Monday, June 29, 2020

Bluethroat: WUaS News Livestream Q & A - Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 * * * Further email correspondence with Freedom College in Sri Lanka regarding developing Sri Lanka WUaS


Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language & in Google Sites ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල


https://youtu.be/ifqPX1hgxcA


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Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020


- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html



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WUaS LiveStream (M 6/29/2020)
Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language is begun, & in Google Sitesශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල
https://youtu.be/ifqPX1hgxcA
(<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ) - 6/20/20 @WorldUnivAndSch Minutes: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277665525238083584?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277667715474288640?s=20



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Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream begins in 2 hr

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277619309859110912?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277619471943778305?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277638868963999744?s=20


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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in Sri Lanka! #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @SGKMacLeod info@w

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277613814045798400?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1277614075510288385?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1277615425656741888?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277615901102112769?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1277616695465500672?s=20


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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live > http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in SINHALA Lang #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States & #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @ScottMacLeod ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277614539517771778?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277615982110863361?s=20





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new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -

https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka


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See, Sri Lanka's Rifai's comments here -


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And see, too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/plum-headed-parakeet-bagpiping-scottish.html - at bottom (and - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html - and some other recent blog posts), which you'll also find here:



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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Fri, Jun 26, 9:47 AM (2 days ago)

to SriLanka, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, srilanka, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott
Hi Rifai, Peter, Partha, (and Marisol, Quechua language teacher at Stanford),

I just shared this World Univ & Sch homepage in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool (with an invitation message) - for you to texplore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages (but I also sent it to myself at sgkmacleod@w ... .org , and haven't received an email notice).

Rifai, focusing on Sinhala and Tamil languages will help too with WUaS maritime law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Maritime_Law (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School s - see links to other countries' law schools half way down) - and regarding the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India - 
and in both the Law School at Sri Lanka WUaS (in Sinhala), and the Tamil language Law School at India WUaS, for example. 

Rifai, re your "How about assessment, proctoring and certificate?" - am hoping this will come out further of a kind of conversation between edX in Massachusetts, and the state of California's BPPE for licensing, and concurrently WASC for accreditation too. Perhaps edX will be able to offer the equivalent of assessment, proctoring and on WUaS edX certificates. 

Please let me know if you got the invitation I just shared from - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool . Am not clear from Google Sites' "Share with others" which I just invited you from, that you'll be able to edit or translate this page, or what. (And it would be great if you could do so from within the WUaS Google Drive too). Thank you.

Regards, 
Scott


Just shared this
Hi Rifai (in Sri Lanka), Peter, Partha, and Marisol,

I'm sharing this World Univ & Sch home page in Google Sites for you, Rifai, to explore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages. (I'm sending to mostly Google email accounts). Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)


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Sri Lanka WUaS

Sat, Jun 27, 8:40 AM (1 day ago)

to me, Freedom, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol
Hi !

I received a notice and started the translation. I have to review and edit manually as some sentences are gibberish. Also some words like credit had to be changed as Google thinks someone is trying to get a loan ;) Will gradually move into course translation.


We will have to work out something if we are to launch a degree in September. We could use the quizzes in edX courses to assess. Certificate can also be issued using Word etc.

We might have to monitor the students online via a combination of webcam, ID verification & screen sharing to prevent impersonation as someone paid to do so could follow the degree under a students name. 

Regards,

Rifai




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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Sat, Jun 27, 9:59 AM (1 day ago)

to Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Freedom, Scott
So beautiful, and what a beautiful script too! I want to write English on the computer in a new rounded way!

And amazing - a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even - 

A good 'naming' model too for all ~200 countries - first in English, but then perhaps named in the countries' official / mian languages? Something like - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ශ්රී ලංකාව - or even all in Sinhala? Are Google Sites' URLs all in Sinhala at this point?

I received this invitation to translate at worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com's main parent address (which I had also sent to myself), although I think I only sent it to sgkmacleod@worlduni ...org (for learning about the structure of WUaS in Google Suite for Education). 

Rifai, have you taken an edX course? I've only taken this single (HarvardX JuryX) edX law course in 2016, taught by Harvard Law Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson - and if I recall correctly it's pretty well structured IT-wise for accreditation / licensing regarding proctoring etc. (The edX JuryX archived course link here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/03/volcano-rabbit-3-new-law-schools-at.html - and much more).

