some places 'far away') can gain multiple-disciplinary knowledge from Wikiversity to better their life-level sustainably.

Following it, if it came to '-versity', it means Wikiversity needs to have some basic functions as University ( Wiki introduction:[] ). This is a continuously developing 'channel' for wikiversity to take. Wikiversity needs to be compared with a real university but constructed totally upon virtual environment. In the future, it needs to have the functions as educational administrations, essays' submission and assessment, lectures' organizations and presents, learning and teaching communities (we have already gotten), diverse subjects and schools' arguments and defences, project' design and practice, field-investigations, philosophical regressions (to roots), cultural exchanges, the explorations of universal reasonability, research-results' reports and the predictions for future's peace. However, rather than 'the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars' stated in Wikipedia, it is without leaders and means the 'community of all the postmodernist learners for commons'. To be here, I has been thinking for long time - which painting can directly and explicitly give us the feelings in terms of wikiversity's possible future in 'Postmodernist Regression' -

The School of Athens []

That's quite right - the academic freedom, the diversity of academic schools, various approaches for exploring the universal truths and for all the peoples with equality. I thought: by hand in hand, if we can together construct this 'university' virtually, but of reality, upon the boundaries of Times and Spaces, how beautiful our mutual future will be!

Finally, I would like to talk a little bit about the summarized differences between Wikiversity and Wikipedia. Indeed, through reviewing the information above in terms of Wikiversity, we can already self-find the differences between. 'Internet encyclopedia' - the statement of Wikipedia's introduction in Wikipedia [] clearly account the differences - the developing tendencies are quite different - Wikiversity is for producing new knowledge in some creative approaches compared with the root from University's cultivation and education; however, Wikipedia is focusing on making the reports, current statements of articles, researching questions and interests, clarifications and identifications of the knowledge, which have already been existing from the past into the structured encyclopedia books for reviewing and storing. Can Wikipedia produce new knowledge? Yes, it should be able to, through the repeated modifications of knowledge's structures, the supplements of world-wide advanced researches' outcome-reports and the descriptions of some inventions and fresh phenomena; but this is through another approach like historical writing not university's.

Friends, more and more discussions can all be argued under this topic. Here above, there are some my personal ideas through researching this topic, which, as others, I would like to share here. If you thought they are helpful, it would be my pleasure.

Sincerely Regards Best Wishes Jason M. C., Han

Jason M. C., Han (discuss • contribs) 16:09, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikibooks and Wikiversity
I really want to know the different between Wikibooks, Wikipedia and Wikiversity. Wikiversity for learning? Are there any article for example? If you answer me, please talk in my talk page except for answer me here. --Chaplin
 * Please take a look at the section of this page just above this section. --JWSchmidt 15:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hopefully Wikipedia can tell you what Wikiversity is and what Wikibooks is. --Devourer09 02:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

=emphasis= There needs to be greater emphasis on this project's being about teaching and research. As it is (and looking at some pages), it is being used by some contributors as a place for publishing encyclopedic material which, of course, belongs on Wikipedia. There need to be two types of material: courses and research-projects. The site would thus fulfil the twin purposes of a university: teaching and research. It would not simply be a place to post encyclopedic material and, more importantly, it would function as a real educational facility for the people of the world. It could be that pages on w'versity are already doing this and I would be very interested to see them.
 * Course-material should not just be presentations of facts; it needs to attain educational objectives. One way to ensure this would be to require contributors to state such objectives before they can start posting text or pictures. Such course-pages would usefully include opportunities for students to produce work in response to the educational material and to have that work assessed by tutors.
 * University faculty should be publishing their research-work through the site; it could be tied-in to the courses they are giving, and peergroup comment and review should be encouraged.


