Mantled Howler Monkey: Reed College's ReedFayre Reunion ... In what ways can WUaS plan to become the Oxford and Cambridge of the Internet, 800 years into the future, in addition to becoming the MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford of the Internet, and, on the wiki side, for open, people-to-people teaching, in all languages (7,413+) and countries (204+)?, This ReedFayre provides much to think about in this regard, Harvard has the biggest endowment in the world for an university, WUaS can plan in the following ways in seeking overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries, STEM-centricity, Overachievers, Law, Medicine, Community, "Do Good, Do Great, Do Care - Information Technologically"

Reed College's ReedFayre Reunion ...

In what ways can World University and School plan to become the Oxford and Cambridge of the Internet, 800 years into the future, in addition to becoming the MIT, Harvard, Yale and Stanford of the Internet, - and, on the wiki side, for open, people-to-people teaching, in all languages (7,413+) and countries (204+)?

Being at this ReedFayre 2 years after Reed's 100th anniversary provides much to think about in this regard.

In addition to WUaS's financial needs, and growing its endowment - Cambridge and Oxford in Britain and Harvard and MIT in the United States are at the pinnacle of academia, for example, in terms of their compensation packages to faculty, I think, and Harvard has the largest University endowment in the world - WUaS can plan in the following ways in seeking overachieving, and best, students and faculty, in all languages and countries.


WUaS beginning planning for 800 years

- STEM-centricity - science, technology, engineering and mathematics focus - to begin, especially information technologically

- seek overachieving students and faculty in all languages and countries, and build worldwide community around this, like the great universities above have

- WUaS can focus explicitly on making its formidable, MIT-centric academics enjoyable, and studying and measuring this, in terms of 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi), as well as flourishing (eudaimonia), among many other ways; for its prospective, undergraduate students many of whom come from the U.S., Reed College, which draws nationally (with about 3,000 applicants, and Reed just waived its admission's fee), offers formidable academics in its reaching out to students, and has begun to focus on questions of student enjoyment in its admission's discourse

- With WUaS's 200+, planned, Law Schools in 200 + countries, under one umbrella, WUaS will be able to develop legal innovation in terms of intellectual property law, international law, environmental law, corporate law, maritime law ... indeed in all aspects of the law, and begin to measure and study this as well. WUaS will also be able to develop presidents / managers / clerks (in a Quaker sense) in all 200 countries' universities/schools, and in so many other ways

- Similarly, with WUaS's 200+, planned, online, Medical Schools in 200 + countries, under one umbrella, and online hospitals (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital), the data accumulation potential over 800 years, for example, is remarkable, as is the possibility to offer online, free, creative commons' medical education and care to poor and underserved parts of the world, such as Africa

- And similarly, with WUaS's 200+ countries, its planned, online, MIT-centric, Ph.D. degrees will generate a remarkable interlingual conversation, which implications 800 years ahead are difficult to plan for

- WUaS will plan to study longitudinally (very - 800 years +), comparatively and linguistically (7000 languages), how different cultures learn; having lived in French-speaking Switzerland for 6 months, when I was 12 and 13, Edinburgh, Scotland for 2 separate years (1976-1977 and 2003-2004), and in Munich Germany (1981-1982) for a year, I've learned that different cultures and languages approach learning in very different ways

- Plan to “Do Good, Do Great, Do Care, - Information Technologically” (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/04/red-howler-monkey-googles-do-no-evil.html)

- In addition, WUaS, in seeking to become the Oxbridge, MIT and Harvard of the Internet, can plan to become the 'UP,' career-wise and in terms of excellence, for aspiring faculty, students, researchers, lawyers, medical doctors, staff, poets and musicians (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School), and so many others (WUaS seeks also to become a significant employer worldwide, with an 800 year initial time horizon).

- Research (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research): WUaS will seek to develop very long term research projects, and in all languages (for example, in brain and cognitive science as well as consciousness research, among a very great number of other, especially, STEM-related inquiries, and technological innovations and development of devices and information technologies).



Reed College has a large community of great students and of mature faculty and academics, and is also seeking to build Reed's endowment (currently at about 450 million U.S. dollars, with a current staff of about 500), and improve its academics further, as well as build its communities. World University and School can learn a lot from Reed in developing its online community.


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

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

Admissions at World University and School Links
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links


World University Medical School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Law School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School









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Giant neotropical toad: WUaS's MISSION and updated BUSINESS PLAN, Why World University and School and WUaS’s team?, Why should we believe WUaS?, (i.e. what is your track record), Financial analysis

Dear J,

Great to telephone with you today at your Bank in SF. You'll find the following and much more at World University and School's Business Plan here: 

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


Mission of WUaS

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, 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 everyone.




- Why World University and School and WUaS’s team?

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison.


- Why should we believe WUaS? (i.e. what is your track record).

World University and School just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process in May 2014.

