Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Meerkat: for WUaS to integrate edX in WUaS G Suite for Education * How might we best aim for 9/1/2021 for matriculating Bachelor and PhD students, such that I can continue to let World Universitians know in the future? * Am glad Anant Agarwal reached out to me recently in WhatsApp: - "A Message from Anant Agarwal, edX Founder and CEO" * Scott: Dear Anant, thank you for your messages ... Perhaps something like this from Phil Windley * * * Nancy, - Thanks for your LinkedIn social media message - re WUaS? * * * Hi my wonderful mother! - Walking Path Untrodden ~ John Cleese and Dr. Iain McGilchrist on the Isle of Skye


for WUaS to integrate edX in WUaS G Suite for Education * How might we best aim for 9/1/2021 for matriculating Bachelor and PhD students


Dear Matthew, (and Larry), 


Thanks for letting me know that for WUaS to integrate edX in WUaS G Suite for Education it will be $50,000, and that for unlimited courses it will be $349 / student per year. It seems like WUaS will be seeking full-time undergraduate students (at the top of their classes from all 200 countries, in part, - in addition to the creative students) interested in 4 years' degrees (re retention questions, and who might enjoy studying even more than a 'full load.' How might we best aim for 9/1/2021 for matriculating Bachelor and PhD students, such that I can continue to let World Universitians know in the future?

And how to begin to plan for the 4 WUaS prospective Ph.D. students, including Prasanth K, for example (with his interest in developing Tamil language WUaS in Tamil) and with his interest in majoring in Cognitive Science. What do you think? Would he even be able to apply to WUaS through MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science program? Would WUaS reach out to MIT for this program, as WUaS plans to code for applicants? (And it's Prasanth who also Tweeted about his suffering; am not sure about the significance of this re WUaS mental health planning for our students, but WUaS isn't quite 'there' yet to offer mental health services, although our online medical schools are planning online psychiatry in the online teaching hospitals! Might WUaS collaborate with MIT psychiatry or similar for our students in this WUaS PhD and Bachelor degrees' application process. What does edX do in these 'mentsl health' for students' regards?)

Am glad Anant Agarwal reached out to me recently in WhatsApp: 

Anant Agarwal communications with me in new WhatsApp App on 2/11/21 -

In a new 'Open for all' group there on Feb 11 2021, Prasanth K. shared with me the following -


"A Message from Anant Agarwal, edX Founder and CEO

@⁨Scott GK MacLeod⁩ my major problem is centralised network.
CEO and particular authority gives the instructions and commands like Anant for edX.

We need to create a peer-to-peer network for Education

A decentralised system, on the other hand, is one in which complex behaviour emerges through the work of lower level components operating on local information, *not the instructions of any commanding influence* . This form of control is known as *distributed control* , or control in which each component of the system is *equally responsible* for contributing to the global, complex behaviour by acting on local information in the appropriate manner. The lower level components are implicitly aware of these appropriate responses through mechanisms that are based on the component's interaction with the environment, including other components in that environment.

peer-to-peer like
denoting or relating to networks in which each computer can act as a server for the others, allowing shared access to files and peripherals without the need for a central server.


Scott:
 Dear Anant, thank you for your messages ... Perhaps something like this from Phil Windley 
https://twitter.com/windley/status/1352258760085917697?s=19 could come into conversation with your great thinking. How to build this into You at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - at this early stage of WUaS's wiki development and even anticipating or planning for all 7.8 billion people, could be a starting place to realize your thinking (and in Wikipedia's 300 languages via WUaS in WUaS OpenCura WikiBase Wikidata)?

Scott 
 Hoping they at edX are also focusing on student retention questions as they focus on quality ... Anant?

Prasanth
@⁨Scott GK MacLeod⁩ "Self Sovereign Internet"  What a words!!

Prasanth
 @⁨Scott GK MacLeod⁩  Share some words about Phil Windley and your experiences with him

Scott
I think he has a PhD in computer science from UC Davis and lives in Utah presently where he's been working on self sovereign internet idea and other CS theory for decades ... Only know of him from Twitter, - and also possibly regarding a single cryptocurrency since Phil Windley knows Drummond Reed, whom I met at Stanford, also working in the cryptocurrency space and related CS IDEAS in Redmond Washington (and who went to Harvard and may know Bill Gates too)"
Communications here too -


Matthew, (Anant, Ned, Larry), in this major edX-WUaS coding planning moment in WUaS G Suite for Education, in what ways might WUaS facilitate Anant's seeking a decentralized "peer-to-peer network for Education" for 7.8 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # or spin # or similar - possibly along Phil Windley's lines of thinking (and even without passwords
https://twitter.com/windley/status/1360349564067221505?s=19 - and for a number of other reasons, some relating to coding for WUaS getting grades from edX? 

