On 19/11/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Just to note that there was, at some time, talk of integrating
MediaWiki with an online learning system, or at least making it
pluggable. That didn't seem to kick off, but perhaps it's worth
revisiting?
Rob Church