Thursday, February 14, 2013

River Spey: Added this Valentine's Ball Scottish Country Dance to WUaS's 'Scottish Country Dancing,' wiki, subject page, Is Scottish Country Dancing a 'technology,' or better, an information technology, for bliss or loving bliss? :) How can it (or any form of music and dance) be cultivated for this, and how can we learn it for this? Where is the dial?

http://www.rodsonrivers.com/dbfiles/advertisers/3159/River_Spey.jpg


Great ...

I added this Valentine's Ball Scottish Country Dance -



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJkw5fpxGI -


to World University and School's 'Scottish Country Dancing,' wiki, subject page ...

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

where we can all wiki teach to and learn from each other ...


Is Scottish Country Dancing a 'technology,' or better, an information technology (beyond the physicality of dancing in this case, i.e. just listening to the music, for people who appreciate it), for eliciting bliss or loving bliss brain neurobiology? :) How can it (or any form of music and dance) be cultivated for this, and how can we learn it for this?

Where is the dial (the metaphorical 'dial,' for so many qualities of loving bliss - I'd like to mime a video about this) to turn on, and up, loving bliss neurophysiology, - this bodymind / brain chemistry? (Could a 'memory' be a turn of this dial, or a 'practice'?).


(Valentine's Ball - The Montgomeries Rant. 2013. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZJkw5fpxGI Valentine's Ball 2013 The Montgomeries Rant (32 bar reel for 3 couples)]. Oakland, CA: Scottish Rite).


Happy Valentine's Day :)

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Cosmic Nebula: Road trip to space ... , Kerouac reading the last page of "On the Road" with pictures of Jack and Neal, ... May add this to WUaS's 1960s' wiki subject page ... Jack Kerouac Drunk on William Buckely's show, Ethnography of the 1960s via the internet is a fruitful field

http://spacefellowship.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/crab.jpg


Road trip to space ...
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http://youtu.be/_MjPtem6ZbE 

Kerouac reading the last page of "On the Road" with pictures of Jack and Neal. 
... may add this to WUaS's 1960s' wiki subject page ... 

 http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s
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Jack Kerouac Drunk on William Buckely's show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0KluIXx6fI


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Ethnography of the 1960s via the internet is a fruitful field ... there is a lot of great video and media from 'back in the day,' and even people in the SF Bay Area ... :)



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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Ice plant: Some, new, wiki, Subject pages ... WUaS will probably first open its eventual, on-the-ground bookstores (like Apple Stores?) for textbooks and other, intellectual resources in main cities of the United Nations' languages in these countries / places to begin: Hong Kong, Mexico, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain, Russia

http://www.asknature.org/images/uploads/strategy/9ad3950a7a8f76e4f1c05e303d5e38d4/88ed0e1c293ce68dbe6ee83f1040c877.jpg

Some, new, wiki, Subject pages at WUaS ...

World University and School will probably first open its eventual, on-the-ground bookstores (like Apple Stores?) for textbooks, and other intellectual resources, in those languages, in main cities of the United Nations' languages in these countries, and after the WUaS begins its online bookstore / computer store in these languages -


Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS -


Mandarin (Chinese) - Hong Kong?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hong_Kong

Spanish - Mexico City? 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico

Russian - Moscow?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Federation

French - Geneva?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland

Arabic - Dubai?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates

English - London? 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland




Some, other, new, wiki, Subject pages at WUaS


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

German -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language

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

Spanish -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_language

Russian -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_language

English -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

Mandarin -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

French -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language

Qatar -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Qatar,_State_of

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

South Korea -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Korea,_Republic_of_(South_Korea)

North Korea -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Korea,_Democratic_People%27s_Republic_of_(North_Korea)

U.S.A.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_of_America






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Monday, February 11, 2013

Male Orangutan Baring His Teeth: Anger, Daoism, Neurophysiology, Culture?, When I am pissed off ... far-reaching symbolizing (the texts, 'Tao te Ching,' 'Inner Chapters'), giving form to a kind of sociocultural context, Raga, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, Happy, Chinese New Year!, "Tao Te Ching" Written by Lao-tzu, From a translation by S. Mitchell, "The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu" Translated by Burton Watson

http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x2712119/male_orangutan_baring_his_teeth_42-16422784.jpg


Anger, Daoism, Neurophysiology, Culture?