WUaS incorporated in 2010 as an educational organization in California, and received federal, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status in 2011, and has approximately 580 wiki, subject pages. Accreditation, first in California and with BPPE and WASC senior is a three stage process, where WUaS must graduate its first undergraduate class before receiving full accreditation in 2018. WUaS has a long track record of institutionalizing as an online, startup, MIT OCW-centric university, and long term goals and plans.


- Financial analysis.

A.
WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors.

WUaS plans to raise funds from governments, universities, philanthropic foundations, and companies as well as individuals.

B.
WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

WUaS also is planning on-the-ground bookstores at some point in the future, perhaps near Apple Computer stores in cosmopolitan cities of learning around the globe.

C.
WUaS is also planning an online, academic publishing house, both of books and journals, in multiple disciplines in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.


Besides contacting Pacific Community Ventures, as you suggested, can you possibly please suggest any

- Directors of foundations, or foundations, or related per Financial Analysis item A;

- Sources of financial resources for building an online Bookstore / Computer store, eventually in all languages and countries, per Financial Analysis item B;

- Similarly, sources of financial resources for building WUaS's online, academic Publishing House, both books and journals.


I'm including 3 F/friends from San Francisco Friends' Meeting in this email, since you're SFFM's banker and WUaS is Quaker-informed: D, A (SFFM's Treasurer) and J (a skilled grant writer). 

Might we possibly set up a meeting in person? (Unfortunately, I won't be at Meeting this upcoming Sunday, - I'm heading to a Reed College reunion, partly to do WUaS outreach).


I look forward to your further thoughts about this, per our conversation.

World University and School seeks to become the Creative Commons' licensed (so, free) MIT / Harvard of the Internet in all 7,105 languages and 204 countries, with free, university degrees in many languages.


Thank you.

Sincerely,
Scott







Scott MacLeod
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Indian Peafowl: Looking forward to seeing WUaS Board Members in Portland, Oregon, at the ReedFayre reunion this Thursday, (Four of us are Reed Alumni), Developing Reedie Networks, https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch, Steve Jobs, Reed and Scaling Large

Hi G, G, and D,

Looking forward to seeing you in Portland, Oregon, at the ReedFayre reunion from this Thursday, June 13th, to Sunday, June 16th, or so.

Will you be there, D? (Having traveled with Steve Jobs to India for many months in the mid-1970s, and worked on a recent film about him, you know some of the Reed College Steve Jobs' networks better than most people I think :).

G and I are planning to meet in person, if possible, with Reed President John Kroger (and perhaps with you G or D?) and eventually to talk about Reed and World University and School collaborations, ( per these main points - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/vaquita-wuas-collaboration-with-reed.html - which I've also posted below).



One main goal of mine vis-a-vis World University and School is to explore networking with Reed and Reedies over time.

G, G and D: could you please introduce us to well-to-do Reedies who might become part of a WUaS financial team, at this ReedFayre, and over time? Are there any Reedies you would suggest meeting D, if you aren't going?


In what ways can WUaS build on the Steve Jobs' legacy and his 'networks' - long-term Reedie investors in Apple, for example? - vis-a-vis Reed College during this visit?

Perhaps we can get also some good video of us for developing WUaS outreach while at Reed (of places we know Steve Jobs to have hung out, for example).


Per our conversation, G, can you please sign us and World University and School up for the Paideia-like panel?


Let's scale MIT OCW-centric World University and School large.


See you soon ... Portland is sweet in the Spring :)

Best regards,
Scott




Dear G,

I called Reed President John Kroger's office today in Portland, Oregon, to inquire about meeting with him this Friday with you (per our conversation about developing a Reed strategy in WUaS's business meeting on Saturday and before) for 10 minutes or so to talk about Reed and World University and School collaborations, (per these main points - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/vaquita-wuas-collaboration-with-reed.html).

I left a message inquiring about our meeting together with him on their machine, mentioning some of the points in this blog entry above, as well as your name.

Their email address is - @reed.edu - if you'd like to follow up with an email (before or after their reply), also per our previous conversations, and I'll let you know when and what I hear back from them.

I hope part of our potential meeting with President Kroger and other Reedies over the ReedFayre Reunion can lead to monies.

And can WUaS build on the Steve Jobs' legacy and 'networks' vis-a-vis Reed College?

See you Thursday at the airport in Portland!

Best regards,
Scott





Hi G,

The Reed President's Office may well not call back, - this being a busy time for them. And perhaps we should plan on meeting John Kroger together in a more ad hoc fashion during one of the days at ReedFayre, until we hear from them.

It also might make sense to set up a WUaS 'Paideia' (open teaching and learning) panel time - per the Reed email about this - independently of any call back from them. Per a Reed 'Paideia' panel, my Android smartphone, and with its holder, takes video, (stationary - and even does group video conferencing in a G+ Hangout if helpful - postable here - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch) which could be helpful for WUaS outreach to the Reed Community and "Across the Universe."

