Hey Nick,

How's it going?

Am applying for an 'Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition' edX position - https://www.edx.org/careers - and re MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - which career would be based in Boston with 30-50% travel, so maybe I'll find, meet and connect with a life partner there and begin a family, as well as be able to write my 2nd actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book (newly out of something like the Google Street View platform, with text in the side bar, and printable to paper!).

How's your New Year going? How is your family? Happy Robbie Burns' night a bit belatedly!

- Scott
(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scotland)

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Here are the succinct versions of my Cover Letter and Resume:

January 28, 2020

Dr. Anant Agarwal

edX

141 Portland Street, 9th floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

USA

Dear Dr. Agarwal,

Please accept my application for the role of Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition at edX - https://boards.greenhouse.io/edx/jobs/1921466.

My passion is to transform education. Traveling the world and building strong relationships with faculty who have unique and exciting content that inspires the urge to go deeper in a wide range of subjects for diverse multilingual learners is my primary skill set. World University and Schools was my “one-man army” effort to hone that skill set over the last decade and half. Even before that I had the luxury to travel the world and experience learning from master educators – I have been very fortunate in this regard. If possible, I would like the opportunity to join the edX team to help scout out and acquire the best for edX.

Thank you for considering my application.

Scott

412 478 0116

sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Scott MacLeod

412 478 0116 – sgkmacleod@gmail.com

WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL Founder (2007-present)

Content curation in multiple languages

http://worlduniversityandschool.org

TEACHING POSITIONS

Penn State University

2007 (Summer) – Society and Information Technology (in Second Life)

2007 (Spring) – Introduction to Sociology

University of Pittsburgh and Chatham University

2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology

Penn State University

2006 (Fall) – Introduction to Sociology

University of California, Santa Barbara

2003 (Spring) – Communication Research Methods, Department of Communication

2002 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Dept. of Law and Society (Head TA)

2002 (Winter) – Technology and Culture, Department of Anthropology

2001 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Department of Law and Society

University of California, Berkeley

2001 (Spring) Reader, Prof. Nelson Graburn’s “Tourism” anthropology course

2000 (Fall) Reader, Prof. Aiwha Ong’s “Globalization and Gender” anthropology course

EDUCATION

2004 – D.R. in Ethnology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

EXPERIENCE

Extensive travel to academic institution in Europe and the USA. Anthropological publications. Bagpiper.

REFERENCES

Professor Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 510 642 2120

Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 805 893 8449

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Here are the original versions of my Cover Letter and Resume:

January 28, 2020

To Whom It May Concern:

I’m writing to apply for Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition position at edX - https://boards.greenhouse.io/edx/jobs/1921466 (https://www.edx.org/careers). In doing so, I plan to, with excellence and skill:

· Define and execute edX’s content strategy that aligns with edX’s overall company and product strategies;

· Grow edX’s capability to identify and acquire the best courses, credentials, degrees and other types of content to meet our learners’ needs worldwide;

· Grow edX’s research capability and align content (existing or gaps) with the job market to help learners achieve their career outcomes;

· Build strong working relationships with edX partner managers and content providers to ensure successful content acquisition;

· Identify educational, business and labor trends and lead the necessary research, acquisition and experimentation to understand opportunity and impact;

· Build, lead, develop and manage a team focused on content strategy and acquisition;

· Represent and advance edXs’ goals at key public engagements, conferences, industry events and edX partner events, representing the company as an industry leader.

Having developed both a) CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric (in its now 4 languages) wiki World University and School as online universities in all ~206 countries’ main languages, and as wiki schools in all 7,111 known living languages since 2007, and b) my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnographic project (including writing 4 books), and especially in developing the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth as social science and STEM virtual field sites (which realistic virtual universe will become a film-realistic, 3D, group build-able, interactive, virtual earth/cosmos/Harbin in all languages ever, with both realistic and fantastic avatars of mammals/species, for actual-virtual comparison, and for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, a new STEM method), including with plans to model the brain at the neuronal (cellular) and atomic (nano) levels, to begin, for related brain research, for example, I would bring significant experience and an unique approach to edX content strategy and acquisition. All of this represents far-reaching approaches to educational content strategy and acquisition in many significant, new and unique ways.

