Monday, September 14, 2020

Lecocarpus pinnatifidus: 'Your edX Online Campus Inquiry,' Some initial questions about edX Online Campus, - and World Univ & Sch potentially partnering with edX * Seek reimbursement from countries' departments of education (eventually along the lines of the tuition - $55,000 / per year per student), for a MIT-centric undergraduate degree * * * WUaS is cancelling today's #WUaSLivestream


Your edX Online Campus Inquiry


Dear Marissa, (at edX),

On behalf of World University and School, some of my initial questions roughly are as follows. They have to do with exploring partnering with edX (where WUaS doesn't have any money to speak of whatsoever). 

Would it be possible for WUaS to partner with edX Online Campus? Regarding reimbursement questions for edX, WUaS seeks to migrate or adapt CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx, conceptually, and seek reimbursement from countries' departments of education (eventually along the lines of the tuition - $55,000 / per year per student, for a MIT-centric undergraduate degree).

Would it be possible for WUaS to license and accredit edX classes?
re
licensing with CA's BPPE - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE 
accreditation -withWASC senior in CA - https://twitter.com/wascsenior (which accredits Stanford, UC Berkeley, the other 9 University of Californias) 
- but both newly online.

Could World Univ & Sch's current matriculated class take verified courses this autumn, instead of auditing edX classes which they're doing currently ? Could a previous matriculated student take a verified Finance Theory 1 course (which she could complete, toward her free-to-students' best STEAM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor's degree, and which she began as a transfer student about 2 years ago)?

(see, for example, this from an email to this student from a few years ago, as an example:
WUaS business courses seek to emerge from eg Finance Theory 1
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/ but be different for students in other languages, like Farsi for Iranian matriculated online undergraduates, for ex. (see archived Persian OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Business_Management ~

Could WUaS plan for matriculating WUaS students in January 2021 to take verified edX courses, as WUaS also begins to create online courses perhaps via Open edX, and by migrating adapting MIT OCW into something like MITx? 

Is edX doing course credit unit planning at edX in any way (where a typical American college course is 14-15 weeks' long, and one course is offered for 3 credits, for three 50 minute long lectures per week, and twice the amount of out-of-class study time)?

In what ways would it be possible for WUaS to plan for a 4 year online Bachelor's degree program (and then later for online Ph.D. programs ... emerging from MIT OCW in its four languages) in edX? Both of these degrees are something that CA's BPPE would license initially, and then WASC senior would accredit concurrently initially.  

Regarding Open edX and my previous email, I realize Open edX is a completely separate entity from edX, but in terms of WUaS creation of content, based on migrating / adapting CC-4 MIT OCW, how would this work, please? 

How would transcripts work at WUaS, if we partnered, (and in WUaS planning for matriculating students studying for CC-4 OCW-centric degrees in all ~200 countries and their official languages - for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and I.B. high school degrees eventually)? (Eventually in these regards, WUaS is seeking to code for our matriculated students here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as well as for wiki Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and then, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, as wiki teachers and learners). How would the coding for our WUaS students taking hypothetical verified edX courses (which eventually WUaS created many of, in many languages) work with edX?

Other questions in our conversation! See you soon here - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86378381897 ! Thank you for this opportunity to ask questions!

Best regards, Scott 



Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

 The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress



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.

WUaS academic and creative open wiki subjects, planned in all 7117 languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
...
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/sgkmacleodhttps://twitter.com/HarbinBook
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

12:19 PM (9 hours ago)
to Marissa, Larry
Dear Marissa and Larry,

Thank you for our meeting! I look forward to talking with Matthew next week at the same time to pursue edX Online Campus partnerships with World Univ & Sch. I hope, too, our student in India can begin to take verified edX courses as soon as possible. Thank you!

Best wishes, Scott



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Sep 10, 9:58 AM (4 days ago)
to Marissa
Dear Marissa,

Thank you for your email. I'm including below an email from this morning to a matriculated student (in India) in World Univ & Sch's second undergraduate matriculating class, toward free-to-students' licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees, for your perusal. This student is currently studying edX courses toward his WUaS Bachelor's degree as an auditor. It would be great to talk further about this regarding the edX online campus and MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch. Thanks to edX's Leslie Good for suggesting signing up for edX online campus to address "questions about using edX content with school curriculums" (below).  

