January 10, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting
Minutes for World University and School
Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod (head clerk and
recording clerk)
(Jan 10, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World
University and School:
Minute –
CC WUaS will no longer use the CC MIT OCW name, but
instead use words like "great universities' OpenCourseWare," or
"highest quality STEM CC OpenCourseWare," or “best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare” to characterize WUaS, and also as WUaS accredits with the state
of California via BPPE. See this MIT OCW-WUaS licensing clarification correspondence
from yesterday, January 9, 2015 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/rowan-berries-licensing-clarification.html. (In addition to planning to accredit on great
STEM-centric OCW for online degrees in many large languages and most countries,
what CC WUaS seeks to do also is create a wiki around highest quality sharable
CC OpenCourseWare, such as CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC).
Minute –
WUaS plans to develop our main page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - probably with WordPress while developing a database of Universitians, including
e.g.
- meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org
- adding a sample OCW lecture, e.g. Anand Agarwal
- guidestar label
- integrating with Wikidata
- planning for certificates and degrees at WUaS, like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare
Minute –
AFSC Hive Meeting Spaces will continue to meet at AFSC /
SFFM in San Francisco on 9th Street on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-12 ...
All are welcome
Minute -
Scott will meet at AFSC / SFFM on Monday January 12 with
Linda S about developing Zapotec languages at WUaS, and in Zapotec languages
themselves ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages
January 10, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World
University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
Saturday, January 10, 2015
9 a.m., Pacific Time
Email here if you'd like to participate:
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
1. Welcome and Greetings
1.1 News:
NEWSFLASH: In preparing the state of California's BPPE initial
accreditation documentation based on MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses, the first undergraduate degrees WUaS is planning to offer are
the Bachelor of Science degrees in a) in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science; b) General Science, and c) General Engineering, with more degrees to
come.
a
WUaS will be giving a Reed College Paideia class on January
17th and 18th, as well as an outreach presentation to the Quaker Multnomah
Monthly Meeting in Portland, OR, on January 16th. Here's the Reed College
course description:
- MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School: How Reedies
can wiki-teach here and eventually develop WUaS as interns
A Paideia course on how Reedies can teach and develop Creative
Commons’ licensed WUaS, which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, in
wiki-subjects that they love. This course will share in a hands-on manner 1)
how to curate, edit, add to and develop a WUaS wiki subject page to develop
further expertise in that area, 2) how to start a new WUaS wiki subject page as
a creative opportunity, 3) how to begin teaching in a Google + group video
Hangout and 4) possibly in 3D interactive virtual worlds, if there’s interest
and time.
- Friendly MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki (editable web
pages) World University and School presentation to MMM Friends, especially
teens interested in free online college
In this presentation and as a kind of Friendly leading, I'll
share with Multnomah Friends particularly about the free planned undergraduate
MIT OCW-centric degrees at startup Quaker-informed wiki online World University
and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (see the FGC video here for further information) - as well
as other free Friendly creative wiki teaching and learning opportunities.
Sharing and Q&A time in the second half of the hour.
Further information about these here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/picea-omorika-wuas-presentation-and.html
b
WUaS is planning to submit its curriculum this month to the
Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California, if
WUaS can raise the $5,000 fee as a tax-exempt donation this month. This is
WUaS's main initial step to accreditation. Your donations are much appreciated.
Questions - for Peter B. Use of Name Office at MIT ... use of
actual CC OCW course names in submitting courses to accrediting agencies?
Are these CC materials that are free use as course names? Can we
use the course names?
Curriculum is now something concrete ...
start with certificate programs ... eventually turn this into
degree programs via BPPE ...
c
WUaS Information Technologies and Data Plan is developing, with
WUaS technical lead questions, the semantic web, artificial intelligence, machine
learning and IBM Watson/BlueMix
and my own blog -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/calendula-species-wuas-technical-lead.html (and http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/01/wuas-technical-lead-directions-and.html).
d
At this upcoming monthly business meeting, WUaS will adopt a new
budget; if there's further significant activity by this autumn, we'll revise
this budget.
Universitians:
Thank you for joining the World University and School team. WUaS
would like to invite you to participate in our hour-long, monthly, business
meeting on Saturday, January 10th, beginning at 9 a.m., PST / 12 noon
EST.