In addition to the above qualifications, and with regard to ‘best-in-class digital experiences to consumer markets’ (see job application description above), World Univ & Sch has successfully obtained, developed and coded our Wiki into 725 open subject pages including with plans for online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees – and with these degrees planned not only in the English language, but in all ~200 countries’ official / main languages. Building, leading, developing and managing a team focused on content strategy and acquisition in each of ~200 countries’ main languages, as organizing approach, would be potentially a significant addition to edX.

World Univ & Sch has also developed a track record of success in business development, in terms of holding WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (using an open, consensus-based Friendly/Quaker approach to WUaS organizational decision-making) for nearly 10 years, regularly, and with a) agenda and b) minutes, including personally leading teams that reliably meet these monthly goals. This includes developing 2 WUaS Boards of Trustees. And while this has involved strong leadership skills, the nature of WUaS Monthly Business Meeting’s decision-making process involves experience collaborating and navigating in a matrixed organization. WUaS’s work in Monthly Business Meeting has also involved experience coaching direct reports and others, aligning teams to goals, setting a strategic vision and creating an engaging, positive work environment.

That World University and School, as a 501 (c) 3 non profit (since 2010), has been able to develop a second, for-profit, general stock company parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation (since 2017), in the context of the Internet, proves much ability to thrive and succeed in the fast-paced and ever-evolving environment of the World Wide Web.

While WUaS has successfully joined, and developed in, the Handshake platform (‘Handshake is the #1 way college students find jobs and internships, and helps students connect with employers’), WUaS does not yet have experience with hiring, and yet sees developing college students as the best way to grow top talent and design diverse, inclusive, effective and results-driven teams. I would seek to hire via Handshake at edX in the ‘Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition’ position, as well as via edX’s varied approaches including seeking to hire highest achieving graduate students instructors and related faculty from greatest universities locally.

I’m in a position to travel 30% - 50% of the time.

Lastly in terms of qualifications, having successfully communicated with MIT OCW executive director Cecilia d'Oliveira (a MIT alumna who was MIT Associate Dean for Digital Learning from Dec 2014 – Jun 2017, Executive Director, MIT OpenCourseWare from Sep 2008 – Dec 2014, and MIT OCW’s Technology Director from Sep 2002 – Sep 2008) about use of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare at WUaS, - as well as being in communication presently with edX about WUaS membership in edX - demonstrates not only the ability to foster working relationships with content providers, but also to develop and maintain good relationships with content partners and the industry at large. In applying for this edX Head of Content Strategy position, and in seeking to make World Univ & Sch the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet in all ~200 countries’ official languages, and wiki schools in all 7,111 known living languages, I would seek to represent the company edX as an industry leader.

With regard to online Medical Schools and Law Schools, as potential content acquisition in this edX position, and regarding WUaS significant communications with Stanford Law and Medicine in these regards thus far, it’s great to see that Stanford just joined edX Online - https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1222173479195119617?s=20. World University and School has been communicating for some years with Stanford Law and Medicine and Google’s / Stanford’s / Duke’s Project Baseline, and brainstorming-wise, with regards to online teaching hospitals for clinical care (as well as Project ECHO) – in ~200 countries’ official languages. Thus I would be able potentially via WUaS to bring edX into collaboration with Stanford, and thus further explore developing related collaborations with Harvard Medicine / Law, and other great Boston Universities in these regards.

