Wikiversity talk:Year of Science 2016

Bringing scholars into Wikiversity

 * Wikiversity has defined a new Curator user group that streamlines the process by which an editor can protect their pages.
 * Wikiversity encourages parallel efforts, student efforts, and even original research.

Recruiting teachers

 * Wikiversity as a place for students to write
 * An application to install the Education extension is pending, and EduV is alternative course management system under construction that is designed to tell student's exactly where to contribute.
 * Instead of asking students to write lab reports, assign to them the task of improving one already written on Wikiversity. This addresses the plagiarism problem in an unusual way.
 * Wikiversity can be used as a "drop box" for submitting essays and other required submission. The following permalink is to a brief essay by a Work Study student who was asked to write something specifically for this discussion:    http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=User:Guy_vandegrift/sandbox/07&oldid=1477142 This url can be submitted via email to the instructor and cannot be changed unless somebody deletes the page.
 * By submitting svg files, students can contribute images in a way that permits further improvement in a way that permits attribution to the original idea. These editable svg files were created by photocopying a student's idea about how to explain how light behaves when it strikes a polarizing filter in this effort to understand Bell's theorem. If another student improves the quality of one of these sketches, the instructor can upload a photocopy of the new figure and the username of both students are preserved in the attribution record.


 * Wikiversity as an editable platform for delivering lectures.
 * Resource pages can be formatted for presentation on classroom screen projectors.
 * Power point presentations can be saved in pdf form and stored and uploaded as files.
 * Both formats can be upgraded (by editing resource pages and uploading new files)

Recruiting authors

 * Authors can protect their pages after acheiving the status of Curator
 * Wikiversity encourages parallel pages on the same subject, permitting similar articles that differ only in style or perspective.

Question
Per the 2nd bulletin: here

Should we also close proposals there since many of the proposals are old? ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ - I've archived the whole section to Featured/Proposals. Feel free to move back any items that should have remained on the active page. --mikeu talk 20:44, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:25, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Teaching the Sciences
I believe teaching the sciences would be greatly improved by making them interactive, where the student would cause something to happen and the effect would be demonstrated, something along the line of a game.