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Welcome Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more about Wikiversity, try a guided tour or start editing now.

Today's Featured Project The bloom clock project The Bloom Clock is a research and learning project about flowering plants. The project has both learning and research components. The learning component involves helping people identify plants by means of visual keys, such as colour. The research component is aimed at creating a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral with respect to climate, region, and hemisphere. The bloom clock is the largest of a number of observational clock projects and currently comprises about 860 plants and 144 recognition keys. Individual users and classes are welcome to join this project - school classes and both amateur and professional horticulturalists are all welcome. Visit this resource · see more featured content view · discuss Community Start editing, join the discussion (on the colloquium) and become part of the Wikiversity community! For real-time advice or assistance, you can join our Wikiversity's IRC channel, or our mailing list, or add learner questions on our help desk. The community portal is a listing of notices, projects, activities, guidelines and resources, and learn more about us through the history of Wikiversity.

Educational Picture of the Day Dialect map of Spain This is a language and dialect map of Spain, showing the approximate extent and mix of languages. It must be noted that dialects significantly overlap geographically with more than one language or dialect being spoken in a particular area. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and websites. Use the links below to find more images like this one. Linguistic maps of the world - Wikimedia Commons Atlas of Languages Images relating to the Spanish language Audio recordings of the Spanish language This image is a part of the Educational Media Awareness Campaign, raising awareness among educators about the availability and usage of millions of free internet media in education. view · discuss Development At Wikiversity we are committed both to conventional learning patterns and resources, and to innovation and experimentation. Wikiversity is open to reconceptualising how web education can occur and how open educational resources can be made, and we are open to new ideas about the use of the Mediawiki environment for learning and research. Check out and help develop our learning projects and how learning works on Wikiversity, see how Wikiversity can help you, and explore how to get involved and start adding content. The sandbox server project is also a centre of learning experimentation.

Explore Wikiversity Catalogue | Guided tours ► Schools ► Portals ► Resources ► Learning projects ► Help News 2014 May: The semester course at Wikiversity, Principles of radiation astronomy concluded its first semester on May 9th April Standard candles is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz March Blue astronomy is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz February: Violet astronomy is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz Visual astronomy is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz Interplanetary medium is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz Ultraviolet astronomy is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz Optical astronomy is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz Intergalactic medium is a new lecture for the course Principles of radiation astronomy, try it out and take the quiz January: the Noam Chomsky/Reading group is in progress Help Creating educational content at Wikiversity (teacher-oriented tour). Starting out at Wikiversity (student-oriented tour). ► Help

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