Wikiversity talk:Getting involved

From Wikiversity

Hi, I work on a project called openlearn http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php which makes open educational resources available for free under a Creative Commons licence.

Obviously our projects have a lot in common and I wondered how it would work with making our material available in wikiversity. Would it be a case of copy and pasting course content into the relevant pages (but how would we deal with the Flash/Mpeg/MP3/interactive quizes in openlearn units?) or could we link from relevant pages in Wikiversity to associated pages on openlearn? Or is there no way we can work together?

Please let me know what you think!

Best, Stuart--Jinky32 09:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to make links from Wikiversity to resources at other education-oriented websites. Wikiversity will always allow commercial re-use of content according to the GFDL. Many people and profit-oriented institutions are not comfortable with the idea of making their educational resources available for commercial re-use, so those resources have to be linked to from Wikiversity, not included at Wikiversity. Media in formats such as Flash and mp3 are not allowed in Wikimedia Foundation projects because they are not free and open file formats and they are not compatible with the GFDL. Wikiversity uses ogg audio and video resources. Wikiversity has its own system for quizzes. --JWSchmidt 13:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)