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May 22, 2013, 9:43 am

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Blackberry blossoms blush
Purple softly, at Harbin,
Fruit soon to come.

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May 23, 2013, 8:57 am

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Hi D,

Thank you and Creative Commons!

Yes, for approval with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, they are referring to diplomas, in terms of "completion verification documents," and I and WUaS are just double-checking about Creative Commons' licensing and copyright vis-a-vis MIT OCW, because I'm not versed in this, in this important, initial, BPPE approval stage. Thank you for your helpful clarifications.

If WUaS can manage the fundraising, and related financial operations, WUaS would like to offer online, MIT OCW-centric, C.C. university degrees, - beginning, in English, with bachelor (in 2014), Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), degrees, as well as possibly I.B. diplomas (2015?), - to begin, in many, many countries and languages, beginning with the United Nations' languages, since they are lingua francas of the world. See the beginning Admission's page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - for information about degrees. (For example, 204 international Law Schools - per the number of countries in the Olympics - under one 'umbrella,' if at all possible, and Creative Commons' licensed too, will be very helpful for a myriad of international legal questions, especially, for example, intellectual property ones; California presently has about 12 online law schools, none ABA approved as I understand it, but anyone can sit the Bar exam in California, as well, I've heard).

Beyond C.C. MIT OCW's 2,150 courses, WUaS has a great universities' focus - see this wiki list ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings ... where WUaS will continue to facilitate wiki-aggregation of free, open, online, educational resources, especially C.C. ones. Yale OYC's 42 courses are already C.C. so that's an obvious, WUaS, accreditation candidate, as well. (WUaS is planning to move from the Wikia wiki to the new C.C. Wikidata repository as our financial situation improves). While MIT OCW doesn't have many law or medical classes, WUaS plans to build on the existing ones.

A humongous endeavor, World University and School is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, and planning to be in all 7,105 languages (per "Ethnologue") and 204 countries, each an extensible, C.C., wiki school; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison, and we all wrote it.

I'll proceed with WUaS's ongoing communication with California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education.

Thank you!

Best,
Scott

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May 24, 2013, 9:38 am

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9:52pm

Bishwo -
Hello there

Scott -
Hi Bishwo!

Bishwo -
How are you? Well, I want to talk some important things with you if you are free

Scott -
OK thanks ... how are you? Now's a decent time to chat for me

Bishwo -
m fine thanks for asking. Well, as you know that I am prospective graduate student. My aim was to establish company that provide engineering solutions to the other company and study along with the business.

Scott -
Great

Bishwo -
And I have lots of engineering ideas and want to open an enterprise to fully dedicate my time to implement those ideas

Scott -
Add them to WUaS

Bishwo -
Ideas?

Scott -
yes

Bishwo -
hmmm...what if that's stolen ?

Scott -
MIT OCW-centric WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed and for sharing ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering#Ideas ... What if MIT OCW courses are stolen?
MIT thinks education is a conversation and for sharing, a shift in thinking from copyright-thinking

Bishwo -
yeah but I want to start my venture with the idea I am having right now
And I can't do it alone so I was wondering if WUas can help me

Scott -
Definitely ... that's what companies are for, and intellectual property as well, in conjunction with MIT OCW ... and MIT spins off many companies.
that aren't MIT OCW, and where ideas are property ...

Bishwo -
WUaS can be a lot more beneficial with it. Online WUaS graduate student can join the company as programmer and anlytic if the company is well establish

Scott -
with what?

Bishwo -
the company I am going to establish?

Scott -
WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed like MIT OCW for free education and degrees, but would also like to grow and incubate companies

Partnerships are an interesting possibility ... but WUaS as a university still hasn't hired any faculty
(MIT OCW doesn't offer free degrees, only free education).
WUaS will offer free degrees.

Bishwo -
that's the most interesting thing. Have you watched the movie "Accepted" ?

Scott -
not yet
... will hope to see it

Bishwo -
Well, you should. WEll you'll get more intriguing ideas to enhance capabilities of WUaS from it.

Scott -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/ ... looks funny

Bishwo -
yeah it have comedy but it's worth watching

Scott -
great
does that startup university partner with other companies?

Bishwo -
you'll know if you'll watch it

Scott -
Looks to be free online here ... http://megashare.info/watch-accepted-online-TWpNNE5nPT0 ... cool ... may add the website to WUaS Film wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film

Bishwo -
Actually what was I thinking is that if there will be WUaS graduates in future, they want to join companies. The company I am thinking produce engineering gadgets, widgets and provide solutions to other companies and individuals. WUaS student can explore more on that company with lots of positions.

Scott -
All this is possible ... WUaS would like to plan for jobs for graduates ... some years hence

Bishwo -
yeah that's what I am talking about here. I have cool engineering ideas but haven't establish the company. If you want, we, together, can establish a company
what say?

Scott -
Good idea ... let's keep the communications open about this. ... WUaS wants to be in all 204+ countries, too.

Bishwo -
sure. And I was thinking of establishing company in US
as it will be Multinational Company

Scott -
Let's keep communications open ... WUaS is primarily MIT OCW-centric and university degree focused ... in languages and countries ... but keep developing your plans, with more and more specificity

Bishwo -
Will that be cool?
sure

Scott -
Think in terms of MIT OCW for your company in Nepal in the US ... what can MIT OCW add knowledge wise to your product plans, for example?

Bishwo -
A lot of knowledge can be acquired from it. I have a lot of projects on Compilers and programming language. If that can be achieved, world will be beneficial with the technology and MIT will get more ideas to research on
My ideas will not be just for MIT and it's OCW, its for the world

Scott -
Great ... if someone age 21 graduated with an undergraduate degree from WUaS in computer science, what would they do in your company? Could they intern while they are a student? How much would you pay a 20 year old living in the US, with you in Nepal?

Bishwo -
Well, that depends on the education that guy has. If he's talented then we'll give the position accordingly. And the payment depends upon the success and funding on the venture

Scott -
Depends on how much you'll sell your products / widgets for, too. One idea ... A Nepalese computer translator?

Bishwo -
yeah.
I was thinking of establishing company in US which has a lots of potential for resources than a local company in Nepal

Scott -
What products?

Bishwo -
Programming Languages, Compilers, Gadgets, Widgerts, Mobile Apps --> All in all they will change the feeling of people toward technology

Scott -
Sounds good ... thinking in terms of Android OS makes sense to me ... heading to bed now ... let's keep the communications open ...

Bishwo -
yeah both android and OS X
sure..
take care

Scott -
Cool ... thanks for the film suggestion! Take care ...

Bishwo -
my pleasure

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May 25, 2013, 8:39 am

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Hi J,

Thanks for your email. Would you like to meet on Monday around 1:30 at the Starbucks and maybe head across the street to the Grand Hyatt for a coffee and to talk about these questions in terms of the WUaS accrediting process ahead?

What works for the state of California for educational approval, now online, and what's ideal in terms of the conversation between teacher and student seem to be two different things. But I think the WUaS university spaceship, as we lift off, will be a lot better craft by going through various approval and accreditation processes, and even worldwide.