Hoping too to make a brief, video introduction to WUaS for 11th grader, prospective overachieving students interested in a free, MIT OCW-centric undergraduate education here soon - https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - perhaps at Reed, which I just cleaned up a little recently.

Regards,
Scott






Here are some items at the top of my WUaS Reed agenda (as well as for a Paideia-like event):

- open a long-term WUaS collaboration with Reed

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - especially at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities - and these, particular -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia (where G grew up), for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- Reedie donors for hiring Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin





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Persian leopard: More on Islamophobia, Orientalism, Nonharming vis-a-vis nontheist F/friends and Quakers, and Academia, Malcolm X and American Islamophobia, Here are the WUaS, Arabic language, and the Persian language, wiki, subject pages, with many MIT OCW courses in Persian, And here's the Middle East wiki, subject page with links, with the current, beginning, country pages there, Each WUaS, language and country, wiki page will become an university or school in those Middle Eastern languages and nation states

More on Islamophobia, Orientalism, Nonharming vis-a-vis nontheist F/friends and Quakers, and Academia (after this post from 28 May 2013) ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/bactrian-camel-in-terms-of-islamophobia.html ...


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Hi nontheist Friends,

I just added these very clear and engaging interviews and speeches from Malcolm X ... "Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65)" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AmuYqjRyg ... to the 'Black Studies' wiki subject at WUaS ...http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Studies ... Malcolm X probably galvanized clearly, and defined in multiply ways, ongoing issues in American Islamophobia - remarkably (complicated by questions of race and legacies of slavery). Islam was a road to, and vision of, freedom for Blacks in the U.S. for Malcolm X.  

His articulateness, clear reasoning, responses to white interviewers, and his sometimes militant, black nationalism, seem to merge very closely with his theistic and Muslim thinking. At times he espoused complete separation from white society, especially for Black, believing, American Muslims, in the name of a Muslim God, Muhammad.

His religion seemed to give him such strength and ability to connect with other black Muslims, and white, progressive sympathizers, as well ... all of which is very fascinating. 

As NtFs, how to listen to, and learn from, his clear message (of 50 years' ago), instead of reacting against it, and tuning it out, out of American Islamophobia? 

NtFs, in our occasional independence orientation from the RSOF/Quakers (for example, most recently possibly, in publishing NtF's 'truths' in a Friendly manner), might learn a lot from Malcolm X's clear expressions of freedom, in the context of a hostile and racist society, which has perhaps possibly changed for the better in these intervening years, perhaps both in terms of less racism, as well as possibly less Islamophobia in U.S. society. 

Regards,

Scott

Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65)

https://youtu.be/KWGkAjuZS5c

(was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AmuYqjRyg)

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Scott, let's remember who killed Malcolm X.

M

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Nontheist Friends, 

With an interest in nontheistic Friendly/Quaker nonharming/nonviolence, and understanding the roots of conflict in a Quaker sense, per your previous comment in this email thread, Mike, about people in Iraq killing each other: 

With the American War in Iraq beginning about 10 years ago (in 2003) - I think possibly 650,000 Iraqis died and possibly 8,000 Americans, - probably partially initiated over American oil interests in the region. One could postulate that this American War in Iraq also had roots in Islamophobia, contributing to today's chaos in Baghdad. (In the American War in Vietnam - another form of Orientalism? - nearly 60,000 Americans died and 2-3 million Vietnamese died, I have read). How to bring NtF/Quaker understandings to end wars?

Interesting to see how Malcolm X is represented in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X - in terms of his own death and his father's. 

It's interesting to see how Islamophobia is represented in Wikipedia  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia.

It's interesting too to see how Orientalism is represented in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism.

I continue in my 'out of the box' NtF thinking, in an evolutionary biological sense, to come to questions of how humans can learn Bonobos' thinking (with no known fatalities) and move away from - unlearn - common chimp thinking (which do war and violence among themselves), and in terms of Islamophobia and Orientalism, especially. 

Far too many Americans and people of other countries (who might fall under the umbrella of Orientalism / people of the Orient) are dying in these tragic wars, and their aftermaths. 

NtF compassion for those who died on my part? Quaker  ... Yes ... And how to learn Friendly nonviolent approaches to ending war and conflict? I don't know exactly how MLK Jr looked at Malcolm X's militant Islamic black nationalist thinking, but here's the Martin Luther King, Jr wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. - where we all might teach and learn about MLK Jr.'s nonviolence, especially vis-a-vis questions of American racism - and in the charged 1960s. 

With F/friendly greetings, 

Scott

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Should nontheist Friends be interested in exploring questions of Islamophobia in an academic manner, here below is an upcoming, related conference this December in Paris, which recently came into my worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com email inbox from UC Berkeley, and which - some of this - I may post to my blog, as well.

