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Direction for this course
I'm still going to have to spend some time trying to set this up, but the idea here is that I would like to set up some on-line discussion forum, perhaps some lessons and going over the concepts, and try to exchange ideas between one another.

My intention is to try and set up an IRC channel specific for this Wikiversity project where we could discuss the concepts in detail, as more of a teacher and student relationship, but there will be a chance for everybody to share their ideas. The job of the "instructors" is to keep the discussion on topic and to keep the class moving along.

While there isn't going to be "credit" for this class, I am going to be asking that participants work with given homework examples, and that weekly assignments will be completed. Scheduling for this will be done "by concensus" of the students (for breaks in the teaching cycles).

My intention is to turn this into a roughly 10-14 week course covering the basic concepts of this topic. I hope that this will cycle over and over again, depending on the number of participants and people willing to "moderate" the learning cycles.

A Help Desk specific to this class will be available to try and go over the algebra problems.

Because we are going to be Wiki-based, it might be useful to try and get familiar with the TeX markup for mathmatical equations. While not necessary for completing homework, it will help when trying to communicate ideas using mathmatical symbols. That will likely be one of the first lessons of this course, or perhaps even a prerequisite eventually.

Also, this is an early example of Wikiversity teaching, there is going to be some experimentation and some mistakes we will be making here. I hope that your experience in learning this material will be productive. This is but one way that I hope that Wikiversity can deliver knowledge, but I'm sure there will be other ideas. --Robert Horning 19:41, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Random notes on College Algebra
Here are things that I learning teaching Algebra I at UoP

1) I had to avoid the temptation of covering too much material. One of the functions of a basic algebra one course is to remove math anxiety, and covering too much material just makes students much more nervous and reinforces their fears of math.  For algebra one, I've found it useful to limit myself to a few key concepts and make sure that the students know those concepts cold.

2) The big problem that I had was that I'm interesting in physics whereas most of my students were interested in business, and I got scathing mid-term reviews for my first class for irrelevance. Part of making the class useful was to come up with real world business examples of using algebra one.

Also I'm making some noises at the Chronicle of Higher Education forums to try to get people over here.

Roadrunner 09:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I appreciate this. I feel very much overwhelmed with the possibility of getting this going, especially as I know I'm starting out with inferior textbooks on top of all of the other problems you are mentioning.  And this topic isn't exactly my strongest subject, but I do think it is something that needs to be done.  I hope that we can get it going, and in part "learn together".  --Robert Horning 13:16, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Getting academic credit for this course
Someone who knows this better than I do should probably write a page on how to get academic credit for this course. I know that there are ways of converting these knowledge into academic credit through examinations, but I don't know the details, which is why someone who does should write them down.

It's really, really, really important to figure out ways to convert Wikiversity learning into academic credit, which translates into degrees, which translates into higher salaries, which translates into funding back to Wikiversity.

One mistake in a lot of online learning projects is to trying to separate oneself from traditional academia, whereas I think that Wikiversity and and should challenge the system head on.

Roadrunner 09:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Some numbers to make you mad.....
A student at the University of Phoenix pays $1500 course for a three unit Algebra I course. There are 10-15 students per course, which means that the Apollo Group makes about US$15000 per course. The instructor gets about US$1000 of that.

I think we can figure out a better way.......

 * Algebra courses are usually money makers for most schools.... even public universities. One way that larger universities fill in to make piles of money is to have the classic "pit class" where you sit in an auditorium with 400 students.  They try to make up for it by hiring upper classmen in the "study center", whey they hire a bunch of hard core math/science geeks at minimum wage to be the real instructors.  Surprisingly it seems to work out (sometimes).  Of course it is obvious when you go through a class like that you are in a meat grinder and not some institution that really cares about you.  --Robert Horning 13:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge Topic and Main page?
Just would like some thoughts about moving most of the content from the topic page to the main page.

Roadrunner 18:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Set a time
Someone should list a time when this class will be heald on IRC, like thursday @ 28 o'clock on the 32 of Smarch.--Rayc | (Talk) 17:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Revamping
Since this page is abandoned, I'm going to start working on it. Being bold. please feel free to revert me if anyone is actually using the page the original authors envision it as. --Rayc 20:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, so it looks like the first topic in many of the source I looked at is the real number system. The book I've got is algebra for college students by bBrnard Kolman and Arnold Shapiro. The University of Kentucky Math 110 Textbook has it as Chapter 1: Numbers and Points and MIT calls it points vs. vectors --Rayc 02:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

University of Kentucky Math 110 Textbook
Look what I found in this "additional resource": :

'By repeatedly combining numbers via addition and multiplication, one can make complicated expressions such as "3x + 4y +12(x + 2)y''". By substituting various values of x and y into this expression, one gets numerical values for the expression. One finds that regardless of which values of x and y you use, the numerical value is the same as that obtained by the expression "15x + 28y" .'''

This is a Fall 2003 course which should not contain this error, or shall we call it a typing-error? I would suggest that the writer of the page, possibly/probably also the writer of MA110, correct his text. Or be made aware of it. I think that "3x + 4y +12(x+2y)" would correctly reduce to "15x + 28y"?

Andre anckaert 17:29, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Trying to help out, sketch
Ok, I'd like to help out with this, since it seems to be in trouble. Specifically, I'd like to fill in sections and maybe have my students fill in sections for extra credit as well. There are numerous sections spread out in need of polishing and that can be brought together.

I'd like the book to help adult learners returning to college. Math anxiety, low confidence levels, low perceived relevance, disorganization, poor time management and extrinsically motivated to pass their class are common characteristics. Age varies wildly from 20's to 60's. The learners have a highly varied context to transfer these skills to, beyond class, including: investments, business decisions, statistics, grade computations, or teaching.

Prerequisites would be arithmetic, we should explicitly link to Arithmetic as a prerequisite, maybe link to study skills as well.

Start with: Rough sketch of objectives for College Algebra I: Expressions involving variables, Simplifying expressions involving variables using real number properties, include FOIL Set up expressions, equations, and inequalities given a word problem Evaluate expressions Determine validity of equations Determine validity of inequalities Solve linear equations Solve linear inequalities Solve word problems involving linear equations or linear inequalities
 * Variables:
 * Expressions, validity of equations and inequalities:
 * Solving linear equations and inequalities:

Graph linear equations Graph linear inequalities Graph linear equations or linear inequalities arising from word problems
 * Graphing lines and linear inequalities:

Solution of two simultaneous linear equations through graphing, Set up and solve word problems using two simultaneous linear equations or inequalities.
 * Arguably a section on simultaneous linear equations

To address
 * Math anxiety, low confidence levels - Formative assessments and confidence building exercises. Link to multimedia resources such as the mini-movies at.
 * low perceived relevance - Can provide some examples of relevance
 * disorganization - study skill prerequisite and checks through book
 * extrinsically motivated - foster intrinsic motivation through confidence building exercises and segmenting sections
 * time management - prerequisite and checks through book. Provide time estimates and progress bars.

Sketched revisions
Here is a sketch of a proposed revision https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B9kxj73gN1WdNzFhMGVkZWMtYmYwNy00N2JjLTg5MTktYmNiYjAwOTU5ZTQ2&hl=en&authkey=CLW36-ML. As the file is PDF, changes due to clicking or answering are shown on a following page.

Bastetswarrior 18:45, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Why is this not a Portal: College Algebra
In lines with organization and what the main page for mathematics, the entire set is just a template but the template itself is not actually linking portals so none of these pages are catalogues as portals? Saml214 (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

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SLS Reading List

Reading Lists for the Department of Literary Studies

 * Please note: This list is in its primary stages.  Please be patient!

Fiction

 * Major Authors
 * Ray Bradbury
 * William S. Burroughs
 * Micheal Chabon
 * Raymond Chandler
 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * Philip K. Dick
 * Ralph Ellison
 * James Ellroy
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Robert Heinlen
 * Joseph Heller
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Frank Herbert
 * Henry James
 * John Kennedy O'Toole
 * Jack Kerouac
 * Ken Kesey
 * Sinclair Lewis
 * Jack London
 * Herman Melville
 * Arthur Miller
 * Henry Miller
 * Edgar Allen Poe
 * Tom Robbins
 * Richard Russo
 * J.D. Salinger
 * William Shakespeare
 * John Steinbeck
 * Neal Stephenson
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Mark Twain
 * Kurt Vonnegut
 * Robert Penn Warren

 * Important Works
 * Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 * Big Sur
 * Cannery Row
 * Catcher in the Rye
 * Confederacy of Dunces
 * Demon Box
 * Dr. Sax
 * Dune
 * East of Eden
 * Elmer Gantry
 * Empire Falls
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * Invisible Man
 * Kings Blood Royal
 * Last of the Mohicans
 * Lost Horizon
 * Main Street
 * Moby Dick
 * Naked Lunch
 * Neuromancer
 * Of Mice and Men
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * On The Road
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * The Beautiful and Damned
 * The Grapes of Wrath
 * The Great Gatsby
 * The Lord of the Flies
 * The Love of the Last Tycoon
 * The Martian Chronicles
 * The Rosy Crucifixion
 * The Sun Also Rises
 * The Town and the City
 * This Side of Paradise
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Tortilla Flat
 * Walden

Poetry

 * Major Authors
 * John Ashberry
 * John Berryman
 * E.E. Cummings
 * Emily Dickinson
 * John Donne
 * Thomas Stearns Eliot
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Robert Frost
 * Langston Hughes
 * Kenneth Koch
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * Frank O'Hara
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Ezra Pound
 * Arthur Rimbaud
 * Wallace Stevens
 * Dylan Thomas
 * Walt Whitman

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Portal:Writing Center

Humanities > School of Language and Literature > Department for Literary Studies > Writing Centre

School of Language and Literature  Welcome to the Writing Centre for the School of Language and Literature, part of the Faculty for Humanities!

