WUaS News and Q & A 9/7/20 i) ROLLING ADMISSIONS at WUaS with edX courses, ii) Current matriculated ... ~
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9:08 AM (2 hours ago)
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Hi Universitians,
This WUaS News / Live Stream Q&A meets in about 50 minutes - and it may include a conversation with named WUaS Corp CEO, Julian Dumitrascu!
WUaS News Q&A Livestream M 9/7/20 10a PT i) ROLLING ADMISSIONS at WUaS with edX courses, ii) Current matriculated students' studies https://www.youtube.com/user/
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Thu, Sep 3, 10:20 AM (4 days ago)
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Rohit Sharma
Anant Agarwal
Shankar Raman
Swapnil Mehta
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
More about welcoming you, and them here - http://scott-macleod.
You write on your LinkedIn page "I will work my heart out to achieve it" - https://www.linkedin.com/in/
A full load at World Univ & Sch is nearly four 15-week long CC-4 MIT OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
World Univ & Sch Cheers,
Scott
PS
Shall we map out ~50 WUaS credit units of courses for you this autumn, and from - https://wiki.
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Sep 3, 2020, 11:22 AM (4 days ago)
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Thanks Scott for your help and support. I really appreciate it.
Just to clarify on the last conversation we had, I am not dropping out of the Degree program of WUaS. I share the vision and goal of free education to all with WUaS.
I would love to recommend the available Degree programs to the students I know.
Yes, I am ready to map out 50 credit units this fall.
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Thu, Sep 3, 11:57 AM (4 days ago)
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Hi, Shahbaz and Larry,
Thanks for the re-confirmation that you aren't dropping out of WUaS. How did the edX enrollment go? And how are you doing? How are your classes going?
Again, please include Larry Viehland here, as WUaS Academic Registrar, in emails about your academic developments.
Please let me know how you are doing with edX, especially, before WUaS considers other students in your area. The time commitment at World University and School for a free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree is great, and WUaS is going to seek reimbursement from Indian departments of education. And WUaS would like the initial edX classes to be something that you can do first, since the edX or WUaS Open edX courses are what WUaS will WASC-accredit and BPPE-license upon - and thus assure quality of our WUaS degrees (in seeking to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet) ... and with the study time that entails. Consider your perseverance since January as part of your application, and WUaS, as we license and accredit, seeks to develop further our application process in new ways. Let's wait to explore your friends contacting WUaS until you've completed the AdelaideX 5-week course, and share the results with Larry, as a kind of further step in your WUaS matriculation process. WUaS seeks for you to be as persevering with your courses as you were in applying to and getting into WUaS (and your friends as well).
Please remember too that WUaS informed edX CEO Anant Agarwal of your planning to take "Poetry in America: Modernism" and "Shakespeare Matters," which WUaS will explore doing with some of your academically highest achieving friends in 5 weeks and after you've completed the "Shakespeare Matters" course.
How did the edX enrollment process go?
And are you going to attend Stanford Prof. Pascal Dupas's talk tomorrow evening, Indian time?
Stanford: We are extremely happy that @DupasPascaline (Professor @Stanford ) would be joining us as speaker for our next interactive session! If challenges around global poverty interest you, then do join us for this session on Sept 4, 2020, 8:30 pm IST. Register here https://bit.ly/34w9wnj
We are extremely happy that @DupasPascaline (Professor @Stanford) would be joining us a speaker for our next interactive session! If challenges around global poverty interest you, then do join us for this session on Sept 4, 2020, 8:30 pm IST. Register here https://t.co/6HybdXt1Q4 pic.twitter.com/hkViytJFoi— Women in Econ/Policy (@weconpol) August 25, 2020
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Sat, Sep 5, 7:14 AM (2 days ago)
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Hi Scott and Larry,
The enrollment process was cake. I have enrolled in "Poetry in America: Modernism" and "Shakespeare Matters" as recommended by you and Anant.
I want to know how would I be assessed in these courses and how would they lead me to a 4-year Bachelor's degree?
Thanks, Shahbaz
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Sat, Sep 5, 7:48 AM (2 days ago)
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Hi Shahbaz,
Cheers, Scott
Thanks for reaching out to Larry and myself. Am glad you found it easy to enroll in the 2 edX courses regarding your matriculation at World Univ & Sch. Congratulations!
