Bedstraw Flower: World Univ & Sch's entry at Wikipedia, Deleted last night for a second time, Both are designed around principles of openness

Here's the new World University and School entry at Wikipedia, (which was deleted last night for a second time - in July 2010 and January 2009 - which I blogged about before here, as well). I'm trying to get this to stay up in Wikipedia. From the openness they espoused a few years ago, I think their technologies, editors, filters and processes have become a little inflexible, non-open and unresponsive - we'll see. Wikipedia is built on a principle of openness. Why do societal processes close down again and again? Wikipedia has been so successful because they have a large and engaged community, and have focused on a kind of almost-hippie openness to this online encyclopedia, now in around 272 languages.



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World University and School - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - is a online, free, open, 'edit this page' university and school, where you can teach, learn, add content, and create. Like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare, Berkeley Webcast and people-to-people teaching and learning, WUaS facilitates wiki (editable web pages) teaching and learning. World University and School's focus on great universities' open content distinguishes it from other open, educational resources and schools on the World Wide Web.

Its main areas of focus include open courses, free degrees, (there's a [http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s free degree from Harvard University] in education for 2011 and 2012 for 25 students linked at World University and School), subjects, open teaching and learning potentially in all languages and all nation states/territories, library resources, museums, research, 'You at World University and School,' educational software, hardware resource possibilities, and World University and School's foundation. Teaching and learning can take place interactively in virtual worlds, in video and in ways people create. World University and School also seeks to become a meta-directory for much great free open teaching and learning content on the web. WUaS has a wiki scheduling calendar.

World University and School is planning for matriculating classes in 2014.

World University and School incorporated as a charity/nonprofit in the State of California in 2010, and is seeking accreditation at the university level.


Project


History

World University and School began in a "Society and Information Technology" class conversation, taught by Aphilo Aarde/Scott MacLeod on Harvard's Berkman Island in Second Life in 2007.


Technology

worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan

















And here's the Wikipedia code:

World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - is an online, free, open, 'edit this page' university and school, where you can teach, learn, add content, and create. Like Wikipedia with [[MIT OpenCourseWare]], [[Berkeley Webcast]] and people-to-people teaching and learning, WUaS facilitates wiki (editable web pages) teaching and learning. [http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University World University and School]'s focus on great universities' open content distinguishes it from other open, educational resources and schools on the World Wide Web.

Its main areas of focus include open courses, free degrees, (there's a [http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Ph.D.s free degree from Harvard University] in education for 2011 and 2012 for 25 students linked at World University and School), subjects, open teaching and learning potentially in all languages and all nation states/territories, library resources, museums, research, 'You at World University and School,' educational software, hardware resource possibilities, and World University and School's foundation. Teaching and learning can take place interactively in virtual worlds, in video and in ways people create. World University and School also seeks to become a meta-directory for much great free open teaching and learning content on the web. WUaS has a wiki scheduling calendar.

World University and School is planning for matriculating classes in 2014.

World University and School incorporated as a charity/nonprofit in the State of California in 2010, and is seeking accreditation at the university level.


==Project==
===History===

World University and School began in a "Society and Information Technology" class conversation, taught by Aphilo Aarde/Scott MacLeod on Harvard's Berkman Island in Second Life in 2007.

===Technology===

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


==See also==
*[[OpenCourseWare]]
*[[Open educational resources]]

==External links==
*[http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley Webcast]
*[http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT OpenCourseWare] – official site; [http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/index.htm Traditional Chinese], [http://www.myoops.org/cocw/mit/index.htm Simplified Chinese] versions
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT MIT's Channel] offers videos of OpenCourseWare on the YouTube
*[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/ Opencourseware How To] – designed to share the experience, key decisions, and lessons learned that led to the implementation of MIT's OpenCourseWare project.

==References==




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(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/07/bedstraw-world-univ-schs-entry-at.html - July 9, 2010)