Associated Departments

Perhaps you are also interested in the English Language Division or the Department for Literary Studies.

The Writing Centre   Welcome! Contents Participants Useful information

Welcome
Welcome to the Writing Center for the School of Language and Literature and the English Language Department. In a traditional university setting, the Writing Center is a place that provides students with assistance on papers, projects, reports, and just about any other type of composition involving words. The Writing Center is staffed by professionals, such as faculty members of the university, and peers, such as graduate or advanced undergraduate students, who can assist students in writing a better, more focused paper. A good writing center will help a writer find his/her voice and come to grips with his/her strengths and weaknesses as a writer. In addition, a writing center will provide help with grammar, style, syntax, punctuation, citation of sources, etc.

The Writing Center here at Wikiversity is no different. We are here to assist you with your papers, projects, and reports. And in keeping with the Across the Curriculum movement of Writing Centers and English Departments, the Writing Center is available for use to any student of any school in the Wikiversity program.

Unfortunately, we have no staff at this time, though the English Language Reference Desk is up and running, and you may ask questions there. If you are a qualified professional or peer and would like to contribute your time to the Writing Center, please feel free to do so. We are looking for ways that tutors can connect with students. Please share any ideas in the Talk section of this page.

Contents

 * Composition
 * Rhetoric
 * Creative Writing
 * Collaborative play writing
 * Technical Writing

Community
Fiction writing support group

Useful information

 * Composition
 * Read this article on basic English grammar
 * Sentence Sense: A an online textbook in basic writing
 * Learning English Online
 * Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
 * Rhetoric
 * Resources in Rhetoric at UGA

Related Wikibooks

 * Basic Writing
 * Basic Book Design
 * Business writing
 * Composition
 * Creative Writing
 * How to write a research paper in History
 * How to write an essay
 * Note taking
 * Rhetoric and Composition

Writing resources on the web

 * The Rhyme Zone - Tool for writing poetry
 * Magnetic Poetry's "Play Online"
 * Writing Tips Blog
 * Essay Topic Ideas

Examples of good writing

 * "Fatal fall of Wright airship", an excellent example of descriptive writing, published by the New York Times on September 18th, 1908

Citing sources in a bibliography

 * MLA Style
 * APA Style
 * The Elements of Style
 * Style guide
 * Manual of Style

Active Participants
Join the team!
 * Since 19 October 2013 with a contribution to Theory --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:11, 11 May 2018 (UTC)!

Inactive participants

 * Stephanie K
 * Danielle Ralph
 * Eduardo Ramos
 * Ex Machina
 * George Bozovic
 * Gray Kidd
 * G.M.Palmer
 * Gwythoff
 * Jwblase
 * Michael Stephens
 * Natt Gutmor
 * The Jade Knight
 * Matt Trainer
 * Notme68
 * shilopa
 * MysticSong
 * Luai lashire
 * AFriedman
 * Trinity507
 * csisc
 * WendyB
 * Ashok Cherian Koshy.
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Portal talk:Writing Center

The traditional university writing center is based on students coming in with papers and getting personal attention. How could we arrange it so that students can submit papers for comments? I am in the second year of working in a writing center, and I would be interested in developing this part of the wiki further. --Max 11:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

To continue that idea, we need to have a link saying "Submit your paper here" or some such. At the writing center where I work we have an online writing lab. Anybody anywhere (though it is mostly our students and a few local high school students) can submit a paper and get a 1/4 page to 1 page response (sometimes longer if we are feeling REALLY verbose). I would be happy to write a brief article describing how we respond to papers. Once we actually had people submitting papers, I could comment on them and then in the discussion area talk about why I commented in the way that I did. One big question for this: how are we going to attract people here to get their papers edited? Is putting an 'ad' in the Wikipedia reference for Writing Centers valid? Or just word of mouth? Just things to think about. --Max 11:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It's also important that they be able to submit their papers privately; to help avoid both class-wide cheating and pre-publication problems that students may face if the papers were simply plastered all over the internet on Wikiversity. Jade Knight 21:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

You might want to use the wikiversity account at MySpace to somehow announce this facility. --Smithgrrl 03:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

On another note, I'm available and could possibly help with this project. Leave me a message if you need help with something. Jade Knight 21:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

An Idea
Hello everybody, may I add this idea on how to submit a paper?

There shall be a page named submissions in this address Portal:Writing Center/Submissions includes instruction to the submitting way, and a list of submitted papers. Anybody wishes to submit a paper of their own to be read should create an individual page in the portal domain with this address: Portal:Writing Center/Submissions/The Paper's name, then go back to the submission page to list their papers their. The comments on the paper should be in the paper's talk page. --Haitham 22:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Essays and essay contests
Essays are an important part of University writing activities. We now have a place and a category for essay contest listing and formation. If this portal is to conduct essay contests through a subpage, please attach Category:Wikiversity Essay Contests to that page and list it at Essay Contests. Thanks CQ 03:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Fiction-Writing-Support-Group
A friend of mine (User:JWSchmidt) has recently started the Fiction writing support group. Do you think there should be a link to it from the writing center?
 * Be bold. --JWSchmidt 14:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

More content needed!
This place looks pretty empty. Maybe we can get some discussion and activity started up? Here's some of my suggestions, tell me what you think: --Luai lashire 02:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any such link on the page, so I'm assuming the paper submissions idea never materialized. If everyone agress with Haitham's idea, above, then I think we should implement it.
 * The writing center should probably encourage more writing resources and projects to develop. I'm planning on beginning a collaborative writing group when I'm less busy; what other projects can we cultivate?
 * More links to more things. I can name a good one off the top of my head:  Duotrope's Digest, a search engine for writing markets to help you sell your work.
 * I think it would be cool to have a section on the portal page with links to current writing contests that people might be interested in.
 * We need more "learning by doing" projects, but also more straightforward information. Grammar how-to's, plot, etc.

 * There are many different forms of writing....I wonder what people have in mind when they say, "paper submissions"? --JWSchmidt 03:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I have listed the excellent Writing Center resources in the School of Language and Literature resource catalog--please post any new resources there! Thanks! --Trinity507 03:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Look me up under Awolf002 in the English Wikipedia!

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User:Robhingle

Hi I'm not very familiar with wiki media, but I'm interested in contributing what I know robhingle @ gmail (dot) com

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Wikiversity:Ignore all rules

Wikiversity usually works because people continuously learn from each other. If rules are getting in the way of making Wikiversity a better learning community, you should ignore them. Instead, focus on being helpful and on what works. Rules are less important than finding solutions that most participants will agree with. Remember that any mistakes you make can be fixed.

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Foreign languages
No, no books will be imported from Wikibooks. All books will remain on Wikibooks — Wikiversity will just refer to them in the lesson pages that will be written by the community. Messedrocker 00:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called VictorGuarnieri. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name VictorGuarnieri~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Category talk:Wikiversity schools

Should we make a hierarchy of this category, "Main schools" that go on the main page and some sort of sub schools?--Rayc 01:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Right now there is start towards a hierarchy. The "main schools" are listed at Schools. That list of schools started at Wikibooks and by default became the first "Wikiversity schools". The "main schools" function as projects that organize the development of learning resources for broad areas of study. There can certainly be other schools at Wikiversity that do not serve the same function as the "main schools". Other types of schools can be sorted into other school categories.

 * There has been an on-going problem at Wikipedia with discussions about the possibility that Wikipedia could end up with hundreds of thousands of stub pages for non-notable schools. Such pages about individual real-world schools can be magnets for vandalism, but I think Wikiversity needs to make an effort to reach out to bricks-and-mortar schools and invite students to participate in Wikiversity. At the start of the Wikiversity project I have been reluctant to take on any extra vandalism load, but after a month of the project the initial wave of vandals seems to be satisfied that vandalism of Wikiversity is not a very satisfying activity. I think we can start to open up Wikiversity to the creation of new pages in the "School:" namespace that will be pages about individual bricks-and-mortar schools. It would be particularly nice if these pages could focus on the ways schools use online educational resources. This could lead to useful collaborations between Wikiversity and bricks-and-mortar schools. --JWSchmidt 14:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

This wiki seems pointless
Is this wiki conveying any more information than this https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Schools? I don't think it is. This wiki should be deleted entirely as it's not even up-to-date. How can I delete this wiki?