This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call.
The Free Conference Call number is - (605) 562-0020 -
and the
Access Code is - 369-349-832.
The agenda for the upcoming January 10th, 2014 WUaS, monthly,
business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-12-2015-monthly-business.html .
1.2 Minutes
2. Committees
2.1 Planning committee
see Master plan and Business plan below
2.1.1
2.2 Finance
a.
Treasurer's report for December 2015
b.
Guidestar.org
2.3 Information Technology
CC MIT OCW has asked CC WUaS to move away from having advertising on our WUaS pages with CC MIT OCW courses on them, such as are on the Wikia wiki pages where WUaS is currently hosted - as soon as possible.
a.
WUaS needs to develop our main page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - probably with WordPress while developing a database of Universitians
- meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org
- adding sample lecture
- guidestar label
- integrating with Wikidata
- plan for certificates with "Best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare"
b.
Per MIT OCW's request, WUaS also needs to move to CC Wikidata / Wikibase / MediaWiki et. al. accessing WikiCommons - as soon as possible.
- integrating with http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- plan for certificates with "Best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare"
c.
Per MIT OCW requests January 9, I've updated key licensing and name questions on CC WUaS's key wiki "SUBJECT_TEMPLATE" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which should eventually "pipe through" to all WUaS wiki pages in all 7,000 + languages as WUaS begins to develop inter-lingually and grow in Wikidata/Wikibase.
d.
From Jim S. at IBM:
University faculty who are accessing Watson's free APIs and doing
interesting things in student projects are getting preference for IBM faculty awards. Do you have faculty and students who can access those free APIs on Bluemix and do interesting projects? For example, one of the APIs does language identification. If I find any faculty interesting in helping with WUaS, I will let you know.
2.4 WUaS Outreach
a.
Spring 2015 planning
- plan for certificates - "Best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare"
- plan for degree programs
- what can we do without the $5000?
- apply to BPPE and pay initial fees - getting on the web sites
- apply to WASC senior and pay initial fees -
- apply to Common Application and the NACAC (National Association
for College Admission Counseling) - http://www.nacacnet.org/ in January 2015
- staff member Kathy H?
b.
January 17 and 18, 2015 at Reed College:
-
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School: How Reedies can wiki-teach
here and eventually develop WUaS as interns
c.
January 16, 2015 at Multnomah Monthly Meeting, the unprogrammed
Quaker Meeting in Portland, Oregon:
- Friendly
MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki (editable web pages) World University and
School presentation to MMM Friends, especially teens interested in free online
college
d.
offer sampler course from "Best STEM-centric
OpenCourseWare"
d.1.
show Anand Agarwal's first video talk from "Circuits and
Electronics"?
d.2
put this video example on WUaS's website for outreach on the main
page that a visitor would stumble across ... in lieu of "student
life" ...
d.3
make it foolproof ...
2.5 Hiring planning
2.6 Fundraising
- Laura M. ?
2.7 Nominating committee
Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders
2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee
Meeting at AFSC / SFFM on Monday January 12 at 9 am with Linda S
about Zapotec languages ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages
- add resources
- start in Zapotec - first non-English language page at WUaS?
2.9 Accreditation committee
2.9.1
Consideration of BPPE degree program drafts, thanks to Larry, and
after hearing from MIT OCW yesterday
- Scott - BPPE forms - question marks in red
2.9.2
WASC senior
2.9.3
Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their list of schools?
Costs?
2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application
2.9.5
NEWSFLASH:
In preparing the state of California's BPPE initial accreditation documentation
based on MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses, the first undergraduate degrees WUaS is
planning to offer are the Bachelor of Science degrees in a) in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science; b) General Science, and c) General
Engineering, with more degrees to come.
