Hello Ed, Came off ridge to get out of heat: 96 F the car said, 89F the smartphone said. Found my way to BERKELEY, and there's a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest on MLK and Allston near Berkeley High, your kids' alma mater (Amelia's at least so far). People with signs are on both sides of the road, that I saw. Putting on my bandana mask, and may head out to join ... see you there? Have just seen 5 cop cars drive by at corner of Allston & McKinsley. How are you? EdX for courses at WUaS is looking promising this autumn! :)
Lots of Black Lives Matter signs, no speeches, no bullhorns, cars are honking as they pass in solidarity, most demonstrators are wearing novel coronavirus masks, about 73F, possibly 50-150 protesters, many kids - with signs
But Telegraph Ave near campus had absolutely no one on it, and no tie die tables, bong and pipe vendors, or artists' displaying their creations for sale.
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MIT Lego Robot Competition '99
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Brian, Alexandra, Leanna,
You can see the beginnings of learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics here (WeDo 2.0 and with a MIT 1999 competition) in this blog entry -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
See you soon,
Scott
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ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
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Wonderful and thank you, Leanna and All,
I learned some new Lego language.
A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks - and the creative computing projects you shared - to Lego machine learning with the WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.
Am interested in building a MIT OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level Engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the one MIT OCW Lego resource - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
I appreciated your coding progression slide - about the 6th to last - in these regards too. Very nice to meet you too, Alex, Brian and Leanna!
Best regards, Scott
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Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.
https://twitter.com/
ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #
https://twitter.com/
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.
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ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #
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Here's a draft letter to our current 5 prospective undergraduate students, for this autumn:
"Dear World University and School prospective students,
World University and School is delighted to let you know that WUaS will be matriculating students this autumn in August and September. Students will be taking edX courses, many derived from CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare courses, and offering these 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business.
Please stay tuned for the next steps in how you can enroll, and the courses that you can choose from in your first year of studies at WUaS, which you will access from here - http://
Sincerely yours, Scott GK MacLeod
President, Founder and Professor
World University and School"
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Dear Larry,
Looks like Sanjay's email was about both linking edX courses, and licensing/ endorsement clarifications.
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Thinking in terms of Shahbaz Sanjer in India, one clarifying question for MIT legal:
Can WUaS add all edX courses, in English lit, for ex., to the WUaS course catalog (not just MIT OCW into MITx)?
I think Sanjay said we can here.
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In that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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Reimbursement from countries' Depts of Education, non-student sources via edX - pegged on MIT tuition level?
Reimbursement from countries' Depts of Education, non-student sources via edX - pegged on MIT tuition level?
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Am glad WUaS may be getting in communication with MIT legal (rather than edX legal), since this could open avenues to other questions regarding WUaS matriculating students each a Wikidata PIN # in 300 languages (7117 living languages too regarding WUaS wiki schools too?, & 7.5 billion people re UBI experiments too?), transcripts, - and re questions of money transfer mechanism.
Am glad WUaS may be getting in communication with MIT legal (rather than edX legal), since this could open avenues to other questions regarding WUaS matriculating students each a Wikidata PIN # in 300 languages (7117 living languages too regarding WUaS wiki schools too?, & 7.5 billion people re UBI experiments too?), transcripts, - and re questions of money transfer mechanism.
This would be a very edX-centric set of developments for WUaS, - and I hope that the MIT LEGAL licensing clarifications re above would include questions of remuneration for WUaS.
Am hoping Shahbaz can enroll in the autumn, as example. Quality of WUaS degrees will inform reimbursement from countries' questions. Glad too that Sanjay is beginning to think in terms too of WUaS (and that Rafael Reif has his PhD from Stanford too, like Anant).
Sincerely, Scott
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- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
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Dear Larry, and Jayni, and Board of Directors,
Re my email to Varun Shukla in India just now, am wondering about the value, with time, of having our WUaS applicants take a standardized exam online like the CLT - https://www.insidehighered.
In further communication with the MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma, who's uncle or similar is a politician in India I think, am wondering too about reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
FYI, here's where World Univ & Sch stands with licensing currently:
World Univ & Sch continues to seek to observe the CC-4 MIT OCW, and the edX, licensing terms (and per our communication with MIT OCW director Cecilia d'Oliveira previously, that WUaS may 1) share, 2) adapt, 3) but non-commercially the CC-4 MIT OCW (now in 4 languages), - and see the further licensing clarifications here per her: http://
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 )
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 )
And see too correspondence with MIT's Sanjay Sarma - https://scott-macleod.
And as WUaS prepares for a possible autumn collaboration with edX, WUaS has listed about 75 CC-4 MIT OCW courses, ~14 edX courses, and about 19 CC-3 Yale OYC courses in our course catalog (but wouldn't yet have access to edX MITx courses from MIT OCW grades, for example) - https://docs.google.com/
WUaS is currently waiting to hear back from MIT Legal per Sanjay with regard to further exploratory steps re linking, licensing and much more.
Sincerely, Scott
Email today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India:
Thank you for your mail. And greetings! Is this your Twitter URL - https://twitter.com/
WUaS will likely have space in our Business major for a free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, providing WUaS could move forward together with edX and regarding the edX platform (which is something WUaS is in communication with edX about). The enrollment process would then be similar to edX's, but stay tuned since WUaS may seek essays, language proficiency, letters of recommendation, & test scores (possibly the CLT - https://en.wikipedia.org/
Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President & Professor
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What does D.B.S. stand for?