I think when you finish each course you'll learn something from the edX system evaluation-wise. Pass that information on to Larry as WUaS Academic Registrar. (I've only taken as an 'auditor' The edX HarvardX JuryX course in 2016 so I'm not sure how edX has developed, but I think I did get some kind of evaluation from edX).
If you look back at the email on the 50 credit units for the autumn 2020 (as a full load) at WUaS, I think you'll see what the answers to your questions. (See too the Reed College links I shared with you to a) an English major, and b) distribution requirements). Roughly, and at this stage, one week of an edX course is worth one credit unit, so since you're taking an 8 week, and a 5 week, course, you would receive 13 credit units, upon completion of these courses.
Begin to look through the edX literature course offerings - https://www.edx.org/course/
Cheers, Scott
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Sun, Sep 6, 12:03 AM (1 day ago)
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Shahbaz, you can ask me for any help if you need. I will always be on mentorship board of WUAS whenever Scott needs me for India. Rohit
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Sun, Sep 6, 8:15 AM (1 day ago)
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Thanks so much, Rohit, for your wonderful offer of mentoring! Shahbaz, feel free to reach out to Rohit in these regards.
Will create new mentorship section here -
How are your edX courses going, Shahbaz?
Warm regards, Scott
PS
Some of Shahbaz's, Larry's and my recent previous correspondence is here (at bottom) - https://scott-macleod.
PPS
RE support (care) mentoring ...
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Sun, Sep 6, 12:52 PM (22 hours ago)
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Hey Scott, as these courses are self-paced credit units, can I finish them as fast as I can and accelerate the degree process? Shahbaz
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Sun, Sep 6, 1:05 PM (22 hours ago)
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That would be great, Shahbaz,
Just let Larry know as the WUaS Academic Registrar as soon as you can what the edX results are for each course. Eventually these WUaS results' / Academic Registrar process will be more automated than it is (and Larry could check in with edX CEO Anant Agarwal if he's unclear about how edX works in these regards too); it' s probably worth emailing the results to Larry and not include me in the email, as these results will become part of your official transcript (which is another further important aspect of WUaS licensing / accrediting), and a kind of independent WUaS Academic Registrar process is an important part of growing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch probably into WUaS Open edX to become a great university toward free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor degrees.
Cheers, Scott
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3:45 AM (7 hours ago)
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Hey Scott, I wonder if there's a BA General degree available(like India) which consists different Art subjects. This might be interesting for many Indian students.
Shahbaz
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4:38 AM (7 hours ago)
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Hi Shahbaz and Larry,
The World Univ & Sch 6 undergraduate degrees are all Liberal Arts' degrees - with majors - so they are general degrees. The majors within them allow for specialization, approaches to learning knowledge in depth, and career preparation. Liberal Arts' education is also accreditable / licensable in the US in a way that offers a career focus too - and newly online. With an English degree, you may be able to go on to study for a Ph.D. in English, teach English as a second language (and in a way that you might not with a General Degree), become a writer or a journalist, or any number of other careers, and with a history degree, an Indian student might be able to go on to a Law degree, for example. In seeking to become the MIT / Harvard / Stanford of the Internet, and newly in the information age, WUaS seeks to offer Indian students in a sense the opportunity to get a free-to-students' MIT-centric degree, and is eventually heading in the direction of MIT OCW's 32 departments - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
How are your edX courses going? Appreciating your persevering to become a matriculated English major student at WUaS.
Cheers,
Scott
MIT pioneered by combining technical training with a liberal arts education. Classes in literature and languages, psychology, politics — as well as participation in musical groups — were offered at MIT from its earliest days.
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5:12 AM (6 hours ago)
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Hi Scott,
Yeah, courses are going all right. I want to point out that "Poetry in America: Modernism" has long ended in December, so there are no quizzes or assessments. Should I pursue this course?
Shahbaz
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8:50 AM (2 hours ago)
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Hi Shahbaz and Rohit,
Glad your Shakespeare AdelaideX course is going well, Shahbaz. Students change classes at the beginning of a term all the time.
Rohit, could you please help mentor Shahbaz here? Since the course he had signed up for, "Poetry in America: Modernism," ended long ago/has been archived, and since therefore "there are no quizzes or assessments," Shahbaz writes, he's looking for a replacement course. And he's also looking to plan out 50 credit units of courses this autumn, where a 12 week edX course equals 12 credit units (at this stage, so a 1 week of an edX course equals 1 credit unit).