--ttam (discuss • contribs) 23:08, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

 * It's not a wiki. It's a category.  Deleting a category doesn't accomplish anything.  What needs to be done is to edit each page in the category and adjust the category entry to point to the correct page.  I'll look into making this happen.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:02, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Linguistics

The Linguistics department. Individual streams (and their respective categories) should be categorized under this category.

The following will all need to be subcategories someday:
 * Stylistics
 * Language Acquisition
 * Language Disorders
 * Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism
 * Diachronics
 * Historical Linguistics
 * Language Change and Evolution
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User talk:Awolf002

Hi, Awolf002, welcome to wikiversity! --Rayc 01:14, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

UIUC PHIL 270
Hi AWolf002! We haven't met yet, but I saw your comment about UIUC PHIL 270, here. In case you're still following the case, let me know what you think of my diplomacy on Talk:UIUC PHIL 270. Maybe we can come up with a polite but firm template and a sort of "jail" for orphaned pages that are suspect as cheatsheets or other malfeasance? It's an interesting problem. CQ 01:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

NICE NAME!
Hay Awolf002 and welcome to Wikiversity, title=Getting started width=100px This is how you get started, You shoul+d1 NO AVALIBLE There is a problem with your page, Your not giving the right order to you page an it should be fixed NOW! You can now get started fixing this page now OK!--MikimoralMikimeral 20:14, 2 May 2010 (UTC)MikimoralMikimeral

The Problem!
To fix your discussion is to quickly change your User Page, If someone gives you a warning, Sorry--MikimoralMikimeral 20:14, 2 May 2010 (UTC)MikimoralMikimeral

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Topic talk:Engineering/Archive1

Can we combine electrical, electronic, embedded, and computer engineering in to one single:

"Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering"?

 * I was under the impression that Electrical and Electronic, and especially Computer Engineering syllabii were very different (I haven't written this course - merely browsing). Electrical concerns (trying not to be wrong or patronising) for example plug sockets and wires, or things of this scale. On the other hand, electronic is of the level of transistors, diodes, and circuitry.

--81.157.26.41 21:26, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I am at university of toronto and we combine electrical and eletronic but computer is separate. However computer and electrical take the same courses for the first two years.  Usually it is in grad school that you really see how things are divided.  In graduate school there will usually be various departments under electrical and computer engineering like power, electronics, control, communications, electromagnetics, biomedical, photonics, computer engineering.  Computer engineering is similar to computer science in that you study computers and programming.  However computer engineering is extremelty practical whereas computer science tends to be far more theoretical and mathematical.

--128.100.7.202 02:13, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

EE/CE/CSci
These subjects warrant individual program titles at the University of Minnesota; however, all programs share one building, and in many cases, they share the same coursework. There is no distinction between electronics and electrical disciplines. The comment about "plugs & wires" and "electrical concerns" differentiates an electrician from an engineer. An electrician learns how to work with electricity and signals for other means. These skills are typically taught in a trade school or 2-year program. The Wikiversity:School of Engineering should focus on the latter definition of electronics. Engineers apply theory and analysis in the practical application of science. --JAQ 18:21, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I disagree. I already have an engineering degree and an ability to work with basic wiring.  Some projects I have in mind will soon require more advanced hands-on skills to install or fabricate equipment.  In addition, some practical experience would be useful in planning and budgeting phases.  Therefore I consider it top priority that if some tradesmen skilled in appropriate crafts show up to teach lab, fabrication, and/or installation, operation, or maintenance skills we should immediately give them top priority and billing and otherwise encourage them in every way possible.   This will immediately begin to differentiate Wikiversity from typical diploma mills issuing work permits to entry level engineering candidates to a happening place for entrepreneurs, engineers, craftsmen and amateurs of all ages and walks of life to participate fruitfully in the pursuit of personal life goals.  Lazyquasar 08:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Posing a Question
The definition of wikiversity is vague, but it necessarily differentiates itself from typical wiki format. Should engineering departments tailor interdisciplinary coursework to their specific departments (i.e. create new subject fields?) Or should their be an effort to reuse the same content to avoid duplication? --JAQ 18:27, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Waste of time discussing it as policy. Individuals will do as they please and eventually someone will write up best practices.  This will initiate a firestorm of religious and ideological debate which will subside once each substantial minority faction has designed a satisfactory subsection of the experiential maze and appropriate entry points within the main learning portals.  The majority party enforcers will not like it but will be unable to refute the fact that no large group really wants to force and participate hard enough to assure a successful fork. Lazyquasar 08:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Aerospace Engineering
Went to the page and the page was empty. I am proposing that Aerospace be placed at the "College" level. And thus propose "The College of AeroSpace Engineering". I feel that because of its vast calls on other colleges (engineering, physics, math, biology, etc...) and it's broad scope (space, aviation, rockets, orbital mechanics, human factors, life support, etc...). - Bobwinmill 17:14, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No new inputs on this page except my own since May 12, 2005. I voted in favor of en.wikiversity.  Please comment on my porposal above. - Bobwinmill 00:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I started out in Aerospace Engineering and after a year shifted to Engineering Physics at another university. It is basically an aggregate of specialized focuses from other more general fields.  I see no reason it should be differentiated by a different name category from the other engineering departments.  However, if you prefer to call it a dept./portal/branch, "The Space Base Place", or the College of Aerospace Studies or whatever ... go ahead!  Keep in mind another faction may show up and establish or lobby for a differently named department, college, team, class or entity performing similar functions.  Naming will be fluid for a while as we organize around the preferences and assessments of those who show up and participate and then probably stabilize as the opportunity cost in refactoring and shuffling material temporarily exceeds the perceived value enhancement available.  We should be cautious about telling people what wikiversity isn't or mandating how they should work.  We are likely to attract non traditional students and rather independent cusses willing to participate assertively unless we irritate them with excessive guidelines crystalized by the those who arrived at the front of the line.  Wikipedia had a lot of initial problems with people wishing to set their preferences in stone.  Since they had arrived first and invested effort in defining initial structures, formats, approaches and policies many felt they were entitled to heavier weight in discussion.  Needless to say the seniority approach of the non existent cabal was not popular with a few newcomers.  Some of the resulting labeling and lynching activities got a bit damaging to the community fabric.  Lazyquasar 08:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I have to agree with Lazyquasar in one respect, names are going to be fluid for a while but looking at it from a 'college' perspective, I think for the time being, keeping aerospace within the realm of engineering is much more intuitive than creating a seperate category. Looking at the school of engineering, my suggestion is a formatting cleanup to make it a bit easier to take in, and that might clear up some of the confusion. --Kfitton 01:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Engineering Wiki
People who are intrested in this Wikiversity School of Engineering might also be intrested in Engineering Wiki. I invite u to join us.

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User:Trevor MacInnis

Welcome to Wikiversity! This is a userpage. You have one too! Its the spot where you can put anything you want; practice editing there, put personal information you wish others to know, etc... See:User page for more information. If I you just recieved a welcome message from me, I suggest two links on it (Get an Introduction to Wikiversity and Question). Happy editing!

And now for My Userpage
My Subpages

See w:User:Trevor MacInnis for my main account.

On a personal note, I registered the 109th account at this new project (I don't know why I like to know that, but I do).

To do

 * cleanup Community Portal to become an actually funtioning central area for community.
 * Figure out how to format the Colloquium.
 * Clean up categories.
 * release yEd pics

I 've uploaded a prelim diagram showing how, starting at the main page, users find or a guided towards the important pages in Wikiversity:

It's still in the working phase, but I think you will be able to look through it and see how page links and overall help can/should be better organized. The thick green line is what a brand new user should follow to get the most out of Wikiversity by first learning about wiki's and editing.

A few things to do based on the results of my inspection of the diagram:
 * 1) eliminate the need for the Guided tour. It is essentially what the Introduction is trying to do, so make sure all the links are duplicated there and then redirect the tour to the introdction.

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User:Btrebilco

Current Woring Position: Civil Engineer

Company: SunWater

Location: Brisbane Australia

Qualifications:
 * Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) Major Environmental, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 1998
 * Masters of Engineering Science Major Environmental, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2000

Key Skills / Proficiencies:
 * Steel and Concrete design
 * Hydraulic and Hydrodynamic Modelling
 * Resource Operation Planning
 * Spillway Adequacy Assessment / Comprehensive Risk Assessment
 * Civil Site Inspections
 * Standard Operating Procedures
 * Emergency Action Plans

Water Industry – Areas of Expertise:
 * Bulk Water Supply
 * Dams and Hydro Structures

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Wikiversity:Archive/Organizing Self-Management

Please see Organizing Wikiversity for a more recent attempt to discuss the matters of this page.