Also regarding translation and edX, this is the idea in the big picture: taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) on the edX platform ( which I blogged about yesterday re an email to a Reed College alumna (of which I am also, and which can be an interesting network) working as Admissions' officer in north India at the Woodstock school - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/scarlet-milkweed-asclepias-curassavica.html - which also just became IB). Re course standards in edX, am hoping WUaS can learn from these 3 OCW languages - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ . 

Am hoping too the way will open to communicate more directly with edX and Anant Agarwal regarding all of this in due course. Seeking to offer English-speaking Sri Lankans this autumn free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees (so please don't worry too much about translation in Sinhala). And you mentioned in a previous email that you think you might be able to find WUaS students? In ballpark terms, how many might be interested in a 4 year free online Bachelor's degree in English? 

Thank you, Rifai, and so great!

WUaS Cheers, Scott
So this doesn't disappear: :)

PS
Seeking to move some of the learning at WUaS into a realistic virtual earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click (Google Street View-centric with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow) - and maybe, for example, for the WUaS Law Schools and nation states' boundary and maritime law questions:

Here's the Bay of Bengal in Google Maps / Street View - 


And here's the Palk Strait 


Scott




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Rifai and All, 

I went to Google Translate and it was nice to hear spoken World University and School of Sri Lanka in Sinhala - https://translate.google.com/. 

Would it be possible perhaps to write something on this new Sri Lanka in Sinhala page - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - that WUaS courses this autumn will be in English for free-to-students' degrees, - and at the same time in Sinhala that the emergent wiki schools at WUaS in Sinhala are for open teaching & learning ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ? Could we develop your Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala as a way to do outreach for Sri Lankan students first in English?

Appreciating, too, the English rendering from Google Translate - World University and School of Sri Lanka .

Here by the way are the beginnings of World Univ & Sch in Google Maps / Street View with time slider (for HISTORY too!) Google Earth (and re TensorFlow AI and Translate)


How are the supply of and access to laptop computers for high achieving 18 year olds in Sri Lanka (who might speak English) - and very reliable broadband for group video conferencing, with students in all ~200 countries around the world in WUaS courses for credit? 

Regards, Scott







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Sun, Jun 28, 3:59 AM

Sri Lanka WUaS

Sun, Jun 28, 3:59 AM (1 day ago)

to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi !

Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.

I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.

If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.

Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?

Regards,

Rifai




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Sri Lanka WUaS

Jun 28, 2020, 5:37 AM (1 day ago)

to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi !

I deleted the previous page and created a new page. I trimmed down the page and mentioned Autumn offering. Tamil page is also created but I am not very good at it. Better to get someone from South India to do it. They will have to reach me in Sinhala or Tamil and I can redirect them.

English rendering right click and translate. We have standard broadband facilities in urban areas and a growing number of users learning on PCs and smartphones.


Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.



I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.

If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.


Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing a 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?

Regards,

Rifai



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Rifai,

I just added this new World University and School in the Sinhala language -

Rifai and All, I wanted to get an idea of Bachelor's degrees offered in Sri Lanka (informed by a British system of education, as you've said) and found - https://www.bachelorstudies.com/Bachelor/Sri-Lanka/amp/ - and also found other similar Sri Lanka Bachelor degree descriptions and websites. I realize that Sri Lankan students will have prepared in high school for Sri Lankan universities, and as I've also written, WUaS seeks to become the online Harvard, Stanford, MIT of the internet - as if Sri Lankan students were applying to, getting accepted at, and then traveling to the US to matriculate on-the-ground at these universities for 4-year Bachelor degrees (and with their families probably paying $75,000 per year, for tuition, living expenses, books, etc.). Sri Lankan students would thus learn a different educational cultural system, whether it be MIT's, Stanford's or an American. MIT OCW, and edX online are different however.

So edX courses, and MIT OpenCourseWare courses (with WUaS instructors teaching them live in group video) are not Harvard, Stanford & MIT on the ground. They're a completely new educational system informed by information technologies. And WUaS seeks to create this WUaS 'educational culture online' eventually in Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala and offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD, as well as IB high school degrees. WUaS seeks to facilitate live online professors and teachers teaching too!

Seeking to create the 'life of the mind,' of inquiry and problem-solving, and a book-ish online World Univ & Sch culture too. Looking forward to working out the IT for this. How to let book-ish circles - students and their parents - in Sri Lanka know about these free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor's degrees? Your Sinhala translations will help so, so much! Thank you!

More specifics about your recent emails soon.