How to WUaS-instruct MIT and Harvard graduate student instructors teaching to MIT faculty in MIT OCW videos in the Conference Method and teaching, is an interesting question. Of these great universities - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings - I wonder which already do the best in instructing their graduate student instructors in teaching and conversation-generation-as-learning.

Reed College - which emphasizes the Conference Method, beginning with the required course Humanities 110 - hires full time faculty to interact directly with undergraduate students, a direction WUaS may choose to head in, online. And Reed only teaches undergraduates, with no graduate programs to speak of.

When I think of the Conference Method, I come back to the Platonic dialogues and the conversation that ensues there, where out of the discourse, new ideas emerge, and some of those were one-to-one.

See, too, Peter Norvig's fascinating hour-long talk about all of this and learning and teaching online ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/clouded-leopard-great-recent-talk-about.html ... with lots else happening about WUaS in my blog, as well.

This question of teaching and learning will be central to WUaS as we develop in all languages and countries, will be central in accrediting, as we flesh out the details, and will help us focus to become the online MIT / Harvard of the internet in teaching and learning, especially, if at all possible. It will also be something we address and re-address, even through centuries, as well as attempt to measure.

I'm heading to Woolman Center today for their graduation, and partly to do WUaS outreach.

Regards,
Scott

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May 26, 2013, 1:01 pm

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On Sat 25/05/13 8:49 PM , Jeff Gillarde jgillarde@yahoo.com sent:

Scott
Good evening.
I enjoyed making your acquaintance last night. I was so impressed how well spoken and thoughtful all those kids are for there age. I couldn't even imagine getting up in front of a group to publicly speak at their age.
During our conversation, I shared with you the work that I've been doing for several years now with a Mobile Field Station in the Black Rock Desert National Conservation Area. Field Stations are an exciting solution to the problem of university field education being at risk. As you may know, all throughout the US these Stations are hosting students and researchers whom are providing invaluable data to the various land management agencies to make informed decisions.
The Mobile Field Station model servicing the Black Rock Desert National Conservation Area is especially exciting since it has the potential to be replicated throughout the remote lands of the west. (gbmfs.org) Both myself, and the BLM district manager who secured funding for the Station in 2010 shared this vision.
Despite his absence since 2010, positive actions continue to occur which include the writing of an assistance agreement with the first academic partner, purchase of an additional yurt and the initiation of a new website. All these are positive steps but unfortunately high turnover with BLM personnel and heavy workload has caused this project to lose direction and bog down.
As a solution to this problem, I began this winter to inquire as to whether a committee of past Station users could be formed. The purpose of the committee will be to offer assistance to the BLM with the Station's development, conduct outreach about the importance of field stations, seek out creative funding sources and most importantly work on a development plan to implement a network of Mobile Field Stations throughout the West.
Besides contacting past users about the formation of a committee , I am letting it be known to individuals and organizations that I'm associated with in the EE community, that either volunteer or advisory positions with the committee may be available in the future. A tremendous opportunity exists to establish a network of Stations due to the fact that the BLM has made a financial commitment to the Field Station. To let this opportunity pass-by would be a major loss to the public lands mission to support research and education.
Scott, please do contact me if you would like to learn more about the Mobile Field Station and do forward this letter to colleagues or friends who may have an interest in this project. I did check out your website for World University. With the trend in education moving towards the online classroom, I'm sure there will be much interest for the work that you are doing.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend,
Jeff Gillarde

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Hi, Jeff,

Very nice to talk with you as well at the Woolman School Semester graduation at Sierra Friends' Center.

Here's are some related WUaS wiki subject pages ...

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

Biology#World_University_and_School_Links -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Biology#World_University_and_School_Links

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

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

... and there probably are quite a few other wiki pages ... haven't looked into related courseware yet.

Things are busy here, and WUaS hasn't really become financially operational, although we'd like to become the MIT / Harvard of the internet and in all languages (7,105+ languages and 204+ countries), with the possibility of wiki subject pages, as well as MIT OCW-centric courses concerning subjects related to field sites, as well as databases, and sharing of ideas and papers and field work, too, - all at WUaS and very flexibly.

Please edit a page to see how WUaS works, and consider beginning a wiki subject page to focus some of the field station questions you organizing about ... in terms of open teaching and learning.

Best,
Scott

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Hi Jeff,

I also added your informative web page - http://nwnfs.org/ ... Gillarde, Jeff. 2012. Northwest Great Basin: Mobile Field Station. nwnfs.org/ - to WUaS here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Environmental_Studies.

Please add a variety of such helpful resources when inclined.

Do you have a G+ profile? Here's mine (the 'non-company' page, since there's also a G+ WUaS company page) at WUaS ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts.

Thanks.

Regards,
Scott

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May 27, 2013, 12:15 pm

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Welcome, I (and N and Dojo Mouse ... I went to Reed College as well)!

I've enjoyed Kiezlowki's films in the past but haven't seen the film you mention. I've added "A Short Film About Killing" to the World Universities and School's wiki (editable) Subjects ...

Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29 -

Quakers - Religious Society of Friends -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends -

Peace and Social Justice Studies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies -

Ahimsa - Nonviolence - Pacifism - To avoid harming -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ahimsa_-_Nonviolence_-_Pacifism_-_To_avoid_harming -

but not to the Bonobo chimpanzee wiki page at WUaS.

This film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Film_About_Killing) does appear to viewable online for free, at least in Polish, here - http://www.ovguide.com/a-short-film-about-killing-9202a8c04000641f80000000011cfec7.

How can NtFs 'teach peace,' and particularly with regards to abolishing capital punishment, a centuries-old issue among Quakers, I think, and perhaps now among Nontheist Friends, to a whole society, like the United Kingdom, or the British Isles, (or the U.S.), so that thinking about such violence changes in Brit's Hearts and Minds, for example? (What have been historically successful strategies in the UK, and also among Friends?) Approaches to abolishing capital punishment in the United States (which still barbarically has it, where most European and advanced industrial countries don't) involves quite different approaches (some of them state by state here). But I suspect Quakers on both sides of the Atlantic (and around the world) have shared many, many ideas (and books and films +) about this, and for more than a century, perhaps.

Film is a great way to teach peace, and about abolishing capital punishment, especially, (and also about Nontheist Friends and abolishing capital punishment) but especially in shaping a discourse, since film hasn't yet been successful in abolishing capital punishment in the UK or the US, for instance.

In my own "out of the box" thinking about the issue, I come back to a kind of 'common chimpanzee' narrative (concerning human violence, now in the context of the state, but also culturally) - where common chimps do organized violence, whereas Bonobo chimpanzees (see, too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bonobo_chimpanzee and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology) have no known fatalities among themselves, per primatologists. In my speculative reading, humans may share more in common with Pan troglodytes (chimps) than Pan paniscus (Bonobos), in what are both our closest relatives, genetically, and possibly behaviorally. Is it possible among humans to learn from Bonobo, primatological narrative-wise? And is it possible for peace-oriented Friends (NtFs too?) especially to learn from nonharming Bonobos?