And with regard to content strategy and acquisition, not only do I seek to explore, regarding edX, teaching or developing 3 courses - a) “Society, Information Technology and the Global University,” b) “Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ Ethnography,” as well as a c) Reed College-informed ‘Hum 110’ course, which I would entitle “Humanities 101” – newly in the edX platform. I’ve taken the JuryX HarvardX edX course in 2016 taught by Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charles Nesson. There’s much learning potentially in all of these courses, which could be used to make edX really excellent as a learning platform. In terms of content strategy further, I would also seek to develop a MIT Media Lab approach to ‘new technologies and strategies for cultivating creative learning - and with regard to the Media Lab's four guiding principles: Projects, Peers, Passion and Play,’ on the edX platform e.g. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT - and - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School (see many of the academic and ‘creative’ wiki subjects / schools for open teaching and learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects not yet in other non-English languages), and perhaps these wiki pages are an early beginning to such a Media Lab approach.

As a publisher, and having begun a new press, the Academic Press at World University and School, and which has now published 4 titles, – I’d bring related new knowledge and experience to this edX position of Content Strategy and Acquisition.

WUaS is also planning online Music Schools, with all instruments, - as well as all libraries ever, all museums ever, all online, and each a wiki subject page to begin, in all 7,111 living languages, and in a realistic virtual earth too (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow / Translate / Google platform with realistic avatar bots – and at the cellular and atomic levels, and group-buildable) – which involves significant content strategizing.

In terms of content strategy, WUaS also has a plan for developing actual-virtual, physical-digital ‘Home Robotics’ - emerging from the now 3 Lego Robotics’ Educational Kits and which work in conjunction with the Scratch visual programming language out of the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Graduate School of Education – which edX could build on in remarkable ways with courses, in all ~200 countries’ official and main languages.

Further in terms of content strategy and acquisition, World University and School is developing with three multi-lingual platforms, in a sense – a) CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages, b) Google Education / platform in ~100 languages, and c) Wikidata/Wikibase in its ~300 languages as a structured knowledge database (and Wikipedia’s “back end”) - and I would bring experience and knowledge of these to this position, and in planning potentially for courses potentially in ~6,800 more languages, and with machine translation and a universal translator (conceptually, think Google Translate).

As Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition, I will be responsible for defining edX’s content offering, a critical component of edX’s strategy and ongoing success. In this role, and with regards to the Mission at edX, which is to:

· i. Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere

· ii. Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online

· iii. Advance teaching and learning through research

I would further bring my experience and thinking at World University and School with regards to

· i. Planning to develop approaches to free universal education, while helping edX to develop sustainably

· ii. Seeking to enhance teaching and learning in new kinds of online campuses and classrooms – in a single developing realistic virtual earth;

· iii. Studying how students learn, especially inter-lingually and inter-culturally.

As an American university president, a CEO of 2 startups, and as an educator / professor / publisher and startup founder, it would be great to work for edX, especially since Professor Anant Agarwal just posted to Twitter that edX is rated as one of the best employers in Boston - https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1220427028849201153?s=20.

If content is king, and I am offered this position, this position would crown edX. And I think this “head of content strategy and acquisition” position would also thus help edX further to become the industry leader, and thus help people around the world create careers with excellent and improving online education.

Thank you.

Sincerely, Scott

- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, CEO, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - @WorldUnivAndSch

- 412 478 0116 (Google Voice - 415 480 4577 to same mobile smartphone device)

- http://scottmacleod.com - @scottmacleod

-->- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch -

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Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod, III, M.A., D.R.

P.O. Box 442 (670A Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 USA

412 478 0116 – sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

http://scottmacleod.com & https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb (http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm)

WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL (like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare; a 501(c)(3) non profit educational organization)

- Academic & Leadership Positions

2007-2019 - Founder, Professor, Developer, CEO, President, Presiding Clerk, Librarian

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org & https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- Educational Software

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - for online Universities in all ~200 countries’ official languages

- Planning to offer free-to-students’ best STEM OpenCourseWare-centric (OCW) Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. & I.B. high school degrees online in all ~200 countries’ official languages, and degrees in all 7,000 living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

WUaS CORPORATION (a for profit general stock company), planned as academic markets in all 7,111 living languages with machine translation

2017-2019 - Founder, Developer, Acting President/CEO, Presiding Clerk, Publisher

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html & https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

- Educational Services

WUaS Corporation's 10 planned for profit revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/06/wuas-corporations-10-planned-for-profit.html

