Monolith: Sri Lanka WUaS students, and Lego Robotics' kits for September 1? - Ordering from India ... * * * WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money transfer mechanism

Info WorldUniversity

1:37 PM (6 hours ago)

to Sri, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, me, Marisol

Hi Rifai, Partha, Peter, Marisol,

Thanks for your email. WUaS is waiting to hear back from edX / Open edX and regarding particularly coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, regarding edX's money transfer mechanism. See the following 2 emails to the chair of the WUaS Board. Also the Lego robotics' kits involved - which Sri Lankan students may purchase - will be some of these 3 that WUaS is newly carrying - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and which I imagine are not easy to obtain on-the-ground in Sri Lanka. Again, per Lego's recent communication with WUaS, students from Sri Lanka matriculating at WUaS can get these from India here - https://www.edutechindia.com/schools/stemeducation-2/ (or elsewhere in India here - https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor - which link you'll find also in the WUaS Educational Services' Bookstore). WUaS's only relationship with MIT is via the Creative Commons 4 licensing of MIT OCW, which isn't a relationship with MIT (and WUaS has explored these questions over some years now).

Big online educational project emails from this morning and yesterday to Larry V for your interest and networking even too ...

Open edX

Dear Larry,

Power's out in Canyon - will charge my smartphone phone in the car if this goes on much longer. Phone however has its own internet signal too.

Since I think the European Central Bank (and I saw recently that the IMF) are edX partner institutions ... https://www.edx.org/schools-partners.

I wonder if WUaS collaborating with Open edX in one way or another, as 'PARTNER' or 'DEVELOPER' (but with Open edX as technical team here curiously) seem to be 2 main possible roles (in their developing organization's landscape), ... and will inform WUaS's coding plans for registering WUaS matriculating students and also native speakers of all 7,117 languages as wiki-teacher-universitians - & coding for brainstorming-wise all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata PIN # (forked from Wikidata Q-item #).

edX's digital money transfer mechanism for this for WUaS to get per student per year or similar reimbursement from countries, via edX (which they'd benefit from too) - and re even for also a WUaS envisioning of a single cryptocurrency backed by most of all 200 countries and distributed via UBI experiments to alleviate poverty would involve much new edX coding.

Waiting to hear back from Open edX about possible collaborations.

Glad Soren Juul Jorgensen is Tweeting about some of this European Central Bank-wise and potentially WUaS wise too). Maybe a different collaboration role with Open edX will emerge too.

Sincerely,
Scott

On 4:01PM, Fri, Jul 10, 2020 Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org wrote:
Dear Larry,

How are you?

3 items
1
Didn't hear back from edX partner support for the 3rd day in a row as I thought I might

2
Seeking to head into Open edX if possible, after some major updates in the past 18 months, and per many different conversations, including the one last December. I think the changing meaning of the edX use of the word 'partner' is involved, and Anant with Ned may be able to do something regarding WUaS.

3
Soren Juul Jorgensen, Stanford Fellow, and who may have been the lawyer who helped WUaS Corp begin to carry Lego robotics (and good email this morning from Matt Clark in London, I think ... - and what can WUaS start selling soon to become an established STEM education reseller in some of all ~200 countries?), recently posted this -

Guidance on EU's new regulation on online trading and online platforms apply from this Sunday 7/12. Important for online traders and platforms. #California #onlinesales #tech #business #technews https://t.co/SVCZO3oBPE
— Søren Juul Jørgensen (@SorenJuulJ) July 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1281645816994619393?s=20 - and the re-Tweet - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_1301 - mentions the EU and both Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton - whom I mention in last month's WUaS Minutes (re single cryptocurrency and UBI experiments emerging from Euro) too - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html?view=sidebar.

Much of item 1 & 2's thinking is here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html - after the Mars' Mission humor and history :)

Hoping you're doing well in the summer in Pgh, and that it's not too hot! (It's hot here!)

Sincerely, Scott

Rifai, thanks for your good ideas as WUaS waits to hear back from edX / Open edX and potentially CEO and MIT Professor of EECS Anant Agarwal.

Cheers, and regards, Scott

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/coppersmith-barbet-spaceship-heating.html -

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Here's Soren speaking in Denmark, in English:

Happy 4thofJuly! Happy memories of sunny day in Denmark speaking at Rebild @ Danish celebrations of 7/4 '18 On innovation and what we can learn from Silicon Valley #Happy4thofJuly #tech #siliconvalley #techpolicy

Happy 4thofJuly! Happy memories of sunny day in Denmark speaking at Rebild @ Danish celebrations of 7/4 '18 On innovation and what we can learn from Silicon Valley #Happy4thofJuly #tech #siliconvalley #techpolicy https://t.co/bzT80Dla5R
— Søren Juul Jørgensen (@SorenJuulJ) July 4, 2020