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Dear Jaimin (and Stefania) at #AbstractTechnologyGMBH, All,
(
https://www.linkedin. com/in/stefania-trabucchi-
80110459/ &
https://www.linkedin. com/in/jaiminpavashiya/)
Received some bounce backs from your
abstract-technology.de email addresses, upon #WorldUniversityAndSchool (building #EuropeanWUaSs & #IndiaWUaSs) receiving your invitation to president@
worlduniversityandschool. org, so I'm bringing this conversation to #SocialMedia.
Thanks for your remarkable platform and builds. And greetings from the SF Bay Area. How are you doing?
'Your Academy, Your Data, Your Courses?'
I asked Google AI - "Could I build out in Open edX® sandbox Germany World University and School in German (
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Germany from
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Nation_States - and WUaS is planning online world class universities in each of all of ~200 countries and in their main languages, per the Olympics), translating courses from
https://ocw.mit. edu/ and
https://opencw.aprende. org/courses/translated-
courses/ and to offer online free-to-students' (due to the Creative Commons 4 licensing of MIT OCW) Bachelor, PhD, Law, Medicine, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees to German students in German and in English, in communication with the German Ministry of Education, and at the same time do this in English too for American students and for speakers of English from all 200 countries?" Developing WUaS in German for free WUaS degrees is key to World Univ & Sch's planning to develop not only in all 200 countries' main languages, but also in all 7159 living languages for speakers of these in wiki schools for wiki-teaching and wiki-learning.
And Google AI replied -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2026/07/blog-post.html
How might #AbstractTechnologyDE be able to help with #WUaSaccreditation say first with #GermanyWUaS in #GermanWUaS, & re translating MITOCW's < 2500 courses into German (and re this learning conversation), and possibly a #LatviaWUaS in the #LatvianWUaS language too to start (Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Sea holly (Eryngium maritimum): "It's been a very long time......" * * * Just created free-to-students' (wiki too) Latvia World University and School -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2026/06/sea-holly-
eryngium-maritimum.html)?
Thoughts here?
Alles Gute,
Scott
#ScottGKMacLeod
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
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at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)
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Dear Jaimin (and Stefania) at Abstract-Technology.de,
Thanks for your remarkable platform and builds. And greetings from the SF Bay Area. How are you doing?
'Your Academy, Your Data, Your Courses?'
I asked Google AI - "Could I build out in Open edX® sandbox Germany World University and School
in German (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and WUaS is planning online world class universities in each of all of ~200 countries and in their main languages, per the Olympics), translating courses from https://ocw.mit.edu/ and https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ and to offer online free-to-students' (due to the Creative Commons 4 licensing of MIT OCW) Bachelor, PhD, Law, Medicine, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees to German students in German and in English, in communication with the German Ministry of Education, and at the same time do this in English too for American students and for speakers of English from all 200 countries?" Developing WUaS in German for free WUaS degrees in key to World Univ & Sch's planning to develop not only in all 200 countries' main languages, but also in all 7159 living languages for speakers of these in wiki schools for wiki-teaching and wiki-learning.
And Google AI replied -
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Yes, you can build out a World University and School (WU&S) instance using the Open edX Sandbox to translate and host MIT OpenCourseWare (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) courses. Platforms like German UDS have successfully used Open edX to build online-first higher education. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]Translating and organizing course materials into full degree programs (Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, Medicine, Law, IB) involves specific logistical and legal steps:
- Sandbox & Deployment: You can use the Open edX Sandbox to test, build, and explore course-authoring features for free. To scale this to an actual university, you will need to host your own instance, as Open edX is free to use but requires your own infrastructure and maintenance. [1, 2]
- Localization: The platform supports robust language localization, allowing you to easily offer the interface and course content in both German and English.
2. Licensing and Course Translations
- MIT OCW License: Because MIT OpenCourseWare courses are typically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, you can translate them, adapt them, and share them for free, provided you give appropriate credit, do not use them for commercial gain, and license your adaptations under identical terms.
- Course Sourcing: You can freely adapt materials directly from MIT OpenCourseWare and existing translations like OpenCW Aprende. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
3. Accreditation and Degrees
MIT OCW itself does not offer degrees, credits, or certifications. To legally grant accredited Bachelor, Master, PhD, and professional degrees in Germany, your institution must go through the formal state accreditation process (
Akkreditierung) overseen by the German Ministry of Education (BMBF) and the German Council of Science and Humanities (
Wissenschaftsrat). Similarly, to grant degrees to American students, you would need to meet the standards of US regional accrediting agencies. [
1,
2,
3]
If you want, tell me:
- What specific degree programs (e.g., Law, Medicine) are your top priorities?
