Monday, April 26, 2021

Bursera simaruba, (commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, chaca, naked Indian and turpentine tree): VIDEO from M 4/26/21 open WUaS News and Q&A * * EdX-WUaS impasse? Dear Matthew (WUaS's edX representative or contact), Larry, (Universitians, Ed, Jane, Jim, Henry, Sid, Tym, David, Rob, David), Having followed up in the past few weeks with some WUaS email inquiries to Anant Agarwal, as edX CEO, founder and MIT Professor of EECS, and Sanjay Sarma, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and President Reif, as president of MIT, and Google Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet too, and Larry Viehland (whom you may know by now), as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS * * * Didn't play my Scottish Small Pipes last night for the first time in many months of Daily play right before bed, but did do a full range of introductory Yoga standing poses this morning and more, after my daily morning sit or (inner releasing action) meditation, in my newly cleaned Yoga space. Interesting 'ecology' * Are Yoga standing poses or asanas like playing the bagpipes ;)? With all this tubes akimbo and energy or breath streaming outwardly from the opening in the bore or hole or space in the middle? :) (sounds a bit taoism-informed)

 

VIDEO from M 4/26/21 open WUaS News and Q&A

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZP6JW_r_HMVzidxom7bOTkGb9bJQLLW/view


VIDEO from M 4/26/21 open WUaS News and Q&A 10am PT re free CC-4 OCW BA/BS and PhD degrees taking edX courses beginning 9/1/21: #WUaSFreeToStudents'  online #WUaSPhDdegrees & 4-year #WUaSBachelorDegrees >https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZP6JW_r_HMVzidxom7bOTkGb9bJQLLW/view EdX~WUaS LETTER

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edx-wuas-impasse.html @WUaSPress ~

VIDEO from M 4/26/21 open WUaS News and Q&A

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1386755101222572034?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1386755305216765958?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386755684386017280?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1386755817186107392?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1386756082765230080?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386756329822322690?s=20


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EdX-WUaS impasse?


Dear Matthew (WUaS's edX representative or contact), Larry, (Universitians, Ed, Jane, Jim, Henry, Sid, Tym, David, Rob, David), 

Having followed up in the past few weeks with some WUaS email inquiries to Anant Agarwal, as edX CEO, founder and MIT Professor of EECS, and Sanjay Sarma, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and President Reif, as president of MIT, and Google Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet too, and Larry Viehland (whom you may know by now), as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS, here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html (which contains your email of April 6, 2021, Matthew) - and below. I haven't heard back directly from Anant (or any of these other leaders so far) yet, Matthew, but am wondering if you and Anant might have communicated about these questions of an "edX-WUaS Impasse?"

Please see my email below to Universitians from this morning, in the 4/26/21 WUaS News and Q&A as well. You'll find also the video from today's WUaS News and Q&A here too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/bursera-simaruba-commonly-known-as.html - and - https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZP6JW_r_HMVzidxom7bOTkGb9bJQLLW/view.

While WUaS can potentially PREPAY for our approximately ~5 prospective students for this autumn (anticipating dramatically higher numbers when we can get a WUaS registration URL from edX) - and newly for PhD programs, WUaS still doesn't have, and can't obtain the $50,000 you've mentioned to integrate the edX dashboard in the WUaS G-Suite for Education (anticipating WUAS coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet). (WUaS is registered for a Stanford EPIC workshop on May 22, 2021 regarding Stanford Community Colleges too, and globally - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0 - which could become a remarkable set of academic resources for edX and Stanford to build together with, and in WUaS G-Suite for Education). Thank you.

How best to proceed, Matthew, now after WUaS reaches out to Anant, Sanjay, Sarma, John, and Larry?

Sincerely, Scott
PS
Please see MIT alumnus Jim Spohrer's email response to my related questions here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edx-wuas-impasse.html. Thank you!



Monday, April 26, 2021, 9:30 am

Dear Prasanth, Imad, Aviv, Chinmay, Tanya, Universitians, All, 

As prospective PhD and 4-year Bachelor's degree students, WUaS is continuing to seek for you to be able to matriculate on 9/1/21 as WUaS partners with edX, which is unfolding. Please see WUaS's letter to  Anant Agarwal, as edX CEO and MIT Professor of EECS, and Sanjay Sarma, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and President Reif, as president of MIT, and Google Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet too, and you, Larry, as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS, here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html - and below. 


