Main, WUaS points in the writing of a grant
to the DRK Foundation 9 April 2013
"Submit
a Proposal
After
filling out some basic information about your organization in our
online process, you should attach two files (PDF preferred): a brief
proposal and a resume of the founder(s).
In
no more than a 3 page proposal, please provide the following
information:
Impact
The
mission and objectives of the organization.
> World
University and School's mission
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
- like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware), - in reaching out to the
entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based, education platform
and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to
make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The
WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and
learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable
wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great
universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and
everyoneObjectives.
>
Wiki
World University and School plans to be the MIT / Harvard of the
internet in all 7,413+ languages and the 205+ countries, building on
MIT OpenCourseWare, and also potentially extends MIT OCW into all
languages and countries online.
> WUaS
is also planning MIT OCW-centric, Creative Commons’ licensed,
bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, including online Medical (as
well as an hospital) and Law Schools, as well as International
Baccalaureate diplomas, accrediting on MIT OCW, in many languages and
countries, first in English, then in the United Nations' languages,
then in languages with large populations, especially in the poorest
parts of the world and in Africa. WUaS also plans to create wiki
schools for people-to-people teaching and learning in all 7,413
languages; Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison.
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/03/gila-trout-mit-media-lab-faculty.html
and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan)
Innovative
solution description: A description of the organization's program
design and implementation plan. Explain how your organization will
improve on existing efforts and how your approach is systemic and
unique. Be sure to describe existing programs and how yours will
differ.
>
WUaS,
like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, plans to move from its current Wikia
wiki to the new, C.C. Wikidata database / repository currently being
developed for Wikipedia's 285 languages, by core developers in Europe
for the Wikimedia Foundation, on the wiki side of WUaS, for both open
teaching and learning, and in all languages and countries.
>
On
the academic side of WUaS, WUaS plans to accredit on MIT OCW video /
audio courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), for
planning purposes, and hire graduate student instructors,
potentially, for example, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, Yale,
Cambridge and Princeton graduate students to teach these classes
using the Conference Method
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)
in Google + group video Hangouts (http://plus.google.com/hangouts),
and eventually in many, many languages, with especially a
MIT-centric, STEM focus
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics).
>
Since
WUaS is MIT-centric, as well as great Universities-centric
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings),
and, like MIT OCW, is Creative Commons' licensed, and will offer
accredited, free, online, university degrees (in addition to the
I.B.), and in many languages and countries, and is wiki (editable web
pages, for idea-generation), WUaS improves on all existing platforms
and projects, such as edX and Stanford Coursera. WUaS is also unique
in these ways.
>
In
terms of comparing and contrasting WUaS with other online projects,
see - “Speciation and finches: 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”
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/speciation-and-finches-compare-and.html
on January 14 and 13, 2013 in Scott's blog) -
-
and also -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/04/sage-grouse-here-are-some-differences.html
).
An
indication of the organization's tangible results to date, as well as
an explanation of how you plan to measure organizational outcomes and
success in the future.
>
World
University and School incorporated in 2010 in California as an
educational corporation, received 501 c 3 federal tax-exempt status
in 2011, and accreditation is a 3 stage process with WASC senior,
where WUaS has to graduate its first undergraduate class, probably in
2018, before we can finish the third stage of accreditation.
>
WUaS
currently has 574 wiki subject pages, with x language pages and x
country pages, each of which will become their own school or
accredited university. These are WUaS's main pages and focuses -
“Three, main, I.T. foci at World University & School, Music
School, Universal Translator, Virtual Harbin Hot Springs/Earth as
'classroom'” and the 10, main, WUaS, foci pages -
Courses ,
Subjects,
Languages
(All),
Nation
States
(All),
You
at WUaS,
Research,
Educational
Software,
Library
Resources,
Museums,
Hardware
Resource Possibilities
in
3000-8000 languages -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html.
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html.
>
Wikidata
and repositories, databases allow for remarkable measurements and
'metriticization.' WUaS will seek faculty from great universities to
design all kinds of studies of how students learn, what enjoyable
learning is (Csikszenthmihalyi's research on enjoyment as an absorbed
mind, and challenge at the right level, will be one body of
psychology literature WUaS research engages), as well as
cross-lingual and longitudinally, with a very long time horizon. MIT
OCW-centricity makes possible an integrated and STEM-centric
university curriculum for comparative and rigorous research.
Scale
An
explanation of how the organization, over time, will be nationwide in
the US or global (2 or more countries) in scale.
>
World
University and School plans to scale into all 7,413+ languages (per
“The Ethnologue”) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
- and 204+ countries (per “The Olympics”) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States.
WUaS would like to develop a MIT OCW-centric, accredited, online
university in each of the 204+ countries, in the main languages
there, offering the above Bachelor, Ph.D., law, MD, degrees, and I.B.
Diploma, with headquarters, and first accreditation, in California.
An
explanation of the main sources of financial support that your
organization will use to sustain your work over time.
>
World
University and School plans for both an endowment through fundraising
from foundations, governments and companies, -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan
- as well as a bookstore / computer store for textbooks, and
intellectual resources in all countries and languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS.
WUaS currently has about $1,000 in the WUaS bank account.
Leader
Please
attach a standard resume for the entrepreneur(s), not simply a text
bio."
>
Scott
MacLeod is the Founder, President, CEO and Head Clerk (using
F/friendly/Quaker language) – CV at the bottom of this page -
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
.
Cheers,
Scott
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