New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands: Building on Stanford, MIT and Yale's open course ware, WUaS on MediaWiki, List of Great WUaS Universities, Anthro

Building on the 3, free, online, interactive, Stanford, open, computer courses,

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-science-081611.html

with professors,

this autumn,


the < 2000 MIT OCW courses,

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm


the 35 Yale OYC, -

http://oyc.yale.edu/


all here at World Univ & Sch -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University -

(plus much more),


WUaS facilitates a new, university conversation,

where YOU can teach, learn and create,


all from home on your computer.


Free (Bachelors., PhD, Law, MD) degrees are planned.



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Wikia is World University & School's current, free, wiki

until WUaS finds MediaWiki experts

(Wikipedia uses MediaWiki, and now is in around 281 languages).

WUaS is planning to be in all 3,000-8,000 languages.


Here's WUaS Information Technologies and Data Plan:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan.

WUaS plans to be advertising free, as well, like Wikipedia.

What might you add to this I.T. plan?


In addition to being a meta-directory for open, free teaching and learning resources,

WUaS also plans to offer free degrees (Bachelors, Ph.D. Law, and Medicine),

with its first matriculating Bachelors' class in 2014.



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World University and School has a focus on great universities' open course ware,

especially these universities -


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings -

(and the free, Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) has been posted at WUaS for more than a year now).

WUaS wants to link as meta-directory all great open course ware, like SEE.



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For Anthropologists & everyone:


Please give some thought to how folks,

in countries you know well,

might benefit from a free, open, online university or school -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/Nation_States -

and in languages, as well -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/Languages.


WUaS plans to be in all languages & countries,

as wiki,

on handheld computers with video,


and as course, teaching and learning, and knowledge archive, too (for millennia).


(For comparison, Wikipedia is in around 281 languages, as wiki, and is becoming an interesting archive, as well).













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-zealand-sub-antarctic-islands.html - August 31, 2011)

Te Wahipounamu, South West New Zealand: Japanese Island's anti-Nuclear activists, Germany, sensibly, and with a Plan for Renewables, ENDS Nuclear

Japanese Island's anti-Nuclear activists -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=833982 ...

Abolish Nuclear

(See WUaS's Nuclear Science & Engineering, wiki, subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering -

with an invitation to teach, learn and add).


Nuclear waste is a time bomb forever.


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NRC Report: Transformer "explosion" near turbine building at Maryland nuke plant


http://enenews.com/nrc-report-transformer-explosion-near-turbine-building-at-maryland-nuke-plant ...

Abolish Nuclear ...


(Nuclear industries 'clean energy' rhetoric is fascinating - Nuclear waste is so 'dirty').



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Germany, sensibly,

and with a plan for renewable energy generation,

closes 8 of 17 of its Nuclear plants!

Good news!



... and will close its remaining 9 nuclear plants by 2022 -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=834765.


How long until the US and the world follow this sophisticated lead?

Will add article to WUaS's Nuclear Science & Engineering subject

accessible here:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Science :)


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How long until California,

with so much SUN,

follows Germany's sensible lead and closes its 2 nuclear plants!


Now, when will the rest of the US and the world follow California's, smart NO NUKES' lead?


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Where's California's state plan,

competitive with Germany's plan,

which showed Germany that closing 8 nuclear plants,

and all by 2022,

and planning for renewables,

is feasible,

(and that it would spur innovation,

and solar market opportunities for German companies)?


Wake up California ...

use Germany's plan to further invigorate California sun companies

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy).



... will add such plans, if found, to WUaS's Solar page(s)


TW:

I suspect California can't follow Germany's plan because CA doesn't have the efficiencies in its energy consumption that Germany has developed since the reconstruction after WWII.


Scott:

Perhaps, yet there are remarkable solar innovation opportunities for California, too, and/but which Germany will capitalize on in taking this planned, bold move toward eliminating nuclear by 2022 by closing 17 nuclear sites. California's plan to abolish nuclear could also spur California ingenuity in solar renewables, and potentially save California from nuclear catastrophes and the extraordinary costs of forever-nuclear-waste ... Governor Jerry Brown, who wrote a book on solar energy, and who is against nuclear, could send California on a sensible path forever, legally, but outlawing Nuclear as a forever-public-danger. California's competition sets a high bar, and yet to close CA nuclear reactors in earthquake zones, which could ruin Calif forever, makes enormous economic sense.


TW:

I'm no apologist for nukes and definitely support a conversion, but look at the demand side. If you look at per capita energy consumption I'm sure you'll find Germany's is far lower which is the point I was trying to make. The bar is much higher for CA to match consumption with production. Micro-efficiencies in every household in Germany exist only in a few 'trendy' green homes in CA at premium prices.