Organizing Self Management for Wikiversity
You can express your current position by concise bullet voting, or  and signing. Please use the discussion section to illuminate others regarding your thoughts on the subject. Please "vote" early and often, or at least periodically. We will be in flux for a while. Any binding votes will be announced in appropriate areas adjacent to the main page at four weeks before being finalized.

Provisions of the initial approved Wikiversity Proposal are Binding for Six Months.
We are dependent upon the Wikimedia Foundation for initial servers, bandwidth, and technical expertise. Our project has been approvedApproved_Wikiversity_project_proposal by their Board of Directors for this philanthropic support for six months as a "beta" prototype. It is a reasonable expectation on the part of the Board and the initial project organizers that this agreement between the Board and Wikiversity will be honored by all parties to the extent possible. In other policy discussions the community at large is indicating its agreement/opposition to specific provisions of this agreement and this will be useful in future negotiations and for project planning of the community managed by the community's formally selected leadership. So even though some specific provisions may be disapproved by our rapidly forming community, they are binding upon us until we make other arrangements with the Board or Independently.

Position Tally

 * Messedrocker 07:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * with provision discussed below -- Reswik 14:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Talonhawk 00:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * - Yorktown1776 17:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * - The Wikimedia Foundation does not have a "board of directors". Wikiversity is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. If anyone wants to "Independently make other arrangements" they are free to leave Wikiversity and create a new project at any time. --JWSchmidt 04:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

 * While I agree with the board's position on accreditation (for the time being), I also think that we need to be bold in how we fill the proposal with life. I'd rather see us try a dozen different things where maybe 3/4 don't work out at the end rather than not try at all out of fear of the unknown. -- sebmol ? 09:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Honoring the scope of the Wikimedia's Foundations beta project regarding initiating projects and structures is important. At the same time (and I think this is understood), I believe that the Wikiversity would be very well served by considering and discussing implications of a wide array of long term planning options for development of education and research services, projects and organizational structures. From among such options, directions and aspects of development may emerge that become vital to the Wikiversity's mission and are harmonious with the board and larger wikimedia community's concerns but are not anticipated at this time. Reswik 14:23, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Initial Operating Assumptions
We are currently operating under a Project Proposal presented to the Wikimedia Foundation Board and approved by them. The Foundation is a separate entity from Wikiversity. Any wiklars who choose to participate at the Foundation are welcome by their current charter and informal procedures to join the Foundation-L mailing list. There is a Wikiversity-L mailing list for Wikiversity matters. The Foundation provides no administrative or project oversight to Wikiversity beyond its philanthropic contribution of server space. Since Wikiversity is currently composed of volunteers with no expenses beyond the need for stable and adequate bandwidth and servers our donation page directs all potential cash contribtions to the Foundation as our benefactor.

Position tallying.

 * Messedrocker 07:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Absolutely -- Cormaggio 10:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Reswik 14:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikiversity has always been and remains a Wikimedia Foundation project. The Wikimedia Foundation provides administrative oversight for Wikiversity the same as for all Wikimedia projects. In addition, Wikiversity policies for research will be reviewed by the Special Projects committee at the end of the six month beta period. --JWSchmidt 04:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments

 * Wikiversity_is_and_always_will_be_a_part_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation. If you want to set up something separate - go ahead and do so elesewhere. We've fought long and hard for this to be a part of Wikimedia. I can't believe that you're proposing something so divisive at this point in time. Cormaggio 10:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Full ack. This isn't helping us. -- sebmol ? 10:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Ok, but I think you're overstressing the fact that we're in Beta. Surely, the important part is that we exist - and that we have carved out that existence within the workings of the Wikimedia Foundation - however frustrating you found that to be. Existing is a show of support - we will surely not have the plug pulled in six months - but simply we will be reviewed in terms of our scope for learning (and particularly research). Please, can we get back to the real work of Wikiversity - the content, policies and guidelines? Cormaggio 14:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Just to point out that the Wikimedia Foundation is not short of the funds required to host Wikiversity (according to the WMF's treasurer, Michael Davis, during the board panel at Wikimania). The WMF is a non-profit organisation, which hosts informational/educational projects, among them Wikiversity - there is no "owner" of Wikimedia. I'm trying to bring the focus of our community towards creating educational resources, and fostering the community around those resources - exactly what we said we would do in the proposal. I am not against project management - I'm asking you to please apply your skills to developing what we have always said we would do - not to drive us in a whole new direction. It would only be in doing something like what you suggest that the Wikimedia Foundation would consider pulling the plug. Cormaggio 16:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Most small nonprofit organizations, even with volunteers, need a treasury and treasurer for various expenses. This will be a large project and will have expenses beyond bandwidth and memory. Wikiversity needs a way to manage funds and person(s) to do manage funds. This is not either or in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation. A portion of donations to Wikiversity can be retained and a portion forwarded to the foundation, in whatever portions seem reasonable to all involved. If this is not implemented now, the plan should be in place to implement funds management when the beta phase is over. This is vital and should not be neglected. Reswik 14:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd actually rather that people create their own independent corporations to work on Wikiversity rather than having one central one. (The GFDL limits what wikimedia can do with Wikiversity.)  If anyone wants to create their own non-profit to work on wikiversity projects, I have some practical experience on setting one up (http://www.gnacademy.org/).  The nice thing about have multiple corporations with separate bank accounts working on Wikiversity is that it avoids a lot of the political fights.  Also, I do think that in about a decade or so, that Wikiversity is going to be a huge institution with billions of dollars flowing around related projects, and it seems to be that it would be much healthier to have that money and power distributed among several hundred different non-profits (or for-profits) than to have one monolith.
 * Having multiple non-profits actually removes the purpose of this discussion. If someone wants to set up a non-profit to get grant money for Wikiversity, they can go ahead to do that without anyone's permission.  I'll help since I've already set up one non-profit and also a for-profit. Roadrunner 15:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Why not both? Both small group and large group processes enable participation in different ways. It is a great idea to have a multitude of nonprofits working through Wikiversity. It seems it could also be very helpful for Wikiversity to undertake some projects, with widespread participatory planning processes, in some key educational development, service, and research areas. Reswik 03:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Initial Administrators
As of this time the volunteers on the appointed subcommittee of the appointed Special Projects Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation chartered to help initiate Wikiversity as a viable project recieving support from the Foundation in pursuit of its charter goals and informal goals of its founder Jimmy Wales to help make all free human knowledge available to all humanity have all been given status as Wikiversity administrators. There are a couple of other people acting as administrators by transwiking Wikiversity materials from Wikibooks and the metawiki. It is proposed that any of the five subcommitte members who choose to volunteer for the responsibility of Administership at en.wikiversity.org be automatically confirmed in that position until a formal selection process to become an en.wikiversity.org administrator is implemented. Further any of the adminstrators currently assisting Wikiversity by moving our materials to our web site from Wikibooks or the metawiki also be temporarily confirmed with our thanks for their efforts on our behalf during this transition period until a formal guideline for selecting administrators or the equivalent is established at en.wikiverisity.org by the emerging/arriving community.

Position Tally

 * Messedrocker 07:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yorktown1776 17:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

 * I'm not a fan of admin elections. Besides the fact that voting is evil, it also fosters the wrong type of people in admin roles. Especially in a project such as this - were constructive discourse and civil disagreement is crucial - I would find it very difficult to support an RfA process that involved voting. -- sebmol ? 09:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Is Wikiversity a Single Massive Project or a Multitude Defined by Language?
As an English only speaker it has been my experience that wiki projects tend to develop along lines of language with their own internal detailed policy and guidelines. Obviously there are multilingual participants crossing over but they fair best when they pick up and apply the local culture and guidelines. Most people are tolerant of mistakes due to language difficulties but expect the mistakes to be reduced over time by learning the local requirements for participation.

Position Tally

 * Wikiversity is or is not a single project/program.

 * Messedrocker 07:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * for multiple language projects (not a single project) -- Reswik 14:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Talonhawk 00:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
Is the position above for having multiple separate language projects, or a single multi-lingual project? The Jade Knight 00:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I belive that a pro is generally for a "multitude defined by language". Talonhawk 02:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Selection Criteria and Procedures for en.wikiversity.org Administrators
Do we need specific documented selection criteria and procedures for new and existing administrators and project leadership positions?

