Trumpeter Swan: Nontheist Friends, EDUCATIONAL FREEWARE, World University & School

Nontheist Friends,


EDUCATIONAL FREEWARE ~

Here, at World University & School, is a growing list of Educational Freeware: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software -
it has some really good, free software, and, of course, as an open wiki (editable web pages), we can all add to this list, well into the future. You could see WUaS both as very ethical, potentially helpful and subversive at the same time, as well.


Nontheist Friends might find all of World University & School interesting - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com. It's like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware (1900 courses are already online), where anyone can teach or learn, either interactively or to their web cam. It's potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and at all
levels. WUaS focuses on great Universities' content around the world for an academic side, as well on One Laptop per Child countries and these languages as they come online, but in its (nontheistically) Friendly side, it's open to new teaching or content, as you are so moved.

As the main developer thus far, I see World University & School very much in a Quakerly light; I've blogged about this aspect in some detail here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com (e.g. search on the labels 'global university,' 'Quaker', 'nontheist friend'). And as an University and School, I see WUaS as privileging learning as conversation (based on reason - so, nontheistically). And like Quaker, unprogrammed, silent meeting, we can all share - teach and learn - in the ways we want at WUaS - perhaps expressions of respect for others. Like silent meeting and Quaker process, too, the internet is very distributed and non-hierarchical, and World University and School builds on these aspects.

If you want, teach something here, or add teaching content you find great - about any subject, and/ or learn. And please and let friends know (and join the Facebook group -
facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 if you have a FB page). There are already a lot! of resources on this site if you start to explore the links. Enjoy.

World University & School is a far-reaching vision and opportunity to share ideas in ways that are very person to person, and potentially very helpful to people.


With friendly greetings,
Scott


http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

{http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com July 30, 2009}