The purpose of the Wikiversity project, which will ultimately reside at www.wikiversity.org, is to build an electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and publishing results (within a policy framework developed by the community).
The goals can be described as follows:
* E-teaching materials. The development and cataloging of tests, teaching materials that go beyond the scope of Wikibooks such as slides and videos, complete courses, and more. All this information must be presented from a neutral point of view and represent the current state of scientific research. Wikibooks will be used as a partner project where appropriate.
* E-learning. A framework within members of the community can actually take courses online
* For more info on what Wikiversity is, please check its About page.
What can I say? “Interesting” seems far too weak a comment.
This is an excellent idea. However, I am distrustful of grand enthusiasms that begin a project, then let it wither. The net effect is to discourage people of good will, if this happens.
I do not mean to be “down-putting”, but I certainly wish you well.
The Wikiversity project was launched on August 15, 2006 with the English language website at http://en.wikiversity.org
A few days later a multilanguage Wikiversity hub was started (http://beta.wikiversity.org).