Narendra Modi! ~https://t.co/K6PYdOTHKs How best to grow #FreeToStudents' #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch for #FreeWUaSdegrees from home in India in all 22 scheduled langs & wiki schools for #PeopleToPeople #WikiTeaching & in all 424 #LangsInIndia ~https://t.co/umujieDlUV?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 2, 2025
Yoga holds profound benefits for both body and mind, fostering strength, flexibility, and tranquility. Let us make Yoga a part of our lives and further wellness as well as peace. Sharing a set of videos depicting the various Asanas. https://t.co/Ptzxb89hrV
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 16, 2023
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Narendra Modi teaching Yoga as an avatar
Again -
Yoga holds profound benefits for both body and mind, fostering strength, flexibility, and tranquility. Let us make Yoga a part of our lives and further wellness as well as peace. Sharing a set of videos depicting the various Asanas. https://t.co/Ptzxb89hrV
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 16, 2023
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Great to see a world leader of India, a country of 1.4 billion people, teaching Yoga, as virtual avatar no less, and practicing Yogic diplomacy (I'll call this:)
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Society, Information Technology and the Global University
Chs. 9 & 10
Agenda item C
What is the global university @WorldUnivAndSch?
Upcoming #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniv @WUaSPress @ewarren What is the #GlobalUniversity @WorldUnivAndSch? The #ModernGlobalUniversity is not a passive observer of technological change but active participant & leader in info society: Drives innovation - https://scott-macleod.
Upcoming #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniv book @WUaSPress @ewarren What is the #GlobalUniversity @WorldUnivAndSch? #ModernGlobalUniversity is not a passive observer of technological change but active participant & leader in info society: Drives innovation - https://t.co/lth7bWhKLx ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 29, 2025
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Upcoming #SocInfoTechAndTheGlobalUniv @WUaSPress
What is the global university @WorldUnivAndSch ?
The modern global university is not a passive observer of technological change but an active participant and leader in the information society.
Driving innovation
Guiding social discourse
Developing global citizens
Promoting social equity
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Society, Information Technology and the Global University
Part II
Chapter 9
https://scott-macleod.
Agenda item 6
How did MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as a global university develop?
How did MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as a global university develop and by 'harvesting' these blogs - https://scott-macleod.
World University and School (WUaS) developed as a free, wiki-based, and MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)-centric online university through the vision of founder Scott MacLeod. The blogs you cite served as a public, long-running diary for its development, articulating and detailing the concepts that would be "harvested" and formalized into the wiki structure.
Here is a breakdown of its development:
1. The founding vision
A "Wikipedia for university education": The project was founded by anthropologist Scott MacLeod with the core concept of building a university based on the Wikipedia model. It aims to offer free online degrees in all major world languages, with an emphasis on using Creative Commons-licensed open educational resources (OER).
MIT OCW as a central resource: MIT's OpenCourseWare, a free online publication of thousands of MIT courses, serves as a central pillar of the WUaS curriculum. Other open resources, such as Yale's Open Yale Courses (OYC), were also integrated.
2. Development via blogs
The blogs were used as a public forum to document the project's evolution, with posts tagged with "global university" detailing the ongoing development.
Brainstorming and ideation: The blog posts documented the evolving ideas and philosophies behind WUaS. The "harvesting" of these blogs involved taking the concepts discussed in these posts and incorporating them into the wiki's structure and policies.
Documentation and project tracking: The blogs served as a chronological record of the project's growth, including its legal formation as a nonprofit in California in 2010 and gaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
Building a community: The blogs helped engage a community around the project by publicly discussing its direction and progress. This fostered early collaboration and interest in the "learning as conversation" model.
3. "Harvesting" content for the wiki
The concept of "harvesting" describes the process of formalizing the ideas from the blogs into the more structured, permanent wiki format.
Transition from blog to wiki: While the blogs were a stream-of-consciousness record, the wiki required a more organized and deliberate structure. Key ideas discussed on the blogs, such as the initial use of MIT and Yale course materials, were formalized into wiki pages defining the curriculum.
Organizing course materials: The wiki now organizes and directs users to openly licensed course materials from major universities, effectively "harvesting" and curating these resources for a global audience.
