Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Forester Pass: 'EdX-WUaS impasse?' ~ As WUaS waits to hear back from Anant Agarwal (and Rafael Reif, Sanjay Sarma, and John Hennessey), am hopeful that they can not only plan for WUaS PhD and 4 year Bachelor degrees, but also re-focus a little on creating enjoyable edX courses - with grades * * edX-WUaS partnering will likely involve other major (earthquakey) and exciting changes for edX and education, - so I'm glad that edX's other founders, MIT and Harvard, are also involved * This could possibly help focus how edX targets its academic courses for PhD and Bachelor degrees - esp. if they could draw WUaS matriculating students' from Harvard (where more than 50,000 students applied this year, and some 1800 were accepted) and MIT applicants


EdX~WUaS impasse?

to Edward, Janie, Larry
Dear Larry (and Ed),


An updated version & with WUaS course link: 

As WUaS waits to hear back from Anant Agarwal (and Rafael Reif, Sanjay Sarma, and John Hennessey), am hopeful that they can not only plan for WUaS PhD and 4 year Bachelor degrees, but also re-focus a little on creating enjoyable edX courses - with grades. This would be for edX dashboard integration into WUaS G-Suite for Education. This will help much with WUaS retention in a 4 year free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree program for ex. While Charlie Nesson's JuryX, edX, HarvardX course, which I took in 2016, is one model for this for me, much has changed since then. And perhaps Stanford via John Hennessey - as well as even virtual Worlds can help - which could be yet another big change for edX, in addition to planning for PhD and 4 year Bach degrees. 

edX-WUaS partnering will likely involve other major (earthquakey) and exciting changes for edX and education, - so I'm glad that edX's other founders, MIT and Harvard, are also involved. This could possibly help focus how edX targets its academic courses for PhD and Bachelor degrees - esp. if they could draw WUaS matriculating students' from Harvard (where more than 50,000 students applied this year, and some 1800 were accepted) and MIT applicants via Bill Fitzsimmons, Dean of Harvard Admissions, for example.

Am interested in teaching 'Society, Information Technology and the Global University' - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - this year at WUaS and maybe via the edX platform too.

Sincerely, Scott

PS
you might enjoy this while we wait to hear back - 
AAA

:) 




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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Sun, Apr 18, 2:15 PM (3 days ago)
to Sanjay, John, reif, Anant, Larry
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)


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


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Sun, Apr 18, 2:15 PM (3 days ago)


to Sanjay, John, reif, Anant, Larry


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





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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Stanford Virtual EPIC Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021


Dear Larry, Ed, Janie, 

Here's the form itself for the Stanford Virtual EPIC Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021. 'EPIC' stands for 'Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC)' - and it's based at Stanford (https://sgs.stanford.edu/outreach/community-college/fellowships). 


I'd think they'd have the resources for online grading, and for scaling to 7.8 billion people, brainstorming-wise, and in WUaS  G-Suite for Education, and even for planning for some approaches to initial licensing and accreditation in California - and that CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare courses with graduate student instructors that WUaS hires, could be a way to connect further, and develop, with high achieving online WUaS students, and for an amazing array of STEM subjects and PhD and Bachelor degree programs.  

Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? - as WUaS waits to hear back from Anant Agarwal (and Rafael Reif, Sanjay Sarma, and John Hennessey) ... 

Sincerely, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html - 

Virtual Stanford EPIC 2021 Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021




-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Virtual EPIC Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021

Saturday, May 22, 2021, 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) Virtual event on Zoom Registration is free but required for attendance. Please complete and submit this registration form by April 23, 2021, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time)

Last name *

MacLeod

First name *

Scott GK

Position *

President, Founder, Professor, CEO

Department *

Anthropology / Sociology

Institution *

World University and School

Courses taught *

Society, Information Technology & the Global University, Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnography

Approximate number of students you teach per academic year *

1-25

Have you attended an EPIC or SPICE Workshop? *

Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan, December 10, 2020
Chinese Immigration and Angel Island, August 1, 2020
First Japanese Embassy to the United States, July 27, 2020
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, July 20, 2020
U.S.- Ukraine Relations, Jan. 17, 2020
Contemporary Iran, Dec. 13, 2019
Asian Homelands and Diasporas, December 3, 2019
U.S. - Russia Relations with Amb. McFaul, Jan. 18, 2019
Nuclear Risk, Mar. 16, 2018
North Korea, Oct. 27, 2017
✓
I have never attended

Have you attended a previous EPIC Symposium? *

May 18, 2019
May 19, 2018
May 13, 2017
✓
I have never attended

Please describe the reason(s) for which you are attending this symposium: *

In CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (WUaS) partnering with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard), and seeking to matriculate both 4-year online Bachelor degree students, and 5-7 year online PhD degree students (both of which would be free-to-students due to CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW), first in English then in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages, WUaS is seeking to network further with community colleges potentially for online courses, (and IT infrastructure too) that WUaS could even offer for credit toward free-to-students' 4-year MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees beginning 9/1/21. In addition, WUaS's 2 legal entities in California (1- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/, and 2- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) could eventually seek to build out further by hiring California community college graduates for example. WUaS is also seeking to explore collaboration potentials in building out a single realistic virtual earth for everything, including, for example, for tele-robotic surgery and Actual-Virtual Lego robotics - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1365419095982702595?s=20 - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click - (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate, - and with realistic avatar bots, think Samsung Neons aka artificial humans, and for Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records for all 7.8 billion people (while planning for coding for 7.8 billion people for other reasons too) on the planet - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click).

Comments (optional)

Thank you for this opportunity to attend this 2021 Stanford EPIC Symposium.


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Dear Larry, Ed, Janie, 


As a follow up on this matter, I just got an invitation, and signed up for this Stanford EPIC 2021 Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021 - and regarding WUaS (see below). I'm wondering if WUaS could network for a great number of initial courses to offer for credit here, and to build upon the edX-WUaS partnering, as well as regarding WUaS's CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity: 



Please describe the reason(s) for which you are attending this symposium: *

In CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (WUaS) partnering with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard), and seeking to matriculate both 4-year online Bachelor degree students, and 5-7 year online PhD degree students (both of which would be free-to-students due to CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW), first in English then in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages, WUaS is seeking to network further with community colleges potentially for online courses, (and IT infrastructure too) that WUaS could even offer for credit toward free-to-students' 4-year MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees beginning 9/1/21. In addition, WUaS's 2 legal entities in California (1- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/, and 2- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) could eventually seek to build out further by hiring California community college graduates for example.  WUaS is also seeking to explore collaboration potentials in building out a single realistic virtual earth for everything, including, for example, for tele-robotic surgery and Actual-Virtual Lego robotics - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1365419095982702595?s=20 - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click - (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate, - and with realistic avatar bots, think Samsung Neons aka artificial humans, and for Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records for all 7.8 billion people (while planning for coding for 7.8 billion people for other reasons too) on the planet - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click). 


Sincerely, Scott







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