Saturday, July 11, 2020

Monolith: Sri Lanka WUaS students, and Lego Robotics' kits for September 1? - Ordering from India ... * * * WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money transfer mechanism



Monolith: #SriLankaWUaS students, & #LegoRobotics' kits for 9/1/20? -Ordering from India @WUaSPress - in WUaS Open edX ? & regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on planet #UBIexperiments #SingleCryptoCurrency #WikidataQitem @sgkmacleod https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/monolith-sri-lanka-wuas-students-and.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1282384606310699008?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1282398803337687040?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1282400098119376896?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1282400292621791232?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1282400748391694336?s=20




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Monolith: #ScotlandWUaS students, & #LegoRobotics' kits for 9/1/20? -Ordering from India @WUaSPress - in WUaS Open edX ? & regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on planet #UBIexperiments #SingleCryptoCurrency #WikidataQitem @sgkmacleod https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/monolith-sri-lanka-wuas-students-and.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1282421729319514113?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1282402424590757888?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1282402032536567808?s=20




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Info WorldUniversity

1:37 PM (6 hours ago)
to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, me, Marisol
Hi Rifai, Partha, Peter, Marisol, 

Thanks for your email. WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money transfer mechanism. See the following 2 emails to the chair of the WUaS Board. Also the Lego robotics' kits involved - which Sri Lankan students may purchase - will be some of these 3 that WUaS is newly carrying - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and which I imagine are not easy to obtain on-the-ground in Sri Lanka. Again, per Lego's recent communication with WUaS, students from Sri Lanka matriculating at WUaS can get these from India here - https://www.edutechindia.com/schools/stemeducation-2/ (or elsewhere in India here - https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor - which link you'll find also in the WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore). WUaS's only relationship with MIT is via the Creative Commons 4 licensing of MIT OCW, which isn't a relationship with MIT (and WUaS has explored these questions over some years now).

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Big online educational project emails from this morning and yesterday to Larry V for your interest and networking even too ...


Open edX

Dear Larry,

Power's out in Canyon - will charge my smartphone phone in the car if this goes on much longer. Phone however has its own internet signal too.

Since I think the European Central Bank (and I saw recently that the IMF) are edX partner institutions ... https://www.edx.org/schools-partners.

I wonder if WUaS collaborating with Open edX in one way or another, as 'PARTNER' or 'DEVELOPER' (but with Open edX as technical team here curiously) seem to be 2 main possible roles (in their developing organization's landscape),  ... and will inform WUaS's coding plans for registering WUaS matriculating students and also native speakers of all 7,117 languages as wiki-teacher-universitians - & coding for brainstorming-wise all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata PIN # (forked from Wikidata Q-item #).

edX's digital money transfer mechanism for this for WUaS to get per student per year or similar reimbursement from countries, via edX (which they'd benefit from too) - and re even for also a WUaS envisioning of a single cryptocurrency backed by most of all 200 countries and distributed via UBI experiments to alleviate poverty would involve much new edX coding.

Waiting to hear back from Open edX about possible collaborations.

Glad Soren Juul Jorgensen is Tweeting about some of this European Central Bank-wise and potentially WUaS wise too). Maybe a different collaboration role with Open edX will emerge too.

Sincerely,
Scott
On 4:01PM, Fri, Jul 10, 2020 Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org wrote:
Dear Larry, 

 How are you?

 3 items
1
Didn't hear back from edX partner support for the 3rd day in a row as I thought I might

2
Seeking to head into Open edX if possible, after some major updates in the past 18 months, and per many different conversations, including the one last December. I think the changing meaning of the edX use of the word 'partner' is involved, and Anant with Ned may be able to do something regarding WUaS.

3
Soren Juul Jorgensen, Stanford Fellow, and who may have been the lawyer who helped WUaS Corp begin to carry Lego robotics (and good email this morning from Matt Clark in London, I think ... - and what can WUaS start selling soon to become an established STEM education reseller in some of all ~200 countries?), recently posted this - 

https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1281645816994619393?s=20 - and the re-Tweet - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_1301 - mentions the EU and both Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton - whom I mention in last month's WUaS Minutes (re single cryptocurrency and UBI experiments emerging from Euro) too - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html?view=sidebar.