Would you like to help develop an "Abolishing Capital Punishment" wiki, subject page (or similar?) at World University and School?

With F/friendly greetings
Scott

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May 28, 2013, 7:02 am

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Hi C, I, and Nontheist Friends,

In terms of Islamophobia, Orientalism, the Internet, online education and World University and School,

you'll find MIT OpenCourseWare's courses translated into Persian here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - but not yet translated in Arabic, one of the main United Nations' languages WUaS plans to develop in first.

Here's the new Persian, wiki subject at WUaS with many MIT OCW courses -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language.

And here's the new, Iran, wiki, subject page at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) ... which I sent to my friend from Iran, who's a graduate student at UC Berkeley, recently, and which will become a MIT OCW-centric university in Iran, potentially in all languages there (Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison).

And here is the Middle East, wiki, subject page at WUaS with its main, growing links ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_East#World_University_and_School_Links ... including beginning, musical ones.

What's the difference between Orientalism and Islamophobia, I wonder? More (societal) fear in the latter?

I wrote a chapter on Orientalism in the online German UNESCO World Heritage Sites' web site - "Treasures of the World" or "Schaetze der Welt" ... http://www.swr.de/schaetze-der-welt/ - suggesting that the German characterizations of these UNESCO WHS expressed a form of Orientalism (per Edward Said ... and it looks like you can read some of my chapter here ... http://books.google.com/books?id=DpYzJqxs9ncC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=German+UNESCO+world+heritage+sites+website+-+Treasures+of+the+World+schaetze+der+welt&source=bl&ots=FvNiws3W7i&sig=Iai8yUEXaQrx1u69lBfvI_Y-sLk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BbejUY24EKmliQK1vYCwDw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=German%20UNESCO%20world%20heritage%20sites%20website%20-%20Treasures%20of%20the%20World%20schaetze%20der%20welt&f=false) - as well as looking at these World Heritage Sites as nascent, online, multimedia destinations. I know less about Islamophobia.

I think online, WUaS MIT OCW-centric education, in Arabic and Persian/Farsi, for example, and even Friendly-informed, as well as NtF-informed (WUaS is Quaker-informed in that open, monthly, business meeting is in the manner of Quakers) may be a way to help think our way out of Islamophobia and Orientalism, as well as create cross-cultural understandings, through University education, ... something Friends in general may have sought to do over centuries, in one way or another. The Quaker school in Ramallah, begun in the mid-late 1800s is one good example of this.

WUaS would like to offer online, free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT-centric university degrees - bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D., as well as I.B. diplomas, - beginning in English, and moving next into the 6 United Nations' languages, and especially in the Middle East, with time.

Many law schools, for example, in respective languages, under one WUaS 'umbrella' will be an important development in international law. C, have you read much in Islamic law, for example, besides the book you mention?

Nontheist Friends, how can we teach and learn about the rich culture and beauties of Islamic civilization, that allows people to move beyond Islamophobia?

With f/Friendly regards,
Scott

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May 29, 2013, 7:08 am

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Hi G, and Universitians,

When I clicked on the Law subject at Australia's University of New England's UNEOpen, - https://www.uneopen.com/app/home/session/L3RpbWUvMTM2OTU4NDIyOC9zaWQvdWkzcVA5cmw= - I didn't find much, but it's interesting to see that this university organization in Australia is building on the global, online, free degree movement, in a specific country.

And the 'market' of students, by offering free degrees, who want online degrees is potentially great - really great - such that WUaS may be able to educate a body of overachievers in an unique way.

I think WUaS's C.C. MIT OCW focus (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), with a Reed College conference method in a Google + Hangouts (https://plus.google.com/hangouts), will potentially offer a highest quality degree, and will also develop as the web, educational technologies and the internet develops.

One of WUaS's goals is both to attract overachieving high school students, and perhaps create them, by creating a very enjoyable, MIT OCW, interactive, learning experience, so that flourishing, enjoyable ('flow' experiences - 'absorbed mind - challenge at the right level') overachieving can be learned, and measured. How is a fascinating question and process.

And California BPPE approval and WASC senior accreditation will help WUaS to avoid a lot of pitfalls that universities have been through in the past.

When I looked up here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_OpenCourseWare - MIT's motivation in creating C.C. MIT OCW, especially in terms of business, it had to do with

- positioning MIT in the distance learning market

- MIT's mission (to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century) and

- is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

I think WUaS can build on all of this, and not only in the U.S. but worldwide in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries, in WUaS's seeking to become the online MIT / Harvard of the Internet.

Regards,
Scott

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WUaS plans to hire many, many student interns (from great universities, especially), and who speak all 7,100+ languages, and from 200+ countries (who may well be studying in the US) ...

see the intern pages, e.g. ... Internship Program at World University and School ... at ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internship_Program_at_World_University_and_School ... with an opportunity to develop a University or school in their country or language ...

a little like Wikidata here ...

http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2013/05/27/one-serving-of-53-amazing-students-please/

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Dear D,

Thanks very much for your email about my first, actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript, and your helpful information especially about rewards for the author, and the finances of publishing. I 'hear what you're saying,' (that the financial remuneration potential isn't great, and publishing a book isn't easy) but I'm also glad to say that World University and School recently received the 'green light' from the State of California to seek BPPE (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education) approval, which goes hand-in-hand with seeking WASC senior (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) approval, and thus is a further step in developing a fully-accredited, online, startup university, building on C.C. MIT OpenCourseWare. Stanford, Cal and UC Davis all have WASC accreditation, for example. And this BPPE approval will also potentially open the way to monies, I think, for WUaS. In a sense, since I'm the founder, president, CEO, professor and head clerk (Quakers) of WUaS, I have an academic position - sort of, but not necessarily one that an academic press would recognize at this point.

Having heard 'no' a little more than a year ago from the university presses at Princeton, MIT, Cambridge UK, and Harvard after writing 3 1/2 chapters, with another 'no' recently from University of California Press, after completing my 9 draft chapters, I think I will continue to pursue placing my manuscript with an academic press.

I think I'll seek to submit a proposal to Yale UP this time, and also, in the process, seek to incorporate their detailed submissions' guidelines - http://peabody.yale.edu/scientific-publications/yale-university-publications-anthropology - into World University and School's online, academic publishing plans - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links- and in many, many subjects and languages. I wonder if the 'social capital' of founding startup, online, Creative Common's licensed World University and School which plans to become the online MIT / Harvard of the internet, and in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries (C.C. MIT OCW has 2,150 courses online, and C.C. Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison), with C.C., university degrees, as well, might help in the publication process. Might I possibly please recommend you as a referee, per Yale's guidelines?

