https://youtu.be/Erh8bSQE-YY
https://
-https://scott-macleod.
Using 6/22/26 #WUaSAgenda:
https://
-https://scott-macleod.
-https://www.youtube.com/@
5 new #WUaSWebPages from Gushwork.AI ~
*
M 6/29/26 Recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA -https://youtu.be/Erh8bSQE-YY -https://
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
M 6/29/26 Recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA -https://t.co/ZKzlFyfcxr -https://t.co/rv9zv7nQaQ -https://t.co/S6dIJ9MnMd W 6/22 #WUaSAgenda:https://t.co/5rFSYb0oSE -https://t.co/E3oBD65xPL -https://t.co/5MgfBslDlO new #WUaSWebPages from https://t.co/KAlaIpaTZd ~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 29, 2026
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
https://x.com/HarbinBook/
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
* * * *
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
... with both of their fathers ministers too ... - Dear #FrauAngelaMerkel Mrs. @theresa_may @gcmodernslavery #PeterNorvigGoogleAIDirector: In growing a #WUaSabolition #WorldwideAbolitionMovement
#FrauAngelaMerkel Mrs. @theresa_may #PeterNorvigGoogleAIDirector How best to develop #FreeToStudentsWUaS' @WorldUnivAndSch w MIT OCW in 7 languages w @AtlanticPARTN eg #EnglandWUaS https://wiki.
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/
https://x.com/WUaSPress/
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
https://x.com/HarbinBook/
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/
Retweeting -
It was a pleasure to host Angela Merkel this morning at the @AtlanticPARTN.
As one of the most influential European political leaders of the past two decades, she has helped shape many of the debates that continue to define Europe today.
https://x.com/theresa_may/
.and again .. with both of their fathers ministers too, and see -
F 6/26/26 Armeria Martima (Sea thrift) ... :
https://scott-macleod.
Topic: M 7/6/26 open best STEAM CC-4 licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
Time: Jul 6, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting chat link
https://us04web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 719 7371 4268
Passcode: aN6c7s
M 6/29/26 10aPT @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSunivs' #WUaSAgendaNews w #ZoomURL: https://
-https://scott-macleod.
-https://scott-macleod.
-https://www.youtube.com/@
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://x.com/WUaSPress/
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/
https://x.com/HarbinBook/
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
* * * *
Monday, June 22, 2026
Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park, India: Recording of M 6/22/26 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA #WUaSunivs & #CreativeCommons #MITOCW * (was - M 6/22/26 & 6/29/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)
Recording of M 6/22/26 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsQA #WUaSunivs & #CreativeCommons #MITOCW
https://youtu.be/PQIa2IyI32Q
M 6/22/26 @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSunivs' #WUaSAgendaNews w #ZoomURL: #WUaSAgenda:
https://
-https://scott-macleod.
Using 6/15/26 WUaS Agenda & News -
https://
https://scott-macleod.
-https://www.youtube.com/@
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
AND #FrauAngelaMerkel Mrs. @theresa_may #PeterNorvigGoogleAIDirector: How best to develop #FreeToStudentsWUaS' @WorldUnivAndSch in #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program too - http://
#EnglandWUaS https://wiki.
& with @UniofOxford
#GermanyWUaS https://wiki.
#FranceWUaS - https://wiki.
#NorwayWUaS - https://wiki.
#SpainWUaS - https://wiki.
#NetherlandsWUaS - https://wiki.
#CanadaWUaS - https://wiki.
#MexicoWUaS - https://wiki.
#BrazilWUaS - https://wiki.
#WUaSMorocco - https://wiki.
#WUaSNigeria - https://wiki.
#SouthAfricaWUaS - https://wiki.
and in all the other European, American, South American & African countries' online #WUaSuniversities that border on the Atlantic ocean - https://wiki.
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
And see too - https://
F 6/26/26 Armeria Martima (Sea thrift) ... :
https://scott-macleod.