Raymond Sigrist
When I am pissed off it is beneficial to ask myself: Why does daoism claim that this is an ideal place to practice embodying the dao 體 道? (ti dao)
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  • Scott MacLeod: not sure about daoism ... but ... neurophysiology? ... flax seed oil for omega 3s is a sweetness of life  ... Here's the Omega 3s wiki, subject page at World University and School ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Omega_3_Fatty_Acids ... and the Neurophysiology wiki page ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Neurophysiology ... In terms of language, I turn to music ... Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Bannerjee ... and 'flow' / focus there/here/now ... Reading Laotzi and Zhuangzi opens worlds away from pissedness for mee, as well 

    Omega 3 Fatty Acids
    worlduniversity.wikia.com
    Welcome to World University which anyone can add to or edit. The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open...
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  • Raymond Sigrist: Yes, neurophysiology. It is not enough for me to intellectually know that it is useful to be in the shit. I have to realize it in my neurological disposition.
  • Spencer W.: It seems that anger is generally a secondary response to "losing control" of a situation. When we're "controlling" the situation (or think that we are), we may not feel the need to practice flowing with the situation.

    It's good to step back when you feel pissed off and first recognize that we don't ever really "control" the totality of any situation, then see how we can utilize the elements of the situation to accomplish our affairs.
  • Raymond Sigrist: Yes, I think this is key: "see how we can utilize the elements of the situation to accomplish our affairs." It is hard to believe, but we can make good use of anything. 

    Zhuangzi: "Its very uselessness is what makes it so useful." 無用之為用也 Wu yong zhi wei yong ye Chapter 26
    February 7 at 10:57am · Like · 1
  • Scott MacLeod: But, as I see it, far-reaching symbolizing ('Tao te Ching,' 'Inner Chapters'), giving form to a kind of sociocultural context, which I see in the two, main, daoist writers, can inform neurophysiologies like anger, but may do so differently, for example, with Chinese, and Americans, in engaging these texts and this alternative 'culture'. (I'm a little bit of an anthropologist 
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  • Raymond Sigrist:  Yes. Laozi tells us what is right. For Zhuangzi the bottom line is that he can't be sure what is right. (wei ding = nothing can be fixed as a sure thing)
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  • Isabeau V.: hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha!!!!! been there....and yes it sucks, and yet,
    yes, it works! it's like nietzsche's downgoing, but on a smaller scale
    with a really sarcastic/ironic twist to it....sort of like my reaction when stepping on a yellow jacket     years ago with bare feet (oh yeah, i got stung). First thing i i said -- SHIT!!! then the 2nd thing i said --shit, i'm
    sorry, i didn't mean to kill you. Then 3rd thing...take the yin qiao pills, put white flower oil on my foot, get out the ice pack, elevate the foot, and
    watch an episode of highlander . swelling was all gone in about 20 min or so, but had to finish watching highlander ... yes, there can be only one...



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Happy, Chinese New Year! I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Snake. Gung Hay Fat Choy! (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ... and ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China))



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"Tao Te Ching"

Written by Lao-tzu
From a translation by S. Mitchell

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html




"The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu"

Translated by Burton Watson

http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html







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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Grass species: New, Nation States' and Languages' wiki, subject pages in United Nations' languages and countries vis-a-vis WUaS's Bookstore, Language combinations at WUaS, Translated Courses at MIT OCW, New, wiki, language and country pages, Eventual Quota Funding System

http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/sites/default/files/styles/story_detail/public/Grass%20Species%20Uses%20and%20Management.jpg


Universitians, 
I just created and posted below a number of new, Nation States' and Languages' wiki, subject pages at WUaS, which I hope will become accredited-in-those-languages-and countries, MIT OCW-centric, WUaS universities, for United Nations' languages, - Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish - which, in some ways, are the lingua francas of the world. And eventually these will be linked with WUaS's online Bookstore - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS .

For those of you who speak some of these languages, or hail from some of these countries, these are the beginnings of universities in these languages.

WUaS will eventually seek to translate the Subject names, and this Subject Template - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as we move into Wikidata.  

Best, 
Scott





 Arabic 

 English 

 French 

 Mandarin (Chinese) 

 Russian 

 Spanish 




Arabic



English 




French 


Mandarin (Chinese)




Russian



Spanish


... where, again, each of these languages will become a WUaS university unto itself in that language...


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Language combinations ...

there are so many at World University and School ...


beginning with the United Nations' languages' combinations ...

(there's lots of precedent for translation at the United Nations,

but not in terms of MIT OpenCourseWare's translations of their courses -

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ -

which is great precedent for WUaS's plans to move MIT OCW into other languages).


So, again ...

Arabic language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Arabic_language

English language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_language

French language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/French_language


Mandarin language (Chinese)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

Russian language


Spanish language



And then there are many of these pairs ...