See, too, for both wings of WUaS: https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html

TEACHING POSITIONS

World University & School (in Google + Hangout)

2018 - Society, Information Society and the Global University

(First matriculated undergraduate class of WUaS)

World University & School (in Second Life (Harvard’s virtual island) and Google + Hangouts)

2013-2017 – Network Society, Information Society and the Global University

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html

Harvard's Virtual Island (not on Harvard’s faculty) (in Second Life)

2007-2013 - Society and Information Technology

Penn State University

2007 (Summer) – Society and Information Technology (in Second Life)

2007 (Spring) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)

University of Pittsburgh (OSHER Program)

2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)

Chatham University

2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)

Penn State University

2006 (Fall) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)

University of California, Santa Barbara

2003 (Spring) – Communication Research Methods, Department of Communication

2002 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Dept. of Law and Society (Head TA)

2002 (Winter) – Technology and Culture, Department of Anthropology

2001 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Department of Law and Society

University of California, Berkeley

Jan. 2001 – May 2001 -- Reader, University of California, Berkeley, Professor Nelson Graburn’s “Tourism” anthropology course

Sept. – Dec. 2000 -- Reader, University of California, Berkeley, Professor Aiwha Ong’s “Globalization and Gender” anthropology course

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Non-academic)

Yoga - Certificate in 2 year program from the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco (1991), completed in 1 year, and enjoys the freedom-orientation of Angela & Victor's Yoga

Sailing - (Head instructor, Cuttyhunk Yacht Club, Massachusetts - 1979, Laser, Bullseye & Turnabout sailboats)

Bagpiping - (both online and in person - Great Highland Bagpipes, 2010-2015, Now Scottish Small Pipes)

RESEARCH

2016 – Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (book) - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (and https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) in Academic Press at World University and School, planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy theory - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

Research group - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html

PUBLICATIONS

Scott MacLeod’s daily blog post (4,520 published blog posts by April 6, 2019, since June 2008) - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com

2019 - World University and School Live Hangouts on Air (video) - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/videos (120 videos on 4.6.2019) (https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

2019 - Eternal Flame Falls: Agency as intentional action (free will?) will be fascinationg to explore modeling in #RealisticVirtualEarth w avatar bots @ cell/atomic levels re philosophical questions of VIRTUAL (as if) consciousness * * * STEPHEN CAVE: "There’s No Such Thing as Free Will But we’re better off believing in it anyway" * * * David Chalmers: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality" Stanford University talk ... * * * Re the 'virtual,' agency, consciousness, brain modeling, and heading/traveling to virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... "Soaking in the warm pool" consciousness at Harbin in terms of neuroscience (re my book NHE, and creating a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual comparison), Philosophy of Mind / Philosophy of Consciousness questions addressed anew - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/eternal-flame-falls-agency-as.html

2019 - World University and School’s open Monthly Business Meeting May 16, 2019 session (video) - https://youtu.be/EPAOoCUg81k (https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)

2019 - World University and School’s open Monthly Business Meeting Minutes:

- “Minutes for Sat March 16, 2019 World University & School / WUaS Monthly Business Meeting” - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/03/minutes-for-sat-march-16-2019-world.html

- “A - Minutes for Sat Feb 9, 2019 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting * * * B - Minutes for Feb 9, 2019 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting” - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-minutes-for-sat-feb-9-2019-world.html

2019 - Bark (botany): Immortality - or reversing aging - via gene editing * * * World Univ & Sch Hangout, News, Minutes 3/16/19 (videos) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/bark-botany-immortality-or-reversing.html

2018 - Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering Poetry of Loving Bliss (book) –

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html. Fr 12/14/18. Poetry Press at World University and School. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578435187

2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video & slides) - 10/26/18 Fr ~ https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I & https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RSWzevDqjDXZQsLShnWKp-R76GkIcy18-wzQfMtu1oA/edit?usp=sharing (new slides) ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

