Sunday, March 29, 2020

Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video



Hi Ay,

Greetings! And thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree. To respond to your questions: . . . CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World Univ & Sch is planning to offer first Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English, as we begin licensing with the state of California's BPPE, and then accredit probably with WASC Senior (which also accredits Stanford, UC Berkeley, and many other universities on the west coast and some internationally). Regarding your . . .  . . .  . . . You'll find our 6 initial planned majors here - worlduniversityandschool.org - and I could see a General Science (GSci) major having an astronomy focus, based on https://ocw.mit.edu/ (search on 'astronomy' courses). Conceptually, students would be studying MIT OCW into MITx courses - "MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/" - and because of MIT OCW's CC-4 licensing (which allows WUaS to a) share, b) adapt but c), non-commercially), the degrees would be online tuition-free. (WUaS is planning to seek reimbursement from departments of Education, such as at the state, county or federal level, and along the lines of what it might cost to attend MIT or Stanford). Classes will be online potentially on the edX platform, in group video, and even in a realistic virtual universe for STEM (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow + and which we'll all be able to help build out as well). See - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click ...
Regarding your . . .   . . .  ... To say much of this another way, World Univ and Sch is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class this autumn 2020 as we license /accredit - worlduniversityandschool.org - and please teach to an open wiki eg by adding a youtube video you make to a related subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (and check out twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch). Exams, testing, essays and also instruction will emerge, conceptually, from the MIT OCW, which has exams, - into MITx - but WUaS wants to grow with hiring live instructors in group video, for ex. - and probably at first, MIT and Stanford graduate students, potentially, who may be on the way to becoming faculty. Regarding your . . ., given that WUaS is very MIT OCW-centric (with its ~2500 courses in English), and much astronomy, and physics, WUaS may focus our upcoming Ph.D.s explicitly in the ~32 departments of MIT, and, at the undergraduate level, possibly follow MIT's lead: "Undergraduates interested in an astronomy focus can major in either Physics or EAPS" (http://web.mit.edu/astronomy/). 

While WUaS is separate and independent from MIT, and as WUaS licenses with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior, it's both the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing, as well as developing collaborations with possibly edX (founded by Harvard and MIT) in Cambridge MA that will inform our degrees, and synergies with MIT into the future. 

I'll keep you posted for the autumn of 2020 about signing up, registering and regarding the application process et al., but in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Ay? Thank you.

Best Regards, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Astronomy -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Physics -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Earth,_Atmospheric,_and_Planetary_Sciences
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University -
PS
I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point. 


Bengali
Amharic
Lithuanian
German
Romanian
Greek
Twi
Scots Gaelic
Sámi 
Norwegian - Bokmal
Inuktitut
Hindi
Farsi
Malay
Spanish
Taiwanese
Indonesian


Thanks again for your interest, in this early phase for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. May I ask please how you heard about WUaS?

Best regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- Languages - World University: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://scottmacleod.com

- 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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Thanks for your prompt email reply. And yes I'm very ready to keep your emails confidential, and will. And WUaS will develop with time a privacy policy for matriculated students (probably in conversation with MIT's). And please consider adding a confidentiality statement to your email addresses' signature - I can share example if interested - (and please remember too that emails are like postcards, abd companies' employees may have access  to your enlmails, and also a stated privacy policy - and re AI etc esp).

At WUaS while tuition eill be free, there will be book, Lego Robotics' kits and other similar costs, FYI. and yes WUaS is planning to begin licensing soon, and accrediting is a concurrent process, with BPPE, for the autumn, but we also don't yet have the monies for this, yet are optimistic.

On the edX platform, the edX, HarvardX, JuryX course is an example of what WUaS courses will be like there - and they'll also be both synchronous in group video, and asynchronous, and seeking to build on the Conference Method newly online. WUaS's academic year will either be 3 terms or 2 senesters, 4 courses, 40 courses over 4 years, for a free to student's Bachelor degree. Seeking too to build a cohort every year or term of people who know each other, and as a network too.

Cheers, Scott



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There's more about the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - and think Socratic dialogue around the 'table' so in group video conference with an instructor (so seminar, in a sense), or in a virtual world like Second Life, as well as lecture with sections too. And there are 2-3 channels newly in group video: ie voice, gesture, and for a parallel 2nd conversation group text messaging. And WUaS is seeking to make classes and the undergraduate year/4 years like this (with parallels, too, to Reed College's approach to the conference method).

And in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Ay? Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
(And please see the confidentiality notice, as an example, from my email's 'signature' below).