With F/friendly nontheistic greetings, 

Scott

Call for Papers

Paris, France International IslamophobiaConference

The Epistemic, Racial, Cultural and Structural Exclusionary Measures in France and Europe

CFP Deadline: September 2, 2013Conference Date: December 13-14, 2013

UC Berkeley IRDP (Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project)
and CADIS (Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques), Paris

Invite Scholars and Researchers to Submit Paper Proposals:

The Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and Gender is hosting an international conference on Islamophobia to be held in Paris, France on December 13-15, 2013.  Islamophobia has become one of the most pervasive forms of racism and discrimination in the world today.  It is used in the West to police communities of color, to invade countries, to construct the patriarchal racial inferiority of Muslim women, to discriminate against populations in the labor market or to simply make them the target of the “war against terrorism.”  But the problem has broader dimensions when we consider issues such as political, cultural, religious and epistemic Islamophobia.  In Western Europe, Islamophobia is on the rise.  France is among the countries where Islamophobia acquires complex and multi-layered dimensions.  The obsession of the French state with French Muslims is expressed by continuous passing of laws to regulate the behavior and even the forms of dressing of Muslims, in particular, Muslim women.  The latest in the list of legal measures directed at Muslims in France is the attempt of the François Hollande administration to extend the law against the use of the veil in public schools to workplaces, day care workers, etc.  Even Muslim mothers using veils are forbidden from entering public schools where their children study.  The time is right for an international conference in Paris, France to examine the problematic Islamophobicdiscourses in France and Western Europe and the curtailment of Muslim legal status as religious, ethnic and racial minorities.  We are calling specialists, academics and activists to submit papers.  

Please send a title, a 300 word abstract and a short one paragraph biography by September 2nd, 2013, to hatemb@berkeley.edu

This is a moderated list for the Center for Race and Gender; all messages are subject to approval.

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Here are the WUaS, Arabic language -

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

and the Persian language -

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

wiki, subject pages, with many MIT OCW courses in Persian.

And here's the Middle East wiki, subject page with links, with the current, beginning, country pages there ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_East#World_University_and_School_Links.


Each WUaS, language and country, wiki page will become a university or school in those Middle Eastern languages and nation states.



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And here are WUaS's beginning languages (for all 7,105 +) and Nation States' (204+ countries) wiki, subject pages, each of which will become a C.C. WUaS school or university in those languages:

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

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States.

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Markhor: For international students ... college checklists for june - http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/india/2013/06/06/for-international-students-college-checklists-for-june/, particularly germane for WUaS, ... especially in terms of WUaS's business plan, and fundraising from governments (nation states' and local) and companies, Admissions at WUaS, The College at WUaS, and Ph.D. Degrees at WUaS

For international students college checklists for june ...

For International Students, College Checklists for June

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/india/2013/06/06/for-international-students-college-checklists-for-june/  ...

Offering a plan and some strategies for students, this NYT's article is particularly germane for World University and School,

... especially in terms of WUaS's business plan, and fundraising from governments (nation states' and local) and companies, for free MIT OCW-centric and Yale OYC-centric, Creative Commons' licensed, university degrees (bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas).

WUaS plans to enroll overachieving students eventually (potentially) from every country around the world for online, university degrees.


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... added this article to


Admissions at WUaS

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


The College at WUaS

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


Ph.D. Degrees at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School.





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Alabama cavefish: New Lasers' wiki subject at WUaS

New-ish Lasers' wiki subject at WUaS -

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

with 7 MIT OCW courses,

and as wiki for open teaching and learning.






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Woolly mammoth: June 8 2013 World University and School, monthly, hour-long, business meeting, - open and welcoming - and with video minutes

Here's the recording of today's June 8, 2013, World University and School, monthly, hour-long, business meeting, - open and welcoming - as innovative minutes:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCIDcRtS6Y

Updated agenda -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-8-2013-world-university-and-school.html -

with video minutes.






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Vaquita: WUaS collaboration with Reed College?

Hi G,

Looking forward to seeing you Thursday at the airport in Portland, and thanks!

Per potentially meeting with Reed College President John Kroger in person, ideally on Friday, June 14, 2013 during ReedFayre (a very busy day for him, probably), here are some items at the top of my WUaS agenda (as well as for a Paideia-like event): 

- open long-term WUaS collaboration with Reed,

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia, for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- Reedie donors for hiring Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members,

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin

See you soon. 

Regards, 

Scott

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Sirenia: Trying to Nominate World University and School for the TED Prize, 'Nominate yourself for the 2014 TED Prize,' Crowdsourcing here highlights from the upcoming application for feedback, The TED Prize is for 1 million dollars over 3 years

Trying to nominate World University and School for the TED Prize ...

http://www.ted.com/prize ...

here's the beginning of my application ...

Nominating myself, with humbleness ...


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Nominate yourself for the 2014 TED Prize


Please complete the form below to nominate yourself. Or you can nominate an individual other than yourself with this form.


Nominations for the 2014 TED Prize will close at 11:59pm ET on Sunday, June 16, 2013.