- Which stage of the Open edX course-building process would you like to explore first?
I can help you outline an actionable roadmap to get your initiative off the ground."
Fascinating and great, and MIT OCW CC-4 licensing says anyone can 1) share it, 2) adapt it eg with AI and ML - or Open edX, but 3) non-commercially, so World University and School as we accredit (and WUaS has the green light to accredit with Middle States Commission on Higher Education in the greater Philadelphia PA area, but this is a very long process) will seek reimbursement from all 200 countries' Ministries of Education per student per year, along the lines of what it costs to attend MIT itself (for the rich countries, and less for middle-income and developing countries). With your experience with developing the German University of Digital Science (German UDS), in what ways might you be able to guide World University and School on the Open edX platform in accrediting even in Germany potentially and with WUaS in German for German speakers (a significant translation process from MIT OCW in English, but made easier with AI and ML and machine translation, I posit), and possibly build this German accreditation into the creation of free online Bachelor's and Master's (new approaches to PhDs navigating AI and ML, and eg 2 year undergraduate AA / AS Associate of Arts / Associate of Science) WUaS degrees (online from home) beginning soon - September 1, 2026?
Startup still World University and School is seeking further to deploy with the full US federal toolkit, and just attended yesterday as Simplify Grants.gov webinar, but has no money to speak of whatsoever presently. Given all of this, how might we best explore proceeding?
Thanks, best regards, Alles Gute,
Scott
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- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -
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Your Academy, Your Data, Your Courses - Custom Open edX® LMS by Abstract Technology, Now Smarter with AI
Dear Sir/Madam,
Behind every learning platform is someone who cared enough to build something - courses, curricula, a real community of learners. We work with organisations who've done exactly that, and want a platform that finally matches your learning, your data, your academy and creating your platform using your exciting course content and the ambition behind it.
My name is Jaimin Pavashiya, and I work with Abstract Technology GmbH - a Europe-based Verified Open edX® Service Partner with over a decade of experience and 150+ deployments across universities, academies, enterprises, NGOs and public institutions.
We have been speaking recently with several organisations running Open edX through MOOC.IT, and the same pattern keeps surfacing - platforms held back on outdated release lines, with functionality that has simply not kept pace with what institutions actually need today.
The good news is straightforward - you do not need to change platforms. You need to change what sits around the platform.
Open edX has evolved dramatically, with every release bringing meaningful advances in learner experience, authoring, analytics, and AI. The current release, Ulmo, and the forthcoming Verawood are structural improvements that genuinely change what your platform can do. As an active contributor to the Open edX core, our team works at the source - meaning our clients always run current, supported releases and benefit directly from our involvement in shaping the platform's direction. Add a native Open edX mobile app and dedicated GDPR-compliant EU hosting, and the distance between where your platform sits today and where it could be becomes very clear.
We build complete, custom learning environments - clean migration from older release lines with no loss of content or learner data, AI-powered course creation and learner assistants, Payload CMS integration, and a setup tailored to your institution's goals. Not a template, not a generic deployment.
As a reference point, we built the entire online infrastructure for the German University of Digital Science - within one year, they were ranked #1 in international orientation in the SZ-Ranking 2026. Case study attached.
We are happy to offer a live demo (30 to 45 minutes) and a complimentary one-month trial of a fully configured Open edX® sandbox - no commitment required. Brochure attached for further context.
If any of this resonates, I would genuinely welcome a short conversation about where your platform could go next - simply share a few slots that work on your side, and we can take it from there.
Feel free to explore our services in the meantime at www.abstract-technology.de
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Richard, Jaimin (and Stefania) at #AbstractTechnologyGMBH, All,
Thanks ... I think there's an interesting opportunity here, and with WUaS seeking to hire 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years, and if Jaimin (and Stefania) at #AbstractTechnologyGMBH could help both with developing #GermanyWUaS and in #GermanWUaS and especially with possible WUaS accreditation on the Open edX platform first in Germany for example (and see this July 1, 2026 Baltic Marsh Orchid blog post in daily blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2026/07/blog-post.html).
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how can the open edX platform best translate cc licensed MIT OCW that world university and school adds to it from English to German or Hindi ?
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