I think with many of the Wikiversitys
there is still the challenge to find what is it for. I would propose
that Wikiversity could focus on:
(1) collaborative learning in online courses in the P2PU style
(
http://p2pu.org/ ), just being more community-driven and open, and
(2) building interactive self-study courses (computer-based training)
It would probably be possible to start a School of the Wiki Way or
something similar *within* P2PU. There is already a School of
Webcraft, and now a School of Social Innovation, and School of the
Mathematical Future (the latter one I helped start).
At the moment, I don't see a particular reason for Wikiversity to
rebuild P2PU infrastructure from scratch, when it could instead be
reused to do something cool more quickly and then tweaked with
considerable future promise. I know several P2PU courses are using
Wikiversity as a place to host some of their content, and perhaps good
things would come from a suitable bidirectional channel :)
As for the computer-based training idea: not likely to go from 0 to
8000BPS overnight. Does Wikiversity have a roadmap? If CBT was in
the roadmap, it might actually happen ;). Note, in my Ph. D. project
I'm working on something related, for mathematics, in the PlanetMath
setting.
One thing both P2PU and PlanetMath have in common is that they are not
wikis, at least not in the traditional sense, though both have wiki
aspects. I've often asked myself what PlanetMath's role is in the
"wiki world" of wikimedia. Wikiversity could also ask what its role
is in the broader and often non-wiki, or not exclusively wiki, world
of online educational communities.