Arabic - English

Arabic - French

Arabic - Mandarin

Arabic - Russian

Arabic - Spanish


English - French

English - Mandarin

English - Russian

English - Spanish


French - Mandarin

French - Russian

French - Spanish


Mandarin - Russian

Mandarin - Spanish


Russian - Spanish 


... in terms of learning languages, cultures, and much more.


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And then there are Nation States / countries ... and relations to languages ...


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And then there are so many, further pairings ... 


e.g. 
Scots' Gaelic - German


Hi, Axel,

Thanks for your email. WUaS welcomes volunteer teachers, editors and other creative symbolizers, - as wiki ... and Wikipedia is our model for volunteer contributors. Have you edited Wikipedia? ... Here's WUaS's Scots' Gaelic page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic ... and your German-Scots' Gaelic-English axes are particularly interesting (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/German_language), since WUaS would like to articulate between all (7,413+) languages and become accredited in all (204+) countries, and Wikipedia by way of comparison is in 285 languages, and they're building a new Wikidata database for language and database reasons.

WUaS hasn't begun to hire, and when we do, we're planning to begin with interns and job postings, and eventually look for Ph.D.s. for faculty. As MIT-centric WUaS grows into other languages (all) and countries (all), our business model will eventually focus on companies, governments, (and philanthropists), probably on a kind of quota system, so please, in your scholarly pursuits, stay tuned to sources in Germany and Scotland (e.g. governments, companies and philanthropists) which fund education (e.g. who, for example, may have had previous relations with MIT), and let me/WUaS know of these. An online, CC, STEM-centric, MIT-centric education at WUaS in various languages will appeal to many, different countries ... Please stay tuned and in touch, - but all of this will take a while.

Best,
Scott





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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Dolphin: Profile of World University and School, Project Happiness, The 'Happiness,' wiki, subject page at WUaS, PRESS RELEASE for WUaS, 'Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as 'classroom''

http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/i/2012/003/5/c/happiness_by_dolphingirl0602-d4l82zp.jpg


Hi Shankar and Project Happiness Execs, 

It would be great to meet all of you, and here's a brief profile of World University and School: 

WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, with free, online, Creative Commons' licensed, accredited, MIT-centric, degrees planned - bachelor (matriculating in 2014), Ph.D. (2015), International Baccalaureate (possibly matriculating in 2015), law (2016), and M.D., (2017) in English, and eventually in many, many languages. WUaS also plans to be in all 7,413+ languages and 204+ countries, as online, CC, wiki schools; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison. 

Here's the 'Happiness,' wiki, subject page at WUaS for free, open resources, as an example of a wiki, Subject page anyone can create or edit for open teaching and learning, like in Wikipedia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Happiness - with an invitation to teach to your web camera, to teach a course, or in other ways you create. You'll see the Project Happiness web page - http://www.projecthappiness.org/ - under the "Select Websites" section

(Here's an interesting video I just found on happiness from MIT OCW and added to WUaS - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/conclusions/ . :)

I've also posted four, further WUaS Profile blog entries below. 

Looking forward to meeting you on Monday. 

Best regards, 
Scott




A press release: 

'PRESS RELEASE for World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, offering free, online, bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D. degrees, beginning in 2014, Celebrating its Second, Annual, Business Meeting' - 



'How does World University and School differ from edX, MITx, Yale OYC, Coursera, iTunes University, Udacity, and all the other, great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web?' - 



'Comparing and contrasting salient aspects of visible, online, University, educational projects, with these criteria: 1. offered this many courses, 2. had this many learners participate, 3. and its web interface technology worked like this, 4. certification offered, 5. business model' - 




'Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as 'classroom'' - 







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Scott MacLeod 
Founder & President 



http://scottmacleod.com 

-- 
World University and School 
(like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ 

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

P.O. Box 442, 
(86 Ridgecrest Road), 
Canyon, CA 94516 

415 480 4577 
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com 
Skype: scottm100 

Google + main, WUaS pages: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card:

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm

World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.




World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'remove' in the subject line. Thank you.

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Caribbean reef octopus, Octopus briareus: World University and School's open, monthly, hour-long, business meeting meets tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, (2nd Saturdays of the month), at 9 am Pacific Time, in a Google + group video Hangout ... and here's the agenda, with an invitation to participate

http://marinebio.org/marinebio/news/letters/i/ceph.jpg


World University and School's open, monthly, hour-long, business meeting meets tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, (2nd Saturdays of the month), at 9 am Pacific Time, in a Google + group video Hangout ... and here's the agenda ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-9-2013-wuas-monthly-business.html ... with an invitation to participate (here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts).