- WUaS can no longer use language such as "accreditation documentation based on MIT OCW" ... per MIT OCW
3. WUaS Master Plan
4. WUaS Business Plan
5. WUaS Board
- is looking for a new Board member, or Quaker Meeting, to focus
WUaS fundraising
6. New WUaS pages and updates
a. Updates:
b. New pages:
Zapotec_languages -
Semantic_Web -
Identity -
Space_Law -
c. Blog entries:
Riccia species: "University faculty who are accessing
Watson's free APIs and doing interesting things in student projects are getting
preference for IBM faculty awards," Free IBM Watson Developer Cloud APIs,
Artificial_Intelligence, Educational_Software, Languages (planned for all 7000
plus), Modeling, WUaS_Universal_Translator
Rowan berries: Licensing clarification from MIT OCW for WUaS,
Highest quality STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare WUaS, MIT OCW's email and WUaS's
reply
Star Thistle: Tolkien film … JRR Tolkien '1892-1973' - A Study Of
The Maker Of Middle-earth ... with many interviews of his son, Christopher,
"The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings," the Harbin warm pool,
and World University and School, each as "source"?, New Year's Harbin
field notes, Added this video and related conversation from Google + Creative
Writing wiki page/school at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Writing
Epilobium: Harbin, Pool heating - {for Watsu, water shiatsu, for
home?}, Want to sing more, and just for learning, and eventually sharing?
Silene species: Holistic terms and conditions ... and for WUaS?
Thanks, MIT OCW Terms, Admissions at WUaS, Honor Principle, Education, Start a
new Subject wiki page at WUaS, How and why I add images from NATURE and
evolutionary biology to this blog
Abies nebrodensis: January 10, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting for
World University and School - Thank you!
Picea omorika: WUaS Presentation and Courses at Reed College's
Paideia (http://www.reed.edu/paideia), and Multnomah Monthly Meeting, the
unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in SE Portland in January, Ways in which WUaS is
Quaker-informed
Senecio: Playing piano - ideas, and doing it too, J.S. Bach piano
playing Youtubes at WUaS's Bach page, John Palfrey talking in this inspiring panel
and including about Andover Academy (the "Harvard" of high schools),
Sal Khan, Khan Academy and digital dashboards, A computer application for
feedback at WUaS for flourishing technically and happiness-wise in learning?, A
teacher might be a parallel sharer of feedback, Creative time here creating
WUaS ... :)
Calendula species: WUaS technical lead questions and the semantic
web, artificial intelligence and IBM Watson, WUaS Information Technologies and
Data Plan
Salvia officinalis: Exploring writing a ballad birthday poem,
"Demeter-Ma" ... Growing loving bliss, Connecting, harmonizing,
nurturing and sharing a way ... and later in singing, song and music ...
Saponaria: Dear Angela & Victor, P, A & L, Yoga, For a
kind of bliss generation, I'm looking forward to music-making in the New Year,
Loving bliss label in my blog, Harbin ethnographic manuscript, Liking your blog
posts Angela and Victor ... http://www.angela-victor.com
Ribes species: Instruction for graduate students to become
teachers, and now online in group video conferencing, (and even with developing
A.I. information technologies?), Reed College's conference method extended ...
to all academic courses, including and especially STEM and science courses?,
Music performance classes too? WUaS would like to explore doing this online in
group video and explicitly for a) science courses, b) the interactivity with
teachers, and c) especially for the connecting with faculty
Rhamnus: Thank you so very much for your $ tax-deductible donation
to MIT OCW-centric World University and School. What a nice surprise yesterday!
I've added your name to "Acknowledgement of Giving to WUaS" ...
Tourism Studies at WUaS
Melaleuca species: How to best incentivize the main
"Research" focus - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research -
and in all 7106+ languages and 240 + countries at MIT OCW centric WUaS?, Really
making a difference with their research and publishing, Stanford Economics'
Professor Nicholas A. Bloom, WUaS seeks to model the development of its various
online accrediting universities on unprogrammed Quaker Meetings' distributed
monthly meeting process ... worldwide ... so not very hierarchical at all, yet
also where clerks of these WUaS meetings play a facilitating role, including in
incentivization for research
Verticordia plumosa and species: What is most fun in music-making
fun? And how to build on this? video examples of this? ... eventually ... * And
how to build on this explicitly for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology in
many many qualities of bodymind biochemistry ... ?
