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Are you teaching or studying economics and need a question answered?

Just edit the text below using the link at the right-hand side of the page and replace the text below with your question/s, include the name of your course or topic, and someone might answer it for you. (It is assumed that all questions start with "Given some assumptions ..." and end with "..., ceteris paribus").

If you need help writing mathematical formulae please read Help:Formula.

Questions and answers will be archived on the Economics /Q & A/ page and could be added to the testbank of questions and answers in the economics syllabus project.

Please help answer this question:
what is productive efficiency and how do you calculate production efficiency?

Wikiversity does not currently have a resource on productive efficiency. There is an entry in Wikipedia on productive efficiency which is not well-documented but may be of help. Please feel free to start a resource here on this topic. Please also feel free to end your contributions with four ~ marks. Thank you for asking and we hope you will open a Wikiversity account and contribute to the school of economics. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:00, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

If the prices are expected to decrease, it is expected that consumers will suspend current consumption?

If the current price is the optimal price, then a decrease in price will lower sales. Other factors such as gains in economies of scale can lower costs. If producers pass some of this on to consumers, prices drop and current consumption can increase. Prices usually arise from a balance between supply and demand. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 14:04, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
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New project - Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus
A new project has been started to establish a Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus. The long term goal is to construct a syllabus for an entire economics degree. The short term goal is to construct a syllabus for first year university or principles level course called Introductory Microeconomics. This project aims to organize links to relevant Wikipedia entries, other learning materials, and to provide teachers and students with an organized test bank of exam questions and answers online. Via collaboration on Wikiversity, this project aims to describe the set of questions and answers that test a student's knowledge of the topics in the economics syllabus and serve as the basis for the economics university curriculum.

By answering sets of questions that are designed to rigorously test their knowledge and understanding, students will be able to build confidence in their mastery of the economics syllabus. Once a critical mass of questions and answers has been compiled online, the help of anyone with the skills to create new pages that translate these questions and answers into the interactive form made possible by the Wikiversity quiz extension will be greatly appreciated. Questions and answers in an interactive format are themselves useful learning materials.

Students often study by asking each other questions and helping each other learn by correcting wrong answers and congratulating each other when they answer correctly. The Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus/testbank project provides an opportunity for students around the world to encourage each other to learn. We've crunched the numbers and there are 100s of 1000s of students around the world taking almost identical courses to you right now - you can help each other by putting questions and answers online.

Rationale
This project aims to help direct efforts in the Wikiversity School of Economics to creating organized sets of questions and answers, rather than recreating Wikipedia-type entries on the School of Economics pages. Establishing a syllabus and sets of exams will allow students to test their knowledge and demonstrate their achievements. With an emphasis on assessment tasks in many university courses, the tests used to assess students' knowledge and understanding of a subject tend to become the de facto syllabus of a course and the learning activities that enable a student to complete assessement tasks successfully tend to become the de facto curriculum. Improving the quality of tests then provides one way to improve the quality of a course. Establishing a set of questions and answers that embodies the economics syllabus might also help identify the types of learning materials and experiences that will best help students to learn economics.

Tests measure student performance but they also indirectly measure the quality of learning materials and teaching methods. Sets of questions and answers that embody the syllabus can be used as a yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of alternative learning materials and methods of learning in order to design new learning materials and thereby improve educational outcomes. The learning materials that are currently available can be used to create sets of questions and answers that test students' knowledge of the syllabus, which in turn can be used to help test and develop the next generation of learning materials.

Additionally, by investigating the possible limits for questions and answers to embody the economics syllabus and curriculum, this project will also help identify other academic skills and learning experiences that are important for a university education in economics. It is possible that tests of these additional components of a university education generally take the form of tests of participation and records of attendance in classes, ultimately depending on the reputation, status and branding of a university institution. However, alternative hypotheses include the possibility that answering appropriate questions under exam conditions can be a sufficient test of a student's knowledge and understanding and the possibility that other forms of participation in learning activities, online or in person, can serve the same purpose as a conventional enrolment.

This BBC News article includes some discussion of the "tricky question" of accreditation and online courses. This Wikiversity School of Economics project will investigate the degree to which online education will need to test participation using homework assignments with regular deadlines (the model currently being tested by edX) versus the degree to which freely available online questions and answers can serve as the basis of assessment (albeit by subsequently testing students' knowledge and understanding under conventional exam conditions).

Wikiversity itself does not seek to provide accredited qualifications. Instead, students can use sets of questions and answers to test their own knowledge of the syllabus. They can also use their performance on tests to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding to others. It is, however, possible for other university institutions to adopt any examinations developed by the Wikiversity School of Economics as the basis of their own processes of assessment. One aim is to establish a set of questions and answers that a teacher would feel comfortable using for the purposes of assessment, even though students will have had access to this set of questions and answers before they are asked to answer the questions under exam conditions. For examples of the kind of question that might satisfy this criterion please visit Authoring Questions and Answers for the Economics Syllabus.

One interesting possibility if the syllabus and examination questions compiled by the Wikiversity School of Economics reach a sufficiently high level of quality and academic standard, is that they could be then adopted by the OER University. The syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics could become part of the OER University inaugural Bachelor of General Studies degree, which will be accredited by participating universities around the world. A completed Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus could even eventually serve as the basis for a Bachelor of Economics, accredited by the OER university partners. A compatible syllabus of economics adopted by many universities around the world would give students the opportunity to study in different locations at different stages of their coursework, whilst seeing the world.

Progress so far
So far, a page has been created for the economics syllabus, by starting with a syllabus for a first year university or principles level microeconomics course called "Introductory Microeconomics". If you'd like to help with this project please visit the syllabus pages, and either add links to Wikipedia entries and other learning materials or add questions and answers to the relevant pages.

Alternatively, if your area of interest is not introductory microeconomics, it could be a good idea to start creating pages for other common university courses, e.g. introductory macroeconomics, introductory mathematical economics, intermediate microeconomics, and so on, and to start compiling lists of topics for syllabus modules and associated test banks of questions and answers. For something different, consider putting together a syllabus for a course/s based on John Quiggin's book Zombie Economics. What would the prerequisites be?

What's the next task?
The next task is to add links to relevant Wikipedia entries and other learning materials and to add questions and answers to the syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics.

