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Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain beeplant/beeweed): 2nd Undergraduate Class at World Univ & Sch matriculating September 1, 2020 * Distribution Requirements for a 4 year program * * * California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality, UBI experiments for 7.5 billion people?


2nd Undergraduate Class at World Univ & Sch matriculating September 1, 2020


Scott MacLeod
9:58 AM (11 hours ago)
to Larry, Rohit, Rohit, Anant, Sri, Shahbaz

Dear Shahbaz and Larry,

Thanks for your ongoing interest in matriculating at World University and School on September 1, 2020, Shahbaz. Should you need a letter of some kind for prospective employers overseas, and you are enrolled in classes as a matriculated WUaS student, WUaS can provide this for you. (Larry's the chair of the Board at World Univ & Sch, and the presiding clerk of the Academic Accreditation committee, as WUaS proceeds with the licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE - and concurrently - https://twitter.com/wascsenior - accrediting process, probably in 2021). For accreditation purposes, WUaS will probably ask you what results you (INITIALLY, and for accreditation purposes) got from the edX courses you'll take this autumn.

Roughly, and in terms of a free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric Bachelor's degree at WUaS - as if going to MIT, Stanford or Harvard on-the-ground - WUaS is seeking for Bachelor's degree students to take approximately 40 15-week long CC-4 MIT OCW-centric courses (think edX courses here) over 4 years. This would translate to 10 15-week long courses per year (or 3.3 15-week long courses per 4 month term), - and if a WEEK of an edX course is a credit unit, you would need to study or take 150 credit units in the course of a year. For the 2 courses below, you would receive approximately 13 credit units (where a 'full load' this autumn would be 50 credit units). Please see, also, the (Reed College) English major and distribution requirements' email, which I emailed you, in these regards too. I hope you enjoy the edX courses you'll take beginning soon; it's looking like the "Shakespeare Matters" course has an ongoing rolling admissions, so that you'll likely be able to begin this on 9/1/20. Please remember that having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal, you'll be studying the edX courses on your own initially, and letting WUaS know your results about what you learn from edX. (I'll create a blog with all of this soon).

For your information, you're part of the 2nd matriculating undergraduate class at best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. Thank you again, Shahbaz, for your planning to matriculate at World University and School on September 1, 2020. Enjoy!

Thanks, Scott

From Monday, August 17, 2020
So ...  Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course -

Poetry in America: Modernism
https://www.edx.org/course/poetry-in-america-modernism .

and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) -

Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.
https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeare-matters
(or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)

toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.


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Hi Scott,


I don't have to show the proof of my enrollment in India but overseas. I just need something to backup my interview answers (if required) in terms of my education. It may be as little as a registration number or a letter of acceptance.

I would love to start the courses in September that would qualify me for a bachelor's degree. I just want a simple BA degree. 


Thanks


On Mon 24 Aug, 2020, 9:07 PM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Shahbaz, and Anant,

Greetings. Shahbaz, having not heard back from edX CEO Anant Agarwal concerning your request for a letter from edX (or from WUaS developing courses in Open edX via MOOCit France, which WUaS has cancelled for the time being) for any prospective employers of yours in India, that you're officially matriculated at WUaS, I think WUaS will likely have to plan to launch our licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees for around January 1, 2021. 

Shahbaz, you may still take the 2 edX English courses (from HarvardX and AdelaideX), and for free I think, which you and I have talked about beginning September 1, 2020, but WUaS can't guarantee that these would apply to your free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degree and transcript (and they might not). Taking these courses, however, would likely be a very good experience for you in becoming familiar with online Open edX, edX (and especially CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx) courses. These questions are also a bit in flux still, so please stay tuned. Thank you for your interest in matriculating at WUaS on September 1, 2020.  

Sincerely, Scott

From Monday, August 17, 2020
So, with Anant's guidance here, Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course - 

Poetry in America: Modernism

and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) - 

Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.
(or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)

toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.



On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:42 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Shahbaz, and Anant,

Thank you for your email just now: 

"Thanks for the update. I would like to begin the recommended courses starting September 1st. 

Kindly walk me through the process of registering for the 4 year BA Degree program as I might have to show the proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer.