Cheers, Scott





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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Sun, Jun 28, 10:21 AM (1 day ago)

to Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, Sri, Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
More specifically per your recent emails:

Let's eventually call Sri Lanka World University and School in the Sinhala language  Sri Lanka World University and School in Sinhala; for the time being, if you'd like, dropping the Sri Lanka is fine () ... but keeping this long name might be much more welcoming to Sri Lankan students, even if at first in English, than the shorter name. What do you think?

How did you add a new page in WUaS's drive - eg https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and potentially for Peter's and Partha's information (if Partha's parents help translate this WUaS landing page into Bengali, for example)? I'm curious as well. 

I teach - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - and would probably do so in Google Meet. You can see it listed in the WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). But I might explore offering via the edX platform later; possibly having created a new course in edX, am curious how this would work to be able to tell other people too. 

May teach another actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic course here in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ with this as a kind of text book ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ (https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook).  In what ways do you think Sri Lankan students might be interested in learning online anthropology, - and potentially even in a realistic virtual earth for field work and in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs? (It's a very innovative course, and research too, and regarding a new social science methodology even - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).

Could we aim for 100 Sri Lankan students to finish a 4 year WUaS free-to-students' Bachelor's degree - as quota (every year at first)?  I don't think there's much data at all about how many students finish 4 year online degrees, while there is so data about how many people finish a single course; a few years ago it was around 7%, 

How to use the wiki schools to welcome eventual matriculating students? Introduce WUAS wikis in Sri Lankan high schools - where high school students could become wiki-teachers to Youtube video even? (ie high school students could teach something about Sri Lanka they know and love, perhaps to a Youtube video, and then post this to an existing Subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - or to a wiki subject they wiki-create ).

How best to reach out to the children of Sri Lankan professors for these free, best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric degrees at WUaS? 

Regards, Scott




-- 

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  


- World University and School




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Sri Lanka WUaS

8:52 AM (2 hours ago)

to me, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi !

I made some changes to the site. They have not got published. Should see what happened. Instead of categorising by country better to categorise by language as more than one language is spoken in each country. The page has to be changed to


Also I created a page in Tamil


You can try these links for comparison. Questions are welcome.




The best place for information on Sri Lankan degrees is the UGC of Sri Lanka. Students are mainly prepared for 3 year commonwealth degrees so they have actually covered part of an Associate Degree. They have to adapt to American plus online culture and you should have a discussion with the American Center in Sri Lanka who promote it. This is run by the Embassy of USA. Also we can get the help of colleges if we allow them to charge a facility fee from students who like to follow the degree at a college with mentor support. WUaS can charge a royalty from these colleges. Both fees can be decided by WUaS.

In order to build an online university with the things you mentioned it is mandatory to move to a self hosted LMS like Open edX or platform like edX which is easy to manage. These support plugins and are built for online teaching. Wiki might not be the right choice from a students point of view. If you can consider moving into an LMS that might be the turning point for WUaS. Volunteers can be provided teacher accounts and major languages are supported in an LMS.

It is welcoming but difficult to remember plus it prevents building a global brand. Anyway we are localizing that is welcoming too. We might have more success offering majors like Business Management, IT, Law, Creative Arts, Engineering, Medicine etc. Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page.

100 is a good target. We can promote that only 1000 slots are offered free as scholarships. Atleast 10% might complete. We need to reach leading schools then.

Regards,

Rifai





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Info WorldUniversity 

to Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol

Hi Sri, and All,

First thing, and as you may know, WUaS plans to be in all ~200 countries (in their official / main languages, and for licensing /accreditation and even reimbursement + ), each a major online university, and in 7,117 known living languages, each wiki schools for open teaching and learning - so both Sri Lanka WUaS in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and Sinhala language in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/sinhala - are good, and central and important even.

These Google Sites' pages you've made will also correspond with these wiki pages (and the countries and languages in them) -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages


More later, thanks - and what you've done is so great!

Regards,
Scott
- https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University -
- worlduniversityandschool.org -




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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

9:50 AM (1 hour ago)

to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Rifai, Partha, and All,

Let's explore adding the degree web sites you shared to Sri Lanka WUaS wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ... for people's future reference (such as potential English-speaking (first) Sri Lankan students themselves), critical comparative thinking - and group knowledge sharing. 