Work has started by creating links to the best online videos available that seek to teach elements of the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. Why should students listen to different people present half-baked explanations of the same concepts when everyone could learn from the best?

The best found so far are the Economists Do It With Models online videos and the MIT Open Courseware. Links need to be added to the videos that match the topics listed in each module of the syllabus. Then, questions and answers related to these videos needed to be created on the Q & A pages.

This project does not aim to replicate the great work of Jodie Beggs, MIT, the UK Open University, Coursera, or edX. Instead, it will provide links to this material and contribute by compiling sets of questions and answers. This will serve the aim of describing the economics curriculum in question and answer form, which could become the basis of new learning activities once questions and answers begin to be translated into an interactive form using the Wikiversity quiz extension.

(The structure needs to be changed so there is one page, called "Introductory Microeconomics learning materials" for the collection of links to Wikipedia entries and other learning materials pages but retaining the multiple pages for the corresponding Q & A pages.)

 * If anyone is currently revising for an introductory microeconomics course, they might like to watch the Economists Do It With Models videos and the MIT Open Courseware videos and other learning materials and make up relevant questions and answers for the Introductory Microeconomics Q & A pages as part of their study.

 * If anyone is currently preparing questions and answers for an introductory microeconomics practice exam or final exam, please consider sharing these questions and answers on Wikiversity (before or after) the actual exam.

 * Tutors, please consider asking your students to write questions and answers to test each others' knowledge and understanding of introductory microeconomics. One half of a group could write questions to test the other half. These questions and answers could then be added online to the relevant Q & A pages.

Advice about creating good economics questions and answers can be found on Authoring Questions and Answers for the Economics Syllabus.

Goals of the School of Economics
These are the current goals of the School of Economics.

Long-term

 * Develop a syllabus for the School of Economics
 * Develop the world's best online guide to writing test questions for economics courses at Syllabus of Economics/Authoring Questions and Answers. Meeting this goal will encourage participation in the Wikiversity School of Economics and visitors to the site who are writing exam questions and answers might also contribute their efforts to the Syllabus of Economics testbank project.
 * Encourage the OER University to adopt the Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus

Short-term

 * Develop a syllabus for Introductory Microeconomics
 * Find the best recorded lectures and videos online that explain elements of the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. List the links to these videos in order of rank from "Number 1. Best in the World", and so on down the rankings.
 * Provide the best set of lecture slides and handouts for an introductory microeconomics course in the world for anyone to use.
 * Encourage the OER University to adopt the Wikiversity School of Economics Introductory Microeconomics syllabus
 * Encourage participation in the School of Economics
 * Make the Wikiversity School of Economics the best School on Wikiversity. (Why not? Economists like competition).
 * Improve the quality of the test questions used to assess introductory micreconomics courses around the world
 * Either improve the Wikiversium grade by measuring up to its obscure standards or deleting the symbol from the top right of the page since it seems to be based on rather arbitrary criteria and imposes a negative vibe.

To Do List
We need your help! This is a list of tasks you could help with.

 * Develop the long-term goals of the school
 * Develop the short-term goals of the school
 * Create an economics portal to help people navigate Economics pages on Wikiversity
 * Add questions and answers to the syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics
 * Add links from the topic modules in the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus to relevant learning materials. Start with links to the Economists Do It With Models online videos. Then, create questions and answers for each module based on the content of these videos.
 * Establish a series of lectures with slides and handouts for each module in the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. These slides and handouts will be freely available teaching materials for introductory microeconomics courses around the world. These learning materials can also act as a guide for creating new questions and answers for each module based on the content of this series of lectures.
 * Add examples of questions of different kinds that help people write new questions and answers for the syllabus. Example questions and approaches for creating good economics questions and answers can be added to this page: Syllabus of Economics/Authoring Questions and Answers
 * Create new pages that translate questions and answers compiled as a text format to an interactive format using the Wikiversity quiz extension
 * Organize lesson plans and list topics for lessons plans plus provide links to open education resources that can be used with these lessson plans, including teaching slides, videos, descriptions of activities, and worksheets.
 * Encourage participation in the Wikiversity School of Economics by improving the appearance and design of its pages.

Other projects under development
These are some other learning resources related to economics. These pages are under heavy development and should not yet be considered ready for classroom use.

 * Monetary Circuit Model
 * Overview of economic schools of thought
 * Economic learning resources

Page Inventory
This is an inventory of pages in the economics category. Pages in the "Content" section likely have educational content which may be of value. They should be expanded or have their contents added to an active project. Pages in the "No Content" section are complete stubs or otherwise do not have anything useful. They should be expanded or removed. Pages that are part of actively developed projects or are good quality should go in the appropriate sections above.

Online Resources
This project aims to collect links to good online resources for students and teachers. Resources can include textbooks, data sources, lectures, etc.

 * Julie Nelson, "A problem-centered and student-centered approach to teaching pluralist economics" (paper about teaching economics)
 * R. Preston McAfee, "Introduction to Economic Analysis" (Orthodox microeconomics textbook)
 * Yoram Bauman, "Quantum Microeconomics"
 * David Andolfatto, "Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (2e)"
 * Economics in one lesson (Austrian school)
 * Thomas Taylor, "Introduction to Austrian Economics" (Austrian)
 * Gene Callahan, "Economics for Real People" (Austrian)
 * Lorie Tarshis, "The Elements of Economics (ebook)" (Keynesian)
 * The Economics Network Online Text and Notes
 * TradingEconomics data
 * United States economic data
 * UC Berkeley webcasts
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * COREECON, Economics for a changing world. The Economy, a free, open access text for introductory undergraduate courses.
 * Economics for inclusive prosperity.
 * Economics Dictionary of Arguments (A synopsis of theories and counter positions)

Blogroll
The Blogroll project aims to collect links to blogs of professional economists and organizations of economists, broadly sorted by school of thought.

Research and Discussion Projects

 * Economics colloquium
 * Investigating Ripple
 * Novel economic mechanisms
 * 2008 global economic crisis
 * What do the unions do?

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NEWS
Hello, I'm Endless Melee. I'm currently doing my best to organize and breathe some life into the School of Economics. I don't know who frequents this school or how often, so I'm going keep this section at the top of this discussion page in order to keep new and existing contributors up to date. Let's make this happen!