SM:

Makes sense & good points ... yet California is much milder in winter ... I've heard that CA's 2 plants - Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, both upwind of LA and San Diego, in the event of a 'Fukushima' - produce about 17 per cent of California's electricity. I'd be interested to read Germany's solar energy output numbers in their plan. If I find this plan I'll add it to World Univ & Sch's some of the following Solar Energy, Nuclear Science and Ocean and Climate Change plan pages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects) ... I suspect Californians, post 1960s, have also generated similar plans to the German ones ... I wonder where we might find them.


TW:

17 %--certainly shows CA's vulnerability. Sheesh.












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/te-wahipounamu-south-west-new-zealand.html - August 30, 2011)

Wadden Sea, Netherlands: Yale adds a trove of 10 compelling, new, open courses, Why the Web is Great, Entire Films on the Web

Yale adds a trove of 10 compelling, new, open courses -

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8454.


I've add these treasures to World Univ & Sch's Subjects -


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects'

trove :)


(World University & School is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW).


All of these new, Yale courses are now at World Univ & Sch.



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Kevin Kelly's appreciation of why the web is great -

Why the Impossible Happens More Often

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/08/why_the_impossi.php -

these days :)



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Films on the Web in entirety?

I found

Herzog, Werner. 1968. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbr5oxPdpg Signs of Life - Lebenszeichen]. (English subtitles: http://cid-a79c0f657a377396.office.live.com/self.aspx/Share/SignsOfLife-1968.srt). Youtube.


... lovely Greek landscape & added to

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film :)

10 best Herzog films?

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-werner-herzog-films

Which do you recommend?















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/wadden-sea-netherlands-yale-adds-trove.html - August 29, 2011)

Chitwan, Nepal: Permaculture +, Alice in Wonderland WUaS page, Building Nuclear Reactors in earthquake zones doesn't make sense

Here's the Permaculture subject at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Permaculture ...

with links to the World University Agriculture School,

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Agriculture_School


and new WUaS Sustainable Agriculture

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sustainable_Agriculture


and WUaS Organic Agriculture wiki subject pages, ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Organic_Agriculture



all potentially very helpful for the developing world,

as WUaS grows -

and via broadband video on handheld computers - as this emerges.



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What a trip ... Alice in Wonderland from 1903 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA -

a new Alice in Wonderland wiki subject page at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland -

with this video, and a gyroscope video lecture by Laithwaite in 1974-75 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnNUTOxHoto -

linked to WUaS's Children's Literature and Wisdom :)

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom


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Building Nuclear Reactors in earthquake zones doesn't make sense -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=833284 -

and Fukushima was a 9 on the Richter scale & designed to withstand a 7.5.

See WUaS's Nuclear Science & Engineering page

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering.


Abolish Nuclear.


‎13 nuclear reactors experienced shocks on the east coast recently.


... Nuclear waste is a time bomb forever, too.









(August 28, 2011)

Sagarmatha, Nepal: Cornel West, Dr. ML King, Jr., WUaS will help the POOR with free education, Jobs & Apples Steve Jobs at WUaS

Cornel West & Dr. MLK Jr. -


Martin Luther King Jr. Would Want a Revolution, Not a Memorial
(Cornel West - New York Times - August 26, 2011)
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/opinion/martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-a-revolution-not-a-memorial.xml -


WUaS will potentially help the poor,

blacks who are poor,

and the poor around the world,

with free education,


which we all create through wiki teaching & learning to each other.


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Check out the Job Hunting pages Job Hunting pages in the Navigation sections of Subject pages -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE#WUaS_Navigation

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

at WUaS, too,

which will eventually have links to actual jobs,

I think.


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Here's an article on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s. Memorial -

A Poll Tax by Another Name
(John Lewis - August 27, 2011)
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=833670 -

will look to add this to World Univ & Sch's MLK Jr.s wiki, subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

with an invitation to teach, learn & add resources


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Online education article in the NY Times -

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree
(TAMAR LEWIN - August 25, 2011)
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=832861 -

mentions only a few of the great things WUaS is doing and planning,

but still no mention of WUaS ...

Hmmm - how to change this?

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University



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Here's NYT's Tom Friedman's 'All Together Now' -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=833954 -

World Univ & Sch will significantly contribute to an educational togetherness -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

of a kind Apple's Steve Jobs would encourage ...



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Steve Jobs's Stanford commencement informs WUaS ...
















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/sagarmatha-nepal-cornel-west-dr-ml-king.html - August 27, 2011)

Durmitor, Montenegro: World Univ & Sch is a free software (& university degree) company, Andreessen's WSJ article Why Software is Eating the World

World Univ & Sch is a free software (& university degree) company

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s),

par excellence,

just as Netscape was free.


