Wikipedia goes to college.WIKIPEDIA IS ADMIRED ad·mire v. ad·mired, ad·mir·ing, ad·mires v.tr. 1. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval. 2. To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect. 3. AND DERIDED BY HIGHER ED PROFESSIONALS. ADMIRED FOR creating an ever-expanding knowledge base that is unique in that anyone can edit the entries, and derided for the same reason. Now an offshoot project hopes to accent the positive. Called Wikiversity, it will be a clearinghouse clearinghouse Institution established by firms engaged in similar activities to enable them to offset transactions with one another in order to limit payment settlements to net balances. for the creation and use of free Learning materials. Subjects will be divided into various "Wikiversity Schools," including Humanities, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, Education, Media, Professions, and more. Wikiversity proposes to host a range of multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. learning materials/resources in all languages. It will also complement existing Wikimedia projects, such as the aforementioned a·fore·men·tioned adj. Mentioned previously. n. The one or ones mentioned previously. aforementioned Adjective mentioned before Adj. 1. Wikipedia. Learn more at http://en.wikiversity.org. |
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