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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board,
Varun Shukla in India has written again with an interest in matriculating at World Univ & Sch this autumn in the General Science major. Our recent correspondence is below.
It's great that WUaS has a prospective student who is interested in our proposed General Science degree, potentially beginning this autumn. Am wondering how the WUaS Admissions' process will grow over the years' ahead. Am wondering too about WUaS seeking a variety of Department of Educations in India for reimbursement, for example; in what ways might WUaS engage MIT Professors, Sanjay Sarma, the VP in the Office of Digital Learning, or Anant Agarwal, edX's CEO in these regards?
As you'll see in this recent blog post, MIT OCW doesn't have a "Science" page upon searching, but it does have a page for our other 5 majors - https://scott-macleod.
All the best,
Scott
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Dear Sir,
Yes @varunss2211 is my twitter.
I would like to take major in General Science
My mother tongue is Gujarati. I also speak English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.
Yours,
Dr. Varun Shukla
Navi Mumbai,
India
Thank you for your response. Stay tuned as World Univ & Sch develops its admissions' process, as well as our collaborations with edX. WUaS is seeking to offer courses like this over 4 years - Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life:
https://www.edx.org/course/
Thank you,
Scott
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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board,
By the way, Varun Shukla in India writes he's completed both a high school degree and an online, it appears, "Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited)" - from Universal Life Church and costing $59 - see: https://store.ulc.net/
The first step of licensing and accreditation for WUaS may be to go through the CA BPPE's "Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited" - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_
So, in terms of WUaS's licensing (CA's BPPE) which is the first step in then concurrently accrediting (probably with WASC), all of the CA BPPE workshops have been cancelled through the end of 2020 (probably due to the coronavirus pandemic) - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/
So I'm wondering if state of California licensing / accreditation ONLINE is the right direction to head in at this stage - since online licensing / accreditation may be impossible at this stage. And could WUaS collaborate with edX to create potentially our own forms of accreditation, per recent correspondence with Larry: "in that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
In a related vein: am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors Heather Paxson (Quaker, I think), and Graham Jones (who's a Reedie - a Reed College Alum), as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions?
All the best, Scott
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Browser was shutting down as I was writing the last email, and with a familiar error message was popping up just before the Safari browser shut down - the 3-repeat message happens and then Safari closes - and then the 3-repeat message but Safari didn't close ... is this a Google Apple process?
So BPPE may have had its highs and lows in recent decades, and may also be saying with 'non-accredited' licensing to end users, like people in India, PERHAPS to BEWARE. Shall WUaS seek edX 'accreditation' or its own creation, or seek BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation for both Bachelor and Ph.D.s (per BPPE, and first in English) - if WUaS had the $5,000 for BPPE and the $10,000 eligibility fee, and then the $1,000 per year per student I think - and then the $10,000 or so to become accredited - with accreditation happening only AFTER we graduate our first undergraduate Bachelor's degree class (but with provisional accreditation in the interim). What do you think? And what would be best for our students, and seeking reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries (and if we were collaborating with edX as well)? And what about 'the other America' and the non-rich 'developing world'? I'd think if we could guarantee quality of degrees, and make these relevant for India and other countries in the developing world, their Departments of Education might appreciate less of an outlay for WUaS degrees (re accreditation) ... even as WUaS seeks to peg reimbursement on MIT's tuition for studying from home degrees.
I've also renewed WUaS's Grants.gov password over the weekend for about the 10th or 15th time, - every 6 weeks (WUaS didn't get a $250,000 grant through Grants.gov a few years ago) - and just received today Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's Grants' Newsletter, a few days late after the beginning of the month, which lays out grant opportunities. Would a granting agency fund WUaS NEWLY to license with BPPE and then seek accreditation with WASC senior? (Can't also attend the BPPE workshops if they are closed through year's end). Would a granting agency award WUaS monies to hire graduate student instructors from MIT and Harvard and Stanford, without WASC senior or similar accreditation?
Where might the CLT play a role in WUaS seeking and finding high achieving students from around the world - https://www.cltexam.com/home ? Princeton's Robert George on this page went to Quaker schools too I think. I've met him at Stanford as well. I don't think accepting the CLT exam would cost WUaS anything.
Thoughts, ideas, questions, comments? I think a WUaS US degree would have much more value if WUaS was accredited - opening avenues to many careers otherwise inaccessible.
Cheers,
Scott
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Dear WUaS Board,
Each person in the world, all 7.5 billion people, a WUaS Wikidata PIN# (nee Wikidata Q-item #), beginning with matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS - since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development, and got the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence? For ex. - https://wiki.
Just asked these questions, as I registered for this Stanford Law SVDX webinar on Tu June 9, 2020 at 10 am PT - https://www.svdx.org/
"Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@
... and somehow backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.
I think the Stanford Law SVDX webinar is open - and its focus is Board Members actually. All of the above would be in the WUaS Corp legal entity in all likelihood.
Still waiting to hear back about edX licensing and similar from Sanjay Sarma, MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, and re MIT Legal, which he said he would brief regarding MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, and they - MIT Legal - would get back to WUaS.
Sincerely, Scott
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