how to start course at wikiversity

What is a Wikiversity course?

A wikiversity course is a learning project with Leader instructor who defines the class agenda and creates content, introduces less experienced participants the material, and coordinates some hands on activity that allows the participant to gain mastery of a subject.

How do I use Wikiversity?

You can use Wikiversity to find information, ask questions, or learn more about a subject. You can explore knowledge at Wikiversity through advanced study and research. You can also use Wikiversity to share your knowledge about a subject with others by building learning materials. For a longer description, see What is Wikiversity?

How do I search for a specific topic on Wikiversity?

Or use the Search field in the Sidebar on every Wikiversity page to enter your search criteria. Or start at the Wikiversity Main Page and drill down through the various faculties, departments and schools to material of interest. Or jump to the Examples page. Who pays for Wikiversity?

Is there any advertising on Wikiversity?

Notice there's no advertising on Wikiversity. We're non-commercial, entirely run by volunteers, operating costs covered by donations from people like you and by grants from various institutions. What if someone wrecks a perfectly good course?

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How do I begin a course?

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What is the meaning of wikiversity?

Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from Wikipedia in that it offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia; like Wikipedia, it is available in many languages.

Is Wikiversity legit?

The page documents an official English Wikiversity policy with wide acceptance by participants as a standard you should follow. Please propose and discuss changes to ensure your revisions reflects consensus. Wikiversity pages should cite reliable published sources whenever possible.

In which year Wikiversity organized first Open course on the platform *?

Within the OER movement, the Wikiversity was founded in 2006 and the first open course on the platform was organised in 2007.

What is a course?

Hierarchical meaning: a course can denote a learning object with a large level of granularity. That means it is relatively large and consists of many learning objects with smaller granularity. Depending on the nomenclature being used, smaller units at the next level might be "lessons", "modules" or "sessions", but other terms could also be used.

Where are the courses?

The wiki user interface is not well-suited for conventional courses and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has directed the Wikiversity community away from courses (the Board's comments ).

What is Wikiversity?

Wikiversity is a site 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 on Wikiversity who support each other in their educational endeavors.

Page section navigation

Wikiversity webpages often have multiple sections such as the Learning objectives section of this page.

More about Wikiversity

Wikiversity is a wiki-based learning community. Here you can use online courses and also create courses yourself. See this page for some ideas about what the Wikiversity might become. Also, see more of how Wikiversity supports learning .

How can I learn even more about Wikiversity?

The edit button.....use it. Wikiversity is a website where you can learn by editing the webpages.

Discussing Wikiversity

For previous discussions see the Meta page on Wikiversity. Since there is now a formal proposal to set up Wikiversity as a new Wikimedia project, try to keep discussions of Wikiversity's scope and goals centralized at Meta. Utilize a #wikiversity-en IRC chat channel as well.

Wikiversity Core Courses

One way to move Wikiversity forward is to create another core service course. Wikimedia projects are developed here at Wikiversity. Prior to formal establishment, projects were developed on other domains, but they are all now here at wikiversity.

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Intermediate Wikiversity - you've made some edits to Wikiversity, now you need help so that you can get serious and edit efficiently.

User pages

Do not forget to add some useful content to your user page. A wiki is a place for collaborative editing of webpages. Such collaborative editing is facilitated when participants get to know their collaborators. One approach is to list your interests and skills (see User:Teemu for one approach).

Discussion

Every Wikiversity content page has an associated " talk page " that can be reached by using the "discussion" tab at the top of the page. Make use of these discussion pages to help coordinate content development.

Templates

Take a look at the page creation templates. You may want to use one of these templates to start a new page.

Structuring issues and tools

If you are new user, you might wonder how the many learning resources at the Wikiversity website can be efficiently organized and found. Wikiversity uses namespaces to organize content. There are three important namespaces for helping people find Wikiversity content and create new learning resources.

Focus

One strategy for developing content on Wikiversity is to focus a "taskforce" on a set of objectives. These can be organized from the Wikiversity: (project) namespace for maintaining Wikiversity itself. A few examples:

What is Wikiversity page?

Many Wikiversity pages are devoted to interactive learning activities taking place online. The Learning Projects page is a good place to recruit learners for your project and/or to discover an active learning opportunity for yourself.

What is learning by doing?

Whatever people are interested in....the participants learn while they participate...." learn by doing " is the general approach. Much of the "doing" is organized around " learning projects ". One such project is currently prototyping a Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP) system to allow conferencing, seminars, distributed jamming and other distributed voice communications activities.