I think publishing with the best university press possible may increase the possibilities of readership as well as monies, and the social capital of publishing at Yale, might lead further to being able to employ graduate student instructors to teach next year in Google + Hangouts at WUaS to MIT OCW video, - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/- and related, financial developments with WUaS. World University and School would like to become a major, academic employer, worldwide; Google, by way of comparison, employs more than 30,000 people, and the University of California employs far more people (180,000 I've read). I think the topic of Harbin itself may appeal (e.g. with its information technology and viritual foci, its clothing-optionalness and nostalgia for the 1960s, and counterculture), and the making of a virtual Harbin in Google Glass, or similar, as ethnographic field site for an actual / virtual comparison, for my second, planned book, may be both appealing to publishers as a new methodology, as well as possibly bring in revenues in actual income for visiting the virtual Harbin, to parallel, anthropologically, the entrance costs of visiting actual Harbin in Lake County. But that is planned for a second book, and not necessarily relevant for this manuscript proposal.

With all this said, I have some rewriting of my manuscript still to do, since I wasn't able to secure the funding to build the virtual Harbin, for this first volume, after the first 3 1/2 chapters, which included planning for building this in the 1st volume. That said, my actual / virtual, Harbin manuscript is far-reaching, and ethnographically examines many generative, anthropological ideas concerning information technology, the virtual, counterculture, hippies, the transforming effects of warm water as a kind of relaxation response meditation, all the intimacy-workshops at Harbin over the decades (e.g. HAI) and the nudity giving rise to a freeing milieu, with echoes from the 1960s, but in the present, when soaking in Harbin's warm pool, while coming into close conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), even as a kind of new, anthropological methodology.

Best,
Scott

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May 31, 2013, 10:51 am

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S:

Great article ... "How do you lead a company through a nuclear accident?" http://qn.som.yale.edu/content/how-do-you-lead-company-through-nuclear-accident ... no mention of the intractable, nuclear-dirt, 100,000s of years' impossible-storage issue ... nor of Germany's clear, nuclear, abolishment plans by 2022 ... but a fascinating, Japanese, TEPCO-CEO, cultural view on the nuclear, business mess there too ... Go Solar!!! :)

(... just got a little 'Ambient Weasther' WR-111B Adventurer Emergency Radio NOAA with a little solar panel and crank handle for electricity generation, both to re-charge a smartphone in an emergency situation, after seeing the film "The Impossible" about a Tsunami that hits Thailand in 2004 and wipes out 240,000 people in days, due to plate-subduction, thinking in terms of earthquake-prone California).

MK writes:

I definitely agree that the severity of the crisis and the ongoing mismanagement is alarming, but alas this is the CEO of the company talking about their own company that they've worked for their entire life. What's most interesting is seeing how a bankrupt government had to bail out a bankrupt company in order to continue doing a mediocre job of containing the worst nuclear crisis since the bombs fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Not exactly reassuring about where the US is going considering our active fault lines, increasingly severe weather, rising sea levels, and 104 nuclear power plants (with more on the way). ...

S:
A little solar panel and crank will now charge a smartphone for internet communications and texting in emergency situations ...

Uncle Sam-Pronuclear governments worldwide ... what is going on? ... Koyanisqatsi (life out of balance) ... glad the new head of the USA's Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a MIT PhD in Geology and here husband is an anthropologist who's written 'Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War' by Hugh Gusterson ... ( Nuclear rhetoric is fascinating and very memetically contagious and viral in a big, global industry ) ... need some good solar options, and they're coming ...

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Here's how to build an Emergency Preparedness Kit ... from the US government ...

http://www.ready.gov/

We've had Fukushima, the earthquake in Virginia last year, and the Tsunami in Thailand in 2004. And I live in earthquake prone California.

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I added the above article to the WUaS, Nuclear Science and Engineering, wiki page which will become an academic department, and in many languages ...

Nuclear Science:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering

And here's one of many solar pages at WUaS ...

Solar Energy:

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

All accessible here at ...

Energy Technologies#World_University_and_School_Links

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies#World_University_and_School_Links

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Jessica from Reed '12 writes:

Hello! This is my first time using the Reed Switchboard (yay!)

I am currently studying optometry at Pacific University College of Optometry, but I am on summer break and staying in SE Portland (Clackamas/Happy Valley area) until the end of August. Since this is the last summer break that I will ever have, I decided that I did not want to spend it in an optometry practice because I will probably be doing that for the rest of my life. I wanted to spend this summer doing something different!

I have been on summer break for 3 weeks. So far, I have taken on random offers like being a caregiver for my grandparents with Alzheimer’s for a week, and I also did some dog-sitting for my neighbor for a week. I majored in biology at Reed but like a lot of people at Reed, I consider myself to have a wide range of interests. But for now, I would appreciate any opportunity where I can directly interact with people, or any opportunity in a small business/management setting because I am interested in becoming a private practice optometrist in the future. I have searched and applied for a few volunteering opportunities in Portland through the internet (like Outside-In), but most of them are 6-month commitments. I am available for 3 months any day, any time!

I am eager to hear back from Switchboard and THANK YOU for reading my post!

http://beta.reedswitchboard.com/posts/311-jessica--12-seeks-short-term-summer-volunteering-job-internship-in-pdx

Hi Jessica,

World University and School has volunteer internship opportunities, -

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

with face-to-face possibilities in Google + group video Hangouts. WUaS is a wiki, startup, online university, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with plans to matriculate our first undergraduate students in the the autumn of 2014. WUaS plans to offer online, C.C., bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD diplomas and in many languages and countries, with potential overlap with your optometry focus. As a wiki, startup university, there are great, creative opportunities in developing WUaS.

Email me if you’re interested in exploring helping to develop WUaS online further - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - while living in Portland this summer. (I’m planning to attend the reunion around Saturday, June 15, if you’d like to chat in person then).

Cheers, Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

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

Scott also posts more generally to the Reed switchboard …

Hi Reedies,

World University and School has volunteer opportunities for summer internships - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internship_Program_at_World_University_and_School. WUaS is a wiki, startup, online university, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with plans to matriculate our first undergraduate students in the the autumn of 2014. WUaS plans to offer online, C.C., bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD diplomas and in many languages and countries, with much, potential overlap with your studies at Reed, or creative ones of your choosing. As a wiki, startup university, there are numerous, great, academic and information technological opportunities in developing WUaS.

Email me if you’re interested in exploring helping to develop WUaS online further - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - while living in Portland or elsewhere this summer. (I’m planning to attend the Reed reunion around Saturday, June 15, if you’d like to chat about this in person then).

Cheers, Scott

worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
http://scottmacleod.com

worlduniversityandschool AT gmail DOT com

http://beta.reedswitchboard.com/posts/115-scott--85-volunteer-at-world-university-and-school--like-wikipedia-with-mit-ocw

Hi Scott,

Thanks for replying to my post on Reed Switchboard. Your project sounds very interesting, and thanks for presenting the opportunity to me, but I personally don't believe that people in the health professions, especially, should ever be granted a professional degree through an exclusive online education. Furthermore, a few years ago, I set up an account on Second Life as well as checked out other simulation games, but I quickly realized that I am simply not interested in immersing myself in virtual worlds. I just think that I would not be a good volunteer for WUaS because my philosophy may be a lot different from yours, and I don't think it would be a good idea for me to invest time into something I do not believe in.

