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Community service projects
- Wikiversity provides scholarly services to Wikimedia sister projects.
Wiki-based learning
- The implications of wiki technology for online learning.
Bibliography and Research Methods
- How to find and cite verifiable sources.
Learning materials projects
- Find and evaluate existing learning resources or develop new ones.
Reading Groups
- learning projects around specific books, texts, videos, or entire oeuvres.
Wikiversity translations
- Community service project to support
Wikiversity Beta
Outreach
- collaborations with other institutions and projects.
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Selected picture
Guernica
by Pablo Picasso
Guernica was inspired by Picasso's horror at the
bombing of Guernica
, Spain on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. What roles do the reactions of artists and journalists play in our perception of war? Can a single painting express more than any single photograph? Participate at the
Art and War seminar
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Selected research
Intermediate filament proteins
Participants explore gene databases and the
molecular evolution
of
cell
proteins.
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Did you know...
Supernova
SN 2006sr
, discovered by amateur astronomer Doug Rich in December 2006, is so distant that it has taken 325 million years for the light from this stellar explosion to reach Earth. It is the ninth supernova discovery that he has made.
[1]
See the Wikiversity
Supernova
project.
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Exobiology
Institute of Construction
Internet Audio and Video
Introduction to International Relations
Linux Desktop
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Quotes
Active
learning
"Learning is the product of the activity of learners." - John Holt
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." - Agatha Christie
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
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Learning projects
Academic writing
contains a list of articles written by scholars in a workshop for learners of English as a second language.
ALISON
is a FREE [Advertisement Funded] learning resource of interactive certification-based learning, focusing on proprietary software.
Aquaculture - Economic, Political, Social and Scientific Perspectives
Astronomy Project
- Project participants access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.
Bloom clock project
- an attempt to create a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere.
Building Automation
- A project to standardize the education requirements and learning resources of building automation professionals.
Composing free and open online educational resources
- The course reading and the assignments of this class will familiarize the participants with the main concepts related to open education resources and to the historical and philosophical ideas behind them.
CAD
- Computer Aided Design and Analysis for engineers. Learn how to design and analyze systems, machines, parts in 2D and 3D.
Cell biology improvement drive
service
-oriented project.
Chain mail
- How to make a suit of chain mail armour. Involves actually making a suit from simple materials.
Collaborate and Create In-service
- a professional development collaborative for teachers interested in computer technology integration aligned to relevant curriculum with a focus on OLPT[[[OLPT]]]
College Algebra
- Basic mathematics on a college level.
Flycatcher
- How to make a custom fly rod.
German Home Immersion School
- How to build a customized immersion school wherever you are!
Glossary of Geology Terms
Elasticity
- An introductory course on elasticity theory for all engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists who are interested in stresses and deformations of elastic solids.
History of Europe to 1648
– A comprehensive survey of European history.
History of Ireland through Song
- Irish History, the fun way.
Hitler's Germany
- A brief study into the workings of the Third Reich.
Homeschooling
- Building resources for parents and children who teach and learn outside of the compulsory public education systems.
Human Genetic Uniqueness Project
- students search for genes that make humans different from other mammals.
International Relations
- Help create an introductory course.
Learning to learn a wiki way
- An action research project to investigate ways of learning using a wiki.
Lunar Boom Town
- Want to get rich settling the moon? Come help us figure out how. Excellent business planning practice for budding entrepreneurs of all types and ages.
Motivation and emotion
- Undergraduate psychology lectures and tutorials, with > 1,000 student-contributed assignments on specific topics
Public Policy Debate
Learn to effectively develop and present public policy positions persuasive to enemies and sovereigns and useful to allies. Attempt to establish appropriate grounds, boundary conditions, usefully specific and general definitions and other attributes useful in a learning community.
Quiz
- learn about using the quiz extension in your pages; discuss the educational use of wiki quizzes; develop pages with quizzes.
Reading Clubs
Reading Groups
Self Paced Reading Labs
- A project to develop a set of reading exercises that can be used for self managed reading practice and evaluation.
Strategic Simulations
- Help develop strategic level simulations for the purposes of learning and teaching military strategy.
The Science Behind Parkinson's
- To build an introduction to the science behind Parkinson's; to follow current research progress; to compile and share the information discovered; to discuss its significance.
Survey research and design in psychology
= Undergraduate psychology lectures and tutorials for a research methods and statistics unit, focusing on survey design, correlations, factor analysis, and regression
Visual Programming Language
- To design and create a Graphical or Visual programming language thats freely available under GNU license.
Web 2.0 for Professional Use
- A Web writing class learns how to write, design and effectively use new media in the academic and professional spheres.
Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer
- support for group computing projects and mathematical simulations.
War Seminar
- discussions about the history of war as a cultural practice and current wars in the world.
Writing Discipline Specific Research Papers
- Resources for students learning to write university level research projects.
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"Thoughtful learning," James Roberts. Research-based learning activities customized for specific learning styles.
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