Carole, Bill and Nontheist Friends,

Thanks for your recent emails to this thread and about Quaker schools in the southern hemisphere. And greetings, All, from the AFSC / San Francisco Friends' Meeting (SFFM) house in San Francisco where World University and School holds weekly open hive meeting spaces. And welcome to new list members!

I'd like to share with you about World University and School's planned online Quaker-informed schools and universities in the southern Hemisphere, in a broad sense, since Friendly-informed WUaS is planning accrediting online universities in all countries, and many of these wiki schools in the southern hemisphere are already begun. You can head to this here at the main Nation States World University and Schools' wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - but which are not yet in the main languages of southern hemisphere countries, for the most part. While Creative Commons' licensed WUaS is planning to move from the current "clunky" Wikia wiki to Wikidata's database with something like Wikipedia's front end and in Google Classroom / for Education, WUaS is also planning to accredit first in California on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to offer free online CC degrees (Bachelor, Ph.,D., Law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school) in most countries' main languages. At the same time, WUaS plans to build online wiki schools for open teaching and learning and in all 7,938 languages +.

I'm posting below my presentation proposal to the Friends Association for Higher Education next June 2016 in Woodbrooke Quaker Center (http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/pages/quaker-studies-resource-centre.html) in England, for your thoughts, ideas, questions and comments, having given a presentation about WUaS at George Fox University outside Portland, Oregon, in June 2015 and attended my first FAHE (http://quakerfahe.com) gathering at Haverford College in Philadelphia in June 2014.

Did anyone on the NtF email list go to the Quaker Leighton Park school (see below) in south east England, by any chance?

WUaS would both like to become a significant employer of Quakers and Nontheist Friends in all countries, but especially offer best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare Friendly-informed education to Friendly high schoolers, college and graduate student online around the world.

Best,

Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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- San Francisco Friends Meeting Member; Founder, president and head clerk of startup Friendly-informed WUaS, like Wikipedia w/ best STEM-centric OCW, planned for large languages for C.C. Univ. degrees

What is the title of your proposed presentation?

- Wiki School Gardens and Orchards: Educating Online for Action among Friends in all 7,938+ Languages and in all 200+ Countries’ Languages for degrees

Please list any co-presenter(s) here.

Please provide a brief summary highlighting the content of your proposed session (up to 30 words)

- World University and School is a Quaker leading, engaging Friendly Business Meeting process. CC WUaS seeks to become the wiki Leighton Park / Harvard of the Internet, educating particularly f/Friends and especially in the developing world.

Please tell us about your proposed topic in more detail (up to 2000 characters)

- Creative Commons’ licensed World University and School, which plans to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC for online degrees, and facilitate wiki (editable web page) schools in all 7,938 languages for open teaching and learning (like Wikipedia in 300 languages) is a Friendly leading, and engages Quaker Business Meeting process. WUaS also seeks to explore and study ways in which to make learning very enjoyable, and inter-lingually, building on what students already find most enjoyable when learning, particularly at highest-achieving universities. WUaS also seeks to open education in all languages, by facilitating wiki schools, or platforms where you can teach what you love, in ways you’d like to teach, or learn in similar ways.

CC World University also seeks to create a kind of online Leighton Park school - http://www.leightonpark.com - as an example, which began in 1890, of British Quaker-informed education, and not only at the secondary school level offering online I.B. diplomas, but also at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In so doing, WUaS will help prepare students to make a difference in creating a just and peaceful world. It’s in the context of such Quaker schools that, in my experience, students transform their worldview and can become scholars and contemplative activists. Quaker Meeting can be central to this process. Such Quaker independent education, informing a school’s faith perspective, can be brought to bear in working with students of different faiths or none. Moving beyond books and classrooms, as kinds of technologies in themselves, Internet and computer technologies, as well as technologies such as musical instruments (at Leighton Park, for example), and also STEM-centric education such as MIT OCW in multiple languages, can help educate students for critical thinking, spiritual wisdom and action, now online too. The Quaker tradition of transforming education and industry has long been accomplished by leading by example.

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

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FAHE Request for Proposals 2016

http://www.cvent.com/events/fahe-request-for-proposals-2016/event-summary-532f6ba3563b4705aaf132b3f5baf9bf.aspx

Queries for Consideration:

How do you help prepare students to make a difference in creating a just and peaceful world?
What in your experience has worked best in helping students transform their worldview and become scholars and contemplative activists?
Does Quaker transformational education have a distinctive pedagogy?
How do we bring a Quaker faith perspective to bear in working with students of different faiths or none?
What technologies are helpful and unhelpful in helping us educate for critical thinking, spirituals wisdom and action?
What can we learn from the Quaker tradition of transforming education and industry?

http://quakerfahe.com/2015/09/04/call-for-papers-2016-fahe-conference/

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