Gemini (constellation): What is artificial intelligence? What is artificial intelligence in comparison to information technology? How will artificial intelligence affect the network society and in particular 'the university,' and the global university, building on mit ocw in 7 languages, in each of all 200 countries ? * The fusion of AI with open educational resources means the global university no longer has to choose between elite quality and mass scale. By utilizing IT as the underlying network infrastructure, MIT OCW as the verified knowledge base, and AI as the interactive, multilingual educator, the democratization of higher education across every continent becomes an operational reality
Defining the Landscape
To understand where we are heading, it helps to first clarify what these technologies actually are and how they differ.
Artificial Intelligence vs. Information Technology
- Information Technology (IT) is the infrastructure of the digital age. It is the plumbing, the wiring, and the storage. IT encompasses the hardware, software, networks, and databases used to manage, process, and transmit data. It operates on deterministic logic: if you write a specific line of code or input a specific query, an IT system executes that exact command the same way every time.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) sits on top of IT. It is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines—specifically the ability to learn, reason, generalize, and self-correct. Unlike traditional IT, AI operates on probabilistic logic. Instead of just storing or routing data, AI analyzes massive datasets to find underlying patterns, making predictions, generating original content, or translating languages contextually.
The Shift: If IT is a massive, meticulously indexed digital library, AI is an expert researcher sitting inside it, capable of reading every book simultaneously, synthesizing the main themes, and explaining them to you in a conversational tone.
AI and the Transformation of the Network Society
The Network Society—a social structure made of networks powered by digital information and communication technologies—is shifting from a model of information access to one of automated synthesis.
In the classic network society, power and value came from being a critical node that could access and distribute information. AI changes this by decentralizing expertise. When complex analysis, coding, language translation, and data modeling become abundant and instantly accessible at any node in the network, the structural bottlenecks of knowledge shift. The network becomes less about where information lives and more about how dynamically it can be localized and applied.
Re-imagining the Global University
The intersection of AI, open-source frameworks like MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), and the architecture of the network society offers a blueprint for an entirely new kind of institution: a truly Global University operational across all 200 countries.
Here is how AI fundamentally alters the mechanics of scaling higher education globally:
1. Breaking the Language Barrier
Deploying a curriculum based on MIT OCW across all 200 countries requires massive localization. Traditional human translation for thousands of hours of technical lectures, deep physics syllabi, and extensive reading lists across 7+ target languages is financially and logistically prohibitive.
- The AI Layer: Advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) can handle high-fidelity, context-aware translations of complex academic material into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese—and instantly scale to regional dialects or localized vernaculars. It bridges the gap between raw open-source content and local comprehension.
2. Personalized AI Tutors for the Open Curriculum
MIT OCW provides world-class content, but it traditionally lacks the interactive feedback of a university campus (professors, teaching assistants, grading).
- The AI Layer: AI can act as an infinite, on-demand tutor embedded within the open-source curriculum. A student in a remote region can read an MIT OCW computer science syllabus, ask an AI agent to explain a confusing data structure using a local analogy, generate practice problems tailored to their current skill level, and receive instant, granular feedback on their work.
3. Hyper-Localized Contextualization
A global university cannot just export Western-centric examples blindly; education must resonate locally to be effective.
- The AI Layer: While the core scientific, mathematical, or economic principles remain constant, AI can automatically adjust the case studies, regional data, and problem sets to reflect the specific economic, ecological, or cultural realities of each individual country.
4. Decentralized, Low-Cost Infrastructure
Because AI can run on decentralized cloud infrastructure and interact via lightweight, mobile-friendly interfaces, it bypasses the massive capital expenditures required to build physical university systems. The "campus" becomes a distributed virtual network, utilizing existing open-source materials as the foundation and AI as the active pedagogical force.
The fusion of AI with open educational resources means the global university no longer has to choose between elite quality and mass scale. By utilizing IT as the underlying network infrastructure, MIT OCW as the verified knowledge base, and AI as the interactive, multilingual educator, the democratization of higher education across every continent becomes an operational reality.
2 A
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Gemini (constellation):
* * * How can a global online university built on MIT OCW and AI achieve recognized accreditation across different international jurisdictions?
https://scott-macleod.
Red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum): #ScientificallyProve #AgingReversal w #FlyConnectome & @harvardmed & WUaS Academic Medical Center in a #
Retweeting -
https://scott-macleod.