Thank you so much again for reaching out! I cannot make it to the reunion, but maybe I will meet you someday. Best of luck with WUaS!

Jessica

Hi Jessica,

Thanks so much for your email.

I'm excited about the growing, online, educational opportunities that will benefit so many people around the world, like MIT OpenCourseWare's 2,150 courses. I took a Stanford Coursera course last autumn and enjoyed the interaction in Google + group video Hangouts, and made friends around the world - one who is working on Synthetic Biology from Europe - see for example ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_Biology - and WUaS got 3 new Board members in this course - from Greece, Spain and Indonesia - thanks to the G+ Hangout technologies.

And free, (since C.C.), STEM-centric, MIT OCW-centric, WUaS degrees in many countries and languages will benefit so many people.

As a wiki, WUaS, like Wikipedia (which is now in 285 languages and we all wrote it), is very open-ended, both academically and otherwise. The cool thing about WUaS is that you, or anyone, can teach to your web camera, for example, or start a wiki page in a Subject you're interested in, and which might further one's studies, and lead to instructional experience.

Here's a link to the growing, Health Sciences and Technology, wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Health_Sciences_and_Technology#World_University_and_School_Links - which anyone can edit or add to, but which has a great universities' focus. (And here's the beginning Medical School, for future reference - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School#World_University_and_School_Links). Both of these, and indeed, all of WUaS, will develop a lot over the years.

But I hear you, and thanks again for your email.

Regards,
Scott

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See, too ...

Internship Program at WUaS:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internship_Program_at_World_University_and_School

Volunteers at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers

WUaS Intern positions: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Intern_positions

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Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html

... added this 'Desiderata' to the Philosophy, wiki, subject in its new, 'Select Poetry' subsection there (with this subsection planned in all WUaS Subjects) ...

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

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Dear Paul,

Per your email below, with very helpful language, I'm a little nervous about starting to make calls to the few, previous donors to World University and School. What's the best time to call?, ... Is leaving a message a good idea?, ... What to say? ... mention the $17,500 goal or not?, etc., ... are all questions that go through my mind.WUaS really needs to develop financially.

Happily, World University and School got the 'green light' from the state of California (BPPE) to seek state approval, which means we can also begin to accredit with WASC senior, so WUaS needs to raise about $17,500.00 to pay the fees of these accrediting organizations, initially, in the next month.

I guess I'll just make some of these calls, - I asked one small business owner in person last week, and called one previous WUaS donor at two different numbers, also last week.

Eventually, WUaS will be seeking a WUaS Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Head_of_Fundraising_and_Fiduciary_Responsibility.

I'd like to change my mode of thinking about fundraising (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising) so as to enjoy the process of connecting and building relationships ... around this idea of free, multi-lingual MIT OCW-centric education and degrees at WUaS.

Friendly regards,

Scott

"Which of the following appeals are you more likely to respond to?

"Thank you for your support. We appreciate the $1,000 you gave last year. I was hoping you would consider a gift of $1,500 this year. Since we have lost some of our foundation funding, it would be great if you could help us with an increased gift."
"We are so fortunate to have you as a member of our family. It was great to see you at the gala a few months ago. You told me then that you were planning a trip to Europe. How was it? Last year, your contribution helped us to offer free admission to children from inner city schools who had never been in a museum before. Would you consider a gift of $1,500 to help us continue that program - I know how concerned you are about exposing children to art."

Of course, the second is more compelling."

(http://www.jumpstartgrowth.com/)

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June 4, 2013, 9:35 am

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New, 'Assessment and Grading at WUaS as Part of Conversation in Learning,' wiki, subject page at World University and School ...

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

which will develop a lot in conjunction with seeking BPPE (Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education) approval in the state of California and in accrediting with WASC senior (Western Association of Schools and Colleges).

Presently,

"WUaS plans to hire graduate student instructors from great universities who may be becoming professors, to teach overachieving, matriculated, WUaS students in sections in G+ group video Hangouts, for example, engaging the Conference Method (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning), in conjunction MIT OCW faculty in video (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), and to do grading at WUaS as part of a conversation in learning. Such courses may engage other forms of grading, but that will partly be up to the head graduate student instructor in any given course."

(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assessment_and_Grading_at_WUaS_as_Part_of_Conversation_in_Learning#Ideas)

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WUaS plans to build on student assessment and grading practices at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Reed College, Haverford and Swarthmore, and online successes, particularly Udacity (http://blog.udacity.com/), etc., especially in terms of learning as conversation.

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With all the wonderful potential of MOOCs, especially in terms of information technologies and scaling, some of which WUaS will engage, WUaS doesn't want to get rid of the teachers in the learning process.

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June 5, 2013, 10:45 am

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Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS)

Hi Kimberly,

It's exciting to see your post from last year.

In many ways, I think World University and School, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, does what you've outlined in your G+ post ( http://goo.gl/D2cM2 - from Oct 11, 2012 ) - and we've aggregated many, but not all, of the links you have there, as a wiki. And WUaS just got the 'green light' from the state of California to accredit to offer free, online, C.C. university degrees (somewhat MIT OCW-centric, and for multiple languages, with their translated courses).

WUaS is planning to be in all 7,105+ languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) and 204 + countries (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States), offering online, university and I.B. degrees in many countries in those languages; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison. WUaS is planning to move to the newly developed Wikidata repository, a database written with Wikipedia's 285 languages in mind, for inter-lingual reasons.

I've talked for an hour on the phone recently with Creative Commons' director of Global Learning, Cable Green, and took an hour long walk with Howard Rheingold (we both went to Reed College) about a year ago. I've also talked with Peter Norvig for 20 minutes on the phone not too long ago. And I've also met with Michael Rouan at Stanford about 2 years ago.

Would you like to chat on the phone about this, and perhaps meet to explore this further?

Regards,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com

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I added this G+ post to the 'Courses' page at World University and School in the References' section ...

Hayworth, Kimberly. 2012. Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS). Stanford, CA: goo.gl/D2cM2.

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Kimberly Hayworth

kimhwrth@stanford.edu

Envisioning A Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS)

Executive Summary

I originally posted this just to get all the threads I'd been seeing around an open educational system together in one place. I had hoped by doing that, people could start to see the connections of how such a system might fit together. The amount of new ideas and refinements that have been added by the Google + community have been incredible.

I think a Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS) is about people getting just-in-time information automatically delivered to them via any device when they need it. Because the content would have been updated and vetted by a vast community it would be absolutely up-to-date, accurate and relevant. Because industry would have contributed to learning objectives based on needed skillsets, people would be able to get certification, mentoring and internships and be able to go to work as soon as they finish a learning sequence. Because it would be open there would be no exorbitant charges for people to access this information (or in the case of Elsevier their own content.) Because it would contain the knowledge of our greatest thinkers in addition to the wisdom of crowds it would change the world.

