Wikiversity Ph.D. Course Open Source, Open Science Course Morten Goodwin Olsen Grimstad, 2009-09-29 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Project no.: Verdikt 183392/S10 Set Learning Free Presentation Outline ● Introduction ● How it Started ● Vision / Scope ● How it differs from Wikipedia ● Example of use Introduction ● Center for creating and using free learning material ● Created by the Wikimedia Community ● Equal rights for students and teachers. How it started ● Started from Wikibooks – Split out in August 2006 ● It is nether an encyclopedia (Wikipedia) or book (Wikibooks) – Active center for learning Visions ● Open educational resources ● Compose free and open online resources online ● Create a global learning community. ● Experiment with using wiki for learning. ● (Radical) Alternative to fee-based education. Scope (1) ● Educational materials and activities. – Repository – Learning space ● All levels – From pre-school to Universities – Research ● Deliberately no defined educational mode. Scope (2) ● Not only content – not intended to overlap wikipedia ● Contains course type resources ● Discussion on making Wikiversity a personalised learning environment. ● License ● Creative Commons Share-alike 3.0 ● Open Course Ware: Attribution- Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 ● Wikiversity gives you the freedome to teach which Open Course Ware does not. Wikimedia ● Differs from the others in the Wikimedia Foundation ● Encourage the use of learning communities and opinions. – E.g. wikipedia should be objective – Original research – Tolerant approach towards content ● Participating rather than deleting and banning Wikiversity vs. Wikipedia (1) ● (Wikipedia) Articles = (Wikiversity) Learning Resources ● (Wikipedia) Admins = (Wikiversity) Custodians – Avoid the politics – Experienced custodians mentor the new for one month – Seek community input after the probation period is over Wikiversity vs. Wikipedia (2) Wikiversity Wikipedia Registered 181 375 10 605 277 Users Active Users 438 (370 with 150 888 > 10 edits) Content 11 442 3 041 679 Pages Funding ● Donations – General funding – Specific funding for a given project. Languages ● Ten languages: English, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, Portuguese and Japanese. ● Mostly used: English. One Example Learning HTML (Example) Lessons Participants Mentors Resources ● http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/teaching/ss2009-kmweb20/presentations/wikiversity.pdf ● http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Statistics ● http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/images/d/d4/IIEP_OECD_OER_forum_log1_light.pdf ● http://en.wikiversity.org.