[edit this space] Wikiversity: a complex space for collaborative learning

resource discussion edit resource discussion edit Far left: Discussion at 2007 (Photo: Alex S.H. Lin) Overview Left: Conference discussing Using and improving Wikiversity and education (Photo: Frank Schulenburg) Wikiversity is a at http://www.wikiversity. Wikiversity can help Wikiversity is an openly please contact me through (i.e. editable) website org. There is also a “beta” promote a discursive editable repository of the links provided below.) paradigm of knowledge dedicated to educational wiki to serve as a multi- creation, and explore educational materials, But Wikiversity also needs how can be used in materials and activities. It lingual ‘hub’ for emerging educational contexts. and if you have materials learners and other users is a project of the Wikime- language projects. that you think would be to develop a better under- dia Foundation (which also useful to someone else, standing of its work, and runs Wikipedia, , Materials on Wikiversity you are encouraged to to strengthen the commu- , and vary in scope and type. resource discussion edit add them to Wikiversity. nity around its materials others), and was launched Examples include materials (If you need help with this, and their development. in August, 2006. which could be used by a face to face class, or In keeping with Wikime- by self-directed learners; Wikiversity was launched in Wikiversity, and how it dia’s multilingual scope, collaborative learning with an open question should be included and/or there are currently 5 projects and activities. around whether it would managed. individual language Left: Wikiversity materials can include anything include research, and how. from quizzes to mind-maps (pictured) to mono- Wikiversity projects – in (Wikipedia, for example, There is already some graphs to sound recordings - and many more. In short, Wikiversity is (Image: Franz Kies) English, French, German, explicitly excludes original research underway on both a collaborative Italian, and Spanish. The research, on the basis that Wikiversity – including a repository of educational English Wikiversity is at it is inappropriate for an “bloom clock” of distrib- materials, and a space http://en.wikiversity.org encyclopedia – however, uted data on what flowers Contact for collaborative learning. and others can be found Wikiversity’s remit is wider are currently blooming than that of Wikipedia.) (and where) around the Cormac Lawler: Pedagogy and Epistemology During its first year, the world, as well as research PhD candidate at the University of Wikiversity and wider Wiki- on how Wikiversity itself is Manchester, School of Education Wikiversity was set up with sity, and how it is to be media community collabo- being developed and how • Email: [email protected] no explicit pedagogical facilitated, prompted. The ratively created a set of it can improve. method or epistemological Wikiversity community is policies around research • Blog: http://cormaggio.org framework to be used experimenting with differ- • Wikiversity user page: – apart from the fact that it ent ways of providing for http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio would take place within a learning in the “wiki way” wiki. This implicitly raises - including discussing, Left: The “Bloom Clock project is a distributed research proj- ect to develop a record of what plants are blooming at any questions around how collaborating, and “being given time in a particular location around the world. learning works in Wikiver- bold”. (Photo: André Karwath) http://en.wikiversity.org