2018 - “Sequoia sempervirens: Reaching out to Stanford re World Univ and Sch, and particularly to Stanford Law, (and to Stanford Medicine eventually too)” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sequoia-sempervirens-reaching-out-to.html

2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 2/23/18 Fr ~ RESCHEDULED ~

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19uZyMkk5ScQH747p-GfJdhFUCjtcQnUrvjGWwTsxbIs/edit?usp=sharing

2018 - “Lithops: Collaboration between Stanford Medicine and World Univ and Sch Medical Schools in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, Some details” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/lithops-collaboration-between-stanford.html

2017 - Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (book) –

http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html. Poetry Press at World University and School. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692049037.

2017 - ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM: "Naked Harbin Ethnography." UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video? & slides) - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/astrapia-birds-of-paradise-actual.html)

2017 - MacLeod, Scott G.K. Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations. Canyon, CA: www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html

2017 - MacLeod, Scott, and Mark Judkins Helpsmeet (interviewer). Free Universal School. http://northernspiritradio.org/episode/free-universal-school. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Northern Spirit Radio

2017 – Developing realistic virtual Harbin/earth/universe. Visit the virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) - (Think Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth married conceptually with Minecraft/OpenSim/Second Life for group build-ability with physical world, but realistic, with species' AVATAR BOTS - and at the cellular and atomic levels too)

2017 - Scott MacLeod - SGKMacLeod - online videos (Bagpiping / MacLeod / Brown family history) - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos - (31 videos on 4.6.2019)

2016 – Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (book) - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html and https://twitter.com/HarbinBook https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692646132/ Academic Press at World University and School, planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

2016 - IBM CSIG talk “A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test” https://youtu.be/f48b0Z4VffQ (http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update/)

2016 - “Lamiaceae: MIT OCW CC licensing and endorsement clarifications to WUaS from MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira recently, a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu ... Added these recently to World University Law School (planned in all ~204 countries' official languages) AND the SUBJECT TEMPLATE, (which template informs nearly every page/school at WUaS and potentially in all 7,943 languages+ on WUaS's CC side with MIT OCW on them).”

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/lamiaceae-mit-ocw-cc-licensing-and.html

2016 – “14 planned WUaS revenue streams, Business plan update” - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html

2015 - Helianth (Scott MacLeod - Rainbow) online videos (Quaker, virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnography, Cuttyhunk Island, Music, Internet History) - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth/videos - (17 videos on 4.6.2019)

2015 – “Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences” - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides, but no video) – http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm (http://scott-macleod. spot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html)

2015 - WUaS-1000 Proposed ISSIP Grand Challenge: An Universal Translator, beginning as a Guidebook with Test - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/beluga-whale-course-in-1000-languages.html

2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” talk - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/op2W_V5xUtM - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html)

2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” video abstract - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/p8gur9SMPlw - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/titan-arum-complete-uc-berkeley-tourism.html)

2011–2018 – World University and School’s Monthly Business Meeting and Blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

2009 - “The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator” or “Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction” (video) - https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth

2008-2019 – http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - Scott Macleod's anthropology of information technology & counterculture: To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss

Information Technology Revolution video talks

2007 - 7 The New Economy and Information Technology: Production. July 6, 2007. Google Video (28 mins.): - https://youtu.be/I9awgJlZ93k

2007 - 6 The Internet and Social Political Environments. July 4, 2007. Google Video (31 mins.): https://youtu.be/JNTVix681Ok

2007 - 5 Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization. July 3, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/QKvSITu9XPg

2007 - 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.): https://youtu.be/6VKh-22l-w4

2007 - 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.): https://youtu.be/Fj5cnr-xjJ0

2007 - 2 Social History of the Internet. Posted online: June 17, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/jghU_CM4R9Y

2007 - 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Posted online: June 11, 2007. Google Video (43 mins.): https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI

2007 - Internet History and the Hacker Ethos. Posted online: March 14, 2007. Google Video (13 mins.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjDjNNS3tE

2006 - "Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and 'Middle Eastern' UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online" in 'Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation.' Edited by Rami Farouk Daher, University of Jordan. Tourism and Cultural Change Series, #9, edited by Mike Robinson of Sheffield Hallam University, England, and Dr. Alison Phipps of Glasgow University. Channel View Publications. (https://www.amazon.com/Tourism-Middle-East-Continuity-Transformation/dp/1845410505/)

ISBN: 1845410505.