July 14, 2006 - New departments: Department of Text Development and  Department of Research. Please check them out and let me know what you think!

--Endless melee 22:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Just to say I am also looking to contribute to the School of Economics here at Wikiversity. I'm er........learning at the same time however. Iqbar 19:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

too capitalist a viewpoint?
I think this explanation is biased toward capitalism and not an objective, academic analysis. Needs to be reworked.

I cannot see why we need a wikiversity school of Economics to explain some terms already explained in wikipedia in a way better controlled by a broader group of users. If this is to help people learning more than can be learned from an encyclopedia it should include questions to work with for example. Get-back-world-respect 23:22, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * In reference to your first sentence, my response is: Hardly. It quite clearly follows the Marxist view of the "progression" of economic systems throughout history and essentially ends with the question, "When will we figure out how to implement Communism successfully?"

Capitalism has been studied more than socialism (i think) and therefore it would make sense to involve it more in the school. Socialism still needs a big section but it won't be as big as the capitalism one. And anyway, all english peaking countries are capitalist.

What about if you list the syllabi of major countries' economics exams and then point links to the correct pages. - i can give you the UK A-Level Economics Specification pretty easily.

There could also be links to topics which either further illustrate the point (to helpl with the understanding of the subject) and also to let people have the ability to delve deeper and deeper into a smaller and smaller area of economics. - just a thought. smaldj 22.59 4th September (GMT)

Needs a major overhaul
I fixed the subject ares by organizing required from electives. Whoever wrote the paragraphs below regarding capitalism and socialism, etc should have his work transfered to a "Economic Models" page. Focus first on the basics such as supply and demand before looking at the different models. That's why the dude upstairs thinks there is a bias. If it is ok with you guys, I'll make a proper definition, hope to upload it before New Year.....

Humble Guy.....

--- Would It be a decent idea to copy and paste wikipedia entries on Economics, socialism, capitalism etc. to give "students" a broad introduction. I feel that a collection of wikipedia entires constitude a pretty decent introduction to economics, and that our time might be better spent delving into specifics examples, problems, and methods. thoughts?

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OK, in that case, I agree, I just hope that it meets its objectives.

Humble Guy...

--- IMHO, I don't think a copy-paste solution is appropriate. A link in the title of each of the subjects might be better? I'll do that, but if you don't approve, get rid of it. You can't deny that Wikipedia definitions will be more complete, accurate and authoritative than most Wikibook definitions at least at this stage. It's important to remember that the course can't consist only of Wikipedia links, which is all too easy to do!

Secondly, what about a series of questions? A "Test yourself" section would be very useful! Cheers, Mark Lewis 18:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yup
Yes, in that regard, a copy paste solution is not appropriate. A link will be good, at least in the short term. Surely, we need to make pure texts (maybe with graphs etc) for wikiversity is a supplement to wikibooks. In the end of the day, all that we do is for making the books. This is going to be tough. We need more man power, maybe asking lots of wikipedians to be wikibookworms will do the trick....Humble Guy

Overhaul Part 2
Hey, I removed the long textual stuff. Those things should be written in the course texts themselves, not in this page. I also introduced some course titles for a start. I encourage people with even just a little knowldege in eco to help out. A core of 25 people and countless contributors will do the trick. I would also like to remove the links to wikipedia articles, because wikiversity and wikibooks should be independent from wikipedia. But I'll remove it later pending comments from the one who placed the links in the 1sr place. Anyone pls help. I can't do it alone, and I do not have time for doing alot by myself. User:Humble_Guy

Schools of Thought
Hey, I just jumped in, and what school(s) of thought is (or are) being taught? What about...say...the other schools of thought, e.g. Keynesian economics, et al.? -- Pablo

Another School of Thought
what about Austrian economics?

WSE School of Thought
So far, all eco programs are not yet finalized. The curriculum is still being determined, even the textbooks. After the curriculum is made, one may begin to see a pattern to which school we may belong to. BUT, objectively, WSE must say that it is open to all possible schools of thought, and the WSE teaches and learns every possible school of thought. (We may even make our own school of thought after 10 years time) :-)

This open-to-all approach is due to the global reach of the WSE. The mentioned is also VERY important for current WSE development. WSE should be open to and aware of all, though my personal views suggest that Keynesian, and Neoclassical are educational priorities. Lets wait and see with the others. In the meantime, each school of thought will be available, once there will be an abundant supply of true experts from each field, and there comes a demand for their knowledge. :-) Humble Guy

Urgent Priority
More importantly, I encourage everyone to register to wikibooks, and help write textbooks. The titles the WSE urgently needs are in the WSE welcome page. Pls. contribute if you can. Humble Guy

dell
There is a wikibook simply titled macroeconomics which I've been trying to put some sense into. However, with exam season coming up I will not have much time to work on it. The initial author (maybe one of you?) clearly had a higher level of understanding than me (last year of school), but seemed to assume a lot and didn't always explain himself. I'm trying to make a basic, common sense book that won't get too bogged down in mathematics to be incomprehensible to the layman (see the bits on economic policy and unemployment to see what I mean - though they are incomplete currently). With more work, it could be added to the required section of these courses...

I would really appreciate someone sorting out Macroeconomics:Keynesian Cross Model and Macroeconomics:Savings and Investment - I can't see how some of his working adds up! Thanks, --Mark Lewis 09:57, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

wikibooks and wikiversity
I don't know if anyone is still working on this wikiversity, but I would say that it might be more important to finish one of the economics wikibooks before doing much more with the wikiversity. Macroeconomics, which should probably change its title to Principles of Macroeconomics, seems the most likely candidate to be the first wikibook finished. Anyone want to put some work into it? DettoAltrimenti 16:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

missing Khaneman
It seems to me that a conceptually important psrt of economics is not included in the listing. A recent Nobel, to Khaneman, is 'official' recognition of this. It is sometimes called cognitive economics and bears directly on a fundamental assumption of economics, namely the nature of the participants. That assumption is of 'homo economicus' the rational decision maker and evaluator in all economic decisions. H. econ's characterisitics underly nearly all economic modeling, and changes in the characteristics assumed for H. econ will have some large consequences.

In short there's a mismatch between human reality and the simplified humans classified as H. econ.

