Portal:Learning Projects/Featured

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General interest learning resources

• Community service projects - Wikiversity provides scholarly services to Wikimedia sister projects.
• Wikiversity the Movie - community-wide project to produce a promotional videao.
• Wiki-based learning - The implications of wiki technology for online learning.
• Bibliography and Research Methods - How to find and cite verifiable sources.
• Learning materials projects - Find and evaluating existing learning resources or develop new ones.
• Wikiversity translations - Community service project to support Wikiversity Beta.
• Outreach - collaborations with other institutions and projects.

Selected image

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

Picasso was inspired by Picasso's horror at the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. What roles do the reactions of artists and journalists play in our perception of war? Can a single painting express more than any single photograph?

Featured research project

Intermediate filament proteins
Participants explore gene databases and the molecular evolution of cell proteins.

News

"Thoughtful learning" by James Roberts
Research-based learning activities customized for specific learning styles.

Did you know?

Supernova SN 2006sr, discovered by Doug Rich in December 2006, is so distant that it has taken 325 million years for the light from this stellar explosion to reach earth. See the Wikiversity Supernova project.

Quotes

Active learning
"Learning is the product of the activity of learners." - John Holt

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." - Agatha Christie

Featured learning projects

• Aquaculture - Economic, Political, Social and Scientific Perspectives
• Astronomy Project - Project participants access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.
• Bloom clock project - an attempt to create a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere.
• Cell biology improvement drive - service-oriented project.
• Chain mail - How to make a suit of chain mail armour. Involves actually making a suit from simple materials.
• cisLunarFreighter -- A community project of the learning trail A Hands-On Introduction to Game Design and Production Processes which uses primarily open source software tools to create free licensed materials to be published at Wikiversity and other free online archives. Participants also work on other projects. All are welcome to come help learn and document techniques to accomplish the production tasks need for high quality (fun and educational) games.
• Collaborate and Create In-service- a professional development collaborative for teachers interested in computer technology integration aligned to relevant curriculum with a focus on OLPT[[[OLPT]]]
• College Algebra - Basic mathematics on a college level.
• Hitler's Germany - A brief study into the workings of the Third Reich.
• Human Genetic Uniqueness Project - students search for genes that make humans different from other mammals.
• Institutional ethnography - Introduction to a social research method for the study of everyday life and group organization.
• Help create an introductory course to International Relations
• Learning to learn a wiki way - An action research project to investigate ways of learning using a wiki.
• Microsystems for molecular analysis -- Includes DNA integrated circuits and the capillary electrode array.
• Strategic Simulations - Help develop strategic level simulations for the purposes of learning and teaching military strategy.
• VoIP activity group - Learn to communicate over the Internet in realtime using Voice over Internet Protocol
• Wikiversity Distributed Virtual Supercomputer - support for group computing projects and mathematical simulations.
• War Seminar - discussions about the history of war as a cultural practice and current wars in the world.