Developing a multilingual platform: The blog documented MacLeod's ambition for WUaS to be available in every living language. The wiki has been built with this goal, creating pages that can be developed in different languages, though development is still ongoing
Elaborate on how the 'global university' blog tag informed WUaS's structure
What are the main challenges WUaS faces in offering free online degrees?
What's the significance of 'learning as conversation' in the WUaS model?
https://scott-macleod.
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Peter, Pin, Ma, Ed,Greetings. I made some progress in broad strokes with Pt II, Chapter 9 of "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" coming into conversation with Gemini AI - https://docs.google.com/document/d/ 1ixaswGD0Iat2zh52e2_ 9xr0yieXO6r49xRoPVJL1A4c/edit? usp=sharing ... but is this in my own voice?What about my seeking to focus on WUaS 12 main subject areas, beginning with those that ill develop for university research in a realistic virtual earth for museums, all ever, in all languages, and a realistic v virtual earth for libraries, all, ever, in all languages?TheThe 12 main WUaS subject areas include, Research, Languages, Countries, You at WUaS, Subjects, Courses & Schools, Music School at WUaS, Library Resources, Museums, Hardware Resource Possibilities, Educational Software, and the WUaS Foundation, and are planned in each of ~200 countries and in their main languages and with artificial intelligence and machine learning.And how to get this book "right" ... regarding a compelling characterization of boh the global university and World Univ & Scn emerging from the first 8 chapters, with their focus on society and information technology ... and these questions for Pt 2 -
This book asks:
What is information technology, broadly conceived?
How did it develop?
Who created it?
What is its history?
What has been its geography?
What has been the process of diffusion into the economy and society?
How and why did the Network Society take shape?
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World University and School, and The Global University
What is the global university, broadly conceived?
How did it develop?
Who created it?
What is its history?
What has been its geography?
What has been the process of diffusion into the economy and society?
How and why did The Global University take shape?And what about AI and ML ... and its iterating role in education and the global university as World University and School in 200 countries and in their main languages, and in all 7159 known living languages?Thoughts, questions, suggestions?Best regards,ScottSome related ITEMs I'd like to incorporate ... but which are pretty inchoate from one another in a sense -PSHow now to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings & in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #ForUniversityResearch to which we can #WikiAdd ? ...INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #PeterNorvig How now to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings & in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #ForUniversityResearch to which we can #WikiAdd eg from one 2011 #HarbinGate photo -https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38. 7860806,-122.6518315,3a,88y, 90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6! 1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss- U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12! 6shttps:%2F%2Flh5. googleusercontent.com%2Fp% 2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss- U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153- k-no!7i576!8i436!4m7!3m6! 1s0x8084724dbe981ba5: 0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38. 7860806!4d-122.6518315!10e5! 16zL20vMDZ5czh3?entry=ttu&g_ ep= EgoyMDI1MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw %3D%3D
-#WUaSAgendaItem8 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/08/coast- huckleberry-vaccinium-ovatum. html ? INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #PeterNorvig How now to develop a #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings & in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #ForUniversityResearch to which we can #WikiAdd eg from one 2011 #HarbinGate photo -https://t.co/8VgqsM9Xzg
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) August 26, 2025
-#WUaSAgendaItem8 - https://t.co/SVzeICjr3o ?
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https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1960359944269778993 PPSTo Hardware Resources too +New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably versatile. They can summarize documents, generate code or even brainstorm new ideas
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a- gemini-powered-coding-agent- for-designing-advanced- algorithms/ To hardware too re glasses -
Project Atra
We’re working to bring Project Astra’s capabilities to Gemini Live, new experiences in Search, as well as new form factors like glasses.
https://deepmind.google/models/project-astra/ PPPS
'AI could be unlocking for students the next level of personalisation, challenge and motivation.'