Much of item 1 & 2's thinking is here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html - after the Mars' Mission humor and history :)

Hoping you're doing well in the summer in Pgh, and that it's not too hot! (It's hot here!)


Sincerely, Scott

Rifai, thanks for your good ideas as WUaS waits to hear back from edX / Open edX  and potentially CEO and  MIT Professor of EECS Anant Agarwal.


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Here's Soren speaking in Denmark, in English:

Happy 4thofJuly! Happy memories of sunny day in Denmark speaking at Rebild @ Danish celebrations of 7/4 '18 On innovation and what we can learn from Silicon Valley #Happy4thofJuly #tech #siliconvalley  #techpolicy

https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1279495432775667712?s=20





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Sunday, July 12, 2020


Sri Lanka WUaS

4:58 AM (9 hours ago)
to nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Marisol, me, Nidahas, Scott
Hi !

Thanks for the update. I have prepared the application form and tested it. The link for form: https://forms.gle/fhA9VqsY3rFEgQzT8 When the student fills it the responses are stored at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uO97GmUGM4GocEJA_YV8lXbvSnhnX2ioLgKQvVSdwnQ/edit#gid=1046057756 Please check it and update me if there are any issues. If everything is fine we can start enrolling in students for the September 2020 intake.

Regards,

Rifai




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Dear Rifai, Sri Lanka WUaS, Partha, Peter, Marisol, All,

So great! And perhaps this will help WUaS interoperate with Open edX in great ways. Am glad Open edX has significantly updated its software over the past 18 months per Ned Batchelder on Thursday - "Open edX July 9, 2020 community meetup" - https://youtu.be/PdniQPc-C1U - https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1281212341917560832?s=20. And, since edX has 'partner' language / structure as part of its organizational structure, I'd think it would be better for WUaS to become both a Partner with Open edX / edX and a Developer (than one or the other) - and these forms may help greatly in this regard.

If possible in the autumn, WUaS will offer some Open edX courses on home robotics emerging from adapting - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ (again into Open edX) - for the 3 Lego kits' 1) WeDo 2.0, 2) Spike Prime, and 3) Mindstorms - and especially too for students to learn programming with the Scratch visual programming language which works with Lego robotics.

APPRECIATING greatly this 'Project Visualization Tool' (and as a model for a wide variety of other courses too) - in this Scratch Programming 'Getting Unstuck' 10-day online 'workshop' with small prompts, which I'm currently taking and at the halfway point.

Getting Unstuck 2020 coding with Scratch language: https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/
A kind of feedback and even assessment process too which makes new helpful coding suggestions automatically, creatively!

Project Visualization Tool -
What did you make?
What did you learn?
Thank you for participating in Getting Unstuck! To explore some of what you made and learned, enter your username here.
https://gettingunstuck.gse.harvard.edu/participation
#GettingUnstuck

Regards, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/monolith-sri-lanka-wuas-students-and.html


If possible, how best to add such learning opportunities to - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming - and even for this autumn at World Univ & Sch?
(... And with Lego robotics' learning with Scratch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - and for home robotics, also this autumn)?


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning for ~206 countries, each a major online university, in their official main languages for free-to-students' degrees, based on best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare, in its 4 languages)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (add a new wiki subject; and are there any best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to add?)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/

worlduniversityandschool.org
scottmacleod.com



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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

8:15 AM (6 hours ago)
to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol, Sri
Dear  Rifai, Sri Lanka WUaS, Partha, Peter, Marisol, All, 

Great! I've changed some language in an initial way, but I'd think the language and form need further work, and I'm not great at this or experienced in excellent detail for online forms. edX student sign in as model? Excellent forms make such a difference for end users and prospective students !!! 

I'd be interested in learning from Marisol, Peter, and Partha what information such as the info here would work best in the countries you're familiar with (Peru, Germany, USA).


Great to see the 2: 

Autumn 2020 Intake (Responses) - Invitation to edit
Student Application (Responses) - Invitation to edit

and regarding working with - 

Student Enrollment Form - World University Sign Up - Free & CC

We want sign in to be as easy as possible - like edX in particular. But knowing their high school, whether they graduated or not, or even getting a PDF of their transcripts could be helpful (and there are so many variations on this theme of transcripts - in all 200 countries - and languages add a step). I'd think edX has navigated this issue too. Am thinking edX sign-in as a model to start!

Regards, Scott







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