dark purple trichoglottis: World Univ & Sch - :Your edX Online Campus Inquiry" - WUaS platform & edX & credit units (re Reed College's and MIT OCW's continued)

Thank you for your email. I'm including below an email from this morning to a matriculated student (in India) in World Univ & Sch's second undergraduate matriculating class, toward free-to-students' licensing and accrediting Bachelor degrees, for your perusal. This student is currently studying edX courses toward his WUaS Bachelor's degree as an auditor. It would be great to talk further about this regarding the edX online campus and MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch. Thanks to edX's Leslie Good for suggesting signing up for edX online campus to address "questions about using edX content with school curriculums" (below).  

Regarding WUaS Open edX, WUaS cancelled our startup kit with Open edX service partner MOOCit France fairly recently partly because WUaS doesn't have the expertise to migrate or adapt, for example, 6 initial CC-4 MIT OCW courses into WUaS Open edX in our initial majors of EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English, History and Business - worlduniversityandschool.org (toward free-to-students' Bachelor degrees). One approach that WUaS would take in these regards (if WUaS were to have any money) would be for WUaS to hire MIT graduate students (who had even taken the MIT course) to divide a MIT OCW course into two 7-8 week long courses on the WUaS Open edX platform, which we could then offer to our WUaS students for credit as WUaS licenses with BPPE and accredits with WASC senior. But until now, WUaS hasn't been able to ask edX about this. Thank you for this opportunity. I just signed up for 11:30 am PT (in the SF Bay Area) I think, which is 2:30 pm ET in Cambridge, MA, on Monday, 14 September 2020. Looking forward to talking with you, Marissa!

Best regards, 

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

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Th, September 10, 2020

Hi Shahbaz, Larry (chair of the WUaS Board), Rohit (recently graduated lawyer in India), All,

Glad you're looking at the Reed College credit hour system. Presently, as WUaS begins to explore partnering with edX and on the edX online campus, WUaS seeks to develop a rough credit hour system with edX courses -  per week - as the basic credit unit, roughly, and for now (per what I described earlier) - and with WUaS's 600 credit unit system for a free-to-students' 4-year CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degree. Please translate roughly from the typical BA credit hour system or the Reed College credit hour system. 

In terms of credit units at WUaS, and licensing accreditation in California, basing a system further on MIT OCW's 15-week long courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - (which the above 600 credit unit system is, in a sense but roughly, ie 10 MIT OCW courses per year over 4 years) makes most sense.

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