Read more from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Senior Fellow Dr Alex Connock
https://lnkd.in/e2grfUe4
"I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course - here's what I learned about the future of education"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oxforduni_ai-could-be- unlocking-for-students-the- next-activity- 7363600828827328513-_FXy PPPPSMUSEUMS and LIBRARIES ... ever in a realistic virtual earth ..These items from the past few days re these main WUaS subjectsFor museums and libraries all Ever and in All languages -AND -
INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing- education-with-machine- learning-and-ai-2574306 w # RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseum s #ForLibraries ALL, EVER, in #AllLangs &in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider How further? INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://t.co/8Kx5cOWGm5 w #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums #ForLibraries ALL, EVER, in #AllLangs &in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider How further? https://t.co/zvIWVwbzaz
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 23, 2025
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Retweeting -
Fei-Fei Li
@drfeifei
A picture now is worth more than a thousand words in genAI; it can be turned into a full 3D world! And you can stroll in this garden endlessly long, it will still be there.
https://x.com/drfeifei/status/1958774959867928981
different image into 3d -
INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing- education-with-machine- learning-and-ai-2574306 too w # RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseum s #ForLibraries ALL, EVER, in #AllLangs & #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider How further? INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://t.co/XZOl5J6TSt too w #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums #ForLibraries ALL, EVER, in #AllLangs & #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider How further? https://t.co/Vn5Z0AmiRr
— the Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) August 23, 2025
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Retweeting -
Or stroll in this garden, another permanently consistent 3D world created from a single image no matter how long you hang out in it.
https://x.com/drfeifei/status/1958777658797609375 PPPPPSJohn Palfrey's reTweet mid-August 2025 of Ian Bogost's Tweet of Atlantic article -
This year's rising seniors have never experienced a year of college without generative AI. It's AI's senior year, too.And AI is ubiquitous: Over 90 percent of college students now use it in some way. It's already changed college forever. (gift link)PPPPP PSHank Greely's Tweets re Nita Farahany -Nita Farahany
@NitaFarahany
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Aug 21
I’m back to teaching on Monday, so the pre-print on arXiv caught my attention yesterday. As AI and wearables converge, what is the future of learning?
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@NitaFarahany
https://open.substack.com/pub/nitafarahany/p/is-this- the-future-of-learning?r= 1183hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_ medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare= false
https://x.com/NitaFarahany/status/1958557047944777876 PPPPP PSaNita Farahany
@NitaFarahany
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Aug 27
I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives.
How do you join? Easy, just subscribe. Then you're in!
Share this widely!
https://substack.com/@nitafarahany/note/c-149018573? utm_source=notes-share-action& r=1183hr
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https://x.com/HankGreelyLSJUPPPPPPSUniversity of Chicago history bookPPPPPPPPS#WUaSunivs Asked #GeminiAI: Could you act as mentor or Prof to #WUaSPhDstudent @ #MITOCW-Centric Wiki @WorldUnivAndSch using the #SloanSchoolOfManagement #MITOCW courses & as #LLM Yes: https://g.co/gemini/share/357a1ffcb73d https:// opencw.aprende.org/courses/ sloan-school-of-management/ & re #GeminiAIrePhDs https://g.co/ gemini/share/3e6eed66b177 ~ #WUaSunivs Asked #GeminiAI: Could you act as mentor or Prof to #WUaSPhDstudent @ #MITOCW-Centric Wiki @WorldUnivAndSch using the #SloanSchoolOfManagement #MITOCW courses & as #LLM Yes: https://t.co/Gd3QtGca96 https://t.co/Jz79E4do6E & re #GeminiAIrePhDs https://t.co/TvSyvsjmm9 ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) August 20, 2025
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1958289772000198704 And blog postPPPPP PPPPSYoutube and as data source for WUaS Subjects' LLMsPPPPP PPPPPSa question for each paragraph ... and asking Gemini AI - how to cite if at all?
