User talk:Ankhamun

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Wikiversity
Welcome to the Wikiversity project. I hope you have a chance to read some of the information about Wikiversity at the WikiMedia meta wiki. Wikiversity is currently a proposed project. The Board of Trustees for the WikiMedia Foundation has previously suggested that the project not be built around a collection of conventional courses. If not courses, then what?

Some thoughts: We need to have a system for online learning that respects the wiki user interface. Particularly now when we are trying to launch the project, such "respect" should probably center on trying to build a community of project participants who are going to edit Wikiversity pages and help add content. I suggest that you try to design a "course for Ancient Egypt" that includes many elements that are not found in traditional courses. Think about what you are doing in terms of trying to attract of community of participants who will want to explore Ancient Egypt AND help you develop Wikiversity pages related to that topic. Learning at Wikiversity should be active. Participants in the "Ancient Egypt" course should become involved in learning-oriented projects. A good first project might be to identify and catalog online resources related to Ancient Egypt, starting with existing articles at Wikipedia and textbooks at Wikibooks. We need to find interesting ways of organizing such catalogs of online resources. For Cell Biology, I have been thinking about an essay that would try to be both a provocative introduction to the subject and a critical assessment of available online resources. This would serve both as an introduction to the topic and a guide to what additional learning resources need to be developed at Wikiversity. Wikipedia and Wikibooks textbooks focus on "the facts". I think that Wikiversity should also be very much concerned with the remaining unknowns, doubts, controversies, mysteries, and on-going research. --JWSurf 17:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)