Good day everyone, I just came across freeculture.org and it seems like a great group! I am particularly interested in the third answer to "What is free culture?" - "public access to knowledge".
I believe the WikiVersity project is directly addressing this. It has been my experience, however, that the contributions to WikiVersity (and all of the WikiMedia projects) are typically very "one off". I would like to organize a group of student volunteers who, as they take courses, could more methodically work on adding or improving WikiVersity pages. Rather than thinking of it as extra work for these students, it should actually be a great study tool! Rather than staring at a notebook the week before an exam, the student could test his level of explanation by his ability to explain the concepts clearly and concisely on a wiki page! I believe that following this template (idea, procedure, details, example) forces clarity in the explanations that are currently missing. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_Technical_Topics_At_Wikiversity#IPDE_Method_of_Instruction I have also proposed that more than a "content expert" is necessary to produce quality instructional material. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_Technical_Topics_At_Wikiversity It seems to me that in a single semester with a few serious volunteers in several "standard" college classes we could produce an amazing amount of material (of high quality, with the right guidance :) ). This should only need to be done once if it is done correctly, and it would unify and simply most of the knowledge that is supposed to be gained for centuries of students to come. Any volunteers? Feel free to contact me directly or reply to this mailing list. <http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_Technical_Topics_At_Wikiversity> Thanks! David Doria
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