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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com

- 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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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress




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Ay,

Here's an example of what one (out of about 40 courses over 4 years) at World Univ & Sch might be like: 

JuryX / HarvardX / edX with Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charles Nesson - 

Although not astronomy related, its asynchronous 'threads' ' platform for conversation about course ideas, - for an online approach to the 'conference method,' - and pass/fail approach initially, may well inform World Univ & Sch in some way via edX, and emerging from MIT OCW into MITx - eg "MITx Courses and Related OCW Courseware" - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ . 

And here's an example of the Honor Code at edX - https://support.edx.org/hc/en-us/articles/206503398-What-is-the-edX-Honor-Code- .

Thanks again for your interest in, and inquiries, about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School. And in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Ay? Thank you.

Cheers, Scott

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Here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) - 


And also especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, but also a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? And how much physics did you study in high school? 

Here are astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.  

Best, Scott
PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards: 
"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"
https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs



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"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs



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Hi Flying Ay, Kyle, prospective students, Board, and speakers of languages below, and All, 

I just want to take this opportunity to introduce Kyle to everyone. I omitted including him yesterday in my email to all of you, and Kyle's on the WUaS Press Board, and shares regularly about transforming education via Project Based Learning, and here's an example of an email he just shared today - https://mailchi.mp/a265e2ea481c/5-dos-and-donts-of-online-class-meetings-4834453?e=ec2d3baa06 - in these regards. Kyle works for, or did, a school in Hong Kong, and was also recently hiking the Camino Santiago in Spain. 

I'm including the emails I sent to Ay yesterday in this blog post from today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html - but not including his emails in this blog post per his request. It offers an interesting glimpse into where WUaS is heading with physics / astronomy undergraduate studies for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees, as well as the building out of a realistic virtual universe potentially as part of this.  

And here's a related article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) which I found on Twitter 

And with regard also to MIT OCW in astronomy - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click - this is relevant especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and also regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, also to a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? (See, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - regarding to wiki creating a realistic virtual earth / universe, which I think involves an interpretive, even ethnographic approach in all of the science involved, hence ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).

And here are astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, - and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject (and none in edX's astronomy). In what ways too I wonder can WUaS explore developing a JuryX / HarvardX / edX approach to astronomy courses - per Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson's great 2016 edX law course (seealso the blog post with my emails to us and Ay - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html )?  

Best, Scott

 PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards: 
"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"
https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs

PPS
Here's the nascent World University Foundation page with the World Univ & Sch Board of Trustee members - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - above in email addressees. WUaS is 2 separate legal entities in the state of California with separate Boards - 1) the non-profit MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, which is also a 501 c3 at the US federal level, and 2) the for-profit WUaS Corp / Press which is a general stock company legal entity in California. Together, there's remarkable potential for parallel growth, planned in ~200 countries' official and main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages. 

PPPS
Larry Viehland (above) and I are going to update the 14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - for the open April WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. Apr 18 (and on 3rd Saturdays in general). 

PPPPS
And here are the Minutes of March 21, 2020 where you'll see mention of 
PPPPPS
Petros Kalligas, in Athens, Greece, and I will be talking again (see, here our March 23, 2020 talkhttps://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning at 10 am Pacific Time, about Greece World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live 

Petros Kalligas, in Athens, & I will be talking about Greece World Univ & Sch in the WUaS News and Q & A (see our 3/23/20 talk https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o) in the morning on 3/30/20 at 10 am PT https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live  info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1244472798229102592?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1244473006270763008?s=20
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1244473171081748482?s=20



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I'm adding to this email some WUaS Trustees, and native speakers of the following languages, who may be interested in developing WUaS in their languages and especially countries at some point.
Bengali
Amharic
Lithuanian
German
Romanian
Greek
Twi
Scots Gaelic
Sámi 
Norwegian - Bokmal
Inuktitut
Hindi
Farsi
Malay
Spanish
Taiwanese
Indonesian

Thank you !









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Sunday, April 5, 2020 

Hi Ay,

Please read through these emails again to get a sense of what WUaS's process is at this point - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html (because I think I've already answered a number of your questions here in previous emails) - and where the WUaS licensing process with the state of California's BPPE could begin in mid-May at the earliest, and with a BPPE workshop. Application process would follow this, and be informed by the BPPE workshop too, in conjunction with WUaS's developing online platform, - and would likely involve high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and essays. Please see too what MIT looks for in undergraduate students (and below) - 

"What we look for
The match between you and MIT"
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/

And courses, at this time, would be MIT OCW > MITx informed, where students would be taking about 40 courses over 4 years, so about 10 courses per year - probably via the edX platform. 