I had envisioned this as all open source with the Learning Registry http://www.learningregistry.org as a central repository for Learning Resources Metadata Initative (LRMI) http://www.lrmi.net tagged content with support for API/hooks into and out of proprietary systems like Blackboard.

With Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) http://bit.ly/sslwcJ we could use the analytics http://bit.ly/sJWsk4 to track students over time, provide individualized scaffolding and support microformats.org/wiki/gift with low stakes Q&A +James Salsman +Martin Dougiamas both online and in-person http://bit.ly/sIH62W perk for the f2f Stanford contingent +Howard Rheingold , not to mention the networking opportunities and individualized interactions possible with Ed Roulette http://goo.gl/MZzo0 +Mike Caulfield then publish it out to an ePortfolio http://sourceforge.net/projects/ospi/ +Helen L. Chen students could take with them after graduation. The ideal system would also support peer-reviewed publication for scholarly content +Elijah Meeks that could then be used in the curriculum and institutional repository, Electronic Theses and Dissertations http://bit.ly/vw4c1Z Hannah Frost.

See +Luis von Ahn TED Talk on Massive Scale online collaboration: http://bit.ly/rKnkGZ With 160k + enrollments, crowd sourcing on this type of research could be incredible. G+ hangouts with luminaries in the field, synchronous or asynchronous communication for those who are shy about participating in a large group setting...VERY large group setting.

Using eTextbooks http://bit.ly/uEghWw http://bit.ly/v1gwLu /digital interactive apps would make it more effective http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/ with a mobile learning option http://bit.ly/uKbVCG. All the data would be LRMI tagged with paradata that would send content to subscribers who could use it most. +Cable Green describes this scenario http://bit.ly/w3sCA0

Localization teams could also work with various local instructional technologists and training staff to tailor content and language for local cultures. (Thanks +Harring Figueiredo )

Ideally, this could be funded via one or more foundations ( Gates, Mellon, Hewlett ?)

The questions raised about actually operationalizing from here are crucial:
How the business model could work here ?
Who are the stakeholders and decision makers ?
Who provides/sources funding ?
Is there a plan to bring all of the Open Source material to one center ?

(Thanks +Eileen O'Duffy )

We're collaborating with +Gregory Esau and the the #Glia circle http://goo.gl/JgyFv http://goo.gl/w7v6Y

What are we missing? What is mission critical? What is feasible with existing infrastructure? What do we have to build ?

Special thanks to +Ryan Crowe sorry for monopolizing your thread. http://bit.ly/ufmfAn

It's been a huge help for me in organizing my thoughts/stream of consciousness:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts

It was a great exercise to try and organize everything from all the G+ posting I've been doing the last couple of weeks while researching around the idea of an open educational system.

Resources

Massive Online Collaboration
+Luis von Ahn TED Talk
http://bit.ly/rKnkGZ

Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)
http://bit.ly/sslwcJ

MOOCs at Stanford
http://bit.ly/w0omh2
http://bit.ly/t003XH
http://bit.ly/ujnneE

+Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun's Fall 2011 Artificial Intelligence Class
http://bit.ly/vQxIWa
(Please use Chrome or Safari to view timecode links.)

Coursera
https://www.coursera.org

Free, online courses from Stanford, Princeton, University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania, Georgia Tech, Duke University, University of Washington, Caltech, Rice University, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), Johns Hopkins University (School of Public Health), UCSF, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia.

Udacity
http://www.udacity.com

EdX
http://www.edxonline.org

EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley and Harvard University to offer free online learning to millions of people around the world.

Pedagogical/Andragogical Methodologies

Digital Media Learning http://dmlcentral.net
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/steve-hargadon-reimagining-education-networked-participatory-social-global

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/debating-the-flipped-classroom-at-stanford/34811
Read the comments. Robert Talbot and +Derek Bruff have added some especially thoughtful insights .

Next Generation Teaching and Learning
http://ngtl.ischool.berkeley.edu
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/bryan-alexander-emerging-learning-technologies (+Bryan Alexander )

http://www.youtube.com/howardrheingold

+Howard Rheingold

InCites http://www.stanford.edu/group/incites/cgi-bin/wordpress
+claudia engel +Jeremy Sabol

http://www.stanford.edu/~kenro
iTunesU, iBooks, and the Future of Teaching http://goo.gl/Friuy
+Kenneth Romeo

http://bit.ly/ujnneE
+Daphne Koller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogical_learning_theory

Ed Roulette Wire Frame Walk Through
http://screencast.com/t/kqERjpdre
+Mike Caulfield +Jim Groom +Tim Owens

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
http://dschool.stanford.edu/

Open Educational Resources
http://bit.ly/tl01vM

Metadata Standards
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative http://www.lrmi.net
Metadata & Paradata (data about how content was used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27603
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI

Capture Platforms + Repositories?
ClassX http://classx.stanford.edu
OpenCast Matterhorn http://opencast.org
Entwine http://entwinemedia.com
Kaltura http://kaltura.org (.edu's are using SaaS or on-prem not community version)

Collaborative Learning Environments
http://sakaiproject.org (Stanford CourseWork https://coursework.stanford.edu)
http://courseware.stanford.edu (Stanford MOOCs - currently no integration with CourseWork)
http://moodle.org

Platforms for Sharing
Open Classroom http://openclassroom.stanford.edu (Stanford MOOCs - currently no integration with CourseWork)
The Open University http://www.open.ac.uk
Wikimedia http://www.wikimedia.org
Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
Learning Registry http://www.learningregistry.org
MERLOT http://bit.ly/sSsHzl
Open Course Library http://bit.ly/uOBovF
CUNY Academic Commons https://plus.google.com/u/0/115537930517533216680/posts
Connexions http://cnx.org
iTunes U http://itunes.stanford.edu
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Entrepreneurship Corner http://ecorner.stanford.edu
Open Content Archive http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2113 (via +Nathan Finley )
Scholarly Communication Institute http://www.uvasci.org/current-work
Open Academic Analytics Initiative (OAAI) http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/HarnessingthePowerofTechnology/242798 (via +John Whitmer )

Learning Analytics
Khan Academy software: http://bit.ly/sJWsk4 +salman khan
http://bit.ly/spWZ9H

ASU & Knewton adaptive learning platform http://bit.ly/ryNIlD
http://bit.ly/tuRYUj

Learning Resources Metadata Initiative
http://www.lrmi.net

Learning Registry
http://www.learningregistry.org/

Educause
Open Educational Resources: Access, Impact, and Sustainability Through Policy
http://bit.ly/w3sCA0

+Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
Creative Commons

& Joel M. Smith
CIO and Vice Provost
Carnegie Mellon University

eTextbooks
http://bit.ly/uEghWw
http://bit.ly/v1gwLu
http://bit.ly/tqAxn5
http://bit.ly/s2jviG
http://bit.ly/ucZulR
http://bit.ly/s17q8D
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com

http://bit.ly/tj6cPl (thanks +Jeff Jockisch )

Digital Interactive Apps
http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

TED Talk with the Push Pop Press developer
http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html

Challenge is that Facebook acquired Push Pop Press...no more titles and no more sharing of publishing platform. All proprietary now to FB.