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WUaS Archaeology and a #
-Hi Bill, (and Colleen),I unsubscribed you from MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's emailings, where WUaS is planning to grow major online research universities in each of all ~200 countries and in all 7159 known living languages ... and much in a #RealisticVirtualEarth (first mention of a realistic virtual earth that I know of other than by WUaS in Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article -https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing- education-with-machine- learning-and-ai-2574306) and eg in a # RealisticVirtualEarthForArchae ology ...and a # RealisticVirtualEarthForPaleon tology #ForGeology too (#Hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN at times) - and where MIT doesn't have an archaeology department that I know of so there are very few MIT OCW archaeology courses (eg besides https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/3- 986-the-human-past- introduction-to-archaeology- fall-2006/) - and please see the PSs. Please let me know if I missed anything.Do you know archaeologist Colleen Morgan at York University - https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/people/morgan/ ? Best wishes,ScottActual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016)- Scott GK MacLeodFounder, President, CEO & ProfessorCC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki,World University & School (WUaS)- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 945161) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public CharityMIT OCW-centric,World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org = https://web.archive.org/web/ 20240125102816/http:// worlduniversityandschool.org/ (for now) PSA #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchae ology (think #StreetView w/ a #TimeSlider) & a # RealisticVirtualEarthForRoboti cs ... In #GStreetView w #TimeSlider?@clmorgan #VirtualÇatalhöyükhttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/colchicum- stanford-complexity-of-open. html & #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook)>#PhysicalDigital # RealisticVirtualEarthForArchae ology w # RealisticVirtualEarthForRoboti cs #WUaSHumanoidRobotics #THR3s ? In #GStreetView w #TimeSlider?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 7, 2024
@clmorgan #VirtualÇatalhöyükhttps://t.co/7JumKoGXP7 grows (& rehttps://t.co/OzCE7Rnchy & #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook)>#PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology w #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #WUaSHumanoidRobotics #THR3s ? https://t.co/zPXglvpmZmRetweeting -A model of the Neolithic proto-city Çatalhöyük (in modern-day Turkey) in 7300 BC. Around 5,000 people lived there in a dense jumble of homes (most homes could only be accessed by walking across the rooftops). Crazy to me that something this legit was happening 93 centuries ago.PPSGreat & in #GStreetView w #TimeSlider?#DrColleenMorgan's @clmorgan #VirtualÇatalhöyükhttps://colleen-morgan.com/2008/10/10/catalhoyuk-in- second-life-update/ (1st in #SecondLife) is growing (& seehttp://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/05/colchicum- stanford-complexity-of-open. html w parallels w #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook) - #PhysicalDigital # RealisticVirtualEarthForArchae ology w a # RealisticVirtualEarthForRoboti cs (both #WUaSHumanoidRobotics such as w/ #ToyotaHumanoidRobots #THR3s for archaeology #WUaSLegoRobotics)? PPPSA #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchae ology w #FilmTo3DApps in #GStreetView w #TimeSlider in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #WUaSResearch #AcademicMetaverse #AcademicOmniverse & #WUaSSTEM #FieldSites & eg for dating Arch. #HazelnutFinds? Add our own pics to #WikiShare w fam & #WikiTeach~
or videos to such a great #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistor y, #ForGeneaology, too? To build out a family tree? A #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology w #FilmTo3DApps in #GStreetView w #TimeSlider in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #WUaSResearch #AcademicMetaverse #AcademicOmniverse & #WUaSSTEM #FieldSites & eg for dating Arch. #HazelnutFinds? Add our own pics to #WikiShare w fam & #WikiTeach~ https://t.co/UT10yAeUAn
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 4, 2024
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/ 1764772251373617156?t=r__ p67jB-Dt4zvGJwHj20Q&s=19
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University of Oxford
@UniofOxford
Humans have been snacking on hazelnuts for at least 12,000 years.
Oxford researchers have devised a method of analysing preserved hazelnut shells to indicate whether microhabitats around archaeological sites were heavily forested or open/pasture-like.Humans have been snacking on hazelnuts for at least 12,000 years.
— University of Oxford (@UniofOxford) March 4, 2024
Oxford researchers have devised a method of analysing preserved hazelnut shells to indicate whether microhabitats around archaeological sites were heavily forested or open/pasture-like. ⬇️https://t.co/DIepn9CyAG
https://twitter.com/UniofOxford/status/ 1764658809916555533
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Drace (Baar from Liberia, studying toward a Master's degree in "Development Practice" at UC Berkeley), - Nice to meet you at International House M Sep 1, 2025 -
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Tennis ... for certain qualities of flow experiences
Watch highlights of Naomi Osaka vs. Coco Gauff in Round 4 of the 2025 US Open (9/1/25)
https://youtu.be/Xm8dmFicK-s
>https://wiki.
Watch highlights of Naomi Osaka vs. Coco Gauff in Round 4 of the 2025 US Open (9/1/25)https://t.co/ZAFGcttPRZ
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 2, 2025
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation @WorldUnivAndSch -A #RealisticVirtualEarthForSports - How could this help?
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