Pheasant-tailed jacana: Recording from #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting 15 May 2021 - Planning #WUaSfreeToStudents' #WUaSPhDdegrees and 4 year #WUaSBachelorDegrees

Planning #WUaSfreeToStudents' #WUaSPhDdegrees and 4 year #WUaSBachelorDegrees: Recording from #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting 15 May 2021 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KN5Y3pyDd3UkqHefXeaGyxMqIAiqH4xh/view Agenda https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/05/agenda-news-51521-at-wuas-open-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/bengal-tigers-in-water (in 200 countries & 7139 languages @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress)

Planning #WUaSfreeToStudents' #WUaSPhDdegrees and 4 year #WUaSBachelorDegrees: Recording from#WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting 15 May 2021https://t.co/W5EezO6T8c Agenda https://t.co/FIGXyMfzUk
-https://t.co/zCbfqyw11B (in 200 countries & 7139 languages @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress)

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 16, 2021

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1393811448028024837?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1393812378634964996?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1393812468808372227?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1393812666506891267?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1393812807712268295?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1393812947751763973?s=20

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Dear Matthew at edX, (Larry and All),

Greetings, and I hope this finds you well.

Thank you for letting me know. And thank you for the opportunity for WUaS to focus further on World University and School growth with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare courses (in 4 languages), and CC-3 Yale University OpenYaleCourses - in WUaS seeking to become a major online university in each of 200 countries. (WUaS seeks to do so initially by hiring potentially Quaker graduate student instructors, via Friends' institutions, to teach 'to' these OCW and OYC, for example). Thank you too for the growth opportunity for WUaS to focus on coding for 7.8 billion people in 200 countries, and in 7,139 known living languages, in G-Suite for Education, for ex., as wiki teachers and learners too (with Wikidata in 300 languages), and as matriculating students - for, people-to-people, free universal wiki education in these languages, in addition to free Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB degrees in 200 countries' main languages. 

Thanks to the recent ISSIP "“Facilitating Excellence in Learning," Honorable Mention Award for WUaS -

Thanks to @The_ISSIP for “Facilitating Excellence in Learning" Honorable Mention award for @WorldUnivAndSch planned in ~200 countries in official languages, & in 7139 known languages, as wiki schools for open teaching & learning~ https://t.co/nINQCrmCjq ~https://t.co/Znz0sMNG1f~

— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) May 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1392506400614477832?s=19 - World University and School, will now be able to explore this in new ways - and even regarding inventing education in new ways with information technologies (& thanks to Google's Peter Norvig and AI, machine learning, for example, among many others). 

And as Jim Spohrer (MIT BS & Yale CS PhD alum) suggested some weeks ago, checking in again regarding edX-WUaS future collaborations, in a year, for example, might open good opportunities.  Please give my thanks on behalf of World University and School to edX CEO and MIT Professor Anant Agarwal as well. I found Anant's 5/12/21 SXSW observations on this panel "Accepting That a Degree Is Not a Panacea | SXSW EDU 2021" - 

https://youtu.be/zegW42VtfEI 

Excited to share that the panel discussion on alternative education pathways I took part in at @SXSWEDU Online is now available on YouTube — watch here + find out why non-traditional edu options deserve a seat at the table: https://t.co/1hcnv0xohm

— anant agarwal (@agarwaledu) May 14, 2021

https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1393257760154923009?s=19 timely and topical with regards to where edX is now heading after these months of our edX-WUaS communication, and WUaS continues to think that free-to-students' PhDs and 4 year Bachelor degrees (CC-4 MIT OCW-centric, and CC-3 Yale OYC-centric, with reimbursement from Departments of Education in 200 countries) will continue to be a remarkable life affirming opportunity (regarding careers) for WUaS's matriculating students. While WUaS continues to be very degree focused, we also think that wiki people-to-people education - where people can become the teachers of what they love, or know how, to easily teach - will potentially facilitate some of the aspects all of these SXSW panelists talked about. Thank you, Matthew and edX. Have a great summer.

Sincerely, Scott

5/15//21 WUaS Agenda and News 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/bengal-tigers-in-water.html 

Here too is a recording from 5/15/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting this morning, with some further thinking about WUaS without edX, and our next WUaS steps, regarding edX-WUaS not collaborating this September 1, 2021 for free-to-students' PhD and 4 year Bachelor degree programs:  

WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - 15 May 2021 (2021-05-15 at 09:01 GMT-7)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KN5Y3pyDd3UkqHefXeaGyxMqIAiqH4xh/view -  

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