See Marc Andreessen's WSJ article on 'Why Software is Eating the World' -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html.




WUaS wants to FEED the world -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software -

with great free software -

wiki, teaching & learning resources in ALL languages -

in a f/Friendly fashion.














(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/durmitor-montenegro-world-univ-sch-is.html - August 26, 2011)

Uvs Nuur Basin, Mongolia: MIT OCW's executive director Cecilia d'Oliveira's live webcast, 2001 NYT article about MIT OCW, WUaS Open Access Resources

MIT OCW's executive director Cecilia d'Oliveira's live webcast today was edifying, and will be posted -


http://opensource.com/education/11/8/webcast-mit-opencourseware -

and this MIT project is innovating in an ongoing way for the next 10 years.


After her talk, I mentioned, in chat,

about World University and School planning to accredit in California on MIT OCW,

and asked, also in chat,

if web cameras in MIT classrooms for matriculating classrooms in 2014 were possible, with graduate students in virtual worlds, which is how WUaS would like to start.


(I also mentioned WUaS's emphasis on the conference method:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning).


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Here's a 2001 NYT's article about MIT OCW -

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/us/auditing-classes-at-mit-on-the-web-and-free.html

which I've added to WUaS's Open Access Resources -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources .


WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW.


Thank you MIT OCW!










(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/uvs-nuur-basin-mongolia-mit-ocws.html - August 25, 2011)

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Good, useful, free, web design resources, Abolish Nuclear, Use Virginia's recent earthquake as wake up+

Here's a lot of Free Educational Software -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software -

at WUaS,

in addition to these good, useful, free, web design resources -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Graphic_Design -

and
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production -

at wiki, World University & School, to which you can further add, teach, learn and create.

Enjoy :)



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Abolish Nuclear ...

use Virginia's recent earthquake as another wake up call -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering -

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant, in San Luis Obispo, in California,

was designed to withstand a 6.75 earthquake, redesigned for a 7.5,

and Fukushima was a 9.0.


Nuclear waste is a time bomb forever!

And a Fukushima-like earthquake and Nuclear catastrophe could ruin California, or anywhere, forever!


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How many species on earth? ...

a new estimate ...

How Many Species on Earth? It's Tricky
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: August 30, 2011
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=832277 ...

I added this to WUAS here -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology


and my Friends' Dalton Letter Bibliography

http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm ...

the estimate is still pretty rough ...

there are a lot of species :)



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Archaeological or anthropological researcher?

Check out, and add to, World Univ & Sch's wiki, Library Resources' subject -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources,

its http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Archeaology page,

and its http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology pages.

As you know, WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW. :)


Ta!



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Here's wiki, World University & School's 'Artificial Intelligence,'

subject page for open teaching, learning & programming -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence.

Will look to add a new MIT A.I. Hall of Fame entries to this page.

WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW.



See the free, Stanford, 'Intro to A.I.' course here, beginning online this autumn.
















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/monarch-butterfly-biosphere-reserve.html - August 24, 2011)

Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico: Who will be a first significant philanthropist? Unfolding drama of a startup university

World University & School,

in ALL languages

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages),

will help so many people,

and further internet innovation significantly,

with MIT OCW-based academics,

as a wiki.



Who will be a first significant philanthropist to,

grantor to,

partner,

or collaborator,

with WUaS?


http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm,


with an invitation, too,

to volunteer at this startup university.



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In this unfolding drama of a startup university,

with MIT OCW as academic basis & starting place,

WUaS is looking for philanthropist Deus ex Machinas to emerge,

and dramatically change the direction of WUaS's financial operations -

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm.

Who will help?


Wikipedia is in 281 languages,

has around 40 FTEs (full time equivalents)

and began 10 years ago.


WUaS wants to surf the internet's tremendous potential, and innovations, ahead,

for decades+,

as a great university, and open, wiki school, in ALL languages.










(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/islands-and-protected-areas-of-gulf-of.html - August 23, 2011)

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino, Mexico: Recent, new, wiki Subjects at World Univ & School, Rwanda, Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Congo

Recent, new, wiki Subjects at World University & School:


(The Rwanda, Congo and Greece pages are the beginnings of Universities in those countries ... :0)


Technical Writing
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Technical_Writing


Rwanda

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rwanda


Database Systems
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Database_Systems


Social Psychology
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Psychology


Social Work

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Work


Human Services
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Services


Greece
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Greece


Democratic Republic of the Congo
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo


Artificial Intelligence
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence


Genomics

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genomics
















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/08/whale-sanctuary-of-el-vizcaino-mexico.html - August 22, 2011)