Radula jonesii and species: MELTDOWN AT THREE MILE ISLAND,
Documentary Of 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, where my father had
been installed as Secretary of Health 12 days earlier, WUaS's Nuclear Science
and Engineering, World University Law School
Pears and blossoms: Exploring guiding an a cappella singing group
of friends somewhat improvisation-ally and heading explicitly even toward
exploring eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology via music-making?, Continuing
to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting
loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example ... And online, in real, real
time, with time? Here are some virtual choir examples from composer Eric
Whitacre ...
Asiatic lion: Happy Holidays, and Poetry from 2014, too!
Populus species: WUaS would like to design into our online open
wiki schools the spirit of Cuttyhunk from the CYC song, for example ...
"So give three cheers for Cuttyhunk, Our spirits all are free ... ' ,
Sailing, How to generate in the information technology design {building on
online educational successes already} for a kind of WUaS freedom of spirit, and
flourishing, that many kids have experienced learning to sail on Cuttyhunk
Pleurotus nebrodensis: Reed College's Paideia in Jan 2015,
Teaching a course about WUaS there, WUaS is planning to go the CC free route as
a CC MIT OCW-centric wiki, "This Country Just Abolished College Tuition
Fees"
Pleiomeris canariensis: Call for chapters to a new book
"Digital Kenya | The new generation of entrepreneurs", Kenya World
University and School, New "select call for chapters" section on the
main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE wiki page for open editing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
Picconia excelsa: BPPE (state of California initial
accreditation), MIT OCW Audio-Video courses -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ , Posted below a list of MIT
OCW audio-video courses to submit to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary
Education (BPPE) in the state of California, and as the first step for WUaS
accreditation in English, "Admissions" at WUaS, There are a lot of
engineering, STEM and business courses here, and California gets MIT for free
Pau-bronco: Just heard a fascinating Artificial Intelligence's IBM
Watson talk, Asked "how could I engage Watson to ask what can I ADD to a
particular WUaS wiki article or to a MIT OCW course," What AI and machine
learning can "POINT TO" is Linked Open Data, Add AI to our online
WUaS bookstore planned for all 7,106 languages and 242 countries, Adding AI to
virtual worlds, and for the making of virtual Harbin as part of a virtual
earth? Find a donor to offer a matching grant, say $1 for every reference which
someone wiki-adds to a WUaS page?
Myrica: Reed College Solstice party conversation and WUaS
overview, 2 wings - a) Wiki schools in 7,106+ languages and b) CC MIT
OCW-centric university degrees, "WUaS Universal Translator,"
"Music School," "Future" wiki subjects at WUaS, WUaS is
planning to leave our current Wikia wiki ... and WUaS is planning to offer free
(since CC) online degrees per, for example, "This Country Just Abolished
College Tuition Fees" ...
Aquilegia columbine: Added 4th Business Plan prong under
Strategies at WUaS Guidestar page -
Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School ... fifth prong is lessons around
CC Music School, Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS
Moehringia: "Love" in loving bliss - and generatively?
... Some characteristics of love in its best senses, Here are some wiki schools
for this at WUaS - Caring and Loving - and Loving Bliss (eliciting this
neurophysiology), {And how would agency as intentional causation (in
philosophical senses) work vis-a-vis generating the "love" in loving
bliss and in contemporary society and with information technology?}
Minuartia: Growing online face-to-face community, "Making
Distance Students part of the Harvard Community!", developing online
face-to-face real time classes to facilitate online related community - You at
World University," "Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links,"
Russian language WUaS
Milkwort (Polygala): Minutes for Dec 13 2014 WUaS open monthly
business meeting - Thank you!
Annual Appeal, Open WUaS monthly business meeting, tomorrow 12/13
at 9am PT
7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments
a.
January 16, 2015 at Multnomah Monthly Meeting, the unprogrammed
Quaker Meeting in Portland, Oregon:
- Friendly
MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki (editable web pages) World University and
School presentation to MMM Friends, especially teens interested in free online
college
b.
AFSC Hive Meeting Spaces will continue to meet at AFSC / SFFM in
San Francisco on 9th Street on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-12 ... All are
welcome
c.
Meeting at AFSC / SFFM on Monday January 12 with Linda S about
Zapotec languages ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages
8. Closure
9. Next Meeting - Saturday, February 14, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time
Scott MacLeod
President and Head Clerk
--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best
STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school
in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization,
both effective April 2010.
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