Joe,
 
One of the issues with running a for credit class on Wikiversity is that the Wikimedia Board specifically doesn't want us (the participants) running certification/accredited classes under the Foundation's umbrella. This doesn't bar us from hosting them, (I'm designing one for a school right now), it just requires that a organization be willing to sponsor it. We are also working on a sandbox server which might be able to host a CMS like Moodle to expand on the wiki software.  
 
Other projects have discussed collapsing into Wikimedia, but the community tends to be pretty reluctant about approving new projects. Wikiversity is the newest project, and was approved in 2006. It would probably be better to maintain a partnership, and perhaps have PlanetMath collapse into a new free university or something.
 
Geoffrey

From: Joe Corneli <holtzermann17@gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 8:27:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] planetmath teamup?

> Joe, it sounds like a cool idea. Feel free to be bold and work on it.

Definitely.  I think that at this point "coalition building" is
a reasonable objective.  We have tons of *ideas*, but
I think implementation is going to take somewhat broad-based
support.  I've been talking to the Teaching Open Source
folks (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page)
and they like the idea.

> Who would be the college for the for-credit class?

We're definitely still in "looking around" mode.  As I mentioned,
I'm at The Open University, UK, and I brought the idea up with
some of the maths people here.  But that was just yesterday
and now I'm waiting to hear back.  A more conventional college
that nevertheless likes experimental/innovative courses might
be a better bet.  (Ideas welcome.  CS or mathematics faculty
champions especially welcome :)

> The Wikiversity IRC channel is always open, and users are generally in there
> to talk further. You can also bring it up on the Colloquium on Wikiversity.

I anticipate a lot of large-scale issues around "Wiki versus Noosphere"
(Noosphere is PlanetMath's hand-rolled collaboration platform).  And
in the long-term, I wonder whether the PlanetMath/Noosphere project
can get folded into Wikimedia on an organizational level.  So... there
will be lots of things to talk about.

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