World University and School in overview, and with a focus on beginning and emerging Scotland, Mexico, Iceland, England and Russia World University and Schools +
Dear Gary Hall, Sasha Anikina, Peter Baker, Gabriela Mendez Cota, all,
Thanks for your email reply to all of us regarding the future of the university especially. And I appreciate your radical thinking in your "Masked Media. What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence" while keeping academic careers in mind, for example, Gary and Sasha - and regarding the arts and humanities especially. I also appreciate your title 'masked media' and its reference to "mass media," and possibly regarding Marshall McLuhan's 'the medium is the message,' where media as we all know is "the main means of mass communication," and its plural is medium.
Here are the open access resources from MIT OCW that WUaS is developing with -
MIT OCW web site in 2025
https://ocw.mit.edu/and from a previous iteration of MIT OCW - in 7 languages -
https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/and
MIT OCW courses in their departments, numbering here 38
https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/WUaS has put together about 42 majors here in English -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (but this web page this is currently in development ... and potentially as WUaS seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # from here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as wiki teachers and wiki learners among speakers of all 7159 known living languages for free universal education, and possibly as the website host develops their Linux servers for security + even for a #RealisticVirtualEarth).
Regarding the future of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (free, wiki and MIT (OCW-centric)) as a kind of 'masked media,' here are the beginnings of a number of online WUa suniversities -
Scotland World University and School, from -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland (planned in English, Scottish Gaelic and the Scots languages)
Mexico World University and School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico (planned in Spanish for free online WUaS degrees +)
Iceland World University and School - not yet begun - planned in the Icelandic language (do you speak some Icelandic, Gary, since you were born there?)
England World University and School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/England Russia World University and School -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Russian_Federation - planned in Russian + ... and to become Russia World University and School as a nation state (per the Olympics).
... and which will all emerge from here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in these countries main and official languages (
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) for online free-to-students' CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric #GrowWithGoogleWUaS #freeWUaSdegrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA/ AS, and Master's degrees, from home, - as well as wiki schools in ALL the languages in each of these countries for people-to-people open #WikiTeaching and #WikiLearning. Open access-wise, WUaS builds both on the open access licensing of Creative Commons' CC-4 licensing (which says anyone can 1) share it freely, 2) adapt it eg with AI and ML, but 3) non-commercially, hence free-to-students' WUaS degrees) MIT OpenCourseWare; and WUaS seeks to facilitate open access people to people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning for speakers of all 7159 known living languages ('mutual intelligibility' being one definition of languages that The Ethnologue based in Texas uses).
WUaS on both of our #WUaSwings seeks to hire as many as 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years (slightly bigger than Walmart's number of employees (~2.3 million), which is in 19 out of 200 countries, and WUaS seeks to grow and develop in all ~200 countries per the Olympics, leaving about 181 out of 200 countries in which to grow our #PhysicalDigital WUaS Educational Services' Stores for books, computers, robotics, groceries, hospital technologies + ) ... and to become the Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, Technical University of Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Heidelberg University, and the Humboldt University of Berlin, and PSL University, Paris-Saclay University, Sorbonne University, Sciences Po, and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris + (and to potentially hire faculty from among these universities' graduates) ... of the internet in all ~200 countries and in their main languages.
Thanks so much for your two books on unidversiigidies which are open access, I look forward to looking through them (and see some of the PSs below) ...and per my upcoming Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (Academic Press at WUaS @WUaSPress) I've added their titles here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Open_Access_Resources using a kind of modified AAA (American Anthropological Association) citation practice -
Hall, Gary. 2016. [
https://archive.org/details/uberficationofun0000hall The Uberfication of the University]. (ISBN 978-1-5179-0212-4). Minnesota, USA: University of Minnesota Press.
van Mourik Broekman, Pauline, Gary Hall, Ted Byfield, Shaun Hides, and Simon Worthington. 2015. [
https://www.academia.edu/11922518/Open_Education_A_Study_in_Disruption Open Education: A Study in Disruption]. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
In the 'Summary' field, I typed -
"added 2 books by Gary Hall on the university and open education"
Rather than adding them further in their entirety both to Archive.org - per your kind suggestion to feel free to share them - ... I found only a limited preview of one in Archive .org and an earlier version of the other in
academia.edu.