2006 - An Empathic Argument for Developing Cuttyhunk Island, and Video to Conserve it: Developing the West End of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? Harvard University. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast/2006/11/06/cuttyhunk-island-ma-2/ CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion course. (On Berkman Island in Second Life). Harvard University. Autumn 2006. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/

2004 - UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’ (http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf). D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland

Loving Bliss Letters (Eliciting this Neurophysiology)

- Friends' Dalton Letter

scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm

- Loving Bliss and Practices to Elicit This

scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

- Loving Bliss as Friends

scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm

- Eudaimonia is Flow and Bliss

scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm

- Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrument

scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm

- Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at wiki World University & School

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

Anthropology papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara

MacLeod, Scott. February 3, 2003. James Clifford's "The Predicament of Culture"

MacLeod, Scott. December 9, 2002. George C. Williams’ “Adaptation and Natural Selection” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. December 30, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “How the Mind Works” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. November 11, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” Précis

MacLeod, Scott. May 24, 2002. Social Processes which Shape the Significance of Objects

MacLeod, Scott. May 20, 2002. Who Can Speak for Whom?

MacLeod, Scott. April 22, 2002. Taos Pueblo and the UNESCO World Heritage Designation

MacLeod, Scott. April 15, 2002. Anthropology, Representation and Reality In online UNESCO World Heritage Sites

MacLeod, Scott. April 08, 2002. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online: The "Field Site" in a Global Context

MacLeod, Scott. November 28, 2001. Interpretive Anthropology and Symbol Formation

MacLeod, Scott. November 26, 2001. Science and Interpretive Anthropology

MacLeod, Scott. November 5, 2001. Epistemology and Anthropology

MacLeod, Scott. October 26, 2001. Durkheim’s Functionalism and Agency

MacLeod, Scott. October 17, 2001. Anthropology? The Boasian Revolution and Culture as Unique Phenomena

MacLeod, Scott. October 10, 2001. Boas and the Logic and Sociology of Scientific Inquiry

Anthropology papers at U.C. Berkeley

2001 - Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity). Berkeley, CA: http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm

2001 - Science in Malinowski, Bateson and Sociocultural Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: http://scottmacleod.com/anth250x.htm

2000 - Consumption of the WWW for Medical Information: What U.C. Berkeley Students Make of It. Berkeley, CA: http://scottmacleod.com/Anth250x-6.htm

1998-2019 – http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm – Scott MacLeod's Research: World University & School, Courses, Papers, and Media

1984 - “Women in Religion: Rosemary Ruether's Methodology and Theology in Sexism and God-talk,” Senior Thesis, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

EDUCATION

2016 (fall) - Harvard Law School - JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change with Professor Charles Nesson (Internet Law)

2010 (spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professor Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity)

2008-2009 (Autumn/Spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Bill Hanks (Linguistics), Charles Briggs (Theories of Modernity), and Paul Rabinow (Foucault & Anthropology of the Contemporary–related)

2003-2004 – D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies – Thesis Topic: UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’

2001-2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on sociocultural anthropological theory and information technology

2000-2001 – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Laura Nader (Classic Ethnographies), Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity), Rebecca Stein (Politics of Consumption), and Professor Manuel Castells (Society and Information Technology)

1998-2000 – City College of San Francisco (CCSF), full time undergraduate student in Anthropology, Multimedia, and Computer Science

1987-1988 - Pendle Hill, Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Wallingford, Pennsylvania

1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

1981-1982 – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (University of Munich), Munich, Germany

1979 – Diploma, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1977 – 1978 - 1st year 6th Form (high school year abroad in Scotland), Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland

