Pollination game: How does World University and School differ from edX, MITx, Yale OYC, Coursera, iTunes University, Udacity, and all the other, great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web?

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How does World University and School differ from MIT OCW, edX, Open Yale Courses (OYC),  Coursera, iTunes U, Udacity, and all the other, great, free, online, course-oriented, university, educational projects on the web, especially MOOCs? 


- WUaS plans to accredit with WASC senior (http://wascsenior.org/) - see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/steller-sea-lion-pups-questions-about.html - for its MIT-centric, undergraduate degrees. WUaS hasn't heard of any accreditation plans among the other, above, educational initiatives. 

- WUaS is MIT OCW-centric, especially MIT OCW's Video and Audio courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - to begin (but all of Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW, - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - and to a secondary degree, Creative Commons' licensed Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu/). Besides MIT OCW itself, WUaS knows of no other MIT-centric educational endeavors. 

- WUaS plans to engage the Conference Method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - learning from Reed College's approach to this, but developing this online, whereas WUaS hasn't heard of any other educational project doing this. 

- WUaS does not plan on becoming a MOOC provider (massive open online course), as are Coursera, Udacity, and edX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooc), although WUaS may scale in other ways vis-a-vis courses. 

- WUaS seeks overachievers - overachieving high school and college students - who might transfer to on-the-ground MIT for a year, as well as Quaker high school students, for example, to begin, while remaining an open, C.C., wiki school in each of 7,413 languages, including with OCW. Most of the  educational endeavors on this page are so far open and free.

- WUaS is STEM-centric, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics - building on MIT and MIT OCW. Udacity may also be, but MIT-centricity opens horizons for WUaS STEM-centricity, especially in developing into other languages. 

- WUaS is planning 5, C.C. licensed, degrees/diplomas - bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D. - and in many languages and countries. 

- WUaS is a non-profit educational institution / company, as is edX, whereas Coursera is a for-profit company, and Udacity is unfolding in this respect. iTunes U doesn't appear to be moving toward offering recognition of academic work, or credentialing, at this point. 

- Like MIT OCW and Yale OYC, World University and School is Creative Commons' licensed - http://creativecommons.org/. See, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons_Law.  WUaS is great universities' and C.C. focused - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings - in aggregating and curating its Open Course Ware, and eventually for credit. 

- WUaS is developing a (potentially student-run) honor code for academic integrity, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Honor_Principle_at_World_University - and will also draw on MIT's approaches to academic integrity in online academics. 

- WUaS plans to accredit for university degrees in as many of the 204 countries as we can, and in main languages in those countries. 


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OpenCourseWare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare


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Coursera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

edX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdX  (MITx builds on edX)

iTunes U - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itunes_University#iTunes_U

MIT OCW - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_ocw 

Open Yale Courses (OYC) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Yale_Courses 

Udacity - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udacity 

World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University






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Steller sea lion pups: Questions about Accreditation and World University and School, MIT OCW Video/Audio-centricity, Undergraduate and Ph.D. degree plans, Conference Method, WASC accreditation process

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Accreditation and World University and School ...

These MIT OCW video lectures are what WUaS is planning on accrediting on initially -

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - in around 30 departments (so 30 majors?) ...


for both MIT-centric

Undergraduate (planning for matriculation of first class in 2014) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School - and


Ph.D. (planning for matriculation of first class in 2015) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School -


degrees, engaging the Conference Method -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning -


for interactivity in digital spaces like Google + Hangouts,

where education is significantly a conversation (among overachievers) ...



Here's a recent conversation about this, touching on the WASC (http://www.wascsenior.org/) accreditation process,

and the free, Harvard, doctoral degree in education offered a few years ago. 