Position Tallies

 * Messedrocker 07:33, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * . Guillom 10:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Reswik 14:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Talonhawk 00:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Enni84 08:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

 * I think criteria need to be fairly liberal in the beginning just to cope with the fact that contributors will be rare. A show of trust in another Wikimedia project either through a successful admin vote or comparable involved engagement combined with a passion for what Wikiversity stands for should be all that's necessary. -- sebmol ? 09:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed. We don't need a complicated, restrictive policy. Let's focus on content. Guillom 10:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with the points above. Reswik 17:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I certainly agree with the above and this sems to be a point where there is a clear consensus, and that gives me hope. Talonhawk 00:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Initial Appointment of Custodians Should be Liberal and Easily Reversible
Position Tallies

Discussion

Administrator Creation and Behavioral Criteria Guidelines and Policy
It is proposed that specific criteria and guidelines be drafted for presentation and approval by the en.wikiversity.org community for en.wikiversity.org  At the moment it shall be beyond the scope of this activity to coordinate specifics, commonalities, and exceptions with other language xx.wikiversity.org projects except on an informal ad hoc basis.

Position Tallies

 * -- sebmol ? 09:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Enni84 08:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

A Board of Regents should be Established
Such a board would provide a place for all the xx.wiktionary.org(s) to coordinate their top level policies and mandates with philanthropic organizations such as the Wikimedia Foundation who wish to provide conditional assistance and help transfer good policy and information on bad policy experiment accross the language barriers. The Wikimedia Foundation might wish to recognize them as an advisory board or simply be responsive to them as a large customer organization who generates a significant percentage of the Wikimedia Foundation's budget. For this to be the case we would need to request of the Wikimedia Foundation that the paypal and internal accounts be setup such that donations originating from Wikiversity may be tracked in their internal budgets.

To keep it small enough to be manageable we might use a formula such as the following:

A member of the Wikiversity Regent would be provided by popular or administrator vote each year from the three largest (by some comparison formula of total bytes in the database, total internet hits, total registered accounts) with one by popular vote on a rotating basis between the remaining active language wikiversities and one or two additional members on a rotating basis from the remaining active language wikiversities as sufficient to create an odd number of regents to avoid deadlocks in voting on measures. The Chair to be elected at any time by simple majority vote of the sitting Regents. The Chair to cast the deciding vote in the event that abscence, abstention or neutrality vote by any other Regent results in a tie on a given measure.

Should such a concept of a unifying overall Board of Regents for all Wikiversities be developed and pursued with the other language Wikiversities?

Position Tally

 * Mirwin 08:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Guillom 10:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Roadrunner 14:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Reswik 17:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
If such a thing would ever be created, it would be much much later than today. -- sebmol ? 09:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The only time such a thing is likely to be created with some legitimacy from the community is at the start before power vacuums and gaps are filled in by practical necessities. Mirwin 10:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Why do we even have to talk about that now ? Guillom 10:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If not now when? Once a power structure evolves it rarely wishes to give up its priveleges.  I  prefer a wide community based process.  If you do not you are welcome to wait and see what develops in the vacuum of inattention. Mirwin 14:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Evolved systems tend to work better than designed ones. I don't really see any problem with power vacuums and gaps being filled in ad hoc, as it is likely that those vacuums and gaps will be filled in a disorganized and decentralized way.  Roadrunner 14:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Designed systems tend to evolve faster than natural systems left unpeturbed. Fortunately we have plenty of chaos coming.  Over 150 people had registered as of this morning and they all know other people. Mirwin 00:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiversity Foundation
A non-profit foundation dedicated to the development and support of Wikiversity as a group of cooperating different language based online free learning and learning materials providers should be established sooner rather than later?

Position Tally

 * Mirwin 08:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- sebmol ? 09:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Cormaggio 10:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Guillom 10:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Roadrunner 14:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * -- CSM * 07:39, 22 September 2006
 * -- Talonhawk 03:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Enni84 08:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
The Wikiversity is currently on another probation period from the Wikimedia Foundation of 6 months. At that time appparently it will be re-evaluated and the plug possible pulled on the project. This is essentially the third prototype conducted within a irregular flux of changing conditions, procedures and non-responsiveness from the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Six months is plenty of time to setup a 501(c) Non-profit in the State of Oregon if we start soon ...say within sixty days ... get an initial satisfactory charter setup  .... then start looking for donated servers, bandwidth, expertise or cash to buy such items critical to maintaining Wikiversity's present online with no interuption should the Wikimedia Foundation determine we are failing to meet their unspecific and vague evaluation criteria in six months. Mirwin 08:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't share the mistrust for Wikimedia at all. There are very intelligent, highly engaged people involved that have offered their support and willingness for new ideas. If there are differences in opinion, they can be solved in constructive discourse. A fork is in my opinion out of the question. -- sebmol ? 09:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * An extra Foundation providing infrastructure is not necessarily a fork. Particularly if after the specified beta prototype period Wikiversity databases are removed from existing Wikimedia Foundation servers.  The success of Wikipedia was still highly questionable in many peoples minds even including some of the initial contributors as late as about eighteen months into the project. Mirwin 10:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Can we please focus on actually developing Wikiversity, rather than playing personal power games with the Foundation? Cormaggio 10:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Guillom 10:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Easy to say/request from the top Cormaggio. I notice two or three adminships have been created outside your appointed committee while there has been no action on my application.  Have you ever heard of a large project involving hundreds of thousands of people without a clear organizational structure?
 * Yes. Linux.  Any large national economy.  Academia in general. Also the organizational structure of any major corporation or university is actually usually a lot less clear than it appears on paper.  Roadrunner 15:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Linux had Linus, a mailing list of aproximately 50? core developers, various support lists and clubs, and now Red Hat as well as other major distribtions. If you check with the various large distributions you will find organizatinoal structure.  In fact as I recall Linus recently went to work in Portland, Oregon for an organization funded by a coalition of corporations.  Large national economy .... this hardly merits a response.  Perhaps we need to agree on a definition of "organizational structure".  Academia ... Board of Regents, employee contracts, State Governments and taxation support many, private corporations others.  Organizational structure exists even if it is unwritten, if people know who they work for and how information flows and how committments are exchanged.  Your statements above are roughly equivalent to stating the Milky Way has no structure because various stars have different vector velocities. Mirwin 16:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I prefer that organizational structure to be designed and supported by the community of participants. As our only appointed bureaucrat perhaps you prefer to put it off.  When shall we start to design a process to confer wide support for your successor in your position?  It might interest you to know that one of your appointed committee members requested that I start the process of defining and legitimizing leadership positions with the involvement and support of the community.  The only way I see to do that is to define the organization and some due process from top to bottom.  If you know a better way by all means write it down and either mandate it or put it up for some straw polls.  Incidentally, developing the engineering school would be much more efficient if I could move my and others files from Wikibooks without making a specific request for an administrator to transwiki each file.   Perhaps some useful work "actually developing Wikiversity" would distract me from "power games" with the Foundation. You could always ask a steward to strip the adminship after I get the engineering files over to Wikiversity for a useful continuing point.  Mirwin 14:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd actually prefer to use Wikiversity to teach people to start their own non-profits and get their own grant money for Wikiversity projects through their own foundations. Roadrunner 15:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Not a bad thought! Perhaps in the project management classes we can develop a couple of different charter templates/generics suitable for large free wikis.  Wiki software and sites are proliferating wildly.  Someone is sure to be able to use an effective community based charter rather than a God-King charter eventually.  We can also establish a grant/proposal writing class and pool some expertise helping free wikis figure out how to serve target markets in exchange for targeted grant monies.  A lot of this has large commonalities with business proposals so until the crowds grow more numerous and thicker around here we could also invite business management students to participate.  The situation is simply fraught with potential! Mirwin 00:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Ok, well, I was made bureaucrat pretty randomly - and it is not something that I am entirely happy with. This is not "from the top". I am absolutely for helping us organise our community processes - that is what I am advocating we do - instead of concerning ourselves with 'uber-organisational' structures like a "Wikiversity foundation". This is just not an immediate priority (if on the agenda at all). On making admins, the beginning has been also quite random, and I simply made people admins who were here on the first day and who volunteered to help out. But we still need to get a proper, workable system in place - and that's what we're doing at the moment. Cormaggio 15:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Interesting. I think I was here six months ago.  I volunteered on the administrator request  page and provided references to my previous status as a Wikipedia Administrator.  I think my app was about third on the first page where nominations were piling up and first on a subsequent page that was established.  Well no sweat. If I cannot help transfer my engineering files I can simply help out at random as quantum uncertainties or personal whimsy shift me around the interesting portions of the site.  Regarding the agenda.  It is certainly going to remain on mine until I see some meaningful data and audits applicable and useful for project planning published to the entire community by the Wikimedia Foundation. Mirwin 00:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I probably should put this under Educational Administration

 * Just a note. The idea of having multiple interacting corporations is something that worked well in the "first era of online internet universities."  What happened was that you just had too many personality conflicts if you tried to fit everyone under one roof, so it worked much better to have several interacting non-profits (Globewide Network Academy, Diversity University, BioMOO, and Virtual Online University).  The interesting thing was that each non-profit was basically organized around a single "queen bee" (me, Jeanne McWhorter, Gustavo Glusman, and William Painter).