Regarding your work on the city, let's explore this further in a #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarth -
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - #ForCities and one which we can wiki-edit and wiki-add to as end users too ... like we can add photos and videos to Google Street View with time slider
(and see this photo of the Harbin Hot Springs gatehouse I added to StreetView as an example -
"X a
a Harbin Gate House photo I wiki-added to Google Street View with a time slider - How to develop a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs from this single photo to start?
EXPANDED -
INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now begin to build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth - re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 in #
RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseum
s #ForLibraries (both ALL, EVER, in ALL Languages) (& in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMaps) #ForUniversityResearch to which we can #WikiAdd to eg w a Harbin Gate House photo I wiki-added to Google Street View with time slider - How to develop a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs from this single photo to start - and especially in 2011 (in contrast to say 1975 or 1993, for example) ... and walk in past the Harbin gate house to soak in the Harbin warm pool from home?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,88y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m7!3m6!1s0x8084724dbe981ba5:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315!10e5!16zL20vMDZ5czh3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3Dhttps://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/01/monterey-cypress-hesperocyparis.html~ How further ?"
here
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/08/victoria-boliviana.html ) ...
...and see also these recent Google Earth Tweets in some of these regards -
Historical Street View for Professionals See how a neighborhood, coastline, or property has changed over time.


Planners, builders and land stewards can now see change unfold -- street by street, year by year. Explore more #onEarth →
https://t.co/7CYKdt0duE pic.twitter.com/SrUs8yhG6A— Google Earth (@googleearth) September 4, 2025
https://x.com/googleearth/status/1963680835359342985One of our most requested features is here: Undo/Redo in Google Earth.


Instantly reverse or reapply changes without missing a beat. Your maps, your way #onEarth →
https://t.co/nsXd4cM0EY pic.twitter.com/LLDJfgirU0— Google Earth (@googleearth) September 5, 2025
https://x.com/googleearth/status/1964037376356807090Celebrate the strength and beauty of Indigenous languages with this Google Earth project — featuring audio from 50+ Indigenous speakers #onEarth. Discover more →
https://t.co/E4rbmkbfU8 pic.twitter.com/1a0rTGUzO8— Google Earth (@googleearth) August 14, 2025
https://x.com/googleearth/status/1956037619898266069And re this Google Earth Tweet with a petri dish + ...
Honored to see AlphaEarth Foundations recognized in the Time 10 AI Applications Shaping the Future article → #AlphaEarth #GoogleEarthEngine
https://t.co/aqO1hmsf4Q— Google Earth (@googleearth) August 29, 2025
https://x.com/googleearth/status/1961511646007865853 I am wondering if it's suggestive of a #
RealisticVirtualEarthForCells, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenes and #
RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingR
eversal with computer science and AI and ML ... and petri dishes and experimentation
all of which will interoperate with my emerging #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs' ethnographic field site project eg building out in GStreetView with time slider here -
~
https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 (and where you can 'walk' the '4 miles' I think down to the town of Middletown, California, but where one can't go into Harbin Hot Springs Heart Consciousness Church to soak virtually in the Harbin warm pool from home yet) ~
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~
http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
for Harbin Ethnographic Book project #2, and for publishing from Google Street View with a time slider as well. (Glad Peter Norvig in his INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article titled Revolutionizing Education from Machine Learning and AI updated 3/2/25 wrote about a Virtual Harbin Hot Springs AND for the study of bliss therein even).
Will add you to the open WUaS Weekly Business Meetings / News and Q&As emailings - on Mondays at 10 am Pacific Time in Zoom (
https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos).
Thanks again, kind regards, (Friendly Quaker greetings), best wishes,
Scott
I blogged about some of this in my daily blog here on F 9/12/25 -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/09/narrow-leaved-marsh-orchid-dactylorhiza.html How to help WUaS students learn AI and robotics with this - and at the University level ?
How best to develop online clubs for this - and for anyone ... where we can all make lego robots socially, for example?