An important omission, I think. Ww 20:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Infonomics
I think a chapter on Infonomics should be included. Infonomics is sort of a new theory but it is very important in this day where Information is one of the most valuble things. This guy would be a good person to get in contact with regarding this http://athene.csu.edu.au/~hskoko/ Matt22nsw 06:56, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Joining Up
Hello, I'm new to all this and I just signed up! I did some work on the Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory text because I thought nobody had done any work on any of the macro yet, but based on what I read below, that might not be the case. Are we going to have multiple texts on the same material? We already seem to have two macro books going...

I also noticed their aren't any department heads besides me. You guys should really put yourselves up there and list where/what you're working on so we (and new entrants) can see which sections need help and which are well-supplied.

Otherwise, I'm glad to be here and hope to help in anyway I can!

''I think we might do better organizing a set of different sequences for the courses so that students can take certain sequences rather than all those courses listed. Actually I kind of think we might need to rework the current setup so that maybe there are Intro Econ, Basc Micro, Basic Macro, Intermediate Micro, Intermediate Macro, and then a series of upper-division courses that focus on certain aspects in detail: e.g. financial markets, game theory, econometrics etc.''

Let me know what you think.

--Endless melee 07:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Joining
Hey, I'm new to this as well. I'll do whatever I can to help but you've gotta tell me what you want.

Just a thought, but i reckon a section on everyday economics (see books - Freakonomics & Everlasting Lightbulbs) might spark some interest to the economi-phobic of those out there.

Look on my page to see what I can do but if you want anything on Macro, Micro, Industrial, development economics or EU Economics [Did a module on the UK and it being in the Eu and World Economy].

--smaldj 22.56, 4th September 2006 (GMT)

Import
Hi guys, I've transwikied (imported) many of your school's pages from wikibooks, and fixed up all the links from on the main page. Please tell me if I've done something wrong. --Draicone (talk) 09:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

new here
hello everyone, I'm new here but would like to contribute, perhaps to an "4th year" learning course. I also have a link to a free intermediate macro book http://www.sfu.ca/~dandolfa/macro2006.pdf Mdelves 07:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Course request
I'm a complete newcomer, but I was wondering if someone could put together a course/class on economic warfare. It seems to me that this topic might also fall in "History" but I think it might be very interesting to learn. Thanks.

Hi, why is everyone so quiet
I am new to the Wikiversity, and feel I can contribute to the school of economics. It seems a bit chaotic to me. So lets start setting up a system that is fast, efficient and minimizes duplication. Reply and lets start working. PhD²
 * Wikiversity is relatively new; "a bit chaotic" is a good description. Where would you like to get started? --JWSchmidt 13:52, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Related Department
Hi all, I am presently invovled in the School of History and was wondering if I could get the School of Economics to place a 'Related Schools/Departments' list on the main page. I am a part of the Department of Historiography, which is the study of how History is practiced. Economics plays a major role in the way Quantitative History is practiced. Since Quantitative Historians are historians that strictly deal with statistics, and mathematical forumulas, I believe the School of Economics and Department of Historiography are directly related. Please contact me, or write on the discussion page of the Department of Historiography Dctrainor 19:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I think that this is a good idea and I like the idea of a collaboration among schools. Sjwillis39 18:41, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

splitting off Learning resources
Perhaps the learning resources section could be moved to Economic learning resources, and just a few primary ones could be kept. This way, the page will be a bit more focused. --Remi 05:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

possibly pertinent link - "1-Ener1 sees hybrid battery costs halving"
August 2008 1-Ener1 sees hybrid battery costs halving Emesee 04:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Needs Topic: Heterodox School
Hello all, I'm new but I'm looking forward to contributing. I think we need a section for Heterodox approaches to economocs. Then we need to move Institutionalist Economics out of Topic: Political Economy and put it into the heterodox section. What you think?

Changes to Page
I have made some big changes to the layout of the page. Some of the other changes I have been thinking of include a consolidation of the Divisions and Departments section into actual Divisions and Departments. I think that 5 general Divisions could cover the range of departments pretty well. They are:
 * 1) Division of Economic History and Schools of Economic Thought
 * 2) Division of Microeconomics
 * 3) Division of Macroeconomics
 * 4) Division of Behavioral Economics
 * 5) Division of Mathematical Economics

The different departments should fit pretty well into one of these sections. Any thoughts on this? Is anyone else working on this page?

Sjwillis39 18:41, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

"How to Save $1 Trillion a Year with Open Source"
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2549

"How to Save $1 Trillion a Year with Open Source"

Content for main page
So it seems obvious to me that the Economics section has, effectively, no content and no contributors. I'm currently working on a rewrite of the main page but, since there is no content, I need ideas for what to populate it with in the short run. Pertinent links and articles that can quickly be written would be good. Also, if you have an opinion on how the main page should be organized in the present, please tell me (future organization can be sorted out when there is some actual content). So far my ideas are:
 * 1) The small amount of material we already have, of course.
 * 2) Links to good, Free, textbooks, recordings, videos, etc.
 * 3) Links to Wikipedia entries for famous economists, Wikisource for famous works.
 * 4) Links to blogs of actual economists, sorted by school of thought (is this useful for learners?)
 * 5) A short article describing some of the different schools of thought, their methodology and focus. I would like to see each school described by one of its proponents, so contributions very welcome!

If you have any ideas or links, please contribute. If I can get a decent front page up and running in time (before school starts), then I will start a course on Steve Keen's money circuit model in Sage to get a bit of original content going. Rf 21:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

I've gone and updated the main page. Perhaps the talk page up to here should be archived, since a lot of the comments are no longer relevant? Rf 08:14, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

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The Wikiversity School of Journalism is looking to offer study courses people can follow to learn the ethics, theories and techniques of journalism.

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Wikiversity School of Political Science The Faculty of Social Sciences "Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle, Politics

 * Greetings and welcome to the School of Political Science a part of the Social Sciences Portal. You may notice that our page may look a little rough around the edges but be assured that it is being developed in a timely and well thought out manner.  If you would like to help out with the new Political Science Division main page, then please contact JaylanHaley.

