Atanga - African pear: WUaS developing a first year undergraduate course of study in all 3 of WUaS's pilot languages of English, Spanish and Chinese - say of 10 courses in each language, but no CC MIT OCW-into-MITx mineshaft this year ... :), Geology of gold deposits: If CC MIT OCW is the gold mine or motherlode ...

Dear Enrique, Cecilia, Anant and Larry,

Thanks so much for our conversation today, Enrique. As a recap, the sub-licensing language of MITx which Cecilia had mentioned in passing recently for MITx-out-of-CC-MIT-OCW isn't currently possible, but might be possible in the future if WUaS were able to generate a successful pilot project this upcoming year, for example. And this might include, for example, WUaS developing a first year undergraduate course of study (potentially in all 3 of WUaS's pilot languages of English, Spanish and Chinese - say of 10 courses in each language ... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) toward free CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric undergraduate WUaS Bachelor degrees. If WUaS is able to accomplish this, WUaS might be able to re-examine sub-licensing the free CC4 MIT OCW-into-MITx courses here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - for both Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees, and potentially in many languages.

As for funding language, Cecilia's and my previous correspondence and the CC4 licensing of MIT OpenCourseWare license CC World University and School to seek donations by fundraising from governments (e.g. Ministries of Education) in all ~200 countries official languages, - re reimbursement if asked, potentially using Yale's $51,400 per student/year per GDP as a benchmark, for example. And this is language that meets the CC MIT OCW licensing attributes, as I understand it from our conversation.

Per Cecilia, we are including the following in all our web page development:

"MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu)"

Re further clarification, at this point WUaS can begin to develop, share and adapt the CC MIT OCW in multiple languages in Wikidata/MediaWiki and with regard, for example, to the MIT OCW information in World University and School's course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible here http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

Thank you.

Sincerely, Scott

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Betsy: What an extraordinary offering Scott! I'm not sure what the connection is with the Astanga but I use to love eating them in Gabon where I served with the Peace Corps!

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Scott: Thanks for your thought, Betsy ... been beginning my daily blog post with something natural for years now, sometimes there's a connection with a post, sometimes a disjunction ... natural artistic moments all (and MIT OCW is low hanging fruit 　 ... see, too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/geology-of-gold-deposits-if-cc-mit-ocw.html ... but no CC MIT OCW-into-MITx mineshaft this year ... :)

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