The Research Portal
Laboratory equipment.
SETI@home was an early example of distributed collaborative research efforts.

Welcome to Wikiversity's research portal. In addition to Wikiversity's learning mission in the pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary and non-formal educational sectors, the Wikimedia Foundation's approved project proposal for Wikiversity includes an approval to host research. The research portal is Wikiversity's main entry point to all known research being hosted here, as well as all documents and supporting materials relating to research, such as proposals and other administrative materials. If you wish to conduct research using Wikiversity, you should start by reading the various guidelines, bearing in mind their provisional status, and look at some existing projects. Research projects at Wikiversity are fundamentally collaborative and open to all. Discuss research projects, reports, methodologies, methods, theories, etc. in the research discussion forum.

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Developing Wikiversity through action research in its largest sense, the question this project will address is "Why Wikiversity?" In other words: why does Wikiversity exist, and what does its existence mean for the world of education, and for you and me? Wikiversity is a repository of learning materials, a resource for self-study, a space for collaboration, a space in which to learn collaboratively, a space to explore about learning, a space to learn about teaching, etc. So, how does Wikiversity do all this - "how" in the sense of "by what means" - and, crucially, "by what values"..


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Exobiology

Searching for water and life on Mars. The map shows a possible landing site at Eos Chasma.

List of current research topics
Research quotes

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein

Guide to Research
The following is a dynamic listing of all the pages categorized into this portal. To restructure or extend this list, you will need to edit individual page categories.
Related material on Wikiversity
Administering Wikiversity research
To-do list for Research

Please feel welcome to add to this list.

  • Add "Research" to left-menu (under "Projects") to show WV does not just dispense knowledge but also helps create it.
  • Repair the research category so that the category tree displayed on this page is more user-friendly.
  • Update the page so a list of active projects is at the top.
Participation for Research

Active participants

Inactive participants

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