Saturn (planet): Thanks for your email, and inquiry about becoming an astronomy student at World Univ & Sch for a free-to-students' licensing online Bachelor's degree * Regarding the building out of a Realistic Virtual Universe as part of studying at World Univ & Sch for learning - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualUniverse?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow +) and regarding adding images and video in a wiki sense * See esp. "New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space" video

Thanks again for your interest, in this early phase for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch. May I ask please how you heard about WUaS?

Best regards, Scott
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Thanks for your prompt email reply. And yes I'm very ready to keep your emails confidential, and will. And WUaS will develop with time a privacy policy for matriculated students (probably in conversation with MIT's). And please consider adding a confidentiality statement to your email addresses' signature - I can share example if interested - (and please remember too that emails are like postcards, abd companies' employees may have access  to your enlmails, and also a stated privacy policy - and re AI etc esp).

At WUaS while tuition eill be free, there will be book, Lego Robotics' kits and other similar costs, FYI. and yes WUaS is planning to begin licensing soon, and accrediting is a concurrent process, with BPPE, for the autumn, but we also don't yet have the monies for this, yet are optimistic.

On the edX platform, the edX, HarvardX, JuryX course is an example of what WUaS courses will be like there - and they'll also be both synchronous in group video, and asynchronous, and seeking to build on the Conference Method newly online. WUaS's academic year will either be 3 terms or 2 senesters, 4 courses, 40 courses over 4 years, for a free to student's Bachelor degree. Seeking too to build a cohort every year or term of people who know each other, and as a network too.

Cheers, Scott



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There's more about the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - and think Socratic dialogue around the 'table' so in group video conference with an instructor (so seminar, in a sense), or in a virtual world like Second Life, as well as lecture with sections too. And there are 2-3 channels newly in group video: ie voice, gesture, and for a parallel 2nd conversation group text messaging. And WUaS is seeking to make classes and the undergraduate year/4 years like this (with parallels, too, to Reed College's approach to the conference method).

And in the meantime, what other questions might you have, Jay? Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
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Was just curious. In your thinking about applying to World University and School, WUaS may also ask for prospective students' social media sites in the application process (like applying to MIT & Stanford, for example). I'll keep you informed when the application process is open, as WUaS begins the licensing process. WUaS is seeking to grow a collegial online academic milieu and social media sites (and partly based on the honor principle) and sharing will be part of this. Thanks.

Please consider reading through a MIT OCW Astronomy course.

Friendly greetings, Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org
@WorldUnivAndSch
@WUaSPress


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"New Google Maps Feature lets you go to space"

https://youtu.be/cbHvQ3W8JRs



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Hi Flying Jay, Kyle, prospective students, Board, and speakers of languages below, and All,