Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania: A Tour of Network Neutrality, France, Free internet in France, Friends of Our Public Domain, WUaS Summary

"A Tour of Network Neutrality, panel discussion at Open World Forum 2011" -



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYk0SVWh0CE - added this great conversation to World Univ & Sch's "Network Neutrality" subject - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Neutrality ... (Listen to Jeremie, John Palfrey , Simone, and Daphne :)!



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free internet in France ... http://free.fr.net/ ...

not mobile, I would think, yet ...


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Check out these fascinating "Friends of Our Public Domain" videos (Harvard) - here's Pt. 2, where Nesson and Lessig clash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bQSksB4SxY ... but Pts. 1 & 3, are also very 'checkable outable,' as well ... adding these to World University Law School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School :)


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Here's an overview about free, open World Univ and Sch, like Wikipedia (now in around 281 languages, and we all did it) with MIT OCW (now offering more than 2000 free courses): http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/07/machu-pichu-letter-to-chronicle-of.html (July 14, 2011). WUaS is in the process of accrediting, for free degrees, and plans to be in all 3,000-8,000 languages. Here's the main page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - with an invitation to teach something, by editing a page. MIT OCW is the academic standard, in English, and many classes will engage the "conference method" and be interactive-in-virtual-worlds. (http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm).




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Here's the World Univ & Sch's wiki listing of online, free universities and course collections: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Course_listings.27_aggregates . Above it you'll find the great universities (about 34 presently) that WUaS would like to draw open educational resources from, in English, and come into conversation with over time. WUaS seeks to become a Tier 1 university (e.g. like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Yale, etc.), and is planning its first, matriculating, free, Bachelors' degree class in 2014, all online, using MIT OCW to accredit on. Like Wikipedia, where we all made it, now in 281 languages, WUaS invites professors' edits, development of related WUaS universities in new languages, etc. Please let me know if you have further questions at the website above and here - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm . Like One Laptop per Child, WUaS will have a developing world focus, but, at present, is primarily university focused, although we link all levels of great, free educational software, as a meta-directory for teaching and learning resources, and where YOU can teach, learn and 'edit this page.'



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This wiki, WUaS Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - academically, and organizationally, has aggregated many of the 2000 MIT OCW courses, plus much more (see the Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which is a key to WUaS). (There are about 10 main, 'organizing' pages at WUaS - Courses, Subjects, Languages, Nation states, You at World University, Research, Educational Software, Library Resources, Museums, and Hardware Resource Possibilities - potentially in ALL languages). And this is infinitely extensible with many creative subjects on the WUaS Subjects' page here already. WUaS would be a great way for professors early in their career to develop a course, for example.




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Are you taking 1 of the 3, free, online, interactive, Stanford courses this fall - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-science-081611.html - beginning this week. If so, please share your thoughts about interactivity with professors, vis-a-vis the 'conference method,' in the course of the term (here, too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Individual_courses). If you learn of anyone blogging about their experiences in these Stanford courses this fall, please let us know. Enjoy the classes and this great opportunity! Scott


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Harvard's Berkman Center talk on Wikipedia and related wikis - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill - this morning, Tuesday, online, in 30 minutes at 9:30 am PT ...


... some points from this talk:

Wikipedia is successful because ... 1 built around a familiar product, 2 substantive material, 3 low transaction costs 4 de-emphasized ownership (per Benjamin Mako Hill online right now, and Yochai Benkler) .

Joseph Reagle, who wrote a book last year, puts Wikipedia in context of the encyclopedic impulse .


It also had "the evangelist Jimmy Wales out in front" ...


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Wiki is about openness and consensus among a community ...



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World University and School collaboration with Wikipedia? ... :)












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/10/selous-game-reserve-tanzania-tour-of.html - October 12, 2011)