Wikiversity is a unique platform that allows learners and scholars of all interests to connect on a simplistic yet powerful platform. The Political Science Division is chartered to provide unparalleled educational insight into the litany of political issues that face our world. Whether your interests are in theory, philosophy, applied political science or an admixture, the Political Science Division will help you achieve the level of intellectual stimulation that you can receive at any brick-and-mortar institution without leaving your comfort zone. Imagine, you can be sitting at a café in Paris, a bookstore in Hong Kong, or a dorm room in New York and learn about any subject you ever thought possible on your time and in your learning style.

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As you can see, the list of course offerings by the School of Political Science is quite extensive. Please refer to the undergraduate curriculum guide for assistance in choosing the classes that best fit your academic needs.

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 * Modern Eastern Government & Politics
 * Government & Party Politics
 * Introduction to US Government
 * The US Congress
 * The US Executive
 * The US Supreme Court

Comparative Politics

 * Comparative Politics, Government Structures
 * Comparative Politics, Political Parties
 * Comparative Politics, Legal Norms
 * Comparative Politics, Domestic Economic Policy
 * Comparative Politics, The Role of the Military

International Relations

 * International Organizations
 * Regional Organizations, The EU and ASEAN
 * Just War in the 21st Century
 * The International Legal Regime
 * The International Economic Regime

Government & Politics Electives

 * Introduction to U.S. Foreign Policy
 * The Executive and U.S. Foreign Policy
 * Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy
 * The Supreme Court and U.S. Foreign Policy
 * The National Security Council and U.S. Foreign Policy
 * Extra-Governmental Influences on U.S. Foreign Policy
 * Political Communication and Social Media

Comparative Politics Electives

 * Study group on Conceptualizations of Negotiation

World Government

 * Introduction to American Civics
 * Introduction to Westminster Government

Department news

 * The School of Political Science was founded on August 6, 2004.

Wikibooks

 * Political Economy
 * International Relations

Learning resources

 * Indian Government

Recommended Reading List

 * 21st century challenges reexamining the base of the federal government.

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).

 * Since 17 July 2014 with Dominant group/Test of term --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:21, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Inactive participants

 * JaylanHaley - U.S. Foreign Policy
 * Jimwitz - World Civics
 * Achilleous - student
 * SreetharanKing - student

Global Political News
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Seems like the Political Science school is underdeveloped, and is need of a nice design. I'm a political science major and perhaps I could be of use by making an account. 74.108.34.45 01:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, made an edit, to revive this thing. Humble Guy

Also made an edit. --Begebies 22:02, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

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Please vote Yes on Wikiversity, otherwise our everything written here won't matter.

dean nonsense
I removed the dean nonsense. no other school has one, especially a self-appointed one. if you want to teach a course, that is fine and good, but the wikipeda way is not heirarchical, the faculty isn't built, appointed, or even certified by one person. It is who contributes and teaches. --Buridan 13:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * you just don't go around appointing yourself dean and professor. it isn't done.  there isn't even a title dean or professor in the wikiversity guide.  you can be an instructor or teacher.  also deleting discussion is not done in wikipedia projects.  the goal is to have a civil discourse about this where everyone collaborates, not where someone makes themself defactor chief. --Buridan 19:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned courses
Are these pages needed? Add them into this school or mark them for deletion by typing on these pages. Thanks, haginძaz 06:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Pos 1003
 * Pos 2003
 * Pos 2006
 * Pos 2007

Wikiversity namespace
I created the following page on wikiversity:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Political_Science

Then found this one!

I assume this one is going to move over to wikiversity proper? 81.104.129.93 16:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC) (Nach0king with no account here)

American focused
Well, well, well. What a surprise.
 * Hu? the only active section in this school is the Topic:Politics of the European Union.  Unless America got a bit larger, I think it's more European focused.--Rayc 04:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it's more about the fact that the American Politics bit is included in the Core and the EU is in the Electives.--Dnjkirk 05:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You know whats really a surprise? The fact that we've got a School of Political Science and there is no mention of Karl Marx or Marxism.74.117.181.123 20:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

New Here
So, I am very interested in this Wikiversity thing! Please do tell me where I can help. My areas of expertise are in my user page. Dnjkirk 05:22, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I too am also new here. This School doesn't seem as active as some of the others. Please note where I can help. Brasidas 21:50, 25 July 2007 (EST)

Political Theory and Moral/Political Philosophy
I like the idea of the Center for Moral and Political Philosophy but do you think that is repetitive with the Division of Political Theory? They are both very similar. Brasidas 01:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

voting in Texas...
sort of a funny video. Maybe sort of educational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask --Remi 19:36, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Forms of government
93 All, There needs to be some kind of headline where people can go and research different forms of government here. Preferably this would fall under the comparative politics category. Things that should be explored include monarchy and technocracy, as well as coop governments such as occurred in the period when the hospitalers ruled malta.

Confused, please help
Hi, I’m having a bit of a hard time finding my way around this project; it seems to have a slightly different organizational structure than other Wikimedia sites. Can someone please explain where new courses are discussed and what exactly are the roles of the various schools, departments, “Topics”, and classes? In Wikipedia terms, is the school of political science like a WikiProject, the departments like task forces within them, and the classes like articles? Thank you. --Arctic.gnome 03:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Arctic.gnome, more info you could find also at: Naming conventions. Mainly the mixture comes how people want to implement real life structures to here (since they are influenced by their day by day usage), which is also good, since we are a wiki and in constant change :-)
 * Wikiversity schools and topic pages form a hierarchy of content development projects. Wikiversity has relatively few major schools that organize content development projects for the many topics of study. Wikiversity school pages have names that start with the "School:" prefix such as School:Biology. A Wikiversity page in the Topic: namespace can refer to itself as a "Division" or a "Department" or "Center", "Institute", "Area", etc. Actual learning resources such as lessons are all in the main namespace where pages have no prefix.

