Portal:Learning Materials/Featured

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This page is for keeping track of featured content on Portal:Learning Materials. If you change/update content in the portal, please be sure that the record of past content is updated here.

Featured learning resource[edit | edit source]

Creation of learning resources
One goal of Wikiversity is to catalog learning resources and integrate them into the Wikiversity learning system. This can involve both learning resources that exist at other websites and new resources that are created at Wikiversity.

Selected image[edit | edit source]

The Edit button.
The Publish changes button.
The Publish changes button.

Video tutorial. A short (2 minutes long) movie for new wiki users, showing how to edit a wiki page. The movie is available in two formats:

  1. a QuickTime version (QuickTime info)
  2. an About this sound OGG version  (Help with Ogg video file play).

Featured research project[edit | edit source]

Hunter-gatherers

Main article: Hunter-gatherers project

An important function of Wikiversity is to provide critical evaluations of learning materials and online learning resources. Hunter-gatherers should participate in the critical evaluation of learning resources by editing the Wikiversity pages that are devoted to evaluating learning materials and describing how to integrate them into courses of study.

Wikiversity hunter-gatherers can take on ambassadorial functions and participate in Wikiversity projects that seek to establish collaborations between Wikiversity participants and outside educators (see outreach. These collaborations can involve the development of new learning materials for use either in the wiki user environment or outside of Wikiversity.

Science news[edit | edit source]

"No Longer Free to Choose" by Michael W. Brandl
"instructors and colleges are demanding more 'freebies' from publishers, such as PowerPoint slides, computerized test banks, videos and class management programs. All of these items force up the price of textbooks"

Did you know?[edit | edit source]

Wikiversity uses OGG audio, not mp3 files. See: Help:Media Files.

Quotes[edit | edit source]

"Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn." - Mark Twain


Other learning resources[edit | edit source]