Friday, May 29, 2020

Starfish (Fromia monilis): CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford? (Is this all Plan Z?) * * * Plan A - WUaS did find all of WUaS's majors, except 'General Science' (go figure, or go solve for X, or something) at MIT OCW: WUaS could give such graduate student instructors, learning to become faculty, free rein to 'RIFF' IN TEACHING with MIT OCW courses * * "The Meaning of Life," an MIT OCW Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors (Quaker I think) Heather Paxson, and Reedie (Reed College alumnus) Graham Jones * "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth"



CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 / 2400 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford?



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Plan Z?

 Dear Larry, 

I clicked on all of our CC-4 MIT OCW links in WUaS's 6 majors - about 75 courses - and found about 14 edX < MITx courses, and have listed them -  

WUaS 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog had, by far, a majority of CC-3 licensed Yale OpenYaleCourses (OYC) with no YaleX links whatsoever - https://oyc.yale.edu/courses - so WUaS doesn't have the ability to offer the first year of an 'English' major, a major I'd think might have many WUaS applicants. And the MIT Literature courses I checked out don't have any edX links as well. These 7 courses, however, could be good starting places - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English%20literature - from BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX. There are however 62 'Literature' courses in edX. And It seems like Yale is listing many online courses with Coursera, and not edX. (Could be worth exploring if we could add these Coursera links/URLs as well to WUaS's catalog with time? ) And there are 413 'History' courses on edX - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=History. 

Our WUaS prospective 1st English major, Shabhaz Sanjer, in India, just just now emailed, and asked about an English major beginning in the autumn, and perhaps the above would work as a starting point. 

One question/ further clarification for MIT Professor and VP in Office of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma: "Could WUaS please add these other edX courses to our WUas course catalog, as MIT and Harvard prepare their online platforms for the autumn in this time of coronavirus pandemic" OR "WUaS is going to add other edX courses, besides MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform ... " I wonder what edX's relationship with these other BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX etc. universities is, re fees, and who can list, and how reimbursement to these Universities from edX works? 

So WUaS is a little short presently on courses beginning in the autumn for WUaS undergraduates in our 6 majors, but I wonder about listing other edX courses - and regarding seeking reimbursement, and regarding the edX money transfer mechanism. Am wondering too what MIT lawyers, or MIT legal processes the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and edX too, check out at MIT in all these regards too. There are probable enough courses to work with to cobble something together, all in all. Am not sure, however, how edX will communicate with the Departments of Education in all ~200 countries however. Our WUaS outreach is also a question. 

I've also listed all 260 MITx courses I found in edX just below WUaS majors - as one link in the WUaS Course Catalog. And I listed the "MicroMasters® Program in Finance" on one line in the Course Catalog too, with its 5 courses, just under the WUaS Business Major. 

Time to begin to see if we can add some more non-MITx courses to the WUaS Course Catalog, then figure out WUaS credit hours, - and perhaps even a rockin' first year required Reed Hum 110 course transposed into WUaS Hum 101, but on the edX platform, and created by Reed - and then figure out planning for WUaS cohorts too, if possible, with this Hum 101 course? 

Build this all out on a Google Sites' platform professionally, and with planning for many languages? What about registering our WUaS students with a Wikidata Q-item number or Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University? 

Suggestions, questions, thoughts, ideas? 

Sincerely, Scott

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Plan A: 

 Dear Larry, 

But assuming WUaS won't be able to engage all these other institutions, re our CC-4 MIT OCW-centric focus, perhaps we can focus on plan A, namely, to hire graduate student instructors from great universities to teach to CC-4 MIT OCW courses in real time with live group interactivity. In a sense WUaS could give such graduate student instructors, learning to become faculty, free rein to 'RIFF' IN TEACHING with MIT OCW courses. And in these regards, I did find all of WUaS's majors, except 'General Science' (go figure, or go solve for X, or something) at MIT OCW: 

EECS: 

Science: 
Engineering:

English: 

History: 

Business: 

Perhaps we could provide a bit of structure for our WUaS graduate students as well, like finding students, and providing a few other benefits of teaching in an online platform in a startup great university. 

The lack of 'Science' MIT OCW page, upon searching, is a bit of a concern, but WUaS can probably work around this as well :)

And then perhaps we can combine Plan A with my previous email today as a kind of Plan Z :)

Thanks to the MIT Office of Digital Learning! 

Sincerely, Scott

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Am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors (Quaker I think) Heather Paxson, and Reedie (Reed College alumnus) Graham Jones, as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . Can't seem to find Python's original meaning of life, but this will do:) ... Do you know this Monty Python version of 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth

Seeking I think first to list only the MIT OCW > MITx - and then to look at the rest of the MITx courses, as well as the rest of the edX courses. Searching by starting date could have merit too. What do you think about all this cross-referencing of lists? Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? 

Sincerely, 

Scott
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