1972 - 1973 - l'Ecole Internationale de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (6 months in English with some French)

ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORK SITES

http://www.academicroom.com/users/sgkmacleod

https://github.com/ScottWUaS

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQpokz8AAAAJ&hl=en

https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod

https://iris.reed.edu/

https://reed.switchboardhq.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Macleod2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaS

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch

https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/SMacLeod

https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod

SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK SITES

Twitter:

Scott Macleod - http://twitter.com/scottmacleod

World Univ & Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

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

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

http://about.me/scott_macleod

http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod

https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/SMacLeod

https://independent.academia.edu/MacLeodScott and

https://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/portfolio_preview/contact

http://www.academicroom.com/users/sgkmacleod

https://www.alignable.com/canyon-ca/wuas-corporation-world-university-and-school

Amazon author's page - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

https://angel.co/scott-macleod-4

https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/scott-macleod-1

https://www.entrepnr.com/members/1531048

https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper

https://www.facebook.com/macleod

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40632665@N00

https://github.com/ScottWUaS.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17846323-scott-macleod

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18757704.Scott_GK_MacLeod

https://app.joinhandshake.com/employers/447700

https://app.joinhandshake.com/users/19861050

https://www.instagram.com/worlduniversityandschool/

https://issuu.com/worlduniversityandschool

http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod

https://livestream.com/accounts/9578703

https://medium.com/@sgkmacleod

https://www.meetup.com/members/243278267

https://mewe.com/profile/5c06c414f9f143691b44d182

https://mewe.com/i/scottmacleod2

http://www.mosaichub.com/member/p/worldunivandsch-worldunivandsch

https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod

https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/world-university-and-school/

https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/actual-virtual-harbin-hot-springs/

http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/ScottMacLeod

http://www.quora.com/Scott-MacLeod-3

https://www.quora.com/profile/Scott-MacLeod-28

https://www.reddit.com/user/ScottMacLeod/

https://www.Reddit.com/r/Quakers

https://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Macleod2

http://www.reverbnation.com/scottmacleodbagpiping

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQpokz8AAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.scoop.it/u/worldunivandsch

http://www.slideshare.net/WorldUniversity

https://vimeo.com/user12804337

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch

https://zoom.us/j/3291730207

Email Discussion Groups

Nontheist Friends’ Email Discussion (atheist Quakers?); see, too:

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)

(accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- https://www.friendsjournal.org/light-nontheistic-friendliness-friends-god/

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend

ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

Deutschklub: Deutsche Sprachen Community mit Peter Bothe in group video conferencing - https://mewe.com/profile/5be858e9bc86c90ab7b2b9b5

Tourism Studies’ Working Group (TSWG), Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.tourismstudies.org

MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Scottish small pipes - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

Baselines on keyboard (piano)

Musician in Open Band (Berkeley). Scottish Country Dancers and Musicians Welcome - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

RESEARCH GRANTS

2003 – (Summer) University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Division Humanities / Social Sciences Pre-Dissertation Research Grant Award ($2,000)

2002 – University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER) grant to study “UNESCO online: Information Technology and the Middle East” ($7,000)

AWARDS

2019 / 1978 - The Iain Macleod Award, Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland

GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION (GRE)

2000 – Verbal score 99th Percentile

COMPUTER LANGUAGES

HTML

Scratch:

- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/

- http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/user/39398

Website development:

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- http://scottmacleod.com

WUaS DEGREES (planned)

(in ~200 countries’ official / main languages)

M.D. -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

With online teaching HOSPITALS for online clinical care and STEM research -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital

Law -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

E.g.

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

- World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

Ph.D. -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

Bachelor -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

International Baccalaureate (online high schools) -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme

LANGUAGES

English, German (Good – Reading, Speaking)

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

All 7,111 living languages' foci, each a WIKI school, https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch is like CC Wikipedia (in ~300 languages) & CA BPPE licensing: https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf & then accrediting on CC OYC OpenYaleCourses and best STEM CC-4 OCW OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages)

REFERENCES

- Professor Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 510 642 2120

- Professor Dean MacCannell, UC Davis, Davis, CA, edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu

- Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 805 893 8449

- Professor Larry Viehland, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, 412-365-1100

- ScottMacLeod.com

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- WorldUniversityandSchool.org

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Scott,

Sounds good Scott - and yes, please say hello to Anant for me.

