Nautilus highlights Wikiversity, a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity, part of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, creates and hosts free content, multimedia learning materials and curricula for all ages in all languages, and will develop collaborative learning projects and communities. Teachers and ‘students’ (anyone wanting to learn) are invited to join the community, where anyone can edit the pages.
Wiki technology promotes collaborative webpage editing, which can be thought of as a set of ‘learning projects’ — participants learn as they edit and explore topics of interest.
With such open content, Wikiversity is unlikely to ever be officially recommended by schools or universities. But college students in many countries are already keen users of online educational resources, so there are certainly opportunities for educational publishers and Wikipedia to forge links between online learning resources and textbooks, and for academic teachers to consider these when recommending resources to students.

Nature 448, xiii; 30 August 2007