 * What killed the era of the MOO universities was that we didn't have the funds to match people like Yahoo and MSN who eventually developed chat and discussion facilities which attracted ordinary people and eventually killed the communities.

 * Roadrunner 15:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I would like to know if the other projects such as Wikipedia have their own non-profits or if they are fully funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Talonhawk 01:09, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

 * No, each project is fully funded by the Foundation. What we do have, though, as an adjunct to the Foundation, are national non-profits ("chapters"), which support the development of Wikimedia projects in the context of their country. Cormaggio 07:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems that no US chapter exists, and I would be far more in favor of utilizing that, than creating a project specific non-profit. Talonhawk 03:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

If there are ever new NPCs that supports Wikiversity they should also support and cooperate with the Wikimedia Foundation. --JWSchmidt 04:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


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Wikiversity:Teaching

This page will be the entry point for teachers. Their main interest might be looking for learning materials, which will be searchable by type, level etc. We also hope to develop lesson plans around the teaching of these materials, so that teachers can share what they've done or how they've found other teachers' materials or lesson plans to be.

For general information on teaching, for now, see the Wikiversity School of Education.

Understand the Material
If you're going to teach something you should understand the material. The important that you have an understanding of the material that is at least slightly better than required. A complete understanding is a good thing, but in some subjects getting that could take far too long.

Preparing your Teaching Materials
You can lecture, you can assign reading, whatever you want; Make sure it can keep the students attention. Just remember no matter what medium it immediately becomes victim of the. The material will be forgotten very quickly if it is just information given to them.

Battling Forgetting
There are three main ways used to get students to remember something:

 * Logarithmically-spaced (e.g. after 1 day, after 1 week, after 2 months) repetition (transferal from short term to medium term memory or from medium term to long term memory). For example learning historical dates, root vocabulary in a foreign language, and multiplication tables are taught using this method.
 * Tie what you are teaching to things the student already knows. By tying the information to things the student already understand the information stays in memory longer.
 * Capture the student's desire to know more.

The second and third method combined is preferred whenever possible.

Answering Questions
This is where a lot of teachers fail, they hear the question then jump to conclusions on what the student's problem is. It doesn't look great to stand in front of class for 10 minutes going on about something irrelevant. When someone asks a question you must think about what their problem is. Make sure to ask them specifically about it to make sure you're about to explain the relevant subject.

Being Good at Teaching
You just have to do the last 4 things. Understand it, make the material interesting or present it in interesting ways, have ways for keeping the information in the students' memory, and answer questions without jumping to conclusions. Doing it well comes from practice, and/or having had enough bad teachers to already know these things.

Materials
This page could be structured by departments that might be found in a non-virtual university. However, since this is a hypertext, fields can be linked to in multiple departments. For example, the Computing could be linked from the Matematics Department and the School of Business, as well as being a part of the Department of Computational Sciences.

Perhaps, it will not be useful to structure this page into what can already be found at Browse. Ideas on how to structure this page are welcome below. Overall, this page needs to be of immediate practical use to teachers.

Lesson plans
See Creating a lesson plan

Suggestions
Please add your suggestions here on how you think we can make this page most useful.

Please note that: Cross-linking of knowledge areas is, like the human memory system, a multi-dimensional matrix. That is, the nature of the link is predicated by the origin and destination context. A student may therefore be interested in a data block for reasons entirely different to those of another student who nevertheless shares an interest in the same data block. In fact it is this difference in reasons that yields different information inculcated by such individual students. Unless and until a teacher/lecturer recognises this aspect of learning, his/her teaching efficacy will be less than adequate.

Dr. King

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Wikiversity:Discussing

(Previous material archived.)

Wikiversity - Discussing
A university lives off the discussions conducted by its members.

Resource discussion
Each resource has its own "discuss page" which is accessed by clicking on the appropriate tag. This is the place for discussions about that page.

If you want a reply from a specific fellow user, add " ", replacing "Username" with the person's Wikiversity username. They will then get a notification.

Individual discussion
You can start a discussion with a Wikiversity colleague by leaving a message on the talk page attached to their Userpage.

General discussions
You can start and participate in more general discussions at the Colloquium

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Wikiversity:Creating

Creating

When we conduct research to discover new truths or develop new applications or collections of information, we are creating knowledge representation. This area of the Wikiversity is dedicated to research groups willing to collaborate in public via wiki and to create materials here.

The structure may be similar to the non-virtual university structure found in the teaching area.

 * Department of Mathematics
 * Department of Computational Sciences
 * School of Business
 * Department of Social Sciences

Links

 * Research about Wikis

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Wikiversity talk:Research

Outline of Research Dimensions
I added an outline of research dimensions. Even if only limited kinds of research are to occur in Wikiversity, we may need to discuss many of these dimensions -- if only to make distinctions about what is and is not possible currently in WV. If many kinds of research activity are to be proposed, then there is a lot to talk about.

Topics on the outline easily can be renamed, reframed and regrouped. But, I don't think we should delete topics from this outline just yet. Indeed probably we should add more topics.

Each main topic has various themes of importance, probably requiring a number of subpages. Reswik 04:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I used this outline to develop subtopics on this page:

 * Dimensions of research
 * Internal and external research
 * The relationship of Wikimedia sponsored research, internal research by other Wikimedia projects, and Wikiversity based research
 * Program evaluation research, research exercises, and research for publication
 * Original (primary) and derivative (secondary) research
 * (as distinct from) basic and applied research
 * Ethics
 * Guidelines for research on people and other living beings
 * Aggregate and individual research data
 * Research education
 * Theory and methods
 * Writing
 * Legal and institutional questions, such as the need for an Institutional Review Board
 * Research areas, differences in: Physical sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and professions (to name some general areas)
 * Research meetings and conferences
 * Research sponsorship
 * Hosting research
 * Initiating research
 * Research funding and administration
 * Research support services
 * internal and external
 * Research publication

More topics can be added. Reswik 12:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Initiating And Hosting research-- If wikiversity can serve as a convenient meeting place for scholars and researches, it is already doing well. Then new researches may spark spontaneously. As an analogy, an university administrator can do no more than putting the right kinds of people together. She should not try to do things which the experts know better.--Hillgentleman 13:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi! In the list of research projects being pursued here, I propose to add mine in the hope that it will spur research, knowledge, and practical utilization the wiki way.

Plant Sciences

 * Bloom clock project
 * Nerd Project

Microsystems and Molecular Systems

 * DNA integrated circuits
 * Capillary electrode array

JPatrickBedell 05:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Division of Internal and External Research
I do not think this is a useful distinction. Research performed to create our procedures and systems should be conducted consistent with good practices and reported adequately to the rest of the planet same as "External" research in case someone wishes to create a similar institution or a fork of Wikiversity. Mirwin 07:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The main reason for making a distinction between research on "internal" and "external" topics is that the Wikimedia Foundation has a history of supporting some introspective research efforts (see Wikimedia Research Network). Allowing "internal" research at Wikiversity would be a "baby step" towards allowing Wikiversity to be involved in original research.....it could be a "test case" for seeing if Wikiversity participants could be involved with research without getting into any trouble. "Internal" research is one of the few types of research activity that was mentioned explicitly during the process of getting approval for the Wikiversity project. Bottom line: it is a useful distinction only because it is a distinction that has previously been made by the Wikimedia Foundation and people are familiar with the idea of allowing some internal research activities within Wikimedia projects. --JWSchmidt 13:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * There are some other various issues that come to mind for me in the distinction between internal and external research. Internal research can have, for now, fewer administrative-legal requirements than external research. Research on social aspects of Wikimedia projects would involve human subjects. For external research, this would usually require approval by an IRB board. The Wikimedia Foundation currently, last I checked, does not have an IRB board. Internal research can hence be more informal and easy to start -- but it should follow the same ethical standards of research -- obtaining consent, maintaining confidentially, etc.
 * Internal research can also be program evaluation -- such as assessing educational activities or modules -- which can be as simple as a short self-administered survey that users of a learning activity fill out on completing a module. Such evaluation processes may not require IRB approval in educational institutions, but may require a waver from an IRB and IRB issues start to arise when the publishing of more than summary data becomes involved.
 * Another issue is that external researchers are probably often going to be looking to publish their findings. This requires a certain level of professional rigour in analysis and writing. This also requires shaping a discussion in ways and in terms of a contextualizing literature that various academic communities would accept. Internal research can be practical but also creative in reaching beyond the boundaries and interests of academic communities.
 * So, while internal researchers can choose to engage all of the above processes and more, internal research can be more informal, can be more creative, can address academic and/or non-academic questions, and can be less bureaucratically encumbered by approval processes, reporting and extra paperwork. So, internal and external research processes might be (or might not be) quite qualitatively distinct in practice and results. --Reswik 17:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at the multilingual hub where we have been tasked to address these issues. --JWSchmidt 17:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

