User:Kils~enwikibooks/virtual university
The Virtual University is an initiative of students, professors and philanthropists for some free education via the www, with interactive components.
Many universities, like Edison college or the Open University in England, have interactive courses over the internet (Distance education), however they charge tuition. Especially as support for third world countries there are now some proposals to deliver courses and interactive material free. Erik Moeller user:eloquence proposed the wikiversity which is under construction as an umbrella for such virtual education. In Germany a demonstration version is mounted with courses, free video/audioconferences and interactive tools, for example on oceanography. First professors volunteered as "faculty patrons" for the project, like Gotthilf Hempel, Uwe Kils - all faculty worldwide is invited to add some classes and ideas to this international project, also mount some works and reading material and images and graphs on Wikisource and register with SKYPE and iVISIT for communication. A lecture (like "Biology of Antarctica") should serve as an umbrella with jumps to information. The teaching content should be contained on life Wikipedia pages, possibly with forked-off mirrors frozen at intervals after proofreading, like in the faculty checked forked off stage of the article about Antarctic krill. Fred Bauder offered on his Wikinfo server the possibility for cooperating faculty to protect selected areas, like CV, publications, hatching another crystallization point for free Internet academia: Virtual university @ Wikinfo.
International students and faculty in robes from Finland, Germany and Norway