Contains 7 main sections; very well developed - probably complete and not really being used or visited any more. --McCormack09:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Correction: it is related to a possibly annual real-world course, and possibly undergoes revision phases on an annual basis. --McCormack08:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
More info: this set of materials was created by Dr. Peter Honebein of Indiana University as a part of a real world course. There seem to have been 7 other participants apart from himself - graduate course? --McCormack16:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Today I've set about cleaning up this project in advance of featuring. The project is much larger than I thought at first. Initially it seemed to have about 36 pages, but as I bug deeper into it, I reckon it actually has about 130+ pages. Many of these were uncategorised or poorly/idiosyncratically linked into the main project, so it took a lot of cleaning up. --McCormack12:40, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it has a good quantity of material. Seems to be mainly by User:Banerjee. Has attracted quite a lot of vandalism, which is a sign of potential quality. I reckon the main page of the project needs some work on aesthetics. --McCormack06:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've worked over this now. The project has almost 100 pages and is about 95% complete (a few pages are marked for creating but haven't been done yet). It's beyond my comprehension, but is undoubtedly worth featuring. --McCormack07:55, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Digging a little deeper, User:Banerjee's projects on Category:Continuum mechanics, Category:Finite element analysis and Category:Nonlinear finite elements are quite closely associated. He's working on related courses which have quite substantial areas of overlap, but the Nonlinear finite elements course is currently the best developed, including a full set of homework tasks and solutions. There is substantial use of mathematical notation, so the course is intimidating for the non-specialist. On the other hand, the materials are well-structured and the main page gives a good idea of how a massive wikiversity course can be structured. I'd say that in all, there are about 150-200 pages here. User:Banerjee's second best developed course is Introduction to Elasticity (about 100 pages or so), and I'd suggest that rather than separately featuring elasticity, it should be linked to from the feature description of the finite elements course. --McCormack14:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
240-page project; pretty well a mini-coursebook; very complete, including assignments and activities. Prepared within a project at Michigan State University in 2007. Transferred to Wikiversity from another wiki project - hence appeared here rather fast and already completely wikified. --McCormack16:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
General points about this resource: about 50 pages so far; very consistent polished style and layout - even has its own manual of style; very good use of subpages; when you dig deeper, the incomplete sections are visible - but this is noted carefully at the top level - it's work in progress, but with a lot of material already there. --McCormack16:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This resource is developing well now. User:Mats is doing a great job with it. I think this is ready for featuring, although I'm sure more is going to be added. --McCormack12:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
this is a research paper, possibly complete, very long, on a topic of central interest. May need some tidying. --McCormack09:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is a bit too utopical to my taste. It would be better to focus on a whole range of socio-economic aspects. Is there enough electricity to get a laptop running? Do children have enough food? Do all children go to school, or are many forced to work all day or live on the street? What is the job perspective of graduates? [Comment added by User:Daanschr]
I'm against this, on the grounds that it is "insider" material. It will, of course, appeal to experienced Wikiversitarians and would therefore be guaranteed a majority in any democratic vote where experienced users react on gut instinct, but this does not mean that it is suitable content for first-time visitors to Wikiversity. On the contrary, it could be incomprehensible and off-putting to outsiders. --McCormack07:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Could you explain more what you mean with insider material ? The course was initiated as self-studyable - all info is available on the internet. There is now also the blogs available with the results for each week, which first-time visitors also could read. The course can be archived later so new people can gather and decide for the next cycle of it, see here. ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) PS: Tag a learning project with completion status !! 09:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I disagree with you McCormack. There are know internall materials on wv. I have e.g. copied the structure of the porject to some other courses because it is not a mess. On the other hand it was probably sucessfull as many people participated and it was in progress.--Juan08:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Another point: the current featured content already has a bias towards information technology. We really need to focus on other subjects. --McCormack08:37, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with McCormack that the topic would not be appealing to a large audience. However, it is good that such a large amount of people have participated to this course. Categorization can make an end to the problem of too much focus on information technology. The number of featured content in information technology can be conceiled. This way there will not be a problem for the people participating in information technology to grow.--Daanschr21:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I keep thinking about this one. One could replace one of the existing IT features (e.g. networked learning). Another improvement would be to simplify the title of this course (e.g. "Composing online educational resources" - or shorter), which is also necessary for creating a flyer. Perhaps an introduction could be added which makes the course more accessible to non-specialists who want to have a look at what's featured? --McCormack09:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There are only a few resources featured. That is far too little to really matter at the moment. When there are far more featured resources, an easy categorization can do the trick to solve the problem of over-concentration on a certain subject. Also, it is better to create and participate in resources and learning instead of debating on wether a certain resource is featured or not. I like the idea of a twilight zone, where resources can be put which are not featured and not non-featured and thereby are undecided for.--Daanschr17:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I thought as people are equal, that also resources are equal. Not it sounds like this resource is something different, thats why it can´t be placed to Featured. But Daanschr is right. Me too, I prefer to do something instead to sort and talk about doing.:-)--Juan18:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
At last we have quality developments in the Spanish department. Courtesy of User:Allioshida who often forgets to log in. The current project probably needs dividing into subpages. --McCormack07:11, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Divided into subpages shortly after posting the above; the contributors have kept with the subpages now - it makes things a lot easier. Currently has 19 "chapters" and 21 lessons in all, with substantial content. --McCormack05:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A non-technical introduction to computers, with clear structure and lessons on different; not sure whether specific lessons might be featured or the whole course? -- Jtneill - Talk10:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Coming back to this a few months later. Developed by User:Areil123. Complete, with 12 lessons, nicely divided into subpages. Plenty of content. The lessons are rather large and lack somewhat in educational subtlety. Some exercises, quizzes, and interesting layout wouldn't hurt. Aimed at the general user rather than the IT specialist. I've started spicing up the entry page. --McCormack05:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Introduction to Computers was largely coordinated by User:Areil123 but most of the content seems to originate from a (large) class run by him. Students worked on individual sections, and the sections were later rearranged and further edited by the coordinator and by at least a second session of the same class. --McCormack13:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've done a lot of work on this today, but it needs more work. Subpage creation (many pages too large), correction of layout, correction of student podcast links, wikification.... --McCormack15:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
