User talk:Karimarie

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I saw your mention of a discussion group at Topic talk:Jewish Studies. Given my weak imagination, I have just been creating pages such as On the Soul: discussion group that have a section for discussion. Wikiversity needs to find better ways to promote and host discussions. --JWSchmidt 16:41, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

"best taught in a dialogue format, not in textbook learning or lecture" <-- Even if you have a great textbook and a great lecturer this is a wiki and I like the idea that Wikiversity will provide activities for participants.

"get enough people interested in the discussion to be willing to contribute to it" <-- this is always a problem for any new wiki. One think that can be done is to make links to Wikiversity pages from Wikipedia pages. For example, we can use the {{Wikiversity}} template at Wikipedia. It would also be possible to make contacts with synagogues and invite their participants to make use of Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 17:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

"there is no precedent for anything like this in Wikiversity (or any other Wikimedia wiki, for that matter) to have a discussion about a subject rather than how to represent a subject" <-- When Jimmy Wales announced that the Wikiversity project had been approved he said,

• "..... the idea here is to also host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can be used more effectively." (source)

The Wikiversity project proposal calls for scholarly/learning projects and communities, "learning groups" that will be help desks, mentoring teams, cohort groups, debate clubs - learning through collaboration and discussion - the "wiki way". This means that we are the folks who get to figure out how to harness the wiki interface to support the kinds discussions that are needed for online learning communities. --JWSchmidt 19:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)