Shahbaz" (in India)


So, with Anant's guidance here, Shahbaz will begin studying on September 1, 2020 at WUaS the 8-week long HarvardX edX course - 

Poetry in America: Modernism

and possibly also this 5-week long AdelaideX edX course, if it's available then (since it says it's starting yesterday and today) - 

Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.
(or another course, - so two courses in total beginning 9/1/20)

toward a free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric 4-year Bachelor's degree at World Univ & Sch, as WUaS also proceeds with plans for CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior accreditation.

Anant: Shahbaz, and one other prospective student (whom Larry and I haven't heard back from yet), have expressed interest in matriculating at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, on September 1, 2020. (As you may have seen, WUaS is canceling our WUaS Open edX platform via MOOCit France for the time being, - and in planning for matriculating our next class on or around January 1, 2021). In what ways, please, could Shahbaz matriculate at WUaS in these courses - toward this 4-year English major - and show evidence of this to his prospective employer in India ("proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer")? And in what ways could WUaS begin to show related proof of Shahbaz Sanjer's enrollment at WUaS for a 4-year Bachelor's degree to CA BPPE licensing and WASC senior regarding accreditation (and related WUaS platform, and enrolled students, questions).

Some of Shahbaz's, Larry's and my recent previous correspondence is here (at bottom) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/ridgways-rail-heat-came-to-this-land-in.html - including regarding distribution requirements, and Reed College's approach to an English major, seminar / the conference method and more. 

Thank you!

Best regards, 
Scott



On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:34 AM Shahbaz Sanjer <sanjerbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,


Thanks for the update. I would like to begin the recommended courses starting September 1st. 

Kindly walk me through the process of registering for the 4 year BA Degree program as I might have to show the proof of my enrollment in the same to my prospective employer.



Thanks

On Mon 17 Aug, 2020, 2:07 AM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
And, with Anant's guidance, if you want to begin today, here's a 5 week course on Shakespeare from AdelaideX, edX -

Shakespeare Matters
Learn about Shakespeare’s plays and their influence through a focus on emotions such as love, hate, and jealousy.

- for your consideration.

Sincerely, Scott




On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 1:00 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
But I just noticed that this "Shakespeare on the Page and in Performance: Young Love" course is archived, so Shahbaz, if you'd like to take 2 courses simultaneously, beginning September 1, 2020, please have a look further here - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature - at what you might be interested in.

Cheers, Scott



On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:58 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Shahbaz and Larry, 

Shakespeare on the Page and in Performance: Young Love
Explore Shakespeare's plays of young love, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to learn what makes them so compelling and magical.


Seems like this might be a wonderful subject, as well as an amazing way to read and think about 2 of Shakespeare's greatest plays - in just 3 weeks. Studying the genius of Shakespeare is another remarkable opportunity. 

This could be a good way to take 2 courses at the same time, with the Poetry in Modernism course, to see what this might be like. (WUaS would start figuring out what kind of units of credit toward a Bachelor's degree you'd received upon completion of this 3 week long course, and the 8 week long course). 

Wellesley, like Harvard, is a great university!

Regards, 
Scott



On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:10 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Shahbaz and Larry, 

Thanks for your reply, Shahbaz. 

Re your mentioning Humanities, and regarding an English major at World University and School as WUaS proceeds with CA licensing and (WASC senior) accreditation planning, I think it would be great if you have the time this autumn for you to take 2-3 courses that would lead to an online free-to-students' Bachelor's degree, with your taking approximately 40 semester-long courses - think 15-week long MIT OCW courses - over 4 years, with the MIT OCW courses potentially divided in half.  

This degree would include your taking courses in your English major, as well as distribution requirements. As an example of distribution requirements, and which WUaS will seek to build upon, see these Reed College distribution requirements - https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/distribution-requirements-effective-fall-2019.pdf . (I graduated from Reed College in the first half of the 1980s). 

Regarding your interest in majoring in English, WUaS will seek too to build from the English major requirements here - https://www.reed.edu/english/requirements.html . And since "The department strongly recommends that all majors take at least one course in each of the principal literary genres: poetry, drama, and fiction," here, I would suggest you explore taking some introductory courses in poetry, drama, and fiction from MIT OCW, and possibly this autumn, as well as perhaps a literary theory course. While WUaS seeks also to offer a required first year Humanities 101 - with many parallels to Reed's required Hum 110 course, but newly online so will be quite different too I hope that WUaS can have this happening for January 2021. This will inform WUaS's approach to teaching and learning even - facilitating online seminar for engaging in the conference method of teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - with implications for all of the courses you'll take over 4 years. And perhaps WUaS Hum 101 courses will emerge newly in edX with Riff Analytics even! 