Job title

. Founder, President, CEO, Head Clerk and Professor


Company / organization

. World University and School


Description of company / organization

. For example, “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. They believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world.”

. World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare - is an open, teaching and learning, platform wiki, with free, onine, C.C., accredited, MIT OCW-centric, university and high school degrees and diplomas planned, in many countries and languages. WUaS is planning to be in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries, as wiki schools; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison, and MIT OCW has about 2,150 Creative Commons' licensed courses, and also has courses in about 10-20 different languages. WUaS facilitates people-to-people teaching; teach to your web camera, or begin a new wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - at WUaS, for example. WUaS just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process with BPPE as well as WASC senior in order to be able to offer, online, C.C. degrees. Here's a good, information technological overview of WUaS: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html.


Nationality

USA


What is your relationship to TED, if any:

. TED Fan


Contact Information

Email Address

. worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com



City

San Francisco Bay Area


Country

USA


Please provide up to three links about yourself

. Link 1
. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

. Link 2
. http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com

. Link 3
. http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm



Work & Achievements


Why do you think you should win the TED Prize?


. Open, free, Creative Commons' MIT OCW-centric and STEM (since MIT-centric), university degrees, in many languages and countries, as well as wiki-schools in 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries will change the world, and help so many people. As the founder, president, CEO, head clerk and a professor at startup, online World University and School, these are all reasons I think I should win the TED Prize. WUaS is planning to offer online, bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas, in many languages with large numbers of speakers of that language, and in those countries.



How have you already impacted the world?


. World University and School became an educational corporation in the state of California, and received 501 (3) (c) tax-exempt status in 2011 (and accreditation with WASC senior for undergraduate degrees in a 3 stage process), all of which are foundational in terms of WUaS and my already having impacted the world.



Name three of your most respected peers in this discipline. How does your work compare or contrast with theirs?


. Sal Khan: I appreciate how he's taught to his web camera, much of which WUaS has aggregated, or will aggregate, in WUaS wiki, Subject pages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and elsewhere in the WUaS wiki. I also appreciate Sal's thinking about how online learning works, as well as learning, and thinking through specific interventions for improvement, from personally teaching online to his cousin, to measuring results, to bringing Khan Academy to real life school situations.

. Sebastian Thrun: I appreciate how Sal Khan both cotaught, with Peter Norvig, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence," and attracted 160,000 students, of which about %7 finished the course. Based on promising results from Udacity's remedial math and statistic's teaching courses and software, but no definitive evidence, I also appreciate how Sebastian made a private-public deal with the State of California to offer Udacity approaches to San Jose State University students. Not only does this offer an alternative approach to SJSU faculty's teaching of these required-by-the-state courses, this private-public arrangement also may be offering incentive to California State faculty to change their approaches to teaching.

. Peter Norvig: I appreciate Peter's theoretical framing of Theories of Learning, vis-a-vis what online education, particularly STEM-centric approaches, can offer students.

. WUaS wants to include the conference method in all of this, to include interactivity, with teachers, as well as conversation. How WUaS instructs its graduate instructors in teaching matriculated WUaS students via the Conference Method (like at Reed College)  in Google + group video Hangouts, will be significant.



What are you currently working on?


. Having just completed writing the nine, draft chapters of my first Harbin book project, I'm preparing the first volume of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book for publication, with plans to submit a proposal to Yale University Press. In the second volume in my Harbin Project, I'm planning to build a virtual Harbin for actual / virtual ethnographic comparison, probably in digital glasses, and not in OpenSim (where I built the first virtual Harbin, but this was stolen) or in Second Life, as I initially planned.



List three of your most outstanding previous accomplishments (include awards, published works, etc.).

. book chapter

. blog

. teaching "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard's virtual Island in Second Life for 7 semesters

. first steps in WUaS developments - incorporation and 501 c 3 status



What is the largest team and budget you have overseen? Please describe:

. WUaS Board ...



Please provide links to video clips of, or about you.

. For example, a recent talk, presentation, interview, etc.

. Link 1
. http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

. Link 2
. http://www.youtube.com/worldunivandsch

. Link 3
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2W_V5xUtM



Please provide links to articles written about you.

. We suggest submitting articles from a variety of outlets to illustrate diverse perspectives about you.


. Link 1
. http://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/Triathlon-Lures-372-Athletes-One-Bagpiper.html

. Link 2
. http://blip.tv/the-next-step/thenextstep-73-opensourcelearning-5974437

. Link 3
. http://ethnolust.com/2011/11/07/more-on-word-university-and-school/


 
Your TED Prize Wish

What is your TED Prize wish?


. Build online World University and School in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries, with free, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in many languages and countries.



Which categories does the wish best fall under, if any? Choose up to 3, or enter your own.


Education, MIT OCW, Wikipedia



Is this wish at the cutting edge of your discipline? If so, how?