Today What are free accredited ivy league online MA or Ph.D. programs available these days? Don't know of any ... WUaS plans to matriculate its first undergraduate class in 2014 and its first Ph.D. class in 2015, MIT-centric and Creative Commons' licensed like MIT OCW, so free Do you know of any? there are probably some in other countries I hear about some somewhere, maybe Harvard .. edX is part Harvard and free, but no degrees that I know of ... so WUaS is the only one? Are you accredited? And Harvard was offering a free doctoral degree in education for 3 years ... which degree you'll find posted here ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses ... but which is no longer offered ... WUaS is planning to accredit for our undergraduate degree with WASC senior ... and for PH.D.s as I understand it's association by association ... big job Here was the Harvard degree ... http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2009/09/harvard-university-to-offer-groundbreaking-doctoral-program-for-education-leaders/ ...also on the WUaS Courses' page Why is it no longer offered? I think it was a three year experiment of public mindedness, perhaps vis-a-vis MIT OCW (just hypothesizing) So WUaS programs are not accredited yet? Correct ... it's a three stage process for the undergraduate MIT-centric degree, and WUaS won't be fully accredited until 2018, unless we get transfer students who graduate earlier than that from WUaS, and WASC allows us to be fully accredited before 2018 ... 2015 would be great ... Chat Conversation End

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Bristlecone beneath Sierra Skies: Open, hour long, WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on January 12, at 9 am PT in a Google Hangout

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Dear Universitians,

Thank you for joining the World University and School team.  WUaS would like to invite you to participate in our hour-long, monthly, business meeting this Saturday, January 12, beginning at 9 a.m., Pacific Coast Time / 12 noon East Coast Time. 

This month we'll meet online in a Google + video hangout, (with its 2 channels for communication, via group video and group text chat, opening opportunities for communication).  Please email me to let me know you'd like to participate in this Google + Hangout, group, video conferencing, so I can invite you on Saturday. You'll also find the hangout posted here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts - at WUaS's G+ profile page findable by searching in Google + on worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com. Here's an example of a WUaS Google + video hangout meeting, - "World University and School, Student, Board / Team's 1st meeting 3 Nov 2012" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR0y7Z4saHI - and a good overview of WUaS, from a Stanford Coursera course I took in last autumn called "Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship" on World University and School's NEW YouTube video channel https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch . 

The agenda for the upcoming business meeting is at:  http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-12-2012-9-am-pacific-time-wuas.html .

The next, hour-long, WUaS, monthly business meeting is on Saturday, February 9, 2013 in a Google + Hangout. 

World University and School is looking for a new, Board member to focus on fundraising, and to actually bring in significant monies for WUaS, which you'll see on the above agenda. 

Concerning this WUaS team email list, we'll generally send out an email once a month. If you'd like to receive more frequent, sporadic, WUaS emails, please reply to this email telling me so. If you could, please REPLY with UNSUBSCRIBE, or an alternative email address, if you wish NOT to receive WUaS's emails, or receive them in a different email account, - and WUaS would be very grateful. 

Free, online, wiki WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and for around 200 countries, with free degrees accrediting on MIT OpenCourseWare+, and will help many, many people.  

Thank you again for your interest in helping grow World University and School. 

All the best, 

Scott 

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Scott MacLeod 
Founder & President 



http://scottmacleod.com 

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World University and School 
(like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University 

P.O. Box 442, 
(86 Ridgecrest Road), 
Canyon, CA 94516 

415 480 4577 
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Skype: scottm100 

Google + main, WUaS pages: 

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Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card:

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Lewisia: The College at World University and School, "How to Pick a College: What the New York Times Missed," Values, Mobility, Priorities, WUaS has a significant science/mathematics/engineering/technology focus, and it's online and free (and Creative Commons' licensed)

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The College at World University and School ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School


(and Admissions at WUaS ...  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School).


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"How to Choose a College" - http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=1013104 ... 


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Helpful ... 

How to Pick a College: What the New York Times Missed

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130110205116-17000124-how-to-pick-a-college-what-the-new-york-times-missed

Selingo asks the following, further questions in this article:

"Value

While there is no single way to determine if the school you selected is worth the price tag, by weighing various available measures you can better assess if a college is worth at least the debt you might take on to go there.

