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Here's the WUaS Hangout on Air itself:

Romania WUaS re A) @WorldUnivAndSch B) @WUaSPress

https://youtu.be/cqLy-OaFX-8

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Hi Julian,

Thanks again for your engagement.

3. In World Univ & Sch seeking to develop a Stanford online culture at WUaS - ie. to become world class - I think one of Nils Nilsson's points is that Stanford CS ADAPTED to what students wanted/what kept their interest, whereas MIT, for example, might not have (see his transcribed text in my blog post). It's a kind of excellence, smart empathy and connecting (perhaps California-informed too) re academics, that informs this ethos. And Stanford CS, coming through Stanford's 1960s' freedoms and civil rights & Vietnam War protests (with social justice in mind), has been in a position to hire the best (ie they've prospered and grown). Stanford CS also has had a very close relationship with Google since its inception in 1996, and Google's successes across it platforms may be attributable to the "algorithmic effect" (think Stanford CS Prof Don Knuth - also in the Stanford Historical Society video -

Creating World Class Computer Science at Stanford

https://youtu.be/eDs4mRPJonU - with Nils) - and which will develop, for example, with Google Translate/GNMT, and now with Tensor Flow. And WUaS has Google Education for free.

4.1 Here are Stanford and UC Berkeley examples of accreditation that WUaS is seeking https://wasc.stanford.edu/ & https://www.wscuc.org/institutions/university-california-berkeley & https://wasc.stanford.edu/student-achievement/overview. WUaS seeks to accredit with WASC senior for free CC-4 OCW Bachelor's degrees, beginning with our second undergraduate class this autumn.

4.2 Yes, our WUaS degrees will have a STEM focus, based on the CC-4 MIT OCW - and therefore, paralleling MIT and Stanford, re our WUaS graduates "...that they become well prepared to build the future economy."

8.1 Grant writing for education in the US involves picking specific grant opportunities, with specific goals, and writing the grant proposal to this. I would imagine the process is similar in Romania and the EU. Can you identify some specific grants there?

Here is language from one specific National Science Foundation grant that WUaS is writing, if this helps:

"A well-prepared, innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the Nation's prosperity and security. Future generations of STEM professionals are a key sector of this workforce, especially in the critical scientific areas described in the Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments. To accelerate progress in these areas, the next generation of STEM professionals will need to master new knowledge and skills, collaborate across disciplines, and shape the future of the human-technology interface in the workplace. As a result, NSF recognizes the need to support development of and research on effective educational approaches that can position the future STEM workforce to make bold advances in these Big Ideas. In response to this need, the NSF’s Education and Human Resources Directorate seeks to invest in projects that can educate the STEM workforce to advance discovery in the six research Big Ideas: Harnessing the Data Revolution; The Future of Work; Navigating the New Arctic; Multi-messenger Astrophysics; The Quantum Leap; and Understanding the Rules of Life. In addition to developing and implementing novel educational and/or training programs, these projects should simultaneously generate new knowledge about effective STEM education, by studying such programs and exploring related issues. Specifically, NSF accepts proposals to support education research and development projects focused on re- or up-skilling the existing workforce; developing the skilled technical workforce; and/or preparing those at the undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral fellow/early career levels. We encourage projects to partner with industry, public, and private sectors to define the needs of tomorrow’s workforce and develop educational and learning strategies to meet those needs. Proposals should address near-, mid-, and long-term challenges and opportunities facing the development of STEM professionals or anticipate new structures and functions of the STEM learning and teaching enterprise. Proposers are encouraged to include approaches that have the potential to increase and diversify participation in STEM. All proposals should contribute to one or more of the six research Big Ideas. EHR is particularly interested in supporting innovative education research and development in two Big Ideas: The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) and Harnessing the Data Revolution for 21st Century Science and Engineering (HDR). Projects of interest include: innovative uses of technology and big data to understand learning; educational approaches that prepare tomorrow’s innovators to use technology and big data to understand the natural world; effects of advances in intelligent agents on STEM teaching and learning; and evaluation of disruptive educational interventions on long-term student outcomes. Outcomes of these projects can enable the Nation to: better prepare its scientific and technical workforce for the future; use technological innovations effectively for education; and advance the frontiers of science. Proposals should describe projects that build on available evidence and theory, and that will generate evidence and build knowledge, while contributing to the education of the future STEM professionals."

8.2 Please remember that while CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare is licensed for a) sharing b) adapting but c) non-commercially, that WUaS can, in communication with MIT Dean of Online Learning, Cecilia d'Oliveira, and plans to seek reimbursement from all ~200 countries' nation states - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - for degrees (planned in their language). An undergraduate degree from Stanford  costs about US$ 200,000 for four years - https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/budget/index.html - by way of comparison.

Please remember too re data that WUaS is like Wikipedia in 301 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare (in 5 languages), and that WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 as platform, and received as a consequence received our new wiki eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School (& http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ) and re planned machine translation.

As you may gather, and as the named CEO of the WUaS Co the WUaS Press, Julian, and especially potentially profitable bookstore, is your nominal focus ... https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (see planned revenue streams too) . And WUaS is planning this database of books for our bookstore to emerge out Wikdata's 301 languages, hopefully and potentially with CC-0 licensing - so the books based on this database in 301 could be sold commercially both online and on the ground. And Stanford books and supplies per year are estimated at US$ 1455 (x 4 over 4 years is about $6000).

As named startup CEO of the WUaS Corp, please give some thought to developing the bookstore and academic press out of Wikidata / Google Translate. And as the potential President in the future of Romania World University and School planned in Romanian, please give some thought to grant writing for this, as well as planning for translating CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare into Romanian. Romanian students would get MIT for free in Romanian in a sense.

I hope to hold a WUaS Hangout on Air today at 10 am Pacific Time, which should be 8pm or 20:00 in Romania / Transylvania - http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ - if you'd like to talk further. Branding World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - with the MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications here, will be part of this process - and in Romania and Europe.

Cheers, Scott

World University and School News and Q & A Live Hangout on Air
https://www.youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
Mon, May 21, 2018, 10 am PT, 5pm UTC/GMT
Topic: Romania WUaS A) @WorldUnivAndSch B) @WUaSPress
~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~
The Hangout is hosted by Scott MacLeod
~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org ~
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/998583335189270528 -


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See, too:

Angiosperms: Aside from potential positive connotations/generations of 'community' (in the senses of connectedness and 'communitas') on the Web, and pragmatically here, a good place to begin 'language communities' in each of all 7097 living languages (per Ethnologue, and re "mutual intelligibility" as a simple definition of language), could be in a combination of G+ with Google Hangouts, VIDEO as Minutes? - May 12, 2018 Agenda for World Univ & Sch's OPEN monthly business meeting

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/05/angiosperms-aside-from-potential.html


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And, also:

Romanian sphinx: A pragmatic encyclopedia/WUaS collaborations with Julian in Romania, "Commun" GDocs' spreadsheet, Romania World University and School to come, an example of wiki school - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish . Check out the MIT OCW in Spanish and some of the ways to share teaching and learning, WUaS Music School, Open English-speaking Practice in a Google group video Hangout. ... this Saturday August 29th ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cugki3s9ads2fjbuelovr7aldt4?authkey=CIX47r28jpOqfg ... and please let friends know about this as well in Romania.

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/romanian-sphinx-pragmatic.html