. Yes, because free, online, university degrees, that are MIT- and STEM-centric don't exist, let along in all languages and countries, under one umbrella. As a corollary, 200 law schools under one WUaS umbrella don't also exist.


Describe the team – current or future – that you imagine helping you execute on your Prize plan


. Current Board Members ...

. great universities' focus

. hiring graduate student instructors (who may become professors eventually) from great universities in all languages to build out WUaS, and teach online in conjunction with MIT faculty (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), using the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)

. at least as big, or bigger, in the English language, as the 180,000 people employed by the University of California, but beginning perhaps with as many team members, each, in the 6 United Nations' languages, and grow from there into all languages.



If you were to win the TED Prize, what would you realistically have to show after one year? What are the early wins?

. matriculated, undergraduate class of 2000 students, in English, taking MIT OCW video courses engaging the conference method ... with MIT / Harvard graduate students instructing



The $1 million award will be paid out on a timeline of up to three years in order to match the needs of the winner and the pace of the project. How do you imagine the $1 million might be apportioned and paced, in your case?

. building out degrees, and in many languages, and infrastructure for this ...



Leveraging the TED Community

How familiar are you with the TED ecosystem? Among the TED community, TEDx organizers are a passionate and action oriented group of collaborators who would be excited to support the TED Prize.

They tend to be self-starters, hard workers, and highly creative—and they’re spread out all over the world. How do you imagine engaging them through your wish?

. would love to give talks around the world to find overachieving students, and to invite wiki engagement ...



How do you imagine engaging the public beyond TED, in the realization of your wish?

. finding overachievers, as well as volunteer teachers and editors at large



Anything else we should know about you?


. WUaS would like to develop a Music School, for instruction and jamming ... in all 7,105+ languages with a wiki page for each musical instrument.

. I play the bagpipes"



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The TED Prize is for 1 million dollars over 3 years ...


WUaS would no longer be stunted with such monies ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenia

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Zebrasoma scopas: Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS), I think WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, does what you've outlined in your G+ post - http://goo.gl/D2cM2 - from Oct 11, 2012

Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS)


Hi Kimberly,

It's exciting to see your post from last year.

In many ways, I think World University and School, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, does what you've outlined in your G+ post ( http://goo.gl/D2cM2 - from Oct 11, 2012 ) - and we've aggregated many, but not all, of the links you have there, as a wiki. And WUaS just got the 'green light' from the state of California to accredit to offer free, online, C.C. university degrees (somewhat MIT OCW-centric, and for multiple languages, with their translated courses).

WUaS is planning to be in all 7,105+ languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) and 204 + countries (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States), offering online, university and I.B. degrees in many countries in those languages; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison. WUaS is planning to move to the newly developed Wikidata repository, a database written with Wikipedia's 285 languages in mind, for inter-lingual reasons.

I've talked for an hour on the phone recently with Creative Commons' director of Global Learning, Cable Green, and took an hour long walk with Howard Rheingold (we both went to Reed College) about a year ago. I've also talked with Peter Norvig for 20 minutes on the phone not too long ago. And I've also met with Michael Rouan at Stanford about 2 years ago.

Would you like to chat on the phone about this, and perhaps meet to explore this further?

Regards,
Scott


http://scottmacleod.com



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I added this G+ post to the 'Courses' page at World University and School in the References' section ...

Hayworth, Kimberly. 2012. Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS). Stanford, CA: goo.gl/D2cM2.


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Kimberly Hayworth 

kimhwrth@stanford.edu


Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS)

Executive Summary

I originally posted this just to get all the threads I'd been seeing around an open educational system together in one place. I had hoped by doing that, people could start to see the connections of how such a system might fit together. The amount of new ideas and refinements that have been added by the Google + community have been incredible.

I think a Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS) is about people getting just-in-time information automatically delivered to them via any device when they need it. Because the content would have been updated and vetted by a vast community it would be absolutely up-to-date, accurate and relevant. Because industry would have contributed to learning objectives based on needed skillsets, people would be able to get certification, mentoring and internships and be able to go to work as soon as they finish a learning sequence. Because it would be open there would be no exorbitant charges for people to access this information (or in the case of Elsevier their own content.) Because it would contain the knowledge of our greatest thinkers in addition to the wisdom of crowds it would change the world.

I had envisioned this as all open source with the Learning Registry http://www.learningregistry.org as a central repository for Learning Resources Metadata Initative (LRMI) http://www.lrmi.net tagged content with support for API/hooks into and out of proprietary systems like Blackboard.

With Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) http://bit.ly/sslwcJ we could use the analytics http://bit.ly/sJWsk4 to track students over time, provide individualized scaffolding and support microformats.org/wiki/gift with low stakes Q&A +James Salsman +Martin Dougiamas both online and in-person http://bit.ly/sIH62W perk for the f2f Stanford contingent +Howard Rheingold , not to mention the networking opportunities and individualized interactions possible with Ed Roulette http://goo.gl/MZzo0 +Mike Caulfield then publish it out to an ePortfolio http://sourceforge.net/projects/ospi/ +Helen L. Chen students could take with them after graduation. The ideal system would also support peer-reviewed publication for scholarly content +Elijah Meeks that could then be used in the curriculum and institutional repository, Electronic Theses and Dissertations http://bit.ly/vw4c1Z Hannah Frost.