regarding assignment in OER course
This is a most important issue! May I work on it in order to satisfy the requirement for the assignment for the second week of the OERcourse? How do I request permission and to who? Will some one please advise. Stewjean, 06:05, 9 March 2008
 * The assignment in that week is: "contribute something in the form of constructive feedback in discussion forums, editing, or new page creation, then write one (1) blog post about the experience"
 * So, you can use this page for your assignment.
 * We are a wiki - there is nothing like asking permission to edit (some pages may be protected, then you also don't have an "edit this page" button). When you make a change, please give good enough comments in the summary, so others can understand more what your intention is in the change you processed. You could also before editing the page for example write on the talk page what you want to change or alike, if you feel like your edit may produce controversy :-) Erkan Yilmaz Wikiversity:Chat  10:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

strategy wikimedia - Proposals
Please see:
 * Proposal:Get more serious about promoting research on Wikiversity
 * Proposal:Sponsored research and development, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 19:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikibooks link
The link to Wikibooks (Wiki Science Wikiresearch in wikibooks) is broken. That page does not exist. --Kbarchard (discuss • contribs) 16:15, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Corrected. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:20, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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The Wikiversity School of Aviation is hoping to start with courses of Practical Aviation content. Please feel free to contribute with as much or as little as you wish. Don't fear, there is no harm you can do that can't be undone.

A school is a large organizational structure which can contain various departments and divisions. The departments and divisions should be listed in the departments and divisions section. The school should not contain any learning resources. The school can contain projects for developing learning resources.

'''Please add anything you can to any of the existing areas. Feel free to edit, rewrite or start a whole new topic. We really need some more organization to this school.'''

What aviation is
Aviation deals with flight and all factors involved in flight. It covers not only pilots, but also all the fields necessary to support flight.

 * Pilots, Flight Instructors, Ground Instructors
 * Crewmembers Other Than Pilots
 * Aircraft and Maintenance
 * Airports
 * Air Traffic Control
 * Air Carriers and For Compensation Operations
 * Space Transportation
 * Rotorcraft operations

Related studies include Aerospace Engineering.

Pilots
For basic information you need to know before beginning training to become a pilot, read the Pilot's Basic Information page.

Divisions and Departments
Divisions and Departments of the School exist on pages in "topic" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "" prefix; departments reside in the namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions.

There are three basic Genres in Aviation:
 * General Aviation (SPL, RPL and PPL) GA
 * Commercial and Air Transport Aviation (CPL and ATPL) Airline
 * Military Aviation MA

Practical aviation
Includes Theory Courses required of students (cadets) who are pursuing a license or a rating such as:

Etc.
 * Sport Licenses (SPL)
 * Recreational Licenses (RPL)
 * Private Pilot Licenses PPL
 * Instrument Ratings IR
 * Multiengine Ratings (MR)
 * Commercial Pilot Licenses CPL
 * Certificated Flight Instructor Licenses CFI
 * Air Transport Pilot Licenses ATPL
 * Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic(A&P) and related Aircraft Maintenance Technician

Each of these levels require some theory study plus actual and simulated flying hours. They also include some maintenance and other courses but mostly in a practical theme.

Although this study is mainly static from year to year and some pilots have had twenty years of experience and found out that their kids are studying the same courses and information they did, changes in regulations and changes in technology require continual updating.

Many Aviation schools started by providing only the basics, then moved up to Aviation Science after adding resources and the staff.

We urge you to take the placement test just to know where you belong

Courses
Courses we will be working on are:
 * 1) Aircrafts and Aerodynamics
 * 2) Aircraft Instruments, Engines and Systems
 * 3) Airports, Air Traffic Control, and Airspace
 * 4) Federal Aviation Regulations
 * 5) Aircraft Performance and Weight and Balance
 * 6) Aeromedical Factors and Aeronautical Decision Making
 * 7) Aviation Weather
 * 8) Aviation Weather Services
 * 9) Navigation
 * 10) Navigation Systems
 * 11) Cross Country Flight Planning
 * 12) Rotorcraft operations
 * 13) Glider operations
 * 14) Lighter-than-air operations

Before we begin I'd like to state that you are begining on a journey that may take you to places you've yet to imagine. You'll never regret pursuing your pilot's certificate. Maybe your goal is to become a professional pilot GOOD FOR YOU. Pilots love going to work. Most pilots pay their dues by Flight instructing, giving scenic rides, towing banners & gliders, The pay is low but the experience is priceless. I wish you all the best of luck.

Practical aviation course contents

 * Chapter 1 Aircraft Components
 * Chapter 2 Aerodynamics
 * Chapter 3 Engines
 * Chapter 4 Electrical Systems
 * Chapter 5 Flight Instruments
 * Chapter 6 Federal Aviation Regulations
 * Chapter 7 Airport Operations
 * Chapter 8 Radio Operations
 * Chapter 9 Airspace
 * Chapter 10 Aviation Maps
 * Chapter 11 Radio Navigation
 * Chapter 12 Understanding Weather
 * Chapter 13 Weather Charts & Briefings
 * Chapter 14 Flight planning
 * Chapter 15 Airplane Performance Charts
 * Chapter 16 Weight & Balance
 * Chapter 17 Aeronautical Information
 * Chapter 18 Checklists and Aircraft Specific Information
 * Chapter 19 Helicopters and Rotorcraft

Aviation Science
This is the more scientific branch of study and includes some engineering courses and sometimes even safety courses.

Please feel free to start new categories or new courses

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 10 March 2012, working on Repellor vehicles as an EAA project! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 04:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Inactive participants

 * User:Aerodrome
 * User:nbx909
 * User:hunt1200
 * User:AuntPeggy
 * User:Swatjester
 * User:Joeldcox
 * User:Ikluft
 * User:RandyRostie

Things you can do!

 * Clean up Draft:Applications of power electronics and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Electrochemical capacitors and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Geographic coordinates and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Lofting technology and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Mems capacitors and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Repellor vehicles and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Shielding and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Small solar vehicle and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Spaceflights and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

School news

 * August 18, 2006 - School founded!
 * March 1, 2007 - Much more work needed!
 * September 2, 2008 - Resources section reorganized, new documentation links

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Resources
These are online resources to assist with personal research.

United States
The following online resources are from the US Federal Aviation Administration. While the scope of any regulatory material only applies to the United States, anything about how aircraft work is globally applicable. There is a lot of information here.
 * Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) - aviation regulations in the United States
 * FAA Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) - procedures and regulatory overview
 * Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge - details on piloting for all categories of aircraft
 * Student Pilot Guide (PDF) - how to learn to fly
 * Plane Sense - General Aviation Information (PDF) - aircraft ownership
 * Aircraft flying handbooks
 * Airplane Flying Handbook
 * Glider Flying Handbook
 * Rotorcraft Flying Handbook (PDF)
 * Balloon Flying Handbook (PDF)
 * Seaplane, Skiplane, and Float/Ski Equipped Helicopter Operations Handbook
 * Powered Parachute Flying Handbook (PDF)
 * Instrument flight
 * Instrument Flying Handbook
 * Instrument Procedures Handbook
 * Safety brochures
 * Alcohol and Flying: A Deadly Combination (PDF)
 * Altitude-Induced Decompression Sickness (PDF)
 * Carbon Monoxide: A Deadly Menace (PDF)
 * Deep Vein Thrombosis & Travel (PDF)
 * Fatigue in Aviation (PDF)
 * Hearing and Noise in Aviation (PDF)
 * Hypoxia: The Higher You Fly...The Less Air In The Sky (PDF)
 * Information for Pilots Considering Laser Eye Surgery (PDF)
 * Medical Certification Questions and Answers (PDF)
 * Medications and Flying (PDF)
 * Medications and Flying Poster (PDF)
 * Physiological Training Courses for Civil Aviation Pilots (PDF)
 * Pilot Medical Certification Information for the Aviation Community (PDF)
 * Pilot Vision (PDF)
 * Seat Belts & Shoulder Harnesses: Smart Protection in Small Airplanes (PDF)
 * Smoke (PDF)
 * Spatial Disorientation: Visual Illusions (PDF)
 * Spatial Disorientation: Why You Shouldn't Fly By the Seat of Your Pants (PDF)
 * Sunglasses for Pilots: Beyond the Image (PDF)
 * Misc handbooks
 * International Flight Information Manual
 * Aviation Instructor's Handbook (PDF)
 * Aircraft Weight and Balance Handbook (PDF)
 * Amateur-built Aircraft & Ultralight Flight Testing Handbook (PDF)
 * Parachute Rigger Handbook (PDF)
 * Banner Tow Operations (PDF)
 * Examiner handbooks
 * Aviation Mechanic Examiner Handbook
 * Designated Pilot and Flight Engineer Examiner's Handbook
 * Designee Management Handbook
 * Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners
 * Parachute Rigger Examiner Handbook
 * Sport Pilot Examiner's Handbook

New Zealand
The New Zealand Written Examinations Manuals is trying to build up a manual based on the syllabus requirements from the NZCAA Advisory Circulars

Canada

 * Aviation regulations in Canada

What if your country isn't listed here?
This is a volunteer-maintained site. You can add the information for your country. Please take care to ensure accuracy. When possible, please include links that others can use to confirm its accuracy as well - but don't hesitate to get it started.