Great too - 
As you may recall, (in 2015) WUaS donated itself to Wikidata (as 'back end' structured knowledge database - in Wikipedia's ~300 languages) for co-development - and languages are KEY or central to WUaS - and received the 'front end'  WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 ... but they aren't yet interoperable. This is an example of 'front end'  WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka. 

As you know, the WUaS Course Catalog, and newly with the ORAP edX list you shared, make available edX course links (and best STEM OpenCourseWare CC-4 MIT OCW links - in its 4 languages - and MITx links, and other course links). WUaS seeks to automate the process of adding these links to both our WUaS academic wiki subject pages, as well as to our Course Catalog itself - and in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, for accrediting online degrees (Bach. Ph.D., Law, MD and IB).  


So at this point, WUaS in G Suite for Education is seeking to develop in this as the LMS - Learning Management System - and it's pretty sophisticated, and one of the best, with relatively good ease of use. See for example - Assignments - https://edu.google.com/assignments. I think I can give you Admin access to WUaS in G Suite for Education, if you might be interested too.mit

Again, WUaS seeks to become like Stanford or Harvard, yet online, and with edX and MIT OCW courses - and so Sri Lankan students would be studying these online. So the degrees that Sri Lankans get from WUAS first in 4 years, would be like the degrees Sri Lankans get from Harvard and Stanford on-the-ground (with similar licensing and accreditation process), but newly online. Partha works in the American Embassy. Partha, would you like to share your thoughts about some of this?  

And WUaS seeks to connect matriculating students - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (probably with a Wikidata PIN # - planning for students in all 200 countries, speakers of all 7117 languages, and even all 7.5 people on planet as wiki teachers).
with their countries - 

Thanks too for this information about how to begin a new page in Google Sites: 

"Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page." - Peter, Partha, Marisol? 

Would you like to explore taking on developing Google Sites' WUaS pages for all ~200 countries - and in their official languages with time? Shall we see if we can get native speakers to connect with you about this to develop translation. Could I interview you about how this might work. Monday's WUaS Livestream emails for example, have many non-English native speakers among us. May I send an invitation to you in 10 minutes to join the WUaS Livestram, Rifai? 



Regards, 

Scott


Have blogged about our recent emails here - 


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Tu, June 30, 2020



Sri Lanka WUaS

10:02 AM (2 hours ago)
to nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Marisol, me, Nidahas, Scott
Hi !

Noted. Thanks. I will keep both pages and amend them accordingly. That will be good. G Suite is good for a school but for a university it might not be the right LMS.

Does it support certificate generation and verification? Or we do it manually? A good LMS can reduce manual work and easier to integrate with unique code. If you can give me access I can see how things can be improved. Also let me know how the unique code needs to be formatted for Vatican. The population is small for a prototype.

They do have scholarship programmes. If you can share some questions I can answer them as I will not be able to take part in live sessions.

Regards,

Rifai


On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:21 Info WorldUniversity, <info@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Rifai, Partha, and All,

Let's explore adding the degree web sites you shared to Sri Lanka WUaS wiki ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ... for people's future reference (such as potential English-speaking (first) Sri Lankan students themselves), critical comparative thinking - and group knowledge sharing. ...







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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

10:45 AM (1 hour ago)
to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Noted with thanks.

Is there a way to auto-generate course completion certificates ... https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/thread/7849183?hl=en

I just had a look WUaS's G Suite for Education in admin.google.com and where you have SriLanka@worlduniversityandschool.org from (and Peter - LiveStream@worlduniversityandschool.org ). You both already have access to the full suite of 14 resources, including 'Classroom.' And it looks like certificates are done there; see, too: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/threads?hl=en&thread_filter=(category:grading_workflow)
And check out Peter in this: 
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h (which I think you have access too)

Re your "Also let me know how the unique code needs to be formatted for the Vatican. The population is small for a prototype."

Since ...  "Vatican City uses Italian in its official documents and as its main working language. However, many other languages are also used by institutions situated within the state, such as the Holy See and the Swiss Guard, as well as personally by its diverse population" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Vatican_City), how about /VaticanCity - as a kind of nation state or sovereign state (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and which could include regions too) - and /Italian (as Language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) at the end of WUaS Google Sites' addresses in English, if this is what you are asking about. Am not sure yet about a Wikidata PIN # for all residents there yet, if this is what you are asking about re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. It looks like it has about 800 residents this year - that is a small population! 