See +Luis von Ahn TED Talk on Massive Scale online collaboration: http://bit.ly/rKnkGZ With 160k + enrollments, crowd sourcing on this type of research could be incredible. G+ hangouts with luminaries in the field, synchronous or asynchronous communication for those who are shy about participating in a large group setting...VERY large group setting.

Using eTextbooks http://bit.ly/uEghWw http://bit.ly/v1gwLu /digital interactive apps would make it more effective http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/ with a mobile learning option http://bit.ly/uKbVCG. All the data would be LRMI tagged with paradata that would send content to subscribers who could use it most. +Cable Green describes this scenario http://bit.ly/w3sCA0

Localization teams could also work with various local instructional technologists and training staff to tailor content and language for local cultures. (Thanks +Harring Figueiredo )

Ideally, this could be funded via one or more foundations ( Gates, Mellon, Hewlett ?)

The questions raised about actually operationalizing from here are crucial:
How the business model could work here ?
Who are the stakeholders and decision makers ?
Who provides/sources funding ?
Is there a plan to bring all of the Open Source material to one center ?

(Thanks +Eileen O'Duffy )

We're collaborating with +Gregory Esau and the the #Glia circle http://goo.gl/JgyFv http://goo.gl/w7v6Y

What are we missing? What is mission critical? What is feasible with existing infrastructure? What do we have to build ?

Special thanks to +Ryan Crowe sorry for monopolizing your thread. http://bit.ly/ufmfAn

It's been a huge help for me in organizing my thoughts/stream of consciousness:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts

It was a great exercise to try and organize everything from all the G+ posting I've been doing the last couple of weeks while researching around the idea of an open educational system.

Resources

Massive Online Collaboration
+Luis von Ahn TED Talk
http://bit.ly/rKnkGZ

Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
http://bit.ly/sslwcJ

MOOCs at Stanford
http://bit.ly/w0omh2
http://bit.ly/t003XH
http://bit.ly/ujnneE

+Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun's Fall 2011 Artificial Intelligence Class
http://bit.ly/vQxIWa
(Please use Chrome or Safari to view timecode links.)

Coursera
https://www.coursera.org

Free, online courses from Stanford, Princeton, University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania, Georgia Tech, Duke University, University of Washington, Caltech, Rice University, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), Johns Hopkins University (School of Public Health), UCSF, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia.

Udacity
http://www.udacity.com

EdX
http://www.edxonline.org

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley and Harvard University to offer free online learning to millions of people around the world.

Pedagogical/Andragogical Methodologies

Digital Media Learning http://dmlcentral.net
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/steve-hargadon-reimagining-education-networked-participatory-social-global

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/debating-the-flipped-classroom-at-stanford/34811
Read the comments. Robert Talbot and +Derek Bruff have added some especially thoughtful insights .

Next Generation Teaching and Learning
http://ngtl.ischool.berkeley.edu
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/bryan-alexander-emerging-learning-technologies (+Bryan Alexander )

http://www.youtube.com/howardrheingold

+Howard Rheingold

InCites http://www.stanford.edu/group/incites/cgi-bin/wordpress
+claudia engel +Jeremy Sabol

http://www.stanford.edu/~kenro
iTunesU, iBooks, and the Future of Teaching http://goo.gl/Friuy
+Kenneth Romeo

http://bit.ly/ujnneE
+Daphne Koller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogical_learning_theory

Ed Roulette Wire Frame Walk Through
http://screencast.com/t/kqERjpdre
+Mike Caulfield +Jim Groom +Tim Owens

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
http://dschool.stanford.edu/

Open Educational Resources
http://bit.ly/tl01vM

Metadata Standards
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative http://www.lrmi.net
Metadata & Paradata (data about how content was used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27603
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI

Capture Platforms + Repositories?
ClassX http://classx.stanford.edu
OpenCast Matterhorn http://opencast.org
Entwine http://entwinemedia.com
Kaltura http://kaltura.org (.edu's are using SaaS or on-prem not community version)

Collaborative Learning Environments
http://sakaiproject.org (Stanford CourseWork https://coursework.stanford.edu)
http://courseware.stanford.edu (Stanford MOOCs - currently no integration with CourseWork)
http://moodle.org

