Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Sunbittern: Nontheist Friends, Wider Friendly (Quaker) World, World Univ & Sch, Yale 'Intro to Psychology' Lectures, MIT-originating 'Instructables'

I'm curious how nontheist Friends might brainstorm about inviting the wider Friendly (Quaker) world to become richly involved in World University & School. I think Friends' involvement would benefit WUaS and Quakers greatly. Wikipedia, by way of comparison, has a very large community of Wikipedians, is in 70 languages and has about 13 million articles. I'd like World University & School, openly and freely, to flourish in all languages, nation states, subjects and levels, (first by gradually aggregating already great, free, open courses, teaching, and learning opportunities on the web). And I'd love a (nontheistically = knowledge oriented?) Friendly ethos to inform WUaS. Doing so can involve only adding a link to WUaS occasionally.

There's an interesting lecture (the 3rd one) on Freud in this Yale University "Introduction to Psychology" course: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology and oyc.yale.edu/psychology/introduction-to-psychology/content/class-sessions, vis-a-vis a recent NTF email thread. (And MIT-originating Instructables is another fascinating example of teaching and learning material which I just added to WUaS -
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects#Aggregates_of_Skills_.26_Crafts).

There's a great opportunity for creativity at WUaS, as we can teach whatever we want about anything we want (e.g. about nontheistic Friends, or how to elicit loving bliss, naturally?).

And all of us can teach at WUaS simply by using our web cameras to video what we'd like to teach, uploading this to a video site like Youtube, and posting it to WUaS, even with a mobile device.

How to engage Quakers at large with World University & School, besides beginning to travel to Quaker centers and Meetings to talk about it, and vis-a-vis nontheist Friends? How via the internet? WUaS will help a lot of people in the developing world, especially, as languages come online. Please let me know what you think.

With friendly greetings,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com


(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunbittern-nontheist-friends-wider.html - September 2, 2009)

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