Scholarships? I suppose that WUaS matriculating students in G Suite for Education will relate to 'Users' https://admin.google.com/u/2/ac/users 

Can you log in to https://admin.google.com/ with your new SriLanka@worlduni ... like I can with sgkmacleod@worlduniv (but not with worlduniversityandschool.org) ... to see what it looks like further, Rifai? 

In yesterday's WUaS Livestream, which you'll find here plus some of our recent emailings - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/bluethroat-wuas-news-livestream-q-sri.html - I talked about the new Sri Lanka WUaS ... will see what questions emerge for next week. Partha, brainstorming-wise, do you think your parents would be interested or open to translating into Bengali what Rifai has translated into Sinhala? Questions I have, Rifai, initially are in this vein - how to help others build out WUaS in Google Sites in their first languages. 

Regards, Scott


PS
the full G Suite for Education of 14 resources include - 

Calendar
ON for everyone

Classroom
ON for everyone

Drive and Docs
ON for everyone

Gmail ... 






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Hi !

That's good. Let's assume we are to consider the Vatican as a State and assign a code for the 800 people. What will be the format used?

I will provide a MA in Teacher Education. Can you design a course in G Suite with Certificate? We can discuss further based on it. I was referring to American Center's scholarships. If we can tie up with them it will be good.

I will check on G Suite admin module. I don't it is a good idea to open access to everyone. The wiki pages can be translated and they can copied or linked to Google pages.

Regards,

Rifai




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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Jul 2, 12:51 PM (22 hours ago)
to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi Rifai and All, 

Thanks for your email. I've numbered your paragraphs below, and am responding re these numbers.

1
How about in a GDoc spreadsheet with last name, first name, middle name, email address 1, email 2, cell phone #, for #1-800, each relating to 1-800 Wikidata PIN#s. Only a small number of these 800 people will likely matriculate for online Bachelor degrees at WUaS this autumn, if any (and so may not get into G Suite for Education for example).

2
Here's how you'd create a course in G Suite -
and re assignments - 

(Consider structuring your MA in edX courses; WUaS isn't planning to offer, license or accredit MA degrees). Please remember WUaS is seeking reimbursement from nation states, and from their counties, per student per year, for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric courses (ocw.mit.edu, into edX courses). WUaS is planning certificates again from edX courses (re CC-4 ocw.mit.edu).

3
What did you find out when you checked the G Suite admin module ? G Suite admin module is very structured IT-wise - for example, I can assign admin access at various degrees; and for example, I just received an "Alert: Spike in user-reported spam" report from G Suite re unusual activity in G Suite. Please don't worry re "I don't it is a good idea to open access to everyone"  I think WUaS's 500-2000 matriculating students in English this autumn from all ~200 countries for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees (as WUaS CA BPPE licenses and WASC accredits for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees re the 'MATRICULATION' word) will get worlduniversityandschool.org email addresses (but not all 7.5 billion people, - or all 800 people in Vatican City, for example ). edX and CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx and CC-3 Yale OYC courses' URLs for free to students' degrees will 'pipe' through to the WUaS wiki academic subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see EE, CS, English, History, Science, Business management) - FROM the GDocS' course catalog spreadsheet - worlduniversityandschool.org, and potentially the edX courses listed here this autumn will offer the initial certificates again, based on a student's completing a course.

Might we find 1000 Sri Lanka students - 'toppers' of their classes - matriculating for free-to-students' Bachelors' degrees in English from here -https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and from here - worlduniversityandschool.org - this autumn, and graduate 100 of them in 4 years??

Am trying to think about what you might need in terms of reaching out to the highest achieving, best high schools in Sri Lanka regarding their best students who speak English and who might still be seeking a university this autumn - and particularly STEM-related, free, online Bachelor degrees! What would you suggest? Are CC-4 ocw.mit.edu and edX of help? 

In reading your email again, I think edX WUaS certificates will help in these regards. And I hope I've replied to your other IT-centric questions. 

Regards, 
Scott


1
That's good. Let's assume we are to consider the Vatican as a State and assign a code for the 800 people. What will be the format used?

2
I will provide a MA in Teacher Education. Can you design a course in G Suite with Certificate? We can discuss further based on it. I was referring to American Center's scholarships. If we can tie up with them it will be good.

3
I will check on G Suite admin module. I don't it is a good idea to open access to everyone. The wiki pages can be translated and they can copied or linked to Google pages.







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July 3, 2020




Sri Lanka WUaS

7:54 AM (3 hours ago)
to nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Marisol, me, Nidahas, Scott
Hi !