SimplerGrants.gov Demonstration sponsored by the Council on Federal Financial Assistance (COFFA)
The Simpler Grants.gov team will share highlights from our newest features and functionalities, including new ways to collaborate with your organization on saved opportunities, improvements to the application experience, and exciting budget form prototypes. The team will also share user research insights, and showcase feedback received from open source contributions, the Co-Design Group, and the broader grants community on future development.
Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@
Wed, Jun 17, 7:45 PM (11 days ago)
to Sid, Janie, Edward, Byron, peter@norvig.com
Hi Pin/Sid, All,
Just received and registered for this HHS Grants.gov meeting on Tu June 30th, after getting an invitation from Anna Lee to make some free web pages for both wings of WUaS searchable & findable in ChatGPT or Gemini - a breakthrough for WUaS ... which I've blogged about here on Tu 6/16/26 -
https://scott-macleod.
Will see the web pages in a video call on F 6/22 at 9am ... It's possible Anna Lee re Gushwork.ai will offer to build WUaS web pages further and re an 800 or 900 / month subscription which I read about here - https://techcrunch.com/2026/
Thoughts?
Scott
https://scott-macleod.
Puffin :
* * * Creative Commons Founders Fireside Chat is TODAY at 1pm EDT! ~ Tue June 23, 2026 & ... Thanks so much for your great Creative Commons' Founders' Fireside Chat today - https://creativecommons.org/
https://scott-macleod.
Puffin :
https://wiki.
Again, how much are you using Gemini or similar these days? - https://scott-macleod.
Puffin :
* * * Property deed for 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon CA 94516 in Contra Costa county questions ~ Dear UC Berkeley Law Professor Molly Van Houweling, (and Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig, and Harvard Law alum Glenn Brown, all Creative Commons' Law founders, and with free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages), US Senator from CA Alex Padilla, Kristin (Connelly, Contra Costa county Clerk-Recorder and former lawyer)
https://scott-macleod.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera): And as we may live to 150 years old and well beyond :) ... How to scientifically prove reversing aging, and with Yoga asana with time for humans, and with the Flywire Connectome and with all its Drosophila fly body parts too, and in a #
https://scott-macleod.
8 A
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera): Yoga as in 8 limbs of Yoga, and karma and dharma - and as might be taught by Yogini Angela Farmer and Yogi Victor Van Kooten? and see the PS * Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)?
Searched on -
Yoga as in 8 limbs of Yoga, and karma and dharma - and as might be taught by Yogini Angela Farmer and Yogi Victor Van Kooten?
https://share.google/aimode/
https://scott-macleod.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum):
Would love to come up to Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church and regarding the next Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project including the making of a realistic virtual Harbin ...
and when I might be back from giving a Digital Ethnography talk at Oxford Anthropology and regarding ~ https://goo.gl/maps/
https://scott-macleod.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Spot-billed Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis): A Virtual Harbin Hot Springs and in a #WUaSMultimediaRoom & 5A Moraga? * * * And with updated Google Terms of Service and with a list of most of their platforms and regarding potentially making a #RealisticVirtualEarth and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs as ethnographic field site and for soaking from home in our home bathtubs and hot tubs and for STEAM research especially, as well as Aging Reversal Genetics and Extreme Longevity Genetics in an iterating realistic virtual earth, and think #GSTreetView with a #GTimeSlider ~
https://scott-macleod.
* * * *
And with
& with @UniofOxford
#GermanyWUaS https://wiki.
#FranceWUaS - https://wiki.
#NorwayWUaS - https://wiki.
#SpainWUaS - https://wiki.
#NetherlandsWUaS - https://wiki.
#CanadaWUaS - https://wiki.
#MexicoWUaS - https://wiki.
#BrazilWUaS - https://wiki.
#WUaSMorocco - https://wiki.
#WUaSNigeria - https://wiki.
#SouthAfricaWUaS - https://wiki.
and in all the other European, American, South American & African countries' online #WUaSuniversities that border on the Atlantic ocean - https://wiki.
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta_Wilderness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mount_Shasta
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