And could I let World Universitians and especially prospective students know in the WUaS News and Agenda for this Saturday's open Monthly Business Meeting on 2/20/21 that prospective Bachelor (150?) and PhD degree students (4 currently at WUaS - through MIT depts.?, Others welcome) will be able to apply to matriculate online this autumn, and have approximately a year's worth of courses to choose from and study in their prospective majors? (I usually send this announcement out on the Thursday before, so 2/18/21 this week). I would like for WUaS to head in a professional direction re scheduling and planning for this too.

Following up on previous 2 emails' questions further below later. Thanks to Anant for getting in touch in WhatsApp especially. Thank you. 

Best regards, Scott




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February 7, 2021

Dear Matthew, Marissa, Ned, Cameron at edX, All, 

I hope this email finds you well. Just following up on our recent conversation in videography. In anticipating WUaS Monthly Business Meeting in 2 weeks, and matriculating 150 undergraduate students potentially as early as May 1, but probably September 1, 2021, I'm writing to confirm that what you said is that WUaS would have to pay edX about $101,000 to interoperate our developing platform with edX's dashboard ($50,000), and $17,000 (or $350 per student per year) for each 50 students we matriculate, and get grades for, as we proceed with probably BPPE licensing and WASC accrediting. Is this accurate? Newly, WUaS is seeking to plan for 4 possible PhD students too (taking possibly 7 years to complete their PhDs in English; 2 from India possibly, 1 from Morocco, and 1 from Indonesia). 

And since WUaS doesn't yet have a relationship with MIT's departments, in what ways would it be possible for these prospective WUaS PhD students to apply directly through MIT Departments to matriculate at WUaS? This is something Larry Viehland and I and Prasanth talked about at last month's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/alpine-lily.html, and also perhaps through MIT Admissions - (https://twitter.com/MITstudents/status/1349417230623272960?s=20 ? In process, in what ways might our WUAS matriculating students get access to MIT Medical for counseling even (see below)?

One of our high achieving prospective PhD students today wrote 

இந்த உலகத்துல யாரும் என் அளவுக்கு துன்பம் அனுபவித்திருக்க மாட்டார்கள் என நினைக்கிறேன்.
Translated from Tamil by
I don't think anyone in this world has suffered as much as I have.

https://twitter.com/Prasanth0Nature/status/1358499275680804864?s=20

So would it also be possible for our WUaS PhD students to get access to MIT Medical (https://twitter.com/MITmedical) or similar for counseling too?

And in terms of interoperating WUaS's developing platform with edX's dashboard, and Houcemeddine above (in Tunisia, who helped install WUaS in Wikibase Opencura - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/12/sat-dec-19-2020-wuas-minutes-for-open.html - and in WUaS planning for students in all ~200 countries, and wiki teachers and learners in all 7,117 known living languages, and indeed, brainstorming-wise, wiki teachers and learners among all 7.8 billion people on the planet, for free universal people-to-people education), could Houcemeddine and perhaps Ned somehow work together to develop an interface between the edX dashboard, the emerging WUaS platform, partly WUaS Wikibase Opencura-centric, and in WUaS's G Suite for Education too, which WUaS has been in for years, and which also provides access to the Google Ecosystem including Translate and TensorFlow too? 

I think Prasanth as a matriculating student would welcome an opportunity for counseling, given the statement above (since I think life can be really hard in India, despite it's remarkable tolerance, and diversity and many languages and cultures). 

Thank you. 

Sincerely, Scott
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - 
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - 



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February 9, 2021

Dear Matthew,

I hope this finds you well.

Thank you for the clarification. HOW would the integration with Google's WUaS' G Suite for Education work with edX for grades etc., with our WUaS plans to build out in WUaS Opencura WikiBase/Wikidata's 300 languages, and for matriculating Universitian students and WUaS wiki editors in all 200 countries, conceptually here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - (and in planning for WUaS wiki teachers and learners in all 7117 known living languages) ? 

And would you be able please to include Larry Viehland in our communications each time, since he's chair of the Board at World University and School? Viehland@chatham.edu is his email address. Thanks. 

WUaS is still seeking funding. So is WUaS and edX still talking about ~ $17,000 per 50 students per year? And what please would be the next steps and costs to sign the edX-WUaS partnership agreement? (And would you please lay all of these out in writing)? Also, from you edX perspective, could WUaS matriculate 150 undergraduate students (and potentially at least 4 PhD students working toward their Master's degrees) September 1, taking engaging edX courseware which helps with studnet retention, in 29 majors (licensable be BPPE and accredit-able by WASC), for a first year out of 4 years' college?

Thank you,
Scott


PS
Here are some ideas for where WUaS would like to head with a single science subject from our WUaS CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity (for reimbursement reasons from countries) to edX and beyond, first in English then in other languages with machine translation (some of which will happen in a realistic virtual earth in the Google ecosystem too) ...


Chemistry at OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/ >https://www.edx.org/course/subject/chemistry > 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~#RealisticVirtualEarthForChemistry at #atomic, #molecular & #StreetView with #TimeSlider levels @WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) #ActualVirtual w #FilmTo3D App



Thank you.



