wikiversity

This month marks a year’s progress in the development of Wikiversity, “a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.”

Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages, and to develop collaborative learning projects and communities around these materials.

A major part of Wikiversity learning is being organized around Learning Projects, collections of pages devoted to the learning of a specific topic or family of topics. Because wiki technology promotes collaborative webpage editing, collaborative wiki editing projects can be thought of as “learning projects” — participants learn while they edit wiki pages and explore topics of interest. Example - digital information literacy in the social sciences portal.