Mud volcano: BREAKTHROUGH? ... edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT) and WUaS? In what ways World University and School might best offer MIT OCW-centric courses from, or via, edX in WUaS's 6 majors beginning now in January 2020 ? * * * Explore developing further WUaSx to create World Univ & Sch's own courses perhaps from the open.edX platform * WUaSx and health insurance at WUaS?

BREAKTHROUGH? ... edX platform (founded by Harvard & MIT), and WUaS? In what ways World University and School might best offer MIT OCW-centric courses from, or via, edX in WUaS's 6 majors beginning now in January 2020? 


To Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, and MIT Professor of EECS  
~ https://www.edx.org/bio/anant-agarwal-0 ~ 

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Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>	9:01 AM (19 minutes ago)
to Stephen, Lydia, Peter, Nakia, Anant, Larry, sesarma, Lee

Dear Anant, 

I'm writing to inquire in what ways World University and School might best offer MIT OCW-centric courses (ocw.mit.edu and https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) from, or via, edX (edX.org) in WUaS's 6 majors - worlduniversitandschool.org - beginning now in January 2020 (for Shahbaz Sanjer at WUaS for a free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree in English) and especially in the autumn of 2020, potentially with 500-2000 WUaS online students, in English, as WUaS begins licensing with the state of California's BPPE? WUaS students would take these courses in 'The College at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - and from related academic wiki subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects. And WUaS would seek to begin our first Ph.D. class the following year - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School (also with regards to BPPE licensing) - and also CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (perhaps in all ~32 departments there).  So would membership with edX, and getting edX course-specific links, with student registration information, that WUaS could add to our wiki pages and course catalog be the best way to proceed?. And how, for example, to chart out a 4 year online English Bachelor's degree for Shahbaz from CC-4 MIT OCW and via edX?  

With regards to edX and sustainability, and the Pi digital cryptocurrency in this email thread (and Mine Pi too - https://youtu.be/MsOaC61cR3U - which cyrpto-currency is designed to be mineable by end users - eg for UBI experiments?), WUaS seeks to code our platform for our incoming matriculating students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and plan too potentially for matriculating students in all ~200 countries in their official and main languages, and plan also for WUaS wiki Universitans as speakers of each of all 7,111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - and as teachers and learners in these related WUaS wiki schools (and then potentially for all 7.5 billion people, brainstorming-wise, - and explore even Universal Basic Income experiments to alleviate poverty, in all ~200 countries' languages, but also to distribute a single digital currency backed somehow by some number of ~200 countries' central banks). How WUaS would code the WUaS platform for our students, and who take WUaS courses via the edX platform, may be something we could explore coding together in these regards. This may involve communicating further with Wikidata / Wikibase (ie Lydia above) too for both the WUaS wiki platform, and all 7.5 billion people a Wikidata Q-item # (or PIN# - personal identification number based in Wikidata).

Thanks to Lee and Nakia for all your helpful communications so far (around our 45 minute phone conversation on 18 December 2019), and greetings, Sanjay! And thanks too to Larry for serving as the Chair of World University and School's Board, and to Steve Carson above for developing MIT OCW, and Peter Bothe in helping to grow WUaS in Germany (where WUaS may seek 500 English-speaking students this autumn 2020).

World Univ & Sch seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all ~200 countries and all 7,111 known living languages - so world class, and with regards to edX goals especially.  

What would be the best way, please, to proceed? Thank you!

All the best, Scott

PS

Happy New Year to you (with 5 initial reasons for planning for planning for coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html 

- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each to become a major online university offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees in ~206 countries' main languages)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Sarma

Spotlight - Future of Education, Sanjay Sarma, MIT Director of Digital Learning

https://youtu.be/2aOHkPa8Y2E

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WUaSx and health insurance at WUaS? 

Friday, January 10, 2020

Dear Larry,

I hope this finds you well, and with your arm healing. 

While WUaS may be able to become a member at edX, and link MIT OCW edX classes at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School (and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School) I wonder if the 2nd part my email about You at WUaS for matriculating students, and  the Pi digital currency re UBI experiments even, to Anant Agarwal, edX CEO and Professor of EECS at MIT - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/mud-volcano-breakthrough-edx-platform.html (on W 8 Jan 2020) - might involve deliberation among a significant number of people at MIT and edX and it may take some time to hear back from them. 

Am curious to explore developing further WUaSx to create World Univ & Sch's own courses perhaps from the open.edX platform ... e.g. graduate students teaching courses in many languages ... 

Sounds like (from Charlene at Covered California health ins. exchange) I have Medical forms coming in the mail, - but that I may be able to get into Kaiser Permanente through Medical, depending on income (federally checked) ... 

If we can begin to hire people, like edX does, am curious how we'll cover health insurance and in many states ... 

By the way, if we become members of edX, which was founded by Harvard and MIT, we may eventually be able to develop online medical schools and law schools in all ~200 official languages in nation states in the world in collaboration with Harvard Medicine and Harvard Law (in addition to Stanford Medicine and Law) ... and all on the edX platform and exchange!

When might we start getting remunerated as both Professors at WUaS, and executives, I wonder ... and potentially via collaboration with edX? 

Were you able to get into the WUaS bank accounts newly?

Sincerely, Scott

 Happy New Year (letter). with a Desiderata poem approach ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html ~

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Sanjay, (in India) and Larry, 

World Univ & Sch seems to have had a breakthrough with regards to edX collaboration potential - to offer MIT OCW into MITx courses, and in many languages, via the edX platform for WUaS degrees - after a 45 minute call with edX on Wednesday, 18 Dec 2020 - and a recent email to Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX and Professor of EECS at MIT. In this regard, I've inquired with Anant about beginning the WUaS Bachelor's degree program as early as this January 2020 per your request, Sanjay. 

Sanjay, are you interested in a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor degree, - with parallels to your traveling to MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studying there for 4 years for a Bachelor's degree in English? Or would you also be interested in this stackable MicroBachelor's degree - https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1215681273655545856?s=20 - that Anant has just announced, but which would probably cost something? 

  

With very best wishes, Scott

P.S.

Please join us at World Univ & Sch's OPEN @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress monthly business meeting on Sat Jan. 18, 2020 at 9am PT, 12noon ET electronically, Email info @ worlduniversityandschool.org to join! Seeking 500-2000 online undergraduates in English https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School in fall 2020

Please join us at World Univ & Sch's OPEN @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress monthly business meeting on Sat 1/18/20 at 9am PT, 12noon ET electronically, Email info @ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to join! Seeking 500-2000 online undergraduates in English https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E in fall 2020

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 10, 2020

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1215762628389134337?s=20 - 

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

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