To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
Scott MacLeod is founder & president of World University and School (WUaS), an effort to make a high-quality, versatile, free education available to all who desire it, via the Internet. Drawing on wiki technology and with a tremendous supply creative commons-licensed open courseware from MIT & Yale, WUaS is launching its first 4-year class this fall. This project aims to make the education and learning available in a vast number of languages, eventually all languages from all countries - always free to the student. While the vision is breath-taking and the goals lofty, the plan draws on established and tried tools, and overlapping projects like Stanford Online High School and other ground-breaking implementations.
Here attached are the April 8th Monthly Business Meeting MINUTES and Agenda for World University and School.
I'm posting the Minutes in the body of this email too for the vision-impaired.
Thank you for your contributions to World University and School.
All the best,
Scott
Minutes and Agenda for WUaS monthly business meeting April 8, 2017
Present: Larry Viehland and Scott MacLeod (clerk and recording clerk)
(Business Meeting moved to the telephone from the Hangout).
Minute 1
WUaS is asking prospective, matriculating, undergraduate students to please email WUaS their transcripts to info@worlduniversityandschool.org.
Minute 2
WUaS is seeking graduate student instructors who have taken the courses, or know the subject matter or languages, to teach CC MIT OCW & Yale OYC courses at WUaS for credit.
WUaS continues to plan to facilitate graduate students teaching online while learning to become online faculty members.
Minute 4
WUaS needs financial resources to do this.
Minute 5
World University and School courses for credit will begin in the autumn, provisionally in concert with Harvard’s & Yale’s (W 8/30), MIT’s (W 9/06), or Stanford’s (M 9/25) academic calendars.
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Loving your understanding, questions and our conversation's forward momentum ... and the last song especially. :)
Click on the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Streetview with time slider here - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook (top left) - and walk "big foot" 4 miles down the road to Middletown ... this is the beginning I hope of a realistic virtual earth at the atomic, cellular and street levels for STEM research in all 8,444 languages (the number went up in Glottolog recently) and as a developing classroom ..
Hoping to post your Northern Spirit Radio interview to my blog tomorrow -
Scott's an anthropologist of physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs, as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal and extreme longevity, philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of information technology & counterculture :) -
scottmacleod.com ... Am also the president or head of, and professor at, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (& Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,164 living languages with machine translation, aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can wiki-teach, or wiki-learn, or wiki-create - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see too: http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in exploring questions of Yoga & wisdom). Identity-wise, a Nontheist Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and an academic
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