Wikiversity

Wikiversity merupakan sebuah projek beta Yayasan Wikimedia, menumpukan pada bahan dan aktiviti pembelajaran, terletak di www.wikiversity.org. Fasa beta Wikiversity dimulakan secara rasmi pada 15 Ogos 2006 dengan Wikiversity Bahasa Inggeris. Kini terdapat lima edisi bahasa untuk Wikiversity - Bahasa Inggeris, Bahasa Perancis, Bahasa Jerman, Bahasa Itali, dan Bahasa Sepanyol - serta projek Wikiversity baru dalam bahasa-bahasa lain dalam perkembangan di hab multilingual "beta".

Maklumat lanjut tentang projek 
Wikiversity is in development as a center for the creation and use of free learning materials, and the provision of learning activities. Its primary priorities and goals are to:
Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups in all languages
Host scholarly/learning projects and communities that support these materials

The Wikiversity e-Learning model places emphasis on "learning groups" and "learning by doing".  Wikiversity's motto and slogan is "set learning free". The idea is that these groups/communities of Wikiversity participants engage in scholarly learning projects, and that learning is through collaboration on projects that involve editing Wikiversity pages. Wikiversity learning projects consist of collections of wiki webpages concerned with the scholarly exploration of a particular topic. Wikiversity participants can (and do) express their learning goals and the Wikiversity community collaborates to develop learning activities and projects to accommodate those goals.

Learning resources are developed by an individual or groups, either on their own initiative, or as part of a learning project. Wikiversity resources include teaching aids, lesson plans, curricula, links to off-site resources, and reading lists - but do not include textbooks, which are developed at Wikibooks. Learning groups with interests in each subject area create a web of resources that form the basis of discussions and activities at Wikiversity. Learning resources can be used by  educators outside of Wikiversity for their own purposes, under the terms of the GFDL (like Wikipedia).

In order to move out of its "beta" phase, a goal for the Wikiversity community during the six month beta phase is the creation of policies governing research activities. Wikiversity may act as a repository of research carried out by the Wikimedia Research Network, or others who are involved in wiki-based, or other research. Whether or not Wikiversity will ever host original research in addition to secondary research is the subject of debate, and guidelines for what would be appropriate research will be developed during the beta phase of the project through a community consensus process.

Sejarah 
Pada asalnya Wikiversity dimulakan di Wikibooks pada tahun 2003. Pada tahun 2005, satu cadangan formal untuk memulakan Wikiversity sebagai sebuah projek sendiri dijalankan pengundian. Projek Wikiversity dibincangkan dalam mesyuarat Lembaga Wikimedia pada November 2005. Lembaga Pemegang Amanah Yayasan Wikimedia meminta supaya beberapa perubahan dibuat sebelum projek dimulakan pada tapak web sendiri. Cadangan projek yang telah diubah disahkan  oleh Lembaga itu. Apabila cadangan ini disahkan, 17 portal bahasa telah dikembangkan di Wikibooks.

Yang menarik ialah, Wikiversity merangkumi konsep James Grier Miller (1982) untuk Universiti Dunia.

Rujukan

Lihat juga 

 OpenLearn - sebuah projek Open University untuk membekal sumber pendidikan percuma dan bebas

Pautan luar 
 Portal multilingual Wikiversity
 Wikiversity Gains Momentum  at PC World
 Rencana di The Chronicle of Higher Education

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