So while I found this MIT OCW course - 
"Introduction to Literary Theory"

it's not yet in this MIT OCW into MITx format - 

And so, perhaps, with edX CEO Anant Agarwal's guidance, you could take courses from edX with the above in mind (from these courses):
Literature Courses
Learn about literature and more from the best universities and institutions around the world.
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature

How does this sound for you?

And so, further, and as an example, here's an eight week long course from HarvardX at edX - 

Poetry in America: Modernism

With this course in mind - and with Anant's guidance too - would you like to consider taking this course beginning September 1, and then after 4 weeks or so, we could begin to add another edX, or CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx, course - https://www.edx.org/course/subject/literature - of your choosing, so you'd then begin taking 2 courses beginning around October 1, 2020. All of this would allow you to begin gradually, and build up to studying a 'full load' of 3-4 MIT OCW into MITx (or similar) courses per semester (re becoming a full time student) gradually at WUaS. If you'd like me to recommend this approach to you, I'm happy to do so. Beginning with this "Poetry in America: Modernism" course - or another similar one from edX of your choosing, around September 1, 2020, would allow you to get your 'feet wet,' and begin to study toward your online English major Bachelor degree at WUaS. Please let me know your thoughts about this. 

Regards, 
Scott



On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:18 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Shahbaz,

Monthly Business Meeting for World Univ & Sch just closed, and WUaS would like to ask if you have any credit for college courses? 
  
And how many courses do you want to take this semester?
And how many courses do you want to take this autumn 2020 (thinking in terms of full MIT OCW courses, but possibly divided into 2, and conceptually like ones on the edX or Open edX platform, but possibly from other platforms)?
Are there any specific courses you'd like to take?
(And, as WUaS begins to seek these courses out, in something like edX, WUaS would like to inquire if you have any specific courses you'd like to take at this stage, eg from here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/ or other OCW brainstorming-wise - https://ocw.mit.edu/). 

Please tell me immediately. 
(WUaS may recommend some courses after hearing from you ... including possibly Lego Robotics' English courses, as well as - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ). 

Best regards, Scott

On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 7:59 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Shahbaz, 

I am hoping a) writing creatively in English, b) studying English literature and c) teaching English as a second language will be part of the upcoming 4-year free-to-students' online CC-4 OCW-centric English Bachelor's degree at WUaS. I hope too this may include using the Scratch programming language - https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1292460756513034248?s=20 - and Lego robotics even too! How best to begin 'reading' English literature from the computer too while listening to it? Have a look at "Tom Jones" here in particular - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/malabar-parakeet-bishopton-scotland-dog.html - which can be so funny it may bring tears of mirth to your eyes :) 

Friendly regards, Scott 
(You'll find some of our recent correspondence here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/indian-rose-chestnut-world-univ-sch.html - if that's alright). 

World Univ & Sch is waiting until August 14 to hear back from Open edX regarding their invitation to WUaS to work with MOOCit France as a service partner, since WUaS doesn't yet have any (MIT?) graduate student instructors to help adapt the MIT OCW (with MIT professors) into WUaS Open edX. 

Regards, Scott 
(Just re-Tweeted the Lego Tweet here https://twitter.com/scottmacleod :)







On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 6:52 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Got it, thanks, Shahbaz!

Sincerely, Scott

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 2:24 AM Shahbaz Sanjer <sanjerbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Scott,


Here's my LinkedIn profile 

On Fri 7 Aug, 2020, 11:35 PM Scott MacLeod, <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
You are welcome. (What's your Linked In profile if you have one? And what are your Twitter profiles as well?)

You're registered for English, as well. Thank you!

Regards, 
Scott








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California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality

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Dear Angela and Julie, Meghan and Maureen, 

Thanks so much for your excellent "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel today - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/californias-approach-to-recovery-and-resilience-centering-equity-and-job-quality/ ! 

Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitans, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the  MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20 - with the Boston Federal Reserve. 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.

How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward? 

Thank you, Angela and Julie, Meghan and Maureen, 
Scott


I followed and retweeted your Tweets - 


MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - 

The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store - 


PS
For example, here is Kenya World Univ & Sch's beginnings - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya - planned in Swahili and other main languages in east Africa there. 


PPS
And here are WUaS's 15 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - on both wings.

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https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)

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

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

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand


Thank you. 
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