Decoupling
M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses, Offering Certificates
http://bit.ly/uRqgb0 (Thanks to +Phil Wagner for sharing this)

MITx: The Next Chapter for University Credentialing? | Inside Higher Ed
http://bit.ly/u650uK

Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education
(ID: LIVE1128). Moderator: Diana Oblinger (EDUCAUSE).
Speaker: +David Wiley (Brigham Young University).
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts/VXdT1kitKE9

The idea of openness, popularized by open source and open educational resources, pertains to more than just software and textbooks. In this session, we will briefly explore issues related to the affordability and availability of higher education, examine how the principle of openness is already making concrete improvements in these areas, and discuss future models for radically improving access suggested by current trends.

Learning objectives could include support for consulting with industry to determine baseline skillsets for entry level and beyond. Get certified, badges?

http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/download_the_edupunks_guide_to_a_diy_credential_free.html

Mozilla Open Badges Project
https://www.edsurge.com/n/peer-2-peer-university-p2pu-mozilla-s-open-badges

Mozilla is exploring badges as an alternative pathway to accreditation and credentialing. It includes the development of a broad and open infrastructure that can support the growing badge ecosystem and let learners create a living transcript of skills and achievements.

Mobile Learning
http://mobile.stanford.edu
http://bit.ly/uKbVCG

15 Education And Learning Startups You Need To Know
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936089053490488674/posts/64icPV9gdhy

Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2011
http://bit.ly/trssHW
Thank you +Audrey Watters for all your insightful views on Ed Tech.
Your articles on http://www.hackeducation.com, Edutopia, O'Reilly Radar, and KQED's MindShift are fantastic resources.
http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/07/19/the-wrath-against-khan-why-some-educators-are-questioning-khan-academy
Plus we get a bonus when you post comments on G+
Your articles are the source of much of my shared content in G+

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Could Come Soon, What Would They Mean?
http://bit.ly/t1Nqdf

Imagining the Future of Higher Education
+Kenneth Romeo
Stanford Academic Technology Specialist

Thoughtful analyses and strategic thinking. The best part is that he writes it all down and shares it
http://bit.ly/uw7g8i

New Media Consortium
http://www.nmc.org
http://www.nmc.org/news/submit-projects-horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition

NMCTab list is also a fantastic resource for ideas, tips, recommendations and finding collaborators.

EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
http://bit.ly/cUHk01 (7 Things You Need to Know...)

Professional Development/Training
EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/pd
Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
Lynda.com http://lynda.com
Video2Brain http://www.video2brain.com/en
Ripple Training http://www.rippletraining.com
Hack the Future: http://www.hackthefuture.org
HackerSpace http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces

Conferences
EDUCAUSE http://net.educause.edu/node/31
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative http://www.educause.edu/ELI2012
New Media Consortium http://www.nmc.org/events/summer-conference-2012-mit

Journals
Vectors http://vectors.usc.edu
+Tara McPherson

Community
http://www.educause.edu/community
http://www.meetup.com/boston-edu-video/events/past
http://www.stanford.edu/group/vmg
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KLTR/Home (still working on populating content)
http://blog.kaltura.org

Thanks and I'd love to hear feedback. I'm sure there are some things missing.

Please feel free to share but I'd appreciate if you would refer folks back to this post (http://goo.gl/D2cM2) for commenting and suggestions for improvement so we can keep everything consolidated.

-Kimberly

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Trying to nominate World University and School for the TED Prize ...

http://www.ted.com/prize ...

here's the beginning of my application ...

Nominating myself, with humbleness ...

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Nominate yourself for the 2014 TED Prize

Please complete the form below to nominate yourself. Or you can nominate an individual other than yourself with this form.

Nominations for the 2014 TED Prize will close at 11:59pm ET on Sunday, June 16, 2013.

Job title

.Founder, President, CEO, Head Clerk and Professor

Company / organization

.World University and School

Description of company / organization

.For example, “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. They believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world.”

.World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare - is an open, teaching and learning, platform wiki, with free, onine, C.C., accredited, MIT OCW-centric, university and high school degrees and diplomas planned, in many countries and languages. WUaS is planning to be in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries, as wiki schools; Wikipedia is in 285 languages by way of comparison, and MIT OCW has about 2,150 Creative Commons' licensed courses, and also has courses in about 10-20 different languages. WUaS facilitates people-to-people teaching; teach to your web camera, or begin a new wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - at WUaS, for example. WUaS just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process with BPPE as well as WASC senior in order to be able to offer, online, C.C. degrees. Here's a good, information technological overview of WUaS: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/three-main-it-foci-at-world-university.html.

Nationality

USA

What is your relationship to TED, if any:

.TED Fan

Contact Information

Email Address

.worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Country

USA

Please provide up to three links about yourself

.Link 1
.http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

.Link 2
.http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com

.Link 3
.http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm

Work & Achievements

Why do you think you should win the TED Prize?

.Open, free, Creative Commons' MIT OCW-centric and STEM (since MIT-centric), university degrees, in many languages and countries, as well as wiki-schools in 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries will change the world, and help so many people. As the founder, president, CEO, head clerk and a professor at startup, online World University and School, these are all reasons I think I should win the TED Prize. WUaS is planning to offer online, bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas, in many languages with large numbers of speakers of that language, and in those countries.

How have you already impacted the world?

.World University and School became an educational corporation in the state of California, and received 501 (3) (c) tax-exempt status in 2011 (and accreditation with WASC senior for undergraduate degrees in a 3 stage process), all of which are foundational in terms of WUaS and my already having impacted the world.

Name three of your most respected peers in this discipline. How does your work compare or contrast with theirs?

.Sal Khan: I appreciate how he's taught to his web camera, much of which WUaS has aggregated, or will aggregate, in WUaS wiki, Subject pages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and elsewhere in the WUaS wiki. I also appreciate Sal's thinking about how online learning works, as well as learning, and thinking through specific interventions for improvement, from personally teaching online to his cousin, to measuring results, to bringing Khan Academy to real life school situations.

.Sebastian Thrun: I appreciate how Sal Khan both cotaught, with Peter Norvig, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence," and attracted 160,000 students, of which about %7 finished the course. Based on promising results from Udacity's remedial math and statistic's teaching courses and software, but no definitive evidence, I also appreciate how Sebastian made a private-public deal with the State of California to offer Udacity approaches to San Jose State University students. Not only does this offer an alternative approach to SJSU faculty's teaching of these required-by-the-state courses, this private-public arrangement also may be offering incentive to California State faculty to change their approaches to teaching.

.Peter Norvig: I appreciate Peter's theoretical framing of Theories of Learning, vis-a-vis what online education, particularly STEM-centric approaches, can offer students.