1. What is the school’s graduation rate for students with family and academic backgrounds similar to yours?
2. How many first-year students with backgrounds like yours return for their second semester and then for their second year?
3. What is the job-placement rate of the college’s graduates? How is it calculated?
4. Besides the famous alumni that every school likes to tout, where are last year’s graduates working? How about five years ago? Ten years ago?

Mobility

A third of students now transfer before earning a degree, and students in the future will earn credit in all kinds of ways. You should find out if the institution is open to validating various learning experiences toward a de­gree.

1. What is the percentage of students who transfer in each year?
2. What percentage of transfer credits does the college take each year? For those it denies, on what basis does it not take the credits?
3. Would the college accept credits through the American Coun­cil on Education credit service if a student took a massive open online course (MOOC) approved by the association?

Priorities

Find out if the school’s priorities are more about gaining prestige or in educating students.

1. What is the percentage of students who get A’s? B’s?
2. What is the percentage of full-time faculty? What percentage of first-year classes do they teach?
3. How much writing and reading is required in classes? What per­centage of classes assign more than forty pages of reading a week or more than twenty pages of writing over the course of a semester?"

... and how to apply these good ideas to developing World University and School ...


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WUaS's STEM and MIT foci ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics ... which is a distinguisher ...

WUaS has a significant science/mathematics/engineering/technology focus, and it's online and free ...


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see, too ...

"As WUaS grows, studying in other countries and langues - 'a year abroad' - will take on new meaning, involving actually studying in that language, or perhaps eventually even in a virtual world of that country, "How to Choose a College," But WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed, and free ~~~ On-the-ground travel and study can be very fun"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/tetramicra-riparia-as-wuas-grows.html






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Yellow corolla: Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee, master raga player, moved me along the way

Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee,
master raga player,
moved me along the way,
on the road to Harbin, 

sur la voie de Harbin. 

'Afternoon Ragas: 

Live in Amsterdam,'
became evening
soaking in the warm pool, -
space-making through
geothermal journeying, 

with music,
avec de la musique. 

Cloud-rainbow-beacon ~
light formation ~
in northern sky,
in kaleidoscopic, glorious,
afternoon Napa,
beamed steadily on
as I drove toward  

the valley of Harbin,
dans la vallée de Harbin. 

Bliss alive,
kiss of music-light-travel,
in natural world,
to beehive of healing ...
at Harbin,
dear Harbin,  

cher Harbin. 

Can we do this online,
virtually, without mobility, -
or moving
in bodymind -
in our bathtubs, with
laptops,or
digital glasses, or
head bands, or
brainwave headsets, that
allow us to weave
narratives or music or visions,
together, in virtual worlds, or
via holography?
There are
generative possibilities
of creativity
ahead, via
interactive, movie realism ...
and the relaxation response - 

meditation in warm water,
méditation dans l'eau chaude ... 

as I,
poor wanderer,
move on,
from writing
by the side of the road,
toward Harbin,
riding sound waves 

of musical light,
de la lumière musicale.

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DNA: A new, 'Synthetic Biology' course initiative at World University and School, A good example of a new, STEM page at WUaS, From MIT ... "Editing the genome with high precision ..."

http://img.mit.edu/newsoffice/images/article_images/20130103132743-0.jpg


A new, 'Synthetic Biology' course initiative at World University and School ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_Biology ... 

with an invitation to add courses you know of, or teach one, and add related resources, or learn about this emergent academic field ... 

there aren't any courses at MIT OCW specifically about synthetic biology ... 

check out the page itself, as well ... 

it's a good example of a new, STEM page (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics) at WUaS! 

And you can start your own wiki, Subject page - about anything you choose ... 


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From MIT ... 



"Editing the genome with high precision: New method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes" by Anne Trafton - 


http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/editing-the-genome-with-high-precision-0103.html

Genomics' cut and paste ... great ... see WUAS's Genomics' page ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Genomics ... 


where I'll look to add this MIT article ... 