In 25 minutes, WUaS open News & Q&A for conversation in Google Meet - meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc

open WUaS News and Q&A on M 4/26/21 10am PT meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc EdX~WUaS LETTER
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edx-wuas-impasse.html Apply to matriculate for free CC-4 OCW BA/BS and PhD degrees taking edX courses   #WUaSFreeToStudents' online 4-year #WUaSBachelordegrees & #WUaSPhDdegrees beginning 9/1/21

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1386559651433435140?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1386559856081965057?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386560091898277890?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386560251705499649?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1386560464738414594?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1386560622460997639?s=20


meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc
Meeting ID
meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc
Phone Numbers
(‪US‬)
‪+1 650-667-3964‬
PIN: ‪863 098 098#‬


Sunday, April 18, 2021

Dear Anant, Sanjay, President Reif (Chairmen John Hennessey and Larry Viehland), 

How are you? I hope this email finds you all well. I'm reaching out to you, Anant, as edX CEO and MIT Professor of EECS, and you Sanjay, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and you President Reif, as president of MIT, and you Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet, and you, Larry, as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS.

Anant, I emailed you on Thursday, April 8th, with some questions about an 'edX-WUaS impasse?' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edxwuas-impasse.html - and regarding reaching out to our WUaS prospective PhD and Bachelor degree program students, taking edX courses for these degrees beginning 9/1/21. 

Here's the 4/8/21 'edX-WUaS impasse?' partnering letter again: 


"Dear Anant (and Larry, Chairman of the WUaS Board and CFO, MIT '69 ALUMNUS),

Greetings and I hope this email finds you well. (Am glad WUaS just today completed filling out the 2020 tax form for the WUaS Corp in CA with regard to the following, and thanks to Larry Viehland for this).

With this as a main goal in edX-WUaS partnering -  

'Apply to matriculate for free CC-4 OCW BA/BS and PhD degrees taking edX courses @WorldUnivAndSch ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org (with http://ocw.mit.edu) & Planning major universities in ~200 countries' official (& #WUaSwikiSchools in ALL 7,139) LANGUAGES https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~ '

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1380207173679022081?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1380206065225138177?s=20


I'm glad WUaS's edX representative Matthew wrote on Tu 4/6/21 -

"Hello Scott,

Thank you for your note. To be more clear, I was referring to our earlier conversations in September 2020 and the changes to our payment structures since that time. We are standing by to support WUaS, however, we are not able to move forward with any academic partnerships and legal agreements without funding to support WUaS students.

Best regards,

Matthew "


However, in our emailing recently, the communications from edX regarding the edX-WUaS partnering seem to be changing and contradictory with each email. WUaS continues to miss opportunities (and over months too) for launching and letting our prospective students plan to matriculate (now on 9/1/21, having missed our May 1, 2021 goal for offering preliminary courses via edX to our matriculating PhD and Bachelor degrees students). So I'm reaching out to you as edX CEO to seek to prepay for our WUaS students and thus our edX-WUaS legal partnering documents please too.

If WUaS were to prepay edX for our prospective ~5 WUaS students (for both PhD and Bachelor degree programs, taking a first WUaS year of edX courses, toward WUaS degrees) with our edX-WUaS agreed-upon $349 per student per year for unlimited edX courses, could we please receive these documents soon (and since WUaS doesn't have $50,000 to pay for an edX dashboard integration into WUaS G-Suite for Education)? As you may know CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is planning online major universities, offering Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, in each of all ~200 countries in their official and main languages, and also wiki schools for open teaching and learning for speakers of all 7,139 known living languages, - and, brainstorming-wise, to code for all 7.8 Billion people on the planet as wiki teachers and learners (and for a number of other reasons too) - so the growth potential for edX is enormous.

Reimbursement to WUaS in WUaS G-Suite for Education, from ~200 countries' COUNTIES (with parallels to the Olympics) for Creative Commons-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees is the business plan, - for students initially taking edX courses toward WUaS degrees, from which WUaS would subsequently pay edX $349 per student per year for unlimited edX courses for WUaS PhD degrees and 4-year Bachelor degrees. This is the understanding edX's Matthew and I have been operating with for many months, and which WUaS is inquiring about in this email. Could we please write these understandings into our WUaS-edX legal partnering documents regarding these - "three main categories: 1. Billing information, 2. Integration and Access Configuration 3. Learner data privacy" - this week?

Since WUaS may only have at this point about 5-10 prospective PhD and Bachelor degree students, from the USA, India, Morocco and Indonesia, for these WUaS programs, - but which number WUaS thinks will grow dramatically, when WUaS can receive an edX registration URL (something like: https://authn.edx.org/register with Legal disclaimers on our WUaS edX registration page, and further develop a professional WUaS website in Google Sites anticipating many languages) - in signing these legal documents, how might WUaS best get these edX-WUaS partnering documents in the next few business days?

Thank you for your timely action in this situation, Anant, and regarding further edX-WUaS partnering developments and legal documents. WUaS is seeking to let our prospective WUaS PhD and Bachelor students know soon with a link (like - https://authn.edx.org/register in WUaS G-Suite for Education) that they can apply to register to matriculate September 1, 2021 for free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric degrees taking edX courses. Thank you.

