Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge: Breakthrough for World Univ and Sch! - invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal pot. re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School… See #WUaSQA > https://youtu.be/V60sxfllEts http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-cockaded-woodpecker-picoides.html?m=0… * Give WUaS GSIs specifically the edX HarvardX JuryX platform to build a class - with its THREADS' technology re WUaS's planning to develop the CONFERENCE METHOD OF TEACHING AND LEARNING to inform WUaS's classes and degrees * * * Glad to announce my 4th book, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality" is published and available - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578625490?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 * Re-conceiving the book anew out of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, text in the side bar, and printable to paper :) * * * Patch together photos with with Machine Learning - to create a single #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? Think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER /Maps /Earth /TensorFlow & for #HarbinWarmPool soaking, by adding photos videos drawings since much data will first be missing


Breakthrough for WUaS!
invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal pot. re
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School … See #WUaSQA >
https://youtu.be/V60sxfllEts http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch & re #SingleCryptoCurrency #UniversalBasicIncomeExperiments #WikidataQitem - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-cockaded-woodpecker-picoides.html?m=0… ~


- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206767377074941952 -



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edX -


Dear Lee, 

Looking forward to learning about edX's remit, and much more, potentially tomorrow at 1pm ET (which I've just emailed Nakia about).

In a brainstorming vein, and as I learn about edX's remit and related, I'd just like to inquire about a few things:

In what ways could WUaS best ...
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Add edX courses (like the MIT OCW already posted) to WUaS academic wiki subject pages with WUaS student info - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - from the edX courses they take (for current the current 6 Bachelor degree majors at WUaS - see worlduniversityandschool.org)? And what will WUaS websites look like with edX courses on them (if this is a possibility) & and re student info for ex.?

Our current six undergraduate majors (which could expand to MIT OCW's ~32 departments as majors, and for WUaS Ph.D.s too - and in ~200 countries' official/main languages) are
EECS - 

General Engineering - 

General Science - 

English - 

History - 

Business - 



And in what ways could WUaS best ... 
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Give WUaS instructors/faculty (eg MIT / Stanford / Harvard / Oxbridge too) an edX course platform to create new courses in multiple languages?  

b
Give graduate student instructors an edX course platform - and at academic conferences too? 

c
Give WUaS GSIs specifically the edX HarvardX JuryX platform to build a class - with its threads' technology re WUaS's planning to develop the conference method to inform WUaS's classes and degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning (think seminar, or ten people in group video, where the JuryX course's threads' technology facilitates what I'll call an asynchronous conference method) ? 

Looking forward to talking about the "Mine Pi" aspect in this email thread, and potentially re all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # to facilitate, too, a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of central banks somehow (where I follow MIT DCI director Neha Narula in these regards - https://twitter.com/neha), and distributed via UBI experiments to alleviate poverty in particular, - but also for matriculated students, wiki WUaS teachers and learners as speakers of all 7111 living languages, and for secure academic transcripts, signing up, applying to WUaS, etc. I think edX and the wider MIT / Harvard community (founders of edX) would be in a position to code for some of this! 

Talk with you soon!

Sincerely, Scott

- Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod



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Monday, December 16, 2019 

Hi Lee,

Thanks. Am available in the days some tomorrow and Wednesday. Looking forward to talking with you.

If WUaS could access grades of edX courses for free, taken by our matriculating students, and share how this might work with the state of California's BPPE and potentially WASC senior, that would be great. And especially as we develop our application, registration, matriculation system re each student a Wikidata Q item number here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. In addition, if WUaS could possibly explore somehow developing CC-4 MIT OCW in MITx on edX for Engineering, EECS, Science, English, History and Business courses/degrees, as well as Law courses (re Harvard Law Professor emeritus Charles Nesson's edX, JuryX, HarvardX course), and similar that would be great as well.

Here are related resources in these regards:

MIT OCW - Engineering
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering

MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/

OpenCourseWare bundles for edX
https://ocw.mit.edu/ocw-labs/opencourseware-bundles-for-edx/

MITx Courses on edX
https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mitx-courses-edx

MITx: Free online courses from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.edx.org/school/mitx

World University and School is also seeking to develop Engineering courses and degrees in a realistic virtual environment and with actual-virtual, physical-digital home robotics - think physical Lego Robotics' WeDo 2.0, Mindstorms EV3, SpikePrime in Brick Street View in Google Street View with Time Slider / Maps / Earth - and also with the Scratch 3.0 drag and drop programming language (and please check out this recent hour-long Scratch introduction - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1201685428501270528?s=20 - and feel free to attend an hour of code next week online as well). See, too, the #hasttag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click ...  So WUaS has a Lego Robotics' courses / Scratch3 focus as part of Engineering degrees, and potentially at the High School, College, and Ph.D. levels, and building - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - on this if possible. WUaS's 3 platforms, for your thinking, are Google Education / with TensorFlow and much else Alphabet and in Translates 100 languages, MIT OCW in 5 languages, and Wikidata in 300 languages, and we're seeking to be in all 7111 known living languages. How many languages does edX have courses in?

Looking forward to chatting with Lee, Nakia. Thank you.

Best, Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress


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See, too, re edX yesterday's blog post:

Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis): an invitation from edX's President Anant Agarwal for WUaS to collaborate! :) * * * edX and Mine Pi * * * Just sent the 4th book I've written "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! ... " to the publisher. It's in review, and should be public in 72 hours! :) (.... https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ... * * * Scotland could benefit from statesmanship as the next Independence vote comes up * * * All you medical folks, Plan for #CardioVascular clinical trials in 7,111 languages @JAMACardio @FaRodriguezMD @califf001 @HeartBobH in #ProjectBaseline #GooglePoly w #TensorFlow >#WUaSMedicalSchools in 200 countries?

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/red-cockaded-woodpecker-picoides.html -



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Dear Ma (Janie), Jonathan, Ann, and All,

Am glad to say my 4th book, "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!: How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual Reality" is published and available - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578625490?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 - but I can still order proofs. Am a little on the fence about how the cover turned out - although the virtual world image of the Gardens of Bliss with UC Berkeley student in waters and from Youtube is good in general -  and am thinking this through, but wonder about returning to my first template choice with a brighter blue on top of front cover above this image in bottom half of cover, and without having a back cover underlying photo at all, but with the image being more concentrated on the front cover.

Appreciative of the KDP printing process, am also appreciative of how the Academic Press at World University and School could improve on this significantly, and in all 7111 languages with machine translation too. Glad the Academic Press at WUaS has just published its 4th book, and is a going concern, made possible by the KDP printing process, but the @WUaSPress is a for-profit general stock company legal entity, and would take online printing and publishing in whole new directions.

In VR itself eventually, however, these poems re images will be very different, making the cover a bit irrelevant. And as you may have read in the PREFACE, - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/bog-turtle-preface-to-book-of-poetry-to.html - am seeking to re-conceive the book anew out of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, text in the side bar, and printable to paper :)

Cheers, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
@WUaSPress
@WorldUnivAndSchool
- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1206970028257492993?s=20
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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com




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Patch together photos with with Machine Learning - https://twitter.com/rajat_shrimal/status/1206760446675447808?s=19 … to create a single #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualHarbin? Think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER /Maps /Earth /TensorFlow & for #HarbinWarmPool soaking, by adding photos videos drawings since much data will first be missing - and this machine learning will add it




- https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1206970028257492993?s=20
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1206970541313118210?s=20
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1206970438611398656?s=20








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