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Open source software

 * fPlan - Flight plan creator
 * The Combat Simulator Project
 * FlightGear - open-source, multi-platform, highly customizable flight simulator.

Related news

 * April 2008 Boeing Successfully Flies Fuel Cell-Powered Airplane
 * March 2007 Researchers investigate the use of bio-jet propellant.

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International
As I can notice the school of Aviation is FAA focused while it should be more International, anyone ready to try to make it more international?

--Capt.radi 07:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I have started a New Zealand section. I guess the problem is that while a lot of content will be similar between states, it isnt going to be the same. Maybe this is the way to go. Aerodrome 12:31, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. But I can only contribute US or general information.204.126.130.10 18:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

External resources
Links to handbooks and other helpful pages can be found on School:School of Aviation/External resources.

You people could practise using a Flight Simulator :-)

Aviation schools
Aviation Schools Flight school and pilot training directory listing aviation schools world wide. Find flight attendant training, helicopter schools, aircraft maintenance and lot more. Aviation  Schools

"US Air Force attempts Antarctica night-vision flight"
http://www.physorg.com/news140438706.html

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Aircraft piloting/Aviation resources

Learning to fly
Many public, free sources of information about learning to fly are already available, especially for those who want to earn a pilot certificate, add a rating, or learn more about flying in the U.S. (although much of the information, except for specific regulations and procedures) is relevant outside the U.S.). For example:

 * For information about learning to fly, see:
 * AOPA Learn to Fly page: http://www.aopa.org/learntofly/
 * AOPA Flight Training Learn to Fly: http://flighttraining.aopa.org/learntofly/
 * Be A Pilot: http://www.beapilot.com/indexfl.html
 * Information about the new Sport Pilot certificate and Light Sport Aircraft: http://www.sportpilot.org/
 * Helpfull website for studying aeronautical charts (NOT TO BE USED FOR FLIGHT PLANNING) http://skyvector.com/

Free, Public-Domain Aviation Handbooks by the FAA
The FAA offers many complete, public-domain training handbooks for free download in PDF format. These books are the official references for many pilot certificates and ratings.

You can find currently available titles at: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/ and http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/ Other FAA publications available for download are listed at: http://www.faasafety.gov/onlineresources.aspx?categoryId=47&masterId=1

The following books available via the previous link are of particular interest:

Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook/index.cfm The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25A) is for aviators training for a private pilot certificate--and for pilots who want to refresh their knowledge of the fundamentals or learn about such advanced topics as operation of turbine engines and flying large and swept-wing aircraft. It introduces pilots to the theory and practical knowledge they will need as they progress in their pilot training from aerodynamics, engines, flight instruments, and navigation to avionics, weather, and airspace.

This 471-page handbook is available for download in PDF format directly from the FAA, by chapter. An unofficial copy, compiled into a single document and indexed with hyperlinks by section and subsection headings, can also be downloaded elsewhere.

Contents

 * Chapter 1-Introduction to Flying
 * Chapter 2-Aircraft Structure
 * Chapter 3-Principles of Flight
 * Chapter 4-Aerodynamics of Flight
 * Chapter 5-Flight Controls
 * Chapter 6-Aircraft Systems
 * Chapter 7-Flight Instruments
 * Chapter 8-Flight Manuals and Other Documents
 * Chapter 9-Weight and Balance
 * Chapter 10-Aircraft Performance
 * Chapter 11-Weather Theory
 * Chapter 12-Aviation Weather Services
 * Chapter 13-Airport Operations
 * Chapter 14-Airspace
 * Chapter 15-Navigation
 * Chapter 16-Aeromedical Factors
 * Chapter 17-Aeronautical Decision-Making

Flight Training Handbook
http://avstop.com/ac/flighttrainghandbook/

Contents

 * Preface
 * Chapter 1 - Introduction to Flight Training
 * Chapter 2 - Introduction to Airplanes and Engines
 * Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Basics of Flight
 * Chapter 4 - The Effect and Use of Controls
 * Chapter 5 - Ground Operations
 * Chapter 6 - Basic Flight Maneuvers
 * Chapter 7 - Airport Traffic Patterns and Operations
 * Chapter 8 - Takeoffs and Departure Climbs
 * Chapter 9 - Landing Approaches and Landings
 * Chapter 10 - Faulty Approaches and Landings
 * Chapter 11 - Proficiency Flight Maneuvers
 * Chapter 12 - Cross-Country Flying
 * Chapter 13 - Emergency Flight By Reference to Instruments
 * Chapter 14 - Night Flying
 * Chapter 15 - Seaplane Operations
 * Chapter 16 - Transition to Other Airplanes
 * Chapter 17 - Principles of Flight and Performance Characteristics

Airplane Flying Handbook
The Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A) is the hands-on, how-to guide to flying all the maneuvers required for the private pilot and commercial pilot certificates. It is designed to assist student pilots learning to fly airplanes and to help current pilots and flight instructors expand their knowledge and skills. It's also one of the official references that pilot examiners use when testing the flying skills of pilots who are taking check rides.

This 210-page handbook is available for download in seven parts in PDF format.

Contents

 * Chapter 1-Introduction to Flight Training
 * Chapter 2-Preflight, Postflight, and Ground Operations
 * Chapter 3-Takeoffs and Climbs
 * Chapter 4-Basic Flight Maneuvers
 * Chapter 5-Slow Flight, Stalls, and Spins
 * Chapter 6-Ground Reference and Performance Maneuvers
 * Chapter 7-Airport Traffic Patterns, Approaches, and Landings
 * Chapter 8-Faulty Approaches and Landings
 * Chapter 9-Flight by Reference to Instruments
 * Chapter 10-Night Operations
 * Chapter 11-Navigation Systems
 * Chapter 12-Emergency Operations
 * Chapter 13-Transition to Different Airplanes and Systems
 * Chapter 14-Transition to a Multiengine Airplane
 * Chapter 15-Transition to Tailwheel Airplanes
 * Chapter 16-Transition to Seaplanes
 * Chapter 17-Transition to Skiplanes
 * Chapter 18-Aeronautical Decision Making

Instrument Flying Handbook
http://avstop.com/ac/instument/index.html

The Instrument Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-15) is the FAA's guide to all of the aeronautical knowledge and skills required to operate in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). It is designed for pilots training for an instrument rating, and for the instrument flight instructors who teach them. The Instrument Flying Handbook includes both theory and practical guidance on how to operate an aircraft solely by reference to instruments, from filing a flight plan and working with ATC to maintaining straight-and-level flight, flying DME arcs and holding patterns, and shooting ILS approaches.

This 280-page handbook is available for download in two parts in PDF format.

Contents

 * Chapter 1: Human Factors
 * Chapter 2: Aerodynamic Factors
 * Chapter 3: Flight Instruments
 * Chapter 4: Airplane Attitude Instrument Flying
 * Chapter 5: Airplane Basic Flight Maneuvers
 * Chapter 6: Helicopter Attitude Instrument Flying
 * Chapter 7: Navigation Systems
 * Chapter 8: The National Airspace System
 * Chapter 9: The Air Traffic Control System
 * Chapter 10: IFR Flight
 * Chapter 11: Emergency Operations
 * Appendices
 * Glossary
 * Index

Instrument Procedures Handbook
http://avstop.com/ac/instrument_proc/index.html

The Instrument Procedures Handbook, a guide for advanced instrument pilots published by the FAA, is available for free download at: http://av-info.faa.gov/terps/IPH.htm

The Aeronautical Chart User's Guide
To learn more about aviation charts, you can download the Aeronautical Chart User's Guide (available in several parts in PDF format) from the FAA's National Aviation Charting Office (NACO): http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/aero_guide

Other Free Reference Materials
The Aeronautical Information Manual and many other references of interest to pilots are available free online in both HTML and PDF format at http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/.

AOPA Air Safety Foundation's Online Safety Center
A wealth of practical information for pilots is also available free to everyone (although the content is copyrighted) from the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's Online Safety Center at http://www.aopa.org/asf/. Resources include a variety publications in PDF format, free online courses, etc.

Information from Manufacturers
You can also find much free information about weather, avionics, and other subjects on the Web.

For example, most manufacturers of GPS navigation gear offer their user manuals, PC-based simulators, training syllabi, and other resources via their Web sites. You needn't be an owner of the equipment to download the information and resources. See, for example, http://www.garmin.com/aviation/products.html#panel-mount.

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