Hi P and K,
Great to talk with you today, K, and nice to e-meet you P here.
World University and School would like to create online CC MIT OCW-centric, potentially Project-Based Learning online I.B. degrees - in most countries' main languages in the next few years.
This would include both WUaS growing this as a wiki emerging out of Wikidata/Wikibase (CC Wikipedia's database developing with machine learning, machine translation and A.I. - in 358 languages currently) but also engaging Google Education on Air (which this email address is in). High school students would be able to study for their I.B. high school diplomas from the comfort of the their own homes in all countries (and in their own languages) in the world, and interact with their cohort and with teachers in group video, such as Google group video Hangouts, and MIT UnHangouts.
This would include both WUaS growing this as a wiki emerging out of Wikidata/Wikibase (CC Wikipedia's database developing with machine learning, machine translation and A.I. - in 358 languages currently) but also engaging Google Education on Air (which this email address is in). High school students would be able to study for their I.B. high school diplomas from the comfort of the their own homes in all countries (and in their own languages) in the world, and interact with their cohort and with teachers in group video, such as Google group video Hangouts, and MIT UnHangouts.
For planning purposes, here's the I.B. wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia
Because of the Creative Commons' licensing, and that the following MIT OCW high school (https://ocw.mit.edu/high-scho
WUaS seeks to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet in all countries' languages offering CC Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. diplomas.
Would you and K be interested in forming a team to develop a MIT OCW-centric online I.B. degree, first in English, but extensible into many languages, (and potentially accrediting in their countries) which WUaS might further facilitate?
If you have the time, P, let's schedule a phone conversation - what might be good times for you for this, if you are available?
Great to talk with you, K - and thanks for the inspiration re transforming education!
All the best,
Scott
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Hi P and K,
WUaS had an extended email communication with Cecilia (Cec) d'Oliveira, MIT Associate Dean of Digital Learning, this spring further clarifying how MIT OCW's Creative Commons' licensing works, - in part that WUaS can "share" and "adapt" it (e.g. add it to Wikdiata), but that's it's also a non-commercial license, for example.
All the best,
Scott
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About Cecilia (Cec) d'Oliveira, MIT Associate Dean of Digital Learning
Cecilia (Cec) d’Oliveira is Associate Dean of Digital Learning, with responsibilities for OpenCourseWare (OCW) and MITx on edX, ODL’s two major open education initiatives. Cec served as the Executive Director of OCW from 2008 to 2014.
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