Platforms for Sharing
Open Classroom http://openclassroom.stanford.edu (Stanford MOOCs - currently no integration with CourseWork)
The Open University http://www.open.ac.uk
Wikimedia http://www.wikimedia.org
Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
Learning Registry http://www.learningregistry.org
MERLOT http://bit.ly/sSsHzl
Open Course Library http://bit.ly/uOBovF
CUNY Academic Commons https://plus.google.com/u/0/115537930517533216680/posts
Connexions http://cnx.org
iTunes U http://itunes.stanford.edu
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Entrepreneurship Corner http://ecorner.stanford.edu
Open Content Archive http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2113 (via +Nathan Finley )
Scholarly Communication Institute http://www.uvasci.org/current-work
Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/HarnessingthePowerofTechnology/242798 (via +John Whitmer )


Learning Analytics
Khan Academy software: http://bit.ly/sJWsk4 +salman khan
http://bit.ly/spWZ9H

ASU & Knewton adaptive learning platform http://bit.ly/ryNIlD
http://bit.ly/tuRYUj

Learning Resources Metadata Initiative
http://www.lrmi.net

Learning Registry
http://www.learningregistry.org/

Educause
Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy
http://bit.ly/w3sCA0

+Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons

& Joel M. Smith
CIO and Vice Provost
Carnegie Mellon University

eTextbooks
http://bit.ly/uEghWw
http://bit.ly/v1gwLu
http://bit.ly/tqAxn5
http://bit.ly/s2jviG
http://bit.ly/ucZulR
http://bit.ly/s17q8D
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com

http://bit.ly/tj6cPl (thanks +Jeff Jockisch )

Digital Interactive Apps
http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

TED Talk with the Push Pop Press developer
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html

Challenge is that Facebook acquired Push Pop Press...no more titles and no more sharing of publishing platform. All proprietary now to FB.

Decoupling
M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses, Offering Certificates
http://bit.ly/uRqgb0 (Thanks to +Phil Wagner for sharing this)

MITx: The Next Chapter for University Credentialing? | Inside Higher Ed
http://bit.ly/u650uK

Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education
(ID: LIVE1128). Moderator: Diana Oblinger (EDUCAUSE).
Speaker: +David Wiley (Brigham Young University).
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts/VXdT1kitKE9

The idea of openness, popularized by open source and open educational resources, pertains to more than just software and textbooks. In this session, we will briefly explore issues related to the affordability and availability of higher education, examine how the principle of openness is already making concrete improvements in these areas, and discuss future models for radically improving access suggested by current trends.

Learning objectives could include support for consulting with industry to determine baseline skillsets for entry level and beyond. Get certified, badges?

http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/download_the_edupunks_guide_to_a_diy_credential_free.html

Mozilla Open Badges Project
https://www.edsurge.com/n/peer-2-peer-university-p2pu-mozilla-s-open-badges

Mozilla is exploring badges as an alternative pathway to accreditation and credentialing. It includes the development of a broad and open infrastructure that can support the growing badge ecosystem and let learners create a living transcript of skills and achievements.


Mobile Learning
http://mobile.stanford.edu
http://bit.ly/uKbVCG

15 Education And Learning Startups You Need To Know
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts/64icPV9gdhy

Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2011
http://bit.ly/trssHW
Thank you +Audrey Watters for all your insightful views on Ed Tech.
Your articles on http://www.hackeducation.com, Edutopia, O'Reilly Radar, and KQED's MindShift are fantastic resources.
http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/07/19/the-wrath-against-khan-why-some-educators-are-questioning-khan-academy
Plus we get a bonus when you post comments on G+
Your articles are the source of much of my shared content in G+

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Could Come Soon, What Would They Mean?
http://bit.ly/t1Nqdf

Imagining the Future of Higher Education
+Kenneth Romeo
Stanford Academic Technology Specialist

Thoughtful analyses and strategic thinking. The best part is that he writes it all down and shares it
http://bit.ly/uw7g8i

New Media Consortium
http://www.nmc.org
http://www.nmc.org/news/submit-projects-horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition

NMCTab list is also a fantastic resource for ideas, tips, recommendations and finding collaborators.

EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
http://bit.ly/cUHk01 (7 Things You Need to Know...)

Professional Development/Training
EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/pd
Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
Lynda.com http://lynda.com
Video2Brain http://www.video2brain.com/en
Ripple Training http://www.rippletraining.com
Hack the Future: http://www.hackthefuture.org
HackerSpace http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces

Conferences
EDUCAUSE http://net.educause.edu/node/31
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative http://www.educause.edu/ELI2012
New Media Consortium http://www.nmc.org/events/summer-conference-2012-mit

Journals
Vectors http://vectors.usc.edu
+Tara McPherson

Community
http://www.educause.edu/community
http://www.meetup.com/boston-edu-video/events/past
http://www.stanford.edu/group/vmg
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KLTR/Home (still working on populating content)
http://blog.kaltura.org

Thanks and I'd love to hear feedback. I'm sure there are some things missing.

Please feel free to share but I'd appreciate if you would refer folks back to this post (http://goo.gl/D2cM2) for commenting and suggestions for improvement so we can keep everything consolidated.

-Kimberly





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