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Macaques in hot springs grooming: MIT OCW WUaS into other Languages, Developing WUaS plan, On the WUaS, wiki side of things, On the WUaS, wiki degree of things, MIT translated courses as basis


Hi, Juan,

I'll look to add the Spanish OCW web site - http://ocw.universia.net/es/ - to WUaS's Spanish page.

Here are some main steps as I'm thinking them through at present for developing WUaS, online universities in Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, and possibly in German, Norwegian and Mandarin languages (the languages emerging from our 'Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship' course - about which I've blogged here with resources - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/02/quercus-robur-first-stanford-coursera.html - and congratulations on this Coursera accomplishment!) : 


On the WUaS, wiki side of things: 

- get the WUaS wiki up and running in Wikidata / Wikibase in these languages, and with about 500 pages from the current WUaS Wikia wiki, with translated a) WUaS, page, Subject names, b) section headings and sections, etc., so people in these languages can start openly wiki teaching to and learning from each other. 


On the WUaS, degree side of things for large languages (1-5+ million speakers, each): 

- begin to develop a plan for MIT OCW in these languages. MIT OCW has already translated some of its courses, which is a basis - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/  ...

- MIT OCW-centric WUaS would also like to accredit in many of these countries with the above languages for MIT-centric, bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D., degrees, so beginning the first steps of accreditation in these languages is part of this process (while adding what one loves to think about and teach about to the WUaS wiki, if one likes). And while there are great OCW resources emerging in many languages, such as the ones you point to, Juan, WUaS wants to develop, and build on, MIT OCW courses (and possibly Yale OYC, and Harvard if possible - so as to become the online MIT / Harvard of the internet) to a very large degree, - for a standard, as a basis, for content, for grading and credentials, for faculty, plus for many other reasons ...

- begin to develop a funding / fundraising plan in each country, potentially in conjunction with MIT itself (I've applied for a faculty position in the MIT Media Lab and will hear in mid-February) with each countries' governments' Department of Education, or similar, and with companies in these countries. ...

- begin to develop a calendar and budget for all of this ... 

MIT, Free (to students), C.C., wiki, ... friendly  ... e.e.

So before we develop what each of us can do individually, it would be great, as an email, WUaS "Languages and Countries" committee, which it seems we're becoming, to develop this unfolding plan a little further, which both of you, Juan and Tito, are already helping to do with your questions and thoughts. 

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Bird with food: How does World University and School differ from MIT OCW, edX, Open Yale Courses (OYC), Coursera, iTunes U, Udacity, and all the other great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web, especially MOOCs?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v433/n7021/images/433023a-f1.2.jpg
How does World University and School differ from MIT OCW, edX, Open Yale Courses (OYC),  Coursera, iTunes U, Udacity, and all the other great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web, especially MOOCs? 


 - WUaS plans to accredit with WASC senior - see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/steller-sea-lion-pups-questions-about.html - for its MIT-centric, undergraduate degrees. WUaS hasn't heard of any accreditation plans among the other, above educational initiatives. 

 - WUaS is MIT OCW-centric, especially its MIT OCW's Video and Audio courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - to begin. 

 - WUaS plans to engage the Conference Method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - learning from Reed College's approach to this, but developing this online, whereas WUaS haven't heard any other educational project doing this. 

 - WUaS does not plan on becoming a MOOC (massive open online course) provider, as are Coursera, Udacity, and edX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooc), although WUaS may scale in other ways vis-a-vis courses. 

 - WUaS seeks overachievers - overachieving high school and college students - who might transfer to MIT for a year, as well as Quaker high school students, for example, to begin. 

 - WUaS is STEM-centric, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics - building on MIT and MIT OCW. 

 - WUaS is planning 5, CC licensed, degrees/diplomas - bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D. - and in many languages and countries. 

 - WUaS is a non-profit educational institution / company, as is edX, whereas Coursera is a for-profit company, and Udacity is unfolding in this respect.

 - Like MIT OCW and Yale OYC, World University and School is Creative Commons' licensed - http://creativecommons.org/. See, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law. 

 (Revisiting some posts from last month (1/13 and 1/14/13) ... )
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 OpenCourseWare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare
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 Coursera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

 edX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdX  (MITx builds on edX)

 iTunes U - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes_University#iTunes_U

 MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/
Open Yale Courses (OYC) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Yale_Courses 

Udacity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity 

 World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
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And see, especially, 

Comparing and contrasting salient aspects of visible, online, University, educational projects, with these criteria: 1. offered this many courses, 2. had this many learners participate, 3. and its web interface technology worked like this, 4. certification offered, 5. business model

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