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Thanks for your LinkedIn social media message - re WUaS?


Hi Nancy, 

Thanks for your L.I. message. I didn't know about the SA online posting, and sorry to hear about Mr. Cavaliers' passing. Do you have a link, by any chance? I've been attending a few Shady Side Academy online events recently.  ... 


Hi Scott -

I learned about your great work when I read the post about you in SA online after getting the news of Mr. Cavaliers passing last month.

I graduated Sewickley Academy in 1978 + would love to connect + talk when convenient.

Thank you.

Until then, be well.

~ Nancy


Scott:

"Hi Nancy, If you'd like to meet in the Mondays' News and Q&A at 10 am PT, 1pm Pittsburgh ET time, or another time please let me know. Here this past Monday's invitations - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1361357713658142723?s=20 - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1361357066204454912?s=20 - with also a link to daily blog - scottmacleod.com - worlduniversityandschool.org. Friendly greetings from the SF Bay Area, Scott :)"


Here's a video recording from yesterday's WUaS News Q&A - 2/15/2021 -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SAQSqSbG8W2ZRiJuf-FeADW7oV6Iig5/view - to give you some idea of WUaS's recent thinking.


How best to communicate further? 

Regards, Scott

Video from 2/15/21 also here 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/peruvian-hairless-dog-naked-dog.html ~

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Oh boy, that's embarrassing and thanks for clarifying. When I ran Earth Twine, part of my goal was to do a similar thing to what you are doing at World University and School, more along the lines of job training. So I am very interested in learning more and hopefully can contribute a good thought or two based on my work.

Very good to be connected and I look forward to attending on Monday.

Thanks again,

~ Nancy


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Great, talk to you then, Nancy. 


Besides being CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric (in its 4 languages) for free-to-students' online accrediting and licensing degrees (Bach., PhD, Law, MD, and IB) first in English, World University and School is also a wiki, and planning wiki-schools for open teaching and learning in all 7117 known living languages; here's a main Subjects' area of focus - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - not yet in non-English languages. 

Here are two resources related to your Earth Twine interests - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Career_counseling and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love - without much MIT OCW yet, and with much creative potential. The wiki is still in development, and will emerge with a Wikidata 'back end' in Wikipedia's 300 languages. 

Looking forward to meeting on Monday!

Thanks, 
Scott


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Thanks very much, I will go through everything before Monday, look forward to doing so!

Until then, be well.

~ Nancy


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

3:01 PM (7 hours ago)
to Nancy
Great, talk to you then. 



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Hi my wonderful mother! - Walking Path Untrodden


Hi Ma, 


Seeking with time further piano lessons, with wonderful teacher ! Thanks again for lessons!!! Am going to continue with Ian Whitelaw for piping lessons the following week (and giving a lesson to Taylor this week). 

Am missing Harbin a little, and seeking of wonderful life partner continues ! 

Wrote to Barbara Salisbury last night -

 
Greetings, Barbara!

I hope this email finds you swimmingly well.

Iain McGilchrist and John Cleese 

... Talking about Creativity and John Cleese's new book too.

Both are brilliant, Iain is on the Isle of Skye interestingly.

Their talk made me think of creative Angela Farmer's Yoga course happening now for 4 Sundays, which I'm taking. Not as good as in person, traveling to Greece for example, and hanging out before And after with a kind of group of hippies from all over, but still good.

How are you? What are you up to? What are you exploring creatively? (Daily blogging and music-making continue to be creative explorations here:)

Fond regards,
Scott
Creativity blog label -


Re lease, we'll talk again in a week or so. Ed's birthday is this next week, And we may hike this Sunday :)

Seeking too to trust my life partner (re ethics too ... Which are in CA somewhat fungible?)



"Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time."

...
"Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass."


Heading back to sleep here :)


So glad you're my amazing & wonderful mother :)) 

Love,
Scott


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Ma, 

Walking path untrodden here :) 

Are you walking any new untrodden paths chez toi? :)

Love, Scott
 
This aging reversal genetic engineering with creams, syringes, capsules, intranasal sprays is really a path untrodden :) ... and especially in a realistic virtual earth for genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click ... with a Film-to-3D App ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?src=hashtag_click ... 


... But tomorrow there's a Hindsight 2020 talk "Hindsight 2020 - The Allen Institute Developmental Recording Virtual Series" - the first one with these amazing molecular geneticists ... George @geochurch, Magda @ZernickaGoetz, Jay @JShendure - and tomorrow's is about recording embryos as they develop ~ https://www.allen-lineage.org/portfolio-item.html !!! 

Could such recordings be used for avatar bot electronic medical records, and for gene editing too of embryos (to edit out life-threatening genetic diseases even? ) ... and even film-to-3D into something like Google Poly (library of 3D objects, which is closing) and at the cell and molecular levels too? 

Path untrodden :)





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