Regarding WUaS Open edX, WUaS cancelled our startup kit with Open edX service partner MOOCit France fairly recently partly because WUaS doesn't have the expertise to migrate or adapt, for example, 6 initial CC-4 MIT OCW courses into WUaS Open edX in our initial majors of EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English, History and Business - worlduniversityandschool.org (toward free-to-students' Bachelor degrees). One approach that WUaS would take in these regards (if WUaS were to have any money) would be for WUaS to hire MIT graduate students (who had even taken the MIT course) to divide a MIT OCW course into two 7-8 week long courses on the WUaS Open edX platform, which we could then offer to our WUaS students for credit as WUaS licenses with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior. But until now, WUaS hasn't been able to ask edX about this. Thank you for this opportunity. I just signed up for 11:30 am PT (in the SF Bay Area) I think, which is 2:30 pm ET in Cambridge, MA, on Monday, 14 September 2020. Looking forward to talking with you, Marissa!

Best regards, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
President, CEO, Founder, Professor


Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress


I am writing also to let you know that questions about using edX content with school curriculums should be addressed to edX's online campus team who will be happy to discuss options. 

Best Regards,
Leslie


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Th, September 10, 2020

Hi Shahbaz, Larry (chair of the WUaS Board), Rohit (recently graduated lawyer in India), All,

Thanks for your thoughts. 

I'll wait to see how edX gets back to World Univ & Sch (today I think). If we can partner with them, it's a very remarkable opportunity for World Univ & Sch, which would allow you to take edX courses (including from Harvard and MIT), in full, for example. And therefore, you could also take MITx from MIT OCW courses, too, - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ (but not yet developed with a kind of Stanford ethos or culture, only a MIT ethos) - if there were any MIT OCW>MITx courses in English literature (but which may come in the future). At this point, I haven't seen what the downsides of collaboration with the edx online campus are. 

Having been invited from the edX - https://campus.edx.org/ - online campus page to this panel discussion yesterday - https://studyportalsacademy.com/supporting-international-new-students-in-a-covid-impacted-intake/ - with edX CEO Anant Agarwal in conversation with Physics' Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt in Australia and Edwin van Rest from the Netherlands), I want to make sure however that WUaS can continue to develop our own Academic Press at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School - planned with machine translation first in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then for all 7,117 known living languages, as well as our WUaS Educational Services' Store (having seen some of the edX sponsors on Anant's first slide) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.   

Shahbaz, as you may know, World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop what you suggest from CC-4 MIT OCW in its 4 languages 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (with Wikidata in 300 languages as back end structured knowledge database) 

and - G Suite for Education 

all accessible from 

So these are our own WUaS platform's beginnings, with study materials and syllabi at MIT OCW and on the WUaS wiki subject pages (see, the syllabi section, for example, in the English Literature wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature - as well as its own CC-4 MIT OCW courses). G Suite for Education may further complement edX regarding evaluations. And then World University and School will also grow on our own in all ~200 countries' official languages, and in all 7,117 as wiki schools for open teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. 

edX will add much credibility to the free-to-students' Bachelor, and Ph.D. degrees, first in English (re BPPE licensing), at WUaS, and potentially the Law and MD degrees, as well as IB high school diplomas at WUaS - and in all ~200 nation states' official and main languages online. I also think WUaS will be able to license edX courses with the state of California's BPPE - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE - and become accredited by WASC senior - https://twitter.com/wascsenior - also based in the state of California. 

What are your thoughts about this? (And what did you think of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" https://youtu.be/ftqoy2JPU2I in film online, and regarding your 'Shakespeare Matters" edX course? ... Watching a film while reading a text is a very different way of 'reading' a text in a new way, thanks to the internet)

Scott
Some of our recent communications in these regards:



Scott:

Are you really certain that this collaboration with edx online campus work for WUaS?

I think we should develop our own platform on the WUaS website for learners and provide them with study materials such as ebooks, videos, etc. And when they are done with the syllabus, lead them to an assessment system on the website where they can write their exams. 

I suppose it will add more credibility to the free to degree University. What are your thoughts?


Shahbaz
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