Would this course - https://www.edx.org/course/
Over 4 years, for a free-to-students' online Bachelor's degree in an English major (such as Shahbaz is doing), students would be taking 600 credit units (which is roughly 10 MIT OCW 15-week-long courses per year in three 4-month terms, September-December, January-April, and May-August, or 3.3 MIT OCW per term for a 'full load'). Distribution requirements are part of this process for a WUaS Liberal Arts' degree, and WUaS is currently building from these on Reed College distribution requirements - https://www.reed.edu/
And Reed's English major requirements are here - https://www.reed.edu/english/
Rohit, I've created a new mentorship section here - https://wiki.
For both of your thinking and planning purposes, World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop into WUaS Open edX from CC-4 MIT OCW courses (courses split in half potentially to 7-8 week long courses, instead of 15-16 week courses), and beginning potentially in January, but would seek too to hire (MIT?) graduate students to help migrate the MIT OCW into WUaS Open edX for this. So many more English major courses should be coming along.
Shahbaz, can you please look through edX Literature courses - https://www.edx.org/learn/
Best wishes, Scott
Shahbaz:
"Yeah, courses are going all right. I want to point out that "Poetry in America: Modernism" has long ended in December, so there are no quizzes or assessments. Should I pursue this course?"
How are your edX courses going, Shahbaz?
Warm regards, Scott
PS
Some of Shahbaz's, Larry's and my recent previous correspondence is here (at bottom) - https://scott-macleod.
PPS
RE support (care) mentoring ...
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Rohit, (and Shahbaz), all,
As a followup to your wonderful email from 6 September 2020:
"Shahbaz, you can ask me for any help if you need. I will always be on mentorship board of WUAS whenever Scott needs me for India"
... in thinking about mentoring Shahbaz, and with regards to his 50 credit units in edX this autumn (while WUaS is in transition potentially to WUaS Open edX from CC-4 MIT OCW in January), please keep in mind the possibility of an increased number of students from India in January, as well as potentially groups of students from Sri Lanka WUaS, Poland WUaS, Scotland WUaS, and also Shady Side Academy graduates (high achieving high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, all of whom might send groups of students to WUaS for January.
I've blogged about Shahbaz, your and my recent correspondence here yesterday - https://scott-macleod.
I think it would be great for you to think through what Indian students might benefit from - re studying with edX courses - but also please keep in mind students from America, Sri Lanka, Poland, Scotland, (eventually Peru and Germany WUaSs too) for example - and for January. Lots of interesting creative mentoring possibilities, and differentially culturally (but all in English at first)!
Scott
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Shahbaz Sanjer
10:57 AM (6 hours ago)
to me
Hi Scott,
I have enrolled in "Masterpiece of World Literature" as recommended by you. So, how many credits do I have with these two courses?
Shahbaz
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12:05 PM (5 hours ago)
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Shabaz, Larry, Rohit, All,
Shakespeare Matters (5 weeks)
https://courses.edx.org/
Masterpieces of World Literature (12 weeks)
Am still unclear whether quizzes and such will be available to 'auditors' such as yourself, in the "Masterpieces of World Literature" course. Rohit? Shahbaz?
As I think you may have read, Shahbaz, 1 week of an edX course equals 1 credit unit (roughly, and for the time being), so these 2 courses would equal 17 credit units toward the 50 credit units for this autumn, for you, as a matriculated student at WUaS.
Regarding distribution requirements, please consider taking the 10 week long "Society and Information Technology" course - http://
So that leaves a further 23 credit units for you to find toward your autumn term. Could you, Shahbaz, please look through the edX Literature catalog - https://www.edx.org/course/
I'm hoping you can develop agency (action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect), and potentially in conversation with Rohit, as mentor, in selecting the rest of your courses on your own for this autumn. (And please remember that you'll likely be studying for 4 years, or 12 terms, so you'll be selecting your own courses after this too, - and with regards to the Reed College English major courses, as well as the Reed College distribution requirements, which you'll find again here - https://scott-macleod.
You may mentor incoming matriculating WUaS students, too, beginning in January, Shahbaz (along with Rohit - https://wiki.
Regards,
Scott
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:57 AM Shahbaz Sanjer <sanjerbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,
Shahbaz Sanjer
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