I want to keep learning! Please help Wikiversity!

[tulae]

I have a few problems:

- traditional school is way to slow and ineffective for me (five minutes of actual learning a day...)
- i want to learn what i want to learn, when and how i want to learn it
- there's a ton of things i want to learn/know/teach/discuss that aren't traditional subjects of study.
- i feel opressed and pacified by the schedual, rate/efficiency of the traditional school system, and just by the nonsensical idle chatter of the disempowered conformists attending (lol maybe not quite so extreme as i'm making it sound but i'm not totally exadurating)

here was my idea:

- have a self help directory complete with explainations, walkthroughs, tests and tutors


here's where the pogotribe comes in

the good news:

- The Wikimedia Foundation already thought of that, there answer is the Wikiversity site

the bad news (or the opportunity news):

- Wikiversity needs some serious expansion. there's not many whole articles to be learning much of anything from
- the formatting isn't user friendly / not conducive to effective learning
- you can't talk to anyone about problems you're having with the subjects in question (i suppose you might be able to through the discussion board...)

Here's the in-depth reason for this project
how often do you want to know about something, go to wikipedia, and get frustrated with the answers. want to take a class but don't want to spend the money or time going to a college. how often do you get frustrated with the pace at school or lack of real student teacher involvement. it's not just that improving wikiversity would be kinda cool for learning new things, it's that the way our society approaches education right now is obviously inefficient. we need a new way, and next to supporting this pogotribe sort of community we have going on here, supporting the wikimedia foundation will be the captain of the ship guiding humanity into a new age of the sort of prosperity that's only been dreamed of before. seriously, it's that big of a deal. originally this idea was a rebound/modification of the moon tutor triad project.. i never ment to impose it's just i think this is big..

Here's the project
help me to get the wikiversity site legitimately functional
make it an effective learning tool through:
- writing explainations, walkthroughs, tests, and being tutors
- helping to format and edit pages and navigation to make it infinitely more pick-up-and-playable
- recruiting proffessional teachers and others to write these pages
- list pre-requisites for subjects
- list required vocabulary terms for subjects
- suggest new subjects of study constantly
- whatever else you can think of, just get involved

also, it would be important to put a disclaimer on the homepage stating that you can't expect to learn any topic in one day and retain it. that a regiment/resolution is recommended for your studies, or something of that nature.

it's also important to note that i don't mean for this to entirely replace the current school system. there's a lot of merit in having knowladgable people tell you about what they think of their subject of expertise, it's just that for the most part, teachers should only be leaders of discussion and people to consult when you have questions.

I plan to be following an educational model this summer and this next school year, my senior year, that will look something like this (using Wikiveristy, and other sources if that proves inadiquate, for to base my studies off of):
set resolutions to carryout by the end of the year, quarter, month, week, and day; ask a parent or friend to make sure i stick to them. resolutions would include anything i want to change about my behavior, any project i am seriously interested in persuing, any subject i am seriously interested in learning about. this way if i make it a month long resolution to learn about say sign language for example, i can study it hard for a month (along with everything else) and decide at the end whether or not i should continue working on it and at the very least i'd know some sign language. in this way i can impliment the regiment sort of discipline that traditional school does pretty well. after all of these studies, i plan on taking exams for to get certified credit for having studied them.

so PLEASE! get out there to learn and to teach

as always, thanks for consideration,
Tanner

[RabbitWho]

It's a wonderful idea except that all I have is an ordinary level degree in Art and Design, I am not qualified to do this. (Or pretty much anything)

Who here can?

Also I think sites like this are more useful:

www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley
www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning
www.academicearth.org/

etc.

[qooqǝɯɐƃ]

How about a collaboration of websites. You would have topics laid out on the main site with links to other credible websites under a topic. Websites could be reviewed by credible people with an education in the field.

At least this way people can maintain there own websites, there will be incentive to continue posting information, and the info is already written and up on the internet... And people wouldn't turn down a free link to their website, especially if that link comes from an established website.

This would be like a search engine... except someone would have already gone through the information and chosen the best websites known. When I say 'someone' I really mean a team of people dedicated to this project since we're talking about acquiring A LOT of information.

Lemme know your thoughts
Cam.

[Dan Brown]

[colochip]

Could this have to do with dan's secret project???