Sincerely, Scott

3/20/21 WUaS Minutes for open Monthly Business Meeting

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/synchiropus-splendidus-32021-wuas_1.html - ... "


How might we best proceed regarding the above and the edX-WUaS partnering documents? 

Thank you, Anant, Sanjay, Rafael, John, and Larry, - and looking forward to communicating further with you about this. 

Sincerely, Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor


Video recording from yesterday's 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, (with WUaS MBM Minutes to come)

- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tX_i8kYifNXcigF3ep1ggU1inbNOuHPg/view -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/proxima-centauri-b-open-wuas-monthly.html


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


Universitians, Prasanth, Imad, Aviv, Chinmay, Tanya, All, see you in 25 minutes, with an invitation to join the WUaS News and Q&A  in Google Meet - meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc.


All the best, Scott




- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com



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Dear Matthew, Cameron, Larry and Universitians, All, 


Thanks for your auto-response just now, Matthew, that you'll be out of the office until May 10, 2021, in reply to my email just now.

"Hello,

I will be out of office until Monday, May 10th with limited access to my email.

For any immediate assistance during this time, please contact Cam Kaubris at ckaubris@edx.org. For existing customer inquiries or support, please reach out to our Customer Success team at customersuccess@edx.org.

Thank you again and I look forward to connecting when I return.

Sincerely,
Matthew"

WUaS's open monthly business meeting (MBM) this month is on May 15, 2021 (3rd Saturdays) ... and WUaS would be grateful if we could send out a registration / application link (something like - https://authn.edx.org/register - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0) for our prospective PhD and 4 year Bachelor degree students for matriculation on 9/1/21, with the WUaS Agenda and News for May 15, 2021 MBM. Looking forward to communicating with you (or Cameron) possibly before 5/10/21. I'll send out the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting minutes for 4/17/21 (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/proxima-centauri.html?m=0), soon having heard back from you today. Thank you. 

Sincerely, Scott 




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Hi Ma, Sandy,


Didn't play my Scottish Small Pipes last night for the first time in many months of Daily play right before bed, but did do a full range of introductory Yoga standing poses this morning and more, after my daily morning sit or (inner releasing action) meditation, in my newly cleaned Yoga space. Interesting 'ecology' in my life about which I'm thinking or musing ... Are Yoga standing poses or asanas like playing the bagpipes ;)?

Love, Scott 

Gonna hop in my car around 6/20 for a big road trip to MA ... :) ... Perhaps a bit like your travels to Baja a few years ago, Sandy, from Maine? :)?

Seeking to arrive on Cuttyhunk around 6/28/21 to overlap with David Thurston and visit.


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Are Yoga standing poses or asanas like playing the bagpipes ;)?

With all this tubes akimbo and energy or breath streaming outwardly   from the opening in the bore or hole or space in the middle? :) (sounds a bit taoism-informed)


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You're both artists.

The idea is more than metaphor, indeed is envisioning with language.

So ... is each asana like a musical piece, and practicing Yoga poses like developing with ever greater nuance and expressivity a musical piece with many movements (multiple meanings of this word intended:) ... ah, practicing :)

Love, Scott

Back to the Scottish small pipes tonight where Piobaireachd (Ceol Mor) does have a theme and variations or movements ... 





... compared with bagpiping light music (or Ceol Beag) with parts, but not really with 'movements' or 'variations' :)






-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Is #Asana after daily #wuAsYogaSittingMeditation like #WUaSScottishSmallPiping? You're artists: Are #YogaStandingPoses or #Asanas like playing #bagpipes ;)? with all tubes akimbo & energy or breath streaming outwardly via the opening in limbs, bore, hole or space in the middle?:)

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386749400282669059?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1386751429847621633?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386752543296876548?s=20


SGK MacLeod chair kilt low G akimbo Photo  on 12-9-20 at 3.04 PM #3 1400 x 2100




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The idea is more than metaphor, indeed envisioning with language 


NEW 'Honey in the Bag' #ScottishSmallPipes' album

https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ~ http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

The idea is more than metaphor, & indeed is envisioning with language: Is #wuAsAsana after daily #wuAsYogaSittingMeditation like #WUaSScottishSmallPiping?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386749400282669059?s=20 ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1386751191162392577?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386752374635524096?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386751634496053248?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386752064894619649?s=20


SGK MacLeod chair kilt low G akimbo Photo  on 12-9-20 at 3.04 PM #3 1400 x 2100



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with San Jose RSCDS pic - 


NEW 'Honey in the Bag' #ScottishSmallPipes' album

https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ~ http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

The idea is more than metaphor, & indeed is envisioning with language: Is #wuAsAsana after daily #wuAsYogaSittingMeditation like #WUaSScottishSmallPiping?

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1386753409278119945?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1386753645304115200?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1386753932626522113?s=20







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