To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
MIT"s Convocation is happening online now, and regarding the Covid pandemic:
Please join us in an hour for the President’s Welcome Convocation for Undergraduates as we embark on the fall semester. Whether on campus or off, in person or online, we are #OneMIT. http://mitsha.re/8KLI50BduV7
Please join us in an hour for the President’s Welcome Convocation for Undergraduates as we embark on the fall semester. Whether on campus or off, in person or online, we are #OneMIT. https://t.co/LKoIZ4F1HSpic.twitter.com/bwrZ3DKg9R
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (@MIT) August 31, 2020
Lit Sections's Head, Shankar Raman: "An Engineering and Architecture Major Returns to MIT—to Teach Literature"... "to champion the love of language and powerful humanistic ways of thinking... & work the subject matter into STEM" https://t.co/rQJga3NYxv@MIT_alumni#STEMeducationpic.twitter.com/F08jTGftN1
Here again is today's MIT convocation, which is now available in recorded form - http://web.mit.edu/webcast/convocation/f20/ - if you didn't get a chance to see it earlier, and as an inspiring welcome to incoming undergraduate students.
Welcome to World University and School!
Sincerely, Scott
Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Paul, and All, Thanks for the poetry yesterday!
Since many are Friends/ Quakers in this email thread, I want to share with you this online free-to-students' Bachelor degree opportunity (emerging from CC-4 MIT OCW, and accrediting/licensing in CA with BPPE and WASC in all likelihood) - which is Friendly-informed too! Students could begin taking edX courses this autumn. And one student who's beginning on 1 September, from India, is an English major, and taking 2 edX courses, both with a poetry focus in part!
Here, too, is the Harvard Woodberry Poetry Room link I shared with you in text chat yesterday -
Congratulations to WPR Creative Fellow Tracie Morris for being appointed full-time faculty at Iowa Writers' Workshop: "the first tenured African American full professor of poetry in the history of the Workshop."
- with, re your "Chirps and Pings' poem, great percussion in accompaniment. Congratulations on the upcoming launch of your "When an Atheist Says Bless You" poetry book, and perhaps we can have a lunch launch for this too! (Have you let the NtF - Nontheist Friends' email folks know about your upcoming book?)
Term begins on Tu 9/1/20 for free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor degrees, but email re #WUaSRollingAdmissions info@ worlduniversityandschool.org re students you may know who might be interested in beginning to study by taking edX courses:
I'm posting them in the body of this email too for the vision impaired.
The next OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting is on Sat., September 19, 2020, at 9 am PT (and please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to participate), if only to ask questions, or share your ideas or thinking.
World University and School has begun to send out World University and School Letters of Acceptance for this, and since students will be taking edX courses at first, and online, WUaS is offering a rolling admission approach as well. Please email info@worlduniversityandschool.orgif interested, or if you know of someone who might be interested in studying for a free-to-students’4-year best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelors’ degree.
See, too:
Harvard Commencement 2016, President Drew Gilpin Faust -
Matriculating WUaS students will be studying on edX (which requires broadband Wi-Fi video streaming access from all countries) this September 2020.
WUaS will begin to look into developing WUaS Open edX for students with limited video streaming opportunities (from MIT OpenCourseWare courses, for example), potentially via Open edX service provider MOOCit France, for January. WUaS seeks to build an online learning community as well, and offer advising / mentoring / other course possibilities in group video too in these regards.
(Thanks to MOOCit France for their startup kit - https://app.moocit.fr/courses/course-v1:WUAS+002+1/course/ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/lotus-corniculatus-glad-to-announce-new.html. WUaS is going to cancel our proceeding with WUaS Open edX via MOOCit France for the time being. WUaS will explore developing again with MOOCit France for January 1, 2021, contingent on developing/ adapting /migrating CC-4 MIT OCW into WUaS Open edX in our 6 majors, potentially with the expertise of graduate student instructors (MIT?), splitting the 15-week long MIT OCW courses into 7-8 week courses, and potentially even adding a seminar approach for 1st year undergraduates (via Riff Analytics), planning for BPPE licensing in CA, and accreditation (with WASC senior probably) and getting enough students. WUaS is also seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, as wiki-Universitians for a variety of reasons, and potentially regarding the Open edX money transfer mechanism (regarding reimbursement to WUaS for CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses too).
- will seek to matriculate Sri Lankan high school graduates and other Sri Lankans interested in free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021.
Sri Lankan high school students haven’t also taken the national exam yet.
Minute 4
World University and School will submit a claim in the Google Plus Class Action suit.
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“The Universitian” which is World University and School’s school newspaper, planned in ~200 countries’ official / main languages, and potentially in all 7,117 known living languages, with machine translation, is on hold until WUaS has enough students to begin to develop this.
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Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Present:
- Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)
- Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)
Here and attached are the Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for the WUaS Corporation:
In WUaS planning to code for students in all ~200 countries, their official/ main languages, and wiki-Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #
WUaS is continuing to further explore facilitate a #Single Crypto Currency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries. See the following Twitter posts from the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in these regards:
Neha Narula @neha
Our post on the collaboration between
@MITDCI
and
@BostonFed
to design and build a hypothetical digital currency
The #BostonFed today announced a multiyear collaboration with
@MIT researchers to research central bank digital currency. The project will explore the use of existing and new technologies to build and test a hypothetical digital currency platform. Rightwards arrow https://bit.ly/3iF4J6Z
In WUaS seeking to facilitate, too, Universal Basic Income experiments #UBIexperiments, and TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY worldwide, and with regards to distributing a single cryptocurenncy backed by most of @00 countries’ central banks, at You at WUaS? -
Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitians, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20 - with the Boston Federal Reserve.
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.
How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward?
WUaS Corp is seeking to develop many musical products, including a musical earpiece and software for harmonizing, so to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung (eg in a car), and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony…@WorldUnivAndSch - @WUaSPress
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Paul,
Thanks for opening the poetry conversation possibilities however - and online. And thanks again also so much for your creative thematic poetry.
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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