Sugar cone pine (Pinus lambertiana): Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20: Some thoughts to - "Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures?" AND "What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving?" * * * #Tasmanian Tiger, #Thylacine with Robotics? * Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies * * * Email to MIT Office of Digital Learning re exploring collaborations

Prem and Aditi write 2 emails to World Univ & Sch about the WUaS Minutes from 5/16/20:

Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html

Some thoughts -

Hi Aditi,

Am resending this to you and Prem, since I mis-typed your email:

Hi Prem (and Aditi, from India but possibly in Nigeria), Thanks for your emails.

Prem:

First: WUaS is seeking undergraduate students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - to matriculate online in English for free-to-students' 4-year Bachelor degrees from home in India - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School. This platform will be on something like MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform (of which MIT Professor of EECS and CEO of edX is Anant Agarwal). WUaS is still working on developing these collaborations.

Re your: "Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures?"

Second: WUaS is seeking to develop open wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all of India's ~800 languages (and eventually too to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees in all 22 of India's official languages). Planning for all 7,117 known living languages here to be accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. So how best to cultivate these wiki schools, or teach people how to grow them, a bit like Wikipedia's communities in its ~300 languages, - is a creative open question. And World Univ & Sch donated WUaS to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received the above WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 above, but 'front end' and 'back end' aren't yet interoperable. In the meantime, people can wiki-teach, wiki-learn, wiki-edit the existing languages wiki schools (not yet in their languages). And thus people could create wiki subjects in areas that would help them, or be inspiring to them, - and check if there's any MIT OpenCourseWare or not to add - and then wiki-teach, wiki-create and WUaS wiki-develop away, potentially all on smartphones. An illiterate farmer with a smartphone could potentially teach something about farming to Youtube and share this with other farmers 200 miles away in other languages ... and eventually all via voice input.

Re your: "What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving?"

WUaS is currently planning 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - for free-to-students' online 4-year Bachelor degrees (as if going to MIT or Stanford on the ground itself) to begin this autumn with 500-2000 students as WUaS seeks to license with CA's BPPE and accredit concurrently with WASC senior ... on something like edX from MIT OCW into MITx conceptually. If WUaS can collaborate more fully with edX, and engage machine translation, many of the edX courses would become available for certificates in all 7,117 living languages.

Re your: "I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses. " - I hope so too, Prem!

Aditi:

Thanks for your:

"Hi Scott,

Do you require any online tutors for creating courses or teaching Journalism/ PR/ Newspaper designing and layout/ Writing and Editing?

Aditi"

Would you like to explore wiki-editing one of these pages:

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Journalism or https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Marketing (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) ?

Using this citation practice, explore if you can add the following reference to "Select Books" -

The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students. 2020. [https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ The 50 Best Books for Journalism Students]. https://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/the-50-best-books-for-journalism-students/ . -

And then perhaps, if interested, could you find a Youtube video, or virtual world, or similar for the "Marketing" wiki subject, and add this resource there?

Perhaps, then Aditi, you could explore tutoring interested people (your friends in an Indian language) in how to add resources to World Univ & Sch, and thus to teach in a sense, and thus also how to grow WUaS's communities? It's a little like adding a sentence to a Wikipedia article in a language of the editor's choice. WUaS's focus is on free and highest quality resources - currently mostly in English. I'd think that further new good ideas of yours would emerge as you explore this! What do you think?

Thanks for both of your emails!

With regards, and Namaste!

Scott

Dear Scott,

Thanks for the minutes. I just gone through that and I really appreciate your effort in bringing the WUaS into its wings. The team is really hard working and I praise God for that. Can you please give the outline of WUaS focus in Indian Languages and how we are going to impact the students here in India especially those who are from different languages and cultures. What all subjects we are offering in online for students and the validity of the certificate we are giving.

I hope the coming years there will be a huge demand for online courses and also online classes like courses we are having in the campuses.

With regards

Prem

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#Tasmanian Tiger, #Thylacine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/थायलेसीन%E2%80%8B (in Hindi)

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics /Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/K4Z8y4A8WP in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK /Genetics #3Dprinting? https://t.co/UVbqEy7dNt
— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263995370591248385?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1263994997566697474?s=20

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#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN

#Tasmaniantiger footage from 1935 released - CNN https://t.co/SK2vdKQ8MN
— Melissa M. West Ⓥ (@MellieMarieWest) May 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/MellieMarieWest/status/1262898332051156995

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Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Genetics #3Dprinting ?

Re #HomeRobotics @WorldUnivAndSch how can students recreate #TasmanianTiger #Thylacine as #WUaSRobotsAndAnimals -https://t.co/ms5s6PHEMB in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies w #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #DigitalSpecies https://t.co/a53n3kl75l /Genetics #3Dprinting ? https://t.co/T1zIxX2phF
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 23, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1263996879076917248?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1263997508608356352?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1263998354901438465?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1263999470997434368?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1263999997520969728?s=20

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Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData
@MIT_CSAIL
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/994979618963755009… INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT

Actual<>Virtual for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics with #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego Turn #ObstacleAvoidanceData @MIT_CSAIL https://t.co/0UVE8bI1eI INTO 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth in #GoogleStreetView wi #AvatarBots re #SpotMini autonomous ROBOT
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) February 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1233808062697197568

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Dear Larry,

Based on, and Sanjay's reply:

"Dear Sanjay,

Thanks so much for talking to me regarding my letter to President Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and thanks too for your supportive words.

I noticed in our conversation your interest in the many languages' focus of World University and School. As a follow up in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, I am curious if we could explore further a way to expand this focus by building a platform in collaboration with MIT and Harvard's platforms. While I think you said there aren't really any collaboration possibilities with edX, conceptually, I wonder if the Office for Digital Learning might be able to bridge something in a new way, and make something happen?

Thank you,
Scott"

"Hi Scott,

Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned.

-S"

... here's a new draft:

Dear Sanjay,

Thanks so much for your email "Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned." I'm writing to inquire further: In collaboration with the MIT Office of Digital Learning, in what ways might World Univ & Sch begin to offer the following online 4-year Bachelor degrees this autumn with these 6 majors, 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ (free-to-students) - as WUaS begins to license with CA's BPPE and to accredit with WASC senior? In combination with seeking $55,000 reimbursement per country regarding MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform with other edX courses - using the money transfer mechanism on edX? List edX links on the WUaS wiki in related subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - and in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/)?

Thank you, Scott

Further related ideas:

term or quarter approach at WUaS and also to build cohorts ?

Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-16-2020-minutes-for-1-world-univ.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/octopus-eggs-minutes-for-world-univ.html