 * In general it helps to see it like this: Portal:Social Sciences gives an overview what e.g. the School:History does: offer various topics. (departments could be seen as task forces - but you should ask the creator of that department what was her goal :-))

 * Where to discuss new courses ? Either here on this talk page or create the new topic/course and add a note e.g. in the Colloquium or here, Erkan Yilmaz Wikiversity:Chat  07:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reply. Although now I'm a bit confused about the purpose of this site in the first place.  I was looking at the department Topic:Comparative politics, where it says to read the learning materials at Comparative Politics, and that page says to go read the wikibook Comparative_Politics.  In its final form, what will Topic:Comparative politics and Comparative Politics provide that a reader wouldn't be able to get from just reading the wikibook in the first place?  --Arctic Gnome 04:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

moving red links--
Maybe move all the red links over to Page creation requests... --Remi 22:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Current courses
are there current courses available in political science? I have a civic interest in this area and it would compliment some of my current course of study.--Jolie 10:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Just a Little Order to Chaos
Hello, my name is Jaylan Haley and I am a recent graduate of Norwich University's Master of Arts in Diplomacy Course, specializing in International Conflict Management. I am extremely enthused about the Wikiversity idea and it should definitely be explored to the greatest extent possible by all who have an interest in education and learning. That being said, the success of Wikiversity lies in our ability to take responsibility for conveying knowledge and understanding to each other so that we can remove locks on the one thing that makes us human beings, reason. I have reviewed the discussion page thus far and I think it's safe to say that there is need of just a little order for the sake of the department but we need to stay of true to the Wikipedia way of free and unfettered contributions. So I am proposing that we create a temporary system where we, the Wiki Community, together, determine how to best organize our department. This is going to be especially important for the regular contributors. Once the department is organized I think we can dispense with the formalities and let the individual contributors or "teachers" have at it. So here's my plan ...

We need to organize a Global Wikiversity Political Science Council that is comprised of current contributors. What I mean by current contributors are individuals that contribute on a fairly regular base (i.e. weekly or monthly) for long periods of time. (Yes I'm new to this page but I can assure you that I will continue to contribute). These individuals will have a vote in how we create the general organization of the School of Political Science because, right now, I think we can all agree that the school is broken. The council will vote over a one week period over several proposals which will be submitted on this discussion page. In deliberations we can highlight the merits or faults of each proposal and then once we accept a particular proposal, perhaps, change it to fit the character of our School. So for the next three days: 31 August 2009 - 2 September 2009 please add your name here as a regular contributor so that we know who actually contributes on a regular basis to the School of Political Science.

Everyone should start working on their proposals for organization of the school so that we can begin voting on 2 September. Check back in on that day to see what the voting procedures will be.

NO ONE will be excluded from the Council that chooses but if you don't contribute on a regular basis, it's going to get pretty mess with occasional edits.

Regular Contributors
JaylanHaley

Haley Proposal
Here is my proposal for the organization.

Echelon 1: The School of Political Science

Echelon 2: Three Divisions (The International Division, The National Division, The Research Division)

Echelon 3: Multiple Departments and Research Centers

-The International Division will provide universal political science principles across civilizations. I propose the Department of Political Science Methodology, Department of Political Theory, Department of Comparative Politics.

-The National Division will provide specific insight into each state of the world or as many states as we can muster. I propose the Department of Political Studies in the Americas, The Department of Eurasian Political Studies, the Department of African Political Studies, and the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Political Studies, the Department of Asian Political Studies, the Department of Pacific Island Political Studies and finally the Department of Universal Territorial Political Studies (Antarctica and Space).

-The Research Division will not have departments but will be where we keep our collaborative studies. For instance, I would like to begin the Haley Center for Post-Conflict Reconstruction Studies. It sounds a little vain but I think if we're here at the beginning of what is likely to be a long-term project on the internet, we should let people know from whence these ideas come. A hundred years from now, I hope people see the fruits of our labors.

Echelon 4: Individual Courses

-The individual courses would be designed by the departments and within each course, I think we should have multiple instructors. For instance, I plan on teaching an An Introduction to U.S. National Security Policy Formulation course but someone else may want to teach the exact same course but in a different fashion. Students would thus have the option of taking a course from me or another instructor. Essentially the Wikiversity offers the same course with multiple fashions for teaching. I'm a visual and audible learner so I probably will incorporate podcasts or powerpoint presentations to enhance the environment.

Some basics ... The Divisions are nothing more than overarching organizational separators for information, the Departments are where it all happens. Teacher can be a part of multiple divisions if they teach multiple courses. So if I decided to teach a political theory course, I would become a member of the Department of Political Theory as well as the Department of Political Studies in the Americas, because of my U.S. Foreign Policy course. Each of the departments come up with their own rules on how they are going to run their courses and what they should teach in those courses. They will be run like the Global Wikipedia Political Science Council where everyone who contributes gets a vote in how they organize. Once the organization is done, NO ONE gets a vote in the material is presented by the individual teachers in their individual courses. If someone wants to teach a very specific course like Feminism in Iranian Politics, then they should coordinate the course with the Department of Middle Eastern Political Studies so that they can be sequenced into the overall structure. No one should be denied serious contributions to learning because we all have specific interests.

JaylanHaley 12:13, 31 Aug 2009 (UTC)Qatar

New course (teaching?)
Hey, if I'm interested in teaching a series of short courses about various categories of political theories applied to and compared in various scenarios, would that go under POLS 101: Intro to Political Theory or POLS 103: Intro to Comparative Politics? Also, what do I need to do/who do I need to talk with to get this course started? 140.247.44.167 23:53, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Non-Active
This page hasn't been touched since 2014. I'm proposing a series of couple to organization:

 * 1) Move Peace Studies from an Organization to a Department associated with International Relations.
 * 2) Include a Research Methods Organization.

I'll get started with developing Political Theory materials/pages. In my imagination, the organization looks something like this:

Political Theory (Organization) --Daniel.mccarville (discuss • contribs) 21:03, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * For now a single Department (until enough contributors are active that we need to differentiate between Political Theory groups)
 * Individual courses can be grouped by:
 * Introductory surveys
 * Studies of a philosophical concept or theme (for example justice, etc.)
 * Studies of a particular approach to political theory (social contract theory, critical theory, etc.)
 * Studies of individual texts (for example, a focused reading of The Prince)
 * Applied political theory (for example, military ethics or state financial responsibility)

 * Be bold! My only advice would be to not spend too much time on School or Topic organization until there are more active contributors.  School and topic articles don't come up in searches.  It is the main space pages (resource learning projects) that most users see and benefit from.  To verify this, click on page history and check the Readers count.  If you see pages with high reader count, focus your efforts there first, as they are popular.  If pages are low readership, they are less urgent, or need significant improvement to draw interest.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:10, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Moving Wikiversity forward

Note: ''This page was created at the Mediawiki meta-wiki (see Moving Wikiversity forward). It is reproduced here as an historical archive. Summary: this page contains discussions about the future of Wikiversity held starting from shortly after the community vote on the original project proposal (page created 7 November, 2005). In mid-December the discussions shifted to Modified project proposal''

Wikiversity currently means different things to different people. This page is meant to try to define what is realistic for Wikiversity to achieve for the moment and what it could develop in the future. We may need to do more research (possibly facilitated by the Wikimedia Research Network) to get a clearer picture of this, possibly in the guise of one or a number of feasability studies.

