Action Research to develop Wikiversity February 26, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : distributed research, edublog, Action Research, Wiki , trackbackMy friend Gordon just alerted me to an Action Research project to develop Wikiversity, which is pretty exciting for me being so close to my own research interests on the application of action research methodology in a distributed environment.
Developing Wikiversity through action research
This is a series of steps that correspond to an action research methodology for facilitating and assessing the development of Wikiversity.
What is Action_research according to Wikiversity:
Action research is essentially a collaborative activity in which people enter into a progressive cycle of reflecting in/on their own practice (or environment) and changing/improving this practice/environment.
What is Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a learning community
Who:
Anyone can participate.
One intended outcome of this project is a PhD thesis. (Comment from Cormaggio: I want to make this explicit from the beginning, however I don’t want to lay personal claim to the research process, as it is genuinely meant to be a fundamentally collaborative activity - see User:Cormaggio/My? research.)
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
Aha! So it’s good ol’ Gordo who’s doing the introductions.. Fantastic!
I’ve been reflecting on my research over the last few days - some of which you can find on this post to my blog. I have to say, I’m finding it a real challenge - and have been having this feeling from the beginning. Even though the research process is designed to be as congruent with the research context as possible - I feel as if it is still stuttering. Perhaps (probably) these are simply the beginning steps - and that we will find our proverbial and collective feet after getting stuck in. But I would deeply appreciate any comments that anyone has - via the research page, my blog, wiki, email, my user talk page on Wikiversity, or any other space you feel appropriate.
Great to see this web of interest expanding - it just shows of itself the power of this medium to connect people and their ideas in ever-surprising ways. Thanks!
Cormac