Creating open content for Wikiversity

This is a workspace for a session on "Creating open content for Wikiversity" by Cormac Lawler at the ECSIG May08 meeting, University of Manchester.

Presentation
Wikiversity is for:
 * free/open learning resources (all languages and levels)
 * learning activities & communities
 * research (activities & reports)

Both a repository and a space

Open Participatory Learning Infrastructure (Atkins, Seely Brown, Hammond)

OMG - anyone can edit it!!!
 * Welcome to the world of collaboration :-)
 * Forking - copy and modify
 * Protection - locking - preventing editing
 * Polite asking

Culture shift

Trust - Assume good faith

Implications for education
 * transparency - every action visible by everyone
 * making visible how knowledge is constructed

Useful links

 * Wikiversity FAQ
 * Wikiversity learning model
 * Wikiversity course about creating Open Educational Resources
 * Developing wikiversity through action research (Cormac's research page)
 * Cormac's blog and wiki