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Elephant ears: The People's Pharmacy ONLINE with Joe and Terry Graedon which began with a book by this name in 1977, Added this website to WUaS's Pharmacology, the World University Pharmacy School, and Hospital wiki pages, as well as to my Yoga page, Plugged ear condition (continued), Continuing to appreciate 'we the people' aspects of 1960s' and 1970s' freedom movements

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I just learned of this very interesting People's Pharmacy ONLINE with Joe and Terry Graedon which began with a book by this name in 1977 ...

and added it to the following WUaS wiki, subject pages, with this reference ...

The People's Pharmacy. 2013. [http://peoplespharmacy.com/ The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon]. Durham, NC: peoplespharmacy.com.  ...

Pharmacology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pharmacology

World University Pharmacy School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Pharmacy_School

WUaS Hospital's page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital.


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... added The People's Pharmacy to my yoga page, as well ... http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm.


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Plugged ear condition (continued), after flying with a cold on December 30:

This Wikipedia article mentions a few concluding aspects for my self-diagnosis of my ear condition, in this patient phase, including temporary hearing loss ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube.

I'm adding some of the links for what I've learned about all of this ear information (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/blue-moon-2010-on-new-years-eve-after.html) to WUaS Hospital's page ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital ...


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I just found and added this very interesting and helpful article from the People's Pharmacy, which I didn't know about ...

"Easing ear pain on an airplane" ...
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2012/12/24/easing-ear-pain-on-an-airplane/

... will look for "Ear Ease" - with the hot water in them ...

and maybe head to Harbin Hot Springs for the warm waters soon! :)


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... continuing to appreciating the 'we the people' aspects of the 1960s and 1970s a lot ...

as well as how Dr. Graedon went on to get a Pharmacy degree, from the University of Michigan, as their book developed into the online People's Pharmacy.





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Tetramicra riparia: As WUaS grows, studying in other countries and langues - 'a year abroad' - will take on new meaning, involving actually studying in that language, or perhaps eventually even in a virtual world of that country, "How to Choose a College," But WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed, and free ~~~ On-the-ground travel and study can be very fun

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As World University and School grows into other languages, 

studying in other countries and langues - 'a year abroad' - will take on new meaning ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ... 

involving actually studying in that language, 

(e.g. a course on "Environmental Law in China, 1950-2000," in the WUaS China Law School, 

in the Mandarin and Cantonese languages?) ... 


or perhaps eventually even in a virtual world of that country ... 

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States ... 


(e.g. a course on "French Digital Plastique Arts, 1980-2010" in French, or Vietnamese?)



all from the room you might have gone to high school in ...  


"How to Choose a College" - http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=1013104 ... 

and of course, you can also go on a study-abroad program organized by another university, 


but WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed, and free ~~~ 


and on-the-ground travel and study is very fun. 





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Biologists Discover Two New Orchid Species in Cuba

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/article00798.html

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What are your favorite Yoga resources or search fields for SPECIFIC CONDITIONS?

What are your favorite Yoga resources or search fields for SPECIFIC CONDITIONS?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/chlorophytum-tuberosum-musli-what-are.html

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Chlorophytum tuberosum (musli): What are your favorite Yoga resources or search fields for SPECIFIC CONDITIONS?

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What are your favorite resources, or search fields, for therapeutic yoga for SPECIFIC CONDITIONS?

Some which I've found helpful are the appendixes in 

B.K.S Iyengar's "Light on Yoga," -

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL3018499W/Light_on_yoga (appendix) - 

the Mehtas' "Yoga: The Iyengar Way," -

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=Yoga%3A+The+Iyengar+Way (appendix) -

Geeta Iyengar's "Yoga: A Gem for Women," - as well as

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=Yoga%3A+A+Gem+for+Women - and

Timothy McCall's book "Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing," - 

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL3281691W/Yoga_as_medicine -

and also the search engine in Yoga Journal -

http://www.yogajournal.com/. 

Here, too, is a helpful Wikipedia article mentioned specific conditions:

"Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine" -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise_or_alternative_medicine -

All of these are linked at the World University and School Yoga wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Yoga. 

What are some of yours? ... with an invitation to add them to WUaS's wiki, yoga pages.

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