What is Wikiversity?
Universities are communities of learners and teachers. University communities are devoted to exploring existing cultures, facilitating the advancement of human endeavors and creating new knowledge and other cultural elements. Wikiversity will apply wiki technology as a new medium within which to construct a university. What follows is an attempt to predict how wikiversity will develop. A central concern of Wikiversity will be discovering how to use wiki technology to facilitate productive human interactions within online communities of learners and teachers. As a new Wikimedia project, the early development of Wikiversity will largely be determined by how Wikiversity interacts with Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and other existing Wikimedia projects. Initially, Wikiversity will draw upon the pool of existing Wikimedia project members and in so doing, Wikiversity must find ways to satisfy the needs of other Wikimedia projects. What kinds of teaching and research services can Wikiversity supply to other Wikimedia projects?

Wikipedia. As wikipedia matures it increasingly needs to cite its sources and provide a systematic way of evaluating the validity of its contents. Wikiversity can perform a vital function in support of Wikipedia editors as they work to find good sources of information and attain objective evaluations of information. Experts within the Wikiversity community can help guide Wikipedia editors to good sources and provide open collaborative research space where the groundwork can be laid for ongoing decisions about [what] should be presented within Wikipedia articles.

Wikibooks. Many good textbooks arise from the experiences of active university members. As Wikiversity members discover how best to use the wiki user interface to support communities of learners and teachers, they will compile that knowledge in the form of dynamic living textbooks in wiki format.

 * As Wikiversity participants start following the learning trails laid out by early pioneers and serious scholars Wikibooks in the curriculum will start receiving frequent new review useful for fixing typos, accumulating sources and useful tidbits, and identifying confusing material or cruft via comments on talk pages from participatory readers.

Wikimedia Commons/Wikisource. Wikiversity will draw upon archived media and also contribute new material. Some of the products of Wikiversity will be lesson plans and other teaching materials. As members of an active university, Wikiversity members will also produce peer-reviewed manuscripts documenting their studies and research activities.

Wikinews. Wikiversity can provide support for Wikinews. Wikiversity can perform studies of Wikinews so as to identify ways to improve the quality of Wikinews stories and counter systemic biases. Wikiversity can provide space and facilities for journalistic research and a systematic analysis of biases in the sources that Wikinews reporters make use of.

(See the Wikiversity Core Courses Initiative)

In forming constructive links to other Wikimedia projects, many Wikiversity webpages will initially be devoted to research projects aimed at supporting the creation of authoritative wikipedia articles, textbooks, and other teaching resources. These research-oriented pages could be organized into Wikiversity "courses" devoted to particular topic areas, roughly corresponding to traditional academic disciplines. One of the exciting aspects of Wikiversity is the opportunity to escape from traditional academic categories and create new multidisciplinary projects that will best suit the needs of the Wikimedia community.

As Wikiversity becomes established and matures beyond its initial dependencies on other Wikimedia projects, there are a number of services and projects that Wikiversity could come to manage. Below is an outline of these mid- and long-term possibilities, including what each service requires in terms of human and other resources.

Resource repository
To begin, Wikiversity might be a repository of teaching materials, learning resources, lesson plans to be freely available in multilingual format. This could be hosted on Wikibooks, and could interface with other projects, like Wikipedia and, indeed, other books on Wikibooks.

E-Learning platform
Not simply creating material, Wikiversity could move on to using wikis in an educational way, creating learning communities for activities like brainstorming and creating research designs/proposals/business plans or creating collaborative media content, like wikimentaries.

Wikimentaries
See Wikimentary

Academic publishing
A few "Academic publishing" projects have been proposed:
 * Communitas

Learning Objects
Learning objects have been defined as:
 * "Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training"
 * "Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning"
 * "Web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed to explain a stand-alone learning objective"

As a Virtual learning environment, Wikiversity shall most likely implement a structured approach to dealing with Learning object metadata intricically incorporated into the MediaWiki software platform. To distribute the workload for adding Wikiversity as a Wikimedia project, a page Learning object metadata is being created to expedite the process of customizing "The IEEE 1484.12.1 – 2002 Standard for Learning Object Metadata is an internationally-recognised open standard (published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association) for the description of “learning objects”" for Wikiversity's purposes.

Accredited University
Accreditation is quite possible, but needs substantial thought and preparation.

The discussion so far follows closely Harold Wilson's idea of a University of the Air in the early 1960s in Britain. The discussion resulted in the Open University, which is Britan's largest university as well as a very credible institution.

Teaching is the easiest part, although access to qualified, responsible instructors is a bigger challenge than it looks. Wikis are so far best for providing written explanatory materials (teriary sources) and not so good for secondary and primary materials. The very dubious assumption is that people will learn all they need to know by reading.

The biggest questions are: - Under what accreditation agency and regime? European, North America, other? The answer is more political than educational.

- What model of learning will it use? There is a great deal of innovative energy in wikiversity, wikibooks, wikipedia, etc. We still need a model to follow. I wonder if we have most of the ideas somewhere on the site, but they need to be collated and analysed.

- How would you ensure authenticity, that any work submitted for credit is really the students own work?

- Risk analyis. Running an accredited university this way is not really too hard. Some of the technology has been around for may years. But living is such a high-risk environment could be more difficult.

- What level of qualification? The easy options are the lower certificates. Next hardest is the research graduate school, which really depends on having excellent staff.

The four-year bachelor degree consumes most resources and is the hardest possible place to start, although that is where most North Americans expect to begin. Some higher diplomas are nearly as difficult. The graduate school of professional practice is also a realistic option, but working with professional associations would be very difficult.