.WUaS wants to include the conference method in all of this, to include interactivity, with teachers, as well as conversation. How WUaS instructs its graduate instructors in teaching matriculated WUaS students via the Conference Method (like at Reed College) in Google + group video Hangouts, will be significant.

What are you currently working on?

.Having just completed writing the nine, draft chapters of my first Harbin book project, I'm preparing the first volume of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book for publication, with plans to submit a proposal to Yale University Press. In the second volume in my Harbin Project, I'm planning to build a virtual Harbin for actual / virtual ethnographic comparison, probably in digital glasses, and not in OpenSim (where I built the first virtual Harbin, but this was stolen) or in Second Life, as I initially planned.

List three of your most outstanding previous accomplishments (include awards, published works, etc.).

.book chapter

.blog

.teaching "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard's virtual Island in Second Life for 7 semesters

.first steps in WUaS developments - incorporation and 501 c 3 status

What is the largest team and budget you have overseen? Please describe:

.WUaS Board ...

Please provide links to video clips of, or about you.

.For example, a recent talk, presentation, interview, etc.

.Link 1
.http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

.Link 2
.http://www.youtube.com/worldunivandsch

.Link 3
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op2W_V5xUtM

Please provide links to articles written about you.

.We suggest submitting articles from a variety of outlets to illustrate diverse perspectives about you.

.Link 1
.http://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/Triathlon-Lures-372-Athletes-One-Bagpiper.html

.Link 2
.http://blip.tv/the-next-step/thenextstep-73-opensourcelearning-5974437

.Link 3
.http://ethnolust.com/2011/11/07/more-on-word-university-and-school/

Your TED Prize Wish

What is your TED Prize wish?

.Build online World University and School in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries, with free, MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in many languages and countries.

Which categories does the wish best fall under, if any? Choose up to 3, or enter your own.

 Education, MIT OCW, Wikipedia 

Is this wish at the cutting edge of your discipline? If so, how?

.Yes, because free, online, university degrees, that are MIT- and STEM-centric don't exist, let along in all languages and countries, under one umbrella. As a corollary, 200 law schools under one WUaS umbrella don't also exist.

Describe the team – current or future – that you imagine helping you execute on your Prize plan

.Current Board Members ...

.great universities' focus

.hiring graduate student instructors (who may become professors eventually) from great universities in all languages to build out WUaS, and teach online in conjunction with MIT faculty (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), using the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)

.at least as big, or bigger, in the English language, as the 180,000 people employed by the University of California, but beginning perhaps with as many team members, each, in the 6 United Nations' languages, and grow from there into all languages.

If you were to win the TED Prize, what would you realistically have to show after one year? What are the early wins?

.matriculated, undergraduate class of 2000 students, in English, taking MIT OCW video courses engaging the conference method ... with MIT / Harvard graduate students instructing

The $1 million award will be paid out on a timeline of up to three years in order to match the needs of the winner and the pace of the project. How do you imagine the $1 million might be apportioned and paced, in your case?

.building out degrees, and in many languages, and infrastructure for this ...

Leveraging the TED Community

How familiar are you with the TED ecosystem? Among the TED community, TEDx organizers are a passionate and action oriented group of collaborators who would be excited to support the TED Prize.

They tend to be self-starters, hard workers, and highly creative—and they’re spread out all over the world. How do you imagine engaging them through your wish?

.would love to give talks around the world to find overachieving students, and to invite wiki engagement ...

How do you imagine engaging the public beyond TED, in the realization of your wish?

.finding overachievers, as well as volunteer teachers and editors at large

Anything else we should know about you?

.WUaS would like to develop a Music School, for instruction and jamming ... in all 7,105+ languages with a wiki page for each musical instrument.

.I play the bagpipes"

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The TED Prize is for 1 million dollars over 3 years ...

WUaS would no longer be stunted with such monies ...

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June 7, 2013, 12:35 pm

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Hi G,

Looking forward to seeing you Thursday at the airport in Portland, and thanks!

Per potentially meeting with Reed College President John Kroger in person, ideally on Friday, June 14, 2013 during ReedFayre (a very busy day for him, probably), here are some items at the top of my WUaS agenda (as well as for a Paideia-like event):

- open long-term WUaS collaboration with Reed,

- Hum 110 in live video with various professors (MWF 9-1030 am Pacific Time), and with Reed instruction to WUaS graduate student instructors (ideally Reedies matriculated as graduate students elsewhere - MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and other great universities) for teaching the conference method in G+ Hangouts ... accessible live online in the United States and Malaysia, for example, for creating online university community and developing WUaS teaching and learning method online

- Reedie donors for hiring Reedie WUaS interns

- new Reedie Board members,

- WUaS graduate programs as collaboration - Ph.D. (2015), law (2016) and M.D. (2017), all in English, to begin - with Reedies as prospective, online students ... like Stanford and Berkeley, etc.

- Reedies with other languages (as 1st language) hired as interns for WUaS's 7105 languages and 204 countries, each a wiki-subject-page-school to begin

See you soon.

Regards,

Scott

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Woolly mammoth: June 8 2013 World University and School, monthly, hour-long, business meeting, - open and welcoming - and with video minutes

June 8, 2013, 11:53 am

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Here's the recording of today's June 8, 2013, World University and School, monthly, hour-long, business meeting, - open and welcoming - as innovative minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCIDcRtS6Y

Updated agenda:

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-8-2013world-university-and-school.html

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Alabama cavefish: New Lasers' wiki subject at WUaS

June 9, 2013, 7:00 am

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New-ish Lasers' wiki subject at WUaS -

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

with 7 MIT OCW courses,

and as wiki for open teaching and learning.

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Markhor: For international students ... college checklists for june - http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/india/2013/06/06/for-international-students-college-checklists-for-june/, particularly germane for WUaS, ... especially in terms of WUaS's business plan, and fundraising from governments (nation states' and local) and companies, Admissions at WUaS, The College at WUaS, and Ph.D. Degrees at WUaS

June 10, 2013, 10:57 am

≫ Next: Persian leopard: More on Islamophobia, Orientalism, Nonharming vis-a-vis nontheist F/friends and Quakers, and Academia, Malcolm X and American Islamophobia, Here are the WUaS, Arabic language, and the Persian language, wiki, subject pages, with many MIT OCW courses in Persian, And here's the Middle East wiki, subject page with links, with the current, beginning, country pages there, Each WUaS, language and country, wiki page will become a university or school in those Middle Eastern languages and nation states

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For international students college checklists for june ...

For International Students, College Checklists for June

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/india/2013/06/06/for-international-students-college-checklists-for-june/ ...

Offering a plan and some strategies for students, this NYT's article is particularly germane for World University and School,

... especially in terms of WUaS's business plan, and fundraising from governments (nation states' and local) and companies, for free MIT OCW-centric and Yale OYC-centric, Creative Commons' licensed, university degrees (bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas).

WUaS plans to enroll overachieving students eventually (potentially) from every country around the world for online, university degrees.

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Admissions at WUaS

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

The College at WUaS

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

Ph.D. Degrees at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School.

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