Wikiversity
10 February 2007 at 11:04 am Peter G. Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
Looking for a low-cost alternative to law school or business school? Try Wikiversity, “a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service.” Yep, it’s a wiki — we’re talking 100% user-generated content. Unfortunately there isn’t much content yet, just mostly a shell. But there are spaces for law and business as well as academic disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, political science, history, and philosophy.
Related resources: WikiSummaries and the Open Text Project.
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John Schmidt | 14 February 2007 at 7:20 pm
Wikiversity just completed a six month “beta period” during which files were moved to the new wiki website from the project’s original home at Wikibooks. Many existing Wikiversity pages are content development projects where wiki editors can collaborate to create, organize and develop learning resources for particular academic topics.
Wikiversity is not an alternative to bricks-and-mortar schools. Wikiversity is exploring the power of wiki-based collaboration and online communities of learners to help people reach their learning goals. Wikiversity needs participants who want to help make all human knowledge freely available in every languages and for learners of all ages.