Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Caddisfly Egg Mass: Creating Opportunities, World University & School, Friends' Organizations, Loving Bliss

I'd like to create opportunities for creativity and innovation in teaching and learning through World University and School, a wiki with MIT Open Course Ware, - in all languages, nation states, subjects, and at all levels. It's doable - 'edit this page' {for example, worlduniversity.wikia.com/index.php or another:} - but how to grow a community isn't obvious to me. Wikipedia has something like 10 million articles in 70 languages, beginning in 2002, with innumerable volunteer contributors, as well as editors, stewards, aggregators, and curators.


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Perhaps Friends' organizations (like Friends' World Committee for Consultation, American Friends' Service Committee, Friends' Committee on National Legislation, and Quaker Meetings themselves) have a lot to offer as models (along with Wikipedia). Many of these are global, endowment-based, and service oriented. Quakers also have been long involved in education, and these schools, colleges and universities are models in this sense, as well.


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But loving bliss continues to fascinate me, as well, and I'd like to complement the above endeavors with ongoing explorations of eliciting loving bliss.


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Caddisfly ~ eol.org/pages/604595

~ from the amazing "Encyclopedia of Life."

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