Japanese Maple: To the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, Communication, Networking and Working With

To the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium,


Greetings from Berkeley. How are you? I'm writing to let you know about World University & School - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University. I'd like to just let you know a little about WUaS here so that we might come into further communication about Open Course Ware possibilities. We've listed your OpenCourseWare Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/) at WUaS for nearly a year now: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates.


World University and School is a global, digital, open, free to students, future degree-granting, wiki university and school, potentially in all languages, countries-states, subjects and at all levels, using a Wikipedia-with-MIT Open Course Ware model, for everyone, especially OLPC countries and the emerging world. Being a wiki-based education and information site, it's a place where anyone can teach, learn and edit content, via video, via virtual worlds, and in ways people create.


By developing a wiki school in every language and country/territory, WUaS will facilitate a wiki-conversation between languages and countries, in terms of teaching/learning, free and open software, and also vis-a-vis free degrees. It will generate a language database to facilitate translation technologies in all possible language combinations, which will become a rich resource for brain and language research on end-users, using, for example, neural 'hats.' WUaS makes possible, in creative ways, the production, and linkage, of potentially all open source teaching/learning content, in all languages in an infinitely extensible way.


In addition, the main WUaS pages will include Wiki 'Courses,' 'Subjects, 'Languages' (all), 'Library resources,' 'Nation-states,' 'Museums,' 'Research,' 'You at World University,' free 'Educational Software,' 'Hardware resources,' as well as a foundation. Look through the WUaS to get a clearer sense of what's possible here.


The WUaS wiki has been up for almost 3 years, and it aggregates and adds much of the Open Course Ware on the web it finds, as a kind of meta-directory. WUaS presently has no monies to speak of, and a far-reaching vision, so we're looking for funding resources. We're not yet even in a financial position to join your consortium, but would gladly communicate further with you about our common goals and visions. What is the OpenCourseWare Consortium in need of these days? How might we develop these projects together? Looking forward to communicating further with you.


Sincerely,
Scott
Head Clerk



Scott MacLeod
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University






(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/japanese-maple-to-president-of.html - March 17, 2010)