I just wanted to get an idea to build a prototype. What is the format to be used for the code? Yeah ! MIT OCW and edX would help. Noted. I will be checking out in the weekend. We have to give try. 

Can we get help from local institutes to offer blended degree programmes? We can discuss with them and even work on a donation mechanism for WUaS. They will expect some benefit for themselves like charging a facility fee from students to allow them to use their IT labs or one to one mentoring by a professional. Even then a degree will be affordable compared to a traditional degree. I personally don't think we can reimburse from all governments.

Regards,

Rifai


On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:22 Info WorldUniversity, <info@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Rifai and All, 

Thanks for your email. I've numbered your paragraphs below, and am responding re these numbers.

1
How about in a GDoc spreadsheet with last name, first name, middle name, email address 1, email 2, cell phone #, for #1-800, each relating to 1-800 Wikidata PIN#s. Only a small number of these 800 people will likely matriculate for online Bachelor degrees at WUaS this autumn, if any (and so may not get into G Suite for Education for example).

2
Here's how you'd create a course in G Suite -
and re assignments - 

(Consider structuring your MA in edX courses; WUaS isn't planning to offer, license or accredit MA degrees). Please remember WUaS is seeking reimbursement from nation states, and from their counties, per student per year, for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric courses (ocw.mit.edu, into edX courses). WUaS is planning certificates again from edX courses (re CC-4 ocw.mit.edu).

3
What did you find out when you checked the G Suite admin module ? G Suite admin module is very structured IT-wise - for example, I can assign admin access at various degrees; and for example, I just received an "Alert: Spike in user-reported spam" report from G Suite re unusual activity in G Suite. Please don't worry re "I don't it is a good idea to open access to everyone"  I think WUaS's 500-2000 matriculating students in English this autumn from all ~200 countries for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees (as WUaS CA BPPE licenses and WASC accredits for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees re the 'MATRICULATION' word) will get worlduniversityandschool.org email addresses (but not all 7.5 billion people, - or all 800 people in Vatican City, for example ). edX and CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx and CC-3 Yale OYC courses' URLs for free to students' degrees will 'pipe' through to the WUaS wiki academic subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (see EE, CS, English, History, Science, Business management) - FROM the GDocS' course catalog spreadsheet - worlduniversityandschool.org, and potentially the edX courses listed here this autumn will offer the initial certificates again, based on a student's completing a course.

Might we find 1000 Sri Lanka students - 'toppers' of their classes - matriculating for free-to-students' Bachelors' degrees in English from here -https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and from here - worlduniversityandschool.org - this autumn, and graduate 100 of them in 4 years??

Am trying to think about what you might need in terms of reaching out to the highest achieving, best high schools in Sri Lanka regarding their best students who speak English and who might still be seeking a university this autumn - and particularly STEM-related, free, online Bachelor degrees! What would you suggest? Are CC-4 ocw.mit.edu and edX of help? 

In reading your email again, I think edX WUaS certificates will help in these regards. And I hope I've replied to your other IT-centric questions. 

Regards, 
Scott






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Hi Sri, Partha, Peter, All,

GDocs' spreadsheet format will work for the code, and prototyping.

Licensing (CA BPPE) and (WASC) accrediting WUaS degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, and MD as well as IB) are where WUaS is heading with our WUaS degrees - and which is what will facilitate becoming the Stanford / Harvard of the Internet. Thanks to the CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW, WUaS can't ask for fees from students, and departments of education in all ~200 countries have budgets for schools at the moment. If needed, I think students in Sri Lanka may benefit from these education department budgets for computer access (but not potentially with the coronavirus pandemic), and please remember that WUaS is seeking for students to study for their 4-year degrees from their homes (and not physical schools). It's amazing in the USA that so many greatest universities are offering online degrees this autumn due to the coronavirus pandemic.

WUaS will seek to develop relationships with these departments of education in Sri Lanka (in all ~200 countries) for free-to-students' edX and MIT OCW courses.  The donation mechanism is already here - worlduniversityandschool.org. The ~200 countries' number comes from the Olympics and WUaS is seeking 'Olympic' students - 'toppers' in Sri Lanka in their high school classes - to take edX and CC-4 best STEM OpenCourseWare courses from home for free. It's particularly the STEM education first in English, then in the Sinhala language - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - that I think will benefit Sri Lanka and students there. Have a great weekend.

Regards, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/bluethroat-wuas-news-livestream-q-sri.html -











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