What state (or specifically county) are you based in, when you're not traveling, in a legal sense, and regarding CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS's exploring seeking reimbursement from departments of education in all 50 states, or federally as well? Books and Lego Robotics, etc., would be costs students are responsible for, whereas tuition would be free-to-students' and something WUaS, again, would seek reimbursement for, probably from counties (please read my previous emails again), and WUaS doesn't have an estimate of these costs at this point. 

Here's a perspective on costs of going to MIT for a year, for your reference: 
"The full price to attend MIT for the 2019–2020 academic year is $73,160. ⁠ This total costs includes $53,450 for tuition, $10,430 for housing, $5,960 for food costs, $2,160 for personal expenses, $820 for books and supplies and $340 to cover the school's student life fee" (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/its-costs-73160-to-go-to-mitheres-how-much-students-actually-pay.html). WUaS seeks to create an online bookstore for books and supplies related specifically to the courses WUaS offers. 

I'm including Professors Viehland (active in World Univ & Sch), both of whom are active in a Methodist Church in western Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Viehland is a Methodist minister, and both of whom went to MIT in chemistry/physics as undergraduates. Please feel free to ask Larry Viehland questions as well. 

Have you taken an edX course before - to see if you'd enjoy taking potentially 40 of them over 4 years? Here's a free "How to learn online" course from edX - https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-learn-online - which is only 2 weeks long. And as you might think, MIT undergraduate students, by way of comparison, are quite active learners, high achievers, have great study skills and are hard workers, and tend to be at the top of their high school classes, - with 4 years of focused academic study in high school on their transcripts. And adding having taken such courses to your application would be sensible. 

What do you think?

Scott
PS
World Univ & Sch is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages (and, in a sense, shares MIT's mission, referred to below)



What we look for
The match between you and MIT

Ask any admissions officer at MIT, and they will tell you that while grades and scores are important, it’s really the match between applicant and the Institute that drives our selection process.

Here are the key components:

Alignment with MIT’s mission
Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we’re not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the time they’re 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world. Lobbying a senator to amend bad policy changes the world. There are thousands of examples.

Collaborative and cooperative spirit
The core of the MIT spirit is collaboration and cooperation; you can see it all over the Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs are very common. MIT is known for its interdisciplinary research. If you enjoy working alone all the time, that’s completely valid, but you might not be particularly happy at MIT.

Initiative
Opportunities are abundant at MIT, but they must be seized. Research projects, seed money, and interesting lectures aren’t simply handed to students on silver platters here. For those students who take initiative—who take advantage of what’s around them—MIT’s resources are unparalleled.

Risk-taking
MIT wants to admit people who are not only planning to succeed but who are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn resilience—because risk leads to failure as often as it leads to success. The most creative and successful people—and MIT is loaded with them—know that failure is part of life and that if you stay focused and don’t give up, goals are ultimately realized.

Hands-on creativity
MIT is an active, hands-on place. Innovation is risky and messy! Getting your hands dirty and trying something new is often the best way to achieve success. We apply theoretical knowledge to real-world problems here; our Latin motto means “Mind and Hand.” In other words, you shouldn’t just enjoy thinking, you should also enjoy doing.

Intensity, curiosity, and excitement
In a nutshell, you should be invested in the things that really mean something to you (we’re not particularly picky as to what). Explore! Choose quality over quantity—you don’t have to do a million things to get into college. Put your heart into a few things that you truly care about and that will be enough.

The character of the MIT community
Our community is comprised of people who take care of each other and lift each other up, who inspire each other to work and dream beyond their potential. We’re looking to admit people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community.

The ability to prioritize balance
Despite what you may have heard, this place is NOT all about work. To be successful here, you must prioritize some measure of downtime. Therefore, we like to see that you’ve prioritized some downtime in high school as well. Question #1 (Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it.) is not a trick question. Answer it honestly.



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Ay,

Again, I think, here's an article in German - "Soon we'll be able to see to the edge of the Universe" (https://translate.google.com/) from Twitter (and regarding the benefits of social media in a different way) - 

And also especially regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense, of not only the universe, but also a realistic virtual earth, and for learning astronomy and physics in very new ways. What do you think? And how much physics did you study in high school? 

Here is astronomy - https://www.edx.org/learn/astronomy - and physics - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/physics at edX, and I only see 2 MITx courses in the physics' subject.  

Best, Scott
PS, Just found this, in the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe regards: 
"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" 

-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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