Talk:Wikiversity
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Maybe the Wikiversity idea could be also useful for people who are not in a central location, but active in regional adult education. see LEIA.
It would bring various benefits:
- bring certified, peer reviewed courses to locations badly in need of good educational content, provided there is local staff active and capable in coaching self-learning/teaching people (->Regional Information Coaching)
- allowing for collaborative research and include people with high qualification not aligned with universities; giving them a formal status which would allow to treat and support them as locally or community supported academics.
In my view, Wikiversity cannot and should not be a "copy" of the existing university system and this is why I welcomed the initial negative response of the community. but the reconsidering of the idea that I find in this page bears a lot of maturity in it. --FranzN 09:52, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- It is hard to predict what Wikiversity might eventually come to include, but trying to create a copy of a conventional university does not seem to be the place to start. In my view, we need to first identify and create parts of Wikiversity that will attract an active community of editors. I think one way to do that is to provide services to existing Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia contains some pages that are oriented around prompting editors to use good research practices, careful citation of sources, etc. Wikiversity can take such efforts to a higher level. Wikinews could also use some help in getting Wikinews editors to do a better job of doing research to support Wikinews articles. The idea of Wikiversity providing "service courses" for other Wikimedia projects may seem dull and boring, but I think it has a chance of being a way to launch the Wikiversity project. Eventually, it will be possible to move on to bigger and better things. --JWSchmidt 16:20, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