- How can the the extremely democratic (almost anarchic) wiki system be made compatible with the accountability and quality assurance systems need for any kind of accreditation? In particular, what do you do with someone who really wants to learn something but just doesn't have the background? You don't want to exclude people, but you can't admit anyone who wants to log on. So there can be value in foundatonal courses that are separate from advanced courses. And someone will have to be authorised to make the hard decisions, even if they are sometimes unpopular.

 * This is a non issue. Most people who arrive at advanced material and are ignored or deleted when they attempt to participate will quite naturally shift to more appropriate environments.  There are also mechanisms available that can differentiate and restrict read/write access to specific pages within the wiki.  Some are already present in the wikimedia software others would require extensive developer effort to add to the wikiversity interface. At any rate this is a potential problem for the future.  Our current problems are mostly traceable to a lack of participants.  Lazyquasar 04:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you have a system where a subject matter expert simply says, "This book is ready" and produce it as a non-wiki and use it as the textbook? Let the wiki become the draft next edition that people can still change.

How can we better coordinate different kinds of wiki resources? For example, could teaching materials use links to wikipedia articles?

- How can it build credibility? Any plan for an accredited (or accreditable) insitution must have some means for building credibility and reputation. No matter how good it is, it helps nobody if it is seen to be a diploma mill.

- How will money flow? The ideal of completely free accredited education is not at all realistic at present. Some money has to flow just to pay the bills. How much do you charge? Do you charge some people more than others? How else do you pay the bills?

 * The volunteer model is well proven in online open/free projects. Distributed technologies exist which can be modified to allow the Wikimedia Foundation (or other founding infastructure) to remain as a primary organizing resource within a distributed peer to peer and server to server and variations component based grid with adequate accounting to assure that individuals or groups contribute necessary fractions of resources sufficient to guarantee adequate resource response times to all users according to pre-established and financed priority based resource allocations.  Obviously this will take some serious volunteered developer effort to achieve.  Lazyquasar 04:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The volunteer model just won't work if you want to do anything substantial. *However*, the idea that most people working on free/open source projects are volunteers is a myth.  In fact most people working on open source projects are getting paid to do so, and there are lots of business models for this.

 * The *good* thing about free culture is that right now, the "middlemen" (i.e. publishers and universities) are making huge amounts of money. If you change the distribution system, less of the money should flow to the distributors, and you can move things directly between content producers and content consumers.  Also, I'd expect that the effective costs of some things will go to zero, which will allow resources to be more rationally allocated.  Instead of paying for textbooks, students can pay for one-on-one personalized teaching.  Instead of paying for the lecture, students can pay to get their papers graded with detailed personal comments, and suggestions rather than just getting a letter grade.

 * Roadrunner 13:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

- What software will it need? A learning environment system would be better that wikis for some things, and wikis alone can't yet do everything. A videoconference would be helpful, and a teleconfernce would be a good start. Enrolled students could speak, and others would be welcome to listen. The internet would be a good support for that kind of community.

At least some answers are simple:

Don't accept students into courses for which you don't have staff and suitable teaching and assessment materials. It's not only unethical and unaccreditable, but usually contravenes honesty in advertising laws.)

Have a system of admission standards. They must be flexible and creative, but they must also be there and be enforced. Prepare people for assessments. In many cases they would comprise a portfolio of work (e.g. verifiable third-party references, testing results from trusted third parties, etc.) and a viva voce. At graduate school, it would be either original research or professional projects. Nothing difficult there.

Ross Woods, ACAS

 * The above simple answers assume an authoritarian model which in my view is unlikely to prosper in a wiki based volunteer based community. Lazyquasar 04:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

People interested in conducting this research

 * Cormaggio @ 00:23, 8 November 2005 (UTC) - would like to conduct a feasability study (possibly on using wikis for learning)

Timeline
Q: How long will any/all of this take?

A: The journey has started and no detectable/falsifiable theory of completion date articulated, at least to my satisfaction. To infinity and beyond might take forever and a bit more. I propose recess at 2nd coming and judgement day.

A: Consider Wikipedia as a prototype. As a prototyping project, it took a few years to simultaneously co-evolve an effective community while developing the Wikimedia software and Foundation. It started in 2000-2001. Some allege it has not even yet proven itself or matched pre-existing encyclopedias standards of quality. It is interesting to note that once the Wikipedia community started self consciously attempting to grow itself and its learning and self maintenance capabilities that growth quickly became limited by available internet infrastructure. Independent sources now report that wikipedia.org is among the top 50 visited web sites on the internet.

Proposed Milestones & Goals
Get some classes running.

Establish an independent Foundation & Board organized appropriately for a Free University

Organize competing for profit internet universities to provide adequate competition for success. (Without corrupting conflicts of personal interest please, until better learning communities come along we need Wikimedia Foundation's internet infrastructure and supporting communities of volunteers.)

 * http://academia.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * The above is not an independent competitor. It is in fact owned and operated by two Wikimedia Foundation Board Members as documented here: http://wikicities.com/wiki/About_Wikicities  This apparent conflict of interest might be useful in explaining the Board's willingness to defy community votes with terse confusing requests for proposal modifications.  It is good to a have a stacked Board!  They can protect us from ourselves!

Find the results of Wikimedia Foundation's alleged board meeting & decision.

Find creditable source regarding the vote results for the project .... possibly in minutes of the 13 November secret/private/nonpublic/not transparent/not open Board Meeting.

Establish some action oriented barnstar awards to encourage participation, provide candidates below:
 * OOPS! (I did something without Board permission or praying to the God King.)

Goals and Milestones Initiated or Completed

 * Interest Vote/Survey Completed - Results here

 * List of Courses Initiated

 * Wikiversity:School of Engineering Barnstar Program Initiated []

 * Vote Results Scheduled/Presented for 13 Nov 2005 Wikimedia Foundation Board Meeting - Place links to Scheduled Meeting Agenda and Minutes/Results/Answer herein.
 * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/November 13, 2005

 * Wikiversity:School of Fire and Emergency Management is initiated and going. Building course and curriculum repository now. One online course ready to go in February and two more ready in March.

 * Discussions of Wikiversity proposal modifications requested by the Board, see: modifications to the Wikiversity proposal for a central place to discuss modifications that will satisfy the Board.

Materials

 * A Powerpoint presentaion on the topic of Wikiversity (in English) has been prepared by WiseWoman. It can be found in the Example discussion room at  under Press Office.

title: Wikiversity:Moving Wikiversity forward