Thanks, -Jim

*

I'm very grateful to Jim for helping me to write a resume, and second cover letter, for my edX application, and for your invitation, Jim, to say hi to CEO Anant Agarwal from you (whom I think you know). So now I've submitted 2:complementary applications and am hoping to get a call back, which Jim thinks I will - and with thanks for his succinct editing. Thanks, Jim!

edX is partially Harvard and MIT funded (as founders), so Anant's posting that it recently won a 'best place to work' award is a great sign. And I spoke with edX's head of business development for 45 minutes on the 18th Dec 2019. Could this contribute toward an interview?

I liked the sense of Jim's short edited cover letter for me - which I'm attaching (and all 4 documents for the record) - emphasizing in part the edX opportunity to transform education and to travel (30-50%) and potentially meet professors around the world who might seek to produce content on the edX platform. What an amazing opportunity.

Am seeking to head to Boston as the way opens.

Sincerely, Scott

CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb

http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

It would be amazing if I could even begin this job on Mar 1st, and ship, move, find a place to live, and drive this vehicle across the country before the end of February.

L, Scott

Or keep the place in Canyon, while I wrap up one big project item here (BPPE) which dovetails with edX, and move to Boston ...

Jim Spohrer is amazing, so I'm optimistic I may get a call back from edX about this position. He's a MIT physics' grad with a Yale Computer Science PhD, from Maine, has an orientation to helping he calls, and has developed as, 'service science' (with a whole movement with many books written recently ...and large network of people, IBM too), is an trusted adviser at MIT ... and knows Anant Agarwal edX CEO and MIT prof of EECS who is from India, and also amazing. They're all brilliant information technologists ...

MOVING to Boston would be a new form of circulating (re seeking life partner) ... and if I kept my place in Canyon, and Anant (with Stanford PhD), and Jim, communicated with John Hennessy (Anant's PhD adviser), perhaps I could become edX's Stanford liaison for Content Strategy and Acquisition part time too ... Jim is amazing, and will keep my finger's crossed ...

What are you up to today, M? And how are your new digs? :)

L, Scott

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Jim -

Am looking forward to this edX 'Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition' position, if offered it (and would bring a MIT-centric focus to it too). Thanks so much!

- Scott

Your 'less is more' reminds me 'more or less' of EF Schumacher's book "Small Is Beautiful' - http://www.daastol.com/books/Schumacher%20(1973)%20Small%20is%20Beautiful.pdf - https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/student/~pdarshan/SmallIsBeautifulSchumacher.pdf (https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4615523.Ernst_F_Schumacher) - to which I'd add 'service science' thinking these days.

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Jim,

Created a Tweet in these 'less is more' regards:

Economics as If People Mattered? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Economics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University EF Schumacher's book 'Small Is Beautiful' http://www.daastol.com/books/Schumacher%20(1973)%20Small%20is%20Beautiful.pdf - https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/student/~pdarshan/SmallIsBeautifulSchumacher.pdf (https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4615523.Ernst_F_Schumacher) to which I'd add 'service science' thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_science,_management_and_engineering @JimSpohrer:)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1222935138213847040
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1222935691383848960?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222935976663605249?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1222936558409375744?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1222937632256057344?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1222938180518699008?s=20

Cheers, Scott

Am not sure whether this is 'less is more' 'more or less' or "Small is Beautiful" - or what -

Most tweets will now fit 280 characters, up from 140. The new limit will roll out to Twitter users in almost all 40 languages Twitter supports. In late September, Twitter began a test of 280-character tweets with a small group of users. Nov 7, 2017
Welcome to a world with 280-character tweets - Business
https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/07/technology/twitter-280-character-limit/index.html -