RecoveredNS112:Outreach

Please list here institutions that you think would be interested in collaborating with Wikademia. Please try to be specific about what kinds of collaboration you think might be possible. For example, you might know of specific kinds of activities they do that Wikademia could help with and vice versa.

Ways to utilize Wikademia

Workspaces

Some groups have created workspaces within Wikademia to facilitate learning, and also so that they could link to Wikademia learning projects, thereby using resources in a more direct way. Some examples include, SchoolForge and UNIT-E. If your group would like a workspace at Wikademia, please feel free to create a page in the main namespace using your organization's name as the page title. For the sake of keeping Wikademia somewhat organized, it would be appreciated if you would add Category:Workspaces at the bottom and other appropriate categories at the bottom and include links on your page to relevant Schools, Divisions and Departments.

Meta Collab at Wikia

Meta Collab at Wikia now has a Wikademia article, discussion area and Wikademia update section. A local Wikademia article, Wikia, in the main namespace includes an opt-in listing for Wikademia projects that would like to be represented at their appropriate spots within the Wikia metacommunity. Please provide constructive feedback on the talk page here or at Talk:Wikia. Thanks in advance.

Ideas

• Global Text Project - "The goal is to create a free library of 1,000 electronic textbooks for students in the developing world." The Global Text Project is managed by the Center for Information Systems Leadership, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia. See also: Wikademia and Wikibooks services.

• Psychology Wikia- the psychology wikia group was interested in collaboration.

• Wikimedia Youth Camp - suggested by Erik Moeller.

• California Open Source Textbook Project [1]

• WikiEducator - WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content.

• Curriki

• Qedoc - Qedoc specialises in creating highly interactive learning activities and does so on a primarily charitable basis for the open educational resources community. Our software is not yet appropriate for creating interactive learning activities for MediaWiki-driven sites like Wikademia. However Qedoc is interested in developing such a technology. A discussion page for the proposal has been started here (page could be transferred to Wikademia if this is adopted as a project). Wikademia people are requested to express views and help steer planning.

• Vietnam OpenCourseWare This is the result of the cooperation between Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF), Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), and VASC Software and Media Company (VASC) since 2005. Our aspiration is to make OCW/OER features rich, accessible, and reusable at no cost for Vietnamese faculty members, students and self-learners.

• Center for Village Science - contains innovative simple and low cost/no cost science experiments and other teaching aids, which could be helpful to the teachers to improve the science teaching especially for the teachers in the villages (India).

• Le web pédagogique - French OER blogging site; perhaps for consideration by the French Wikademia.

Institutions

• Phoenix Union Cyber High School - internet-based curriculum, computer studios not classrooms, self-paced learning, opened 2006. See also: Wikihigh.
• NASA education programs - U.S. government based, so all public domain.
• Florida virtual school - 20,000 students learning online
• Cranbrook Educational Community
• SchoolForge - a "foundry" ...for information, tools and materials needed to "forge" or make a school and all its parts... Local: SchoolForge
• Science Online - science education wiki
• FreeCulture.org - an international student movement for free culture wiki site, Local: FreeCulture.org
• The "Shtooka Project" is a cooperative project with the goal of creating audio material and software tools needed to learn foreign languages. Local: Shtooka Project
• OmegaWiki (previous names: Ultimate Wiktionary, WiktionaryZ) is a new multilingual version of Wiktionary. It runs on an extension of MediaWiki.
• OER Commons - an index of educational resources (website) - wants to work with Wikademia on idexing, tagging, ...
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• ...

Case studies

• Call for Participation of Linguists - at Wikipedia.

See also

• School and university projects at Wikipedia
• Wikademia:Research collaboration
• "Spread Wikademia" - an initiative of the German Wikademia
• Educational Wikis
• WikiNode - links to related wiki websites
• Wikademia:A Letter to globaltext.org
• Wikimania
• Template:Protected course
• Wikademia leaflet on Meta
• Wikipedia:Expert retention - invite people who are not satisfied with Wikipedia to try Wikademia

External resources

• outreach.wikimedia.org