Mailing lists is certainly a possibility. However, be aware that
things like IRC channels are outside the scope of the project. The
official IRC channel isn't hosted by Wikiversity (well, WMF), so why
should the unofficial ones be? People are free to start a channel on
freenode as and when they feel like it. As for a live conversation, I
might be able to develop a teacher-student classroom real time
conversation system. It won't exactly be feature rich, so no
whiteboard or learning material library, but it should offer
authenticated teachers ability to upload learning materials and manage
the conversation, and it serves the purpose. We could even host it on
toolserver. I've got clearance for a toolserver account, but being on
leave (officially and unofficially) I haven't bothered to set it up
yet. Any suggestions?
On 11/20/06, Teemu Leinonen <teemu.leinonen(a)uiah.fi> wrote:
Hi all,
Have you discussed about the possibility to host mailing lists, IRC
channels and VoIP conference calls for the study courses using
Wikiversity?
This way the teachers could actually have a class in the Wikiversity.
These collaboration services would bring Wikiversity to new level:
not to be a repository of self-study materials, but hmm... University
(community) ran on Wiki :-)
I wrote sometime ago about the community and social aspects of
Wikiversity in here:
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=wikiversity-time-to-vote
Best regards,
- Teemu
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+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
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