September 14, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
Saturday, September 14, 2013
9 am, Pacific Time
accessible here -
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts
1. Welcome and Greetings - News
a.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate
T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G
G in Indonesia - meeting
I'm following up with YN at MIT OCW about 10 initial courses to translate into Indonesian (
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Malay/Indonesian_language), that might also be a basis for WUaS eventually studying how students learn in exchange for WUaS free degrees (ideally hiring MIT graduate students, for example, as graduate student instructors), as WUaS begins to matriculate students (online Indonesians, especially, for 32 courses for a free, undergraduate degree) first in English, and then in other languages (beginning with United Nations' languages among others). I think you said that of the 7-8 MIT OCW languages, 3 had one course in common.
b. Accreditation
b.1
BPPE
For the BPPE forms, and as a start, WUaS is looking for
a Chief Academic Officer
a Chief Operating Officer and
$5000 to pay the fees to BPPE
b.2
WASC Senior
$12,500 initially
c.
Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore
d.
WUaS tax-exempt status update
e.
WUaS Student Application for this autumn
e.1
RS
DME
e.2
combine with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and Wikidata
e.3
MIT Freshman Applicants
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates
e.4
WUaS would like to get started with developing the WUaS student application per WUaS Board member Tito Dimas's request a few weeks ago, - for Indonesian students first in English. Here's MIT's actual application -
http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/dates - and WUaS is seeking to matriculate online a class of possibly 2000 undergraduates in the autumn of 2014 in English.
Could we please possibly begin this WUaS form possibly in a Google form, vis-a-vis a secure WUaS registrar, and eventually coding this in SQL with Quicken / Quickbook POS - Multistore and Wikidata/MediaWiki in mind, or in other ways you would suggest, and eventually in all languages?
f.
Fundraising events
f.1
G
S
f.2
Crowd funding, and at least getting the word out?
Cytocomp example:
"The team with the most bit coins raised or the most tweets will get promotion.
You can be a part of this in several ways:
1) Go to the app and press the tweet button
2) donate some bit coins and get exiting rewards, be one of the first 100 people in the world to get hand on a revolutionary product
If you do not have BitCoins, they can be easily purchased at https://coinbase.com or if you press the order with Bitcoins button (Don`t have any Bitcoins) on
http://cytocomp-bitstarter-mooc.herokuapp.com
Thanks for your support.
BTW CytoComp is for the moment among the Top 10 Social. You can have a look at the leader board here
http://startupmooc.org.
Thanks in advance for your support."
g.
WUaS translating MIT OCW into Malay/Indonesian and MIT OCW Translation Affiliate
T - Translators
T - students
T - meet with G
G in Indonesia - meeting
h.
h.1
Western Friend and advertising
h.2
other Quaker advertising
h.3
advertising in Indonesia
h.4
advertising in the US
i.
Minutes
WUaS also plans to improve our Minutes and distributing them after each WUaS monthly business meeting (2nd Saturdays of the month), as well as WUaS committee meetings.
j.
"Information Technology and the Network Society" course
j.1
In preparing to teach a C.C. free, online course this autumn called "Information Technology and the Network Society," -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sumatran-elephants-mcgill-thesis-and.html - probably on Harvard's virtual island in SL (where I've taught this course for 7 semesters in the past) and in Google + group video Hangouts, I'd like to develop it further in Google course builder with a MIT OCW course template for a model, if one exists. Do you know of a MIT OCW course template or similar? Would it be best to model my course on, for example, MIT OCW's Introduction to Psychology or similar, in terms of MIT OCW structure?
j.2
This class will meet possibly on Thursdays, and not on Saturdays
k.
First year required courses at WUaS?
k.1
Humanities 101 vis-a-vis Reed College's first year Hum 110 but online
k.2
WUaS's required, first year biology course with a programming component ... and ideally something like
Professor Eric Lander and friends' "Fundamentals of Biology"
which you'll find in the
Biology, wiki, subject at WUaS -
See, too, World University and School's blog entry ...
"September 14, 2013 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School"
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