 * Wikiversity does not duplicate other Wikimedia Foundation projects. It is true that some Wikiversity pages need improvement and some Wikiversity editors need help in learning how to create learning resources that do not duplicate the content of other projects. Suggestions are welcome at Content development. You might be interested in the proposed Wikiversity Research guidelines. --JWSchmidt 20:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

=progress= I think this page should include a record on the progress that has been made and what kind of quality and completeness the users should expect.
 * Hello,
 * quality is a subjective matter, everybody has a different understanding of the term. But here is one thing which could be of interest: Quality. Progress news you could observe in the Colloquium and also in the Recent changes list. Completeness - probably never - everything evolves. This is a wiki.
 * But perhaps you could give some examples what you would like to have, then we could help build this.
 * What do you say ? Erkan Yilmaz ( evaluate me!, discussion ) 20:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

=All ages?= I noticed when browsing that the discussion area for 'what wikiversity isn't' mentions that wikiversity is meant for all ages, but the "schools" seem laid out for more advanced materials. My interest (at present) would be in primary school level material, helping parents wishing to teach their children, providing additional resources for students who wish to explore subject areas, or to assist a parent in helping children with homework. I can't see how one can easily fit topics like kindergarten science (concept of food chains, life cycle of a seed, identifying animals as birds, reptiles and mammals), in the same categories as synaptic signalling, pharmacodynamics, or indeed anything on the List_of_Major_Topics_and_Concepts_in_Biology. I might contribute to higher level topics in mathematics or neuroscience, but have 3 children under 5 years old and am more concerned with creating resources for people to use to supplement (or replace, in the case of home-schooling) the public education system, and to create lists of activities that can be done by parents or children. Feel free to engage me on my talk page. --Epinephrine 19:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Please see Pre-tertiary portal and Main Page/Draft version 0.2. If you decide on the name for a new protal, I'll start it and we can link to it from the main pages where people start browsing for content. --JWS 19:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

The /En in the page name
Why is this necessary? It looks funny as well, so I feel as though if we are going to emphasize we are talking about the English language Wikiversity it should look like En.Wikiversity. I don't see the point really since it's assumed we are talking about the English language Wikiversity. --Devourer09 03:17, 29 September 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ - I have redirected the page "Wikiversity:What is Wikiversity/En" to Wikiversity:What is Wikiversity? --Draubb (discuss • contribs) 20:54, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Essay discussion
Essays needs to be discussed. We have a category for essays. On the other hand there is the section "podium" under What Wikiversity is not.
 * "A podium: Wikiversity resources and activities should promote learning above any personal opinions, beliefs, or biases that you may have. If you wish to express your personal take on someone or something, please do so in a way that is open, respectful, inclusive of academic participation, and informs participants on the issues that matter to you. Critical analyses and academic lectures are two possible ways to do this."

So essays are allowed if they are critical analyses or otherwise educational, without emphasis on personal matters. The issue is clarifying and the inclusion on this community page. - Sidelight12 Talk 11:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Sharing ideas / Discussion forum
I was wondering if the Discussion forum section is redundant. After the section on sharing ideas, it's fairly obvious, at least to me, that Wikiversity is a place for discussion. What's limiting in that paragraph is that the sharing of ideas is about how to teach and how to learn. Perhaps this needs to be expanded to include content understanding and application. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It seems like it, but it would be nice to make discussion forum stand out. The idea needs polishing. As the mainspace pages are a refined presentational version of the discussion. While the talk-pages and irc can be used together for the main discussion. The idea of discussion forum may need expanding. - Sidelight12 Talk 02:50, 24 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I like the latest update. Good work!  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:05, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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What's wikiversity and how a teacher can use it in the classroom
Wikiversity -is a learning community, meaning you can get information,edit ,also ask information on any subject.It offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning

How a teacher use wikiversity in his/her classroom. A teacher can use wikiversity in the classroom as by downloading summaries from the websites ,print them out and handout to the learners.The teacher can also use wikiversity as when using a projector and show wikiversity tutorials to the learners.It can be used as self study.It act as a researcher host,learners can as well use wikiversity for research based on what the teacher has instructed them to do.Teacher can research for any range content to teach the learners ,same information can as well be used for later preference.The teacher can print the information from wikiversity and use them to easy teaching and learning in the classroom 123poppy (discuss • contribs) 13:01, 30 September 2022 (UTC) It's advisable for learners to use computers in a classroom because it makes the lesson much easier. https://youtu.be/zLu1HBkIaKI