Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot): Moroccan PhD student inquiry - scholarship application * * * edX & WUaS partnering - Admin Dashboard * * * ISSIP Discovery Summit: Future of Work & Learning Series http://www.issip.org/issip-discovery-summit-future-of-work-learning2/

https://twitter.com/ChemistryMIT/status/1336678149191569409

Best STEAM CC-4 OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -
worlduniversityandschool.org
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

The WUaS Press / Corp and WUaS Educational Services' Store -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 countries each a major online MIT OCW-centric university in countries' official / main languages - and offering online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees from home).

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning)

WUaS academic and creative open wiki subjects, planned in all 7117 languages -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

Thank you so much for your response and your time, actually I'm a Moroccan citizen,and Moroccan's dialect native, and my studies was in French.

I'm excited to pursue my studies and yes I'm interested in the provided degree by your university either in chemistry and computer science and if there is any possibility to get benefit from the programming courses in the Edx catalogue i will be grateful.

Best regards

Hi Zalmat and Larry,

Thanks so much for your quick response too. If World Univ & Sch could begin a licensing and accrediting (in Calif.) CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Ph.D. program for a free-to-student's probably 7 year average time to complete Ph.D. online in September 2021, would you be interested? It would be as if matriculating at MIT (or Stanford) itself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but studying from your home in Morocco? The Ph.D. degree would be in English (with French and Arabic language degrees only beginning some years in the future online). If you were to choose between chemistry - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/ - and computer science - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ - which subject would you choose? Courses initially in edX would likely be MIT OCW courses into MITx courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - (on the edX platform). Thank you, and thanks for your interest. In an innovative way, some of this degree might develop in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM - single https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click.

Here, too, is a recent Tweet from MIT Chemistry and with regard to their developing relationship with edX:

Last month, General Chemistry I: Atoms, Molecules, and Bonding, also known as Course 5.01x, premiered on
@edXOnline, a global nonprofit that aims to transform traditional education by removing the barriers of cost, location, and access. https://chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news

Last month, General Chemistry I: Atoms, Molecules, and Bonding, also known as Course 5.01x, premiered on @edXOnline, a global nonprofit that aims to transform traditional education by removing the barriers of cost, location, and access. https://t.co/dmy9fCutBG pic.twitter.com/L8acDVUvLL
— MIT Chemistry (@ChemistryMIT) December 9, 2020

WUaS's is engaging MIT OCW's Creative Commons' 4 licensing re the open access to the MIT OCW courses, and has a developing partnership emerging with edX. Please let me know of your further thoughts, questions, ideas or suggestions in all of these regards, Zalmat. Thank you.

Best regards, Scott

PS Larry Viehland went to MIT as an undergraduate in Chemistry / Physics, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in Chemistry (and is the chairman of the Board at WUaS, if you have any specific questions specific to academics; he's also the head of the Academic Accreditation committee).

PPS I've only visited Morocco once, and been to Fez and Marrakech, in addition to Casablanca.

Nice to be in communication.

Thank you scott and larry for your presence and your dedicating time, regarding your question if i have to choose, i will take in advantage the computer science curriculum as I start to put steps over the field and I'm ready to dedicate the required time and effort to take my learning journey to the next level and i would prefer to learn in English besides that if there is the possibility i could take some minors in chemistry.

Best regards and you're welcomed in Morocco all the time.

Dear Zalmat and Larry,

Thank you too, Zalmat! Stay tuned - I'm meeting with an edX representative for WUaS on Monday afternoon, and we'll talk further about the ~2,500 courses - https://www.edx.org - WUaS can offer for free-to-students' (Bachelor) Ph.D. degrees (probably over a 7 year average completion time, and prior to the fundamental research involved in doing a Phd), as, importantly, WUaS licenses and accredits first in California (so it would be as if you were studying toward a Ph.D. from Stanford, brainstorming-wise, since Stanford is accredited by WASC senior, like WUaS is seeking to be), - and regarding a Ph.D. in Computer Science beginning possibly in September 2021.

While WUaS hasn't begun to plan for our PhDs so far, there may well be some coursework, possibly at the Bachelor's Degree level, that it would be helpful for you to take in order to matriculate as a WUAS Ph.D. student, possibly in September 2021, for example. While you would be applying for a Ph.D. candidates' position at WUaS, and for your information, WUaS also seeks eventually to hire Project Heads and University heads in most countries (and we may seek to hire along the lines that Google hires - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) ... and seek matriculating student applications along the lines that Stanford seeks in its application process.

I'd love to visit Fez and Marrakech with you (and Larry too - on Semester at Sea even, post Covid-19 pandemic) at some point, but possibly first in a realistic virtual earth for hiking or walking - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click - and in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - where I'm thinking in terms of Google Street View with TIME SLIDER and regarding my ethnographic or anthropological research field site, eg the Harbin Gate House in Google Street View (and the time slider function in its beginning stages is visible in the bottom-most images where you can also begin to "walk") ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook). Fez and Marrakech, as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, are also my virtual anthropological field sites, and I've written one chapter about virtual UNESCO WHS - and in Morocco specifically - entitled

"DIGITAL SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS:

NEW COMMUNICATION PROCESSES AND ‘MIDDLE EASTERN’
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES ONLINE" (in 2001, in a volume edited by Rami Farouk Daher, from Jordan - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity)

Would you be interested in studying toward applying to a free-to-students' Ph.D. program at MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, beginning with Bachelor-level edX courses, in order to gain the background? Larry and I will begin to think through further about how applying for WUaS Ph.D.s will work, thanks to your potential interest.

What are some of your social media sites - Twitter, LinkedIn or similar if you'd care to share these? Thank you!

Best regards, and looking forward to meeting you online (in virtual Morocco?) at some point, to talk further,

Scott

https://twitter.com/Imaden3?s=09

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

scottmacleod.com - many of my social media sites are here

Dear scott,

Thank you again and i'm looking forward to meet you and Larry as well, and also start my learning journey in World University and School and i will be glad to start the bachelor's courses as you mentioned.

Here are social accounts on :

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/imad.slawi.7

And Twitter :

My regards

Thanks so much, Zalmat,

Do you happen to know Brian Seilstad - https://www.facebook.com/brian.seilstad - whom I know from the San Francisco Quaker Meeting, and who lives in Ifrane, Morocco, where he's at the university? In what city do you live? I'll let you know what I learn after talking with the edX representative on Monday - and regarding WUaS planning for emerging Ph.D. degrees, and how you might best develop a background for a CS Phd at WUaS, which is CC-4 MIT OCW-centric and online (as you change academic directions from your undergraduate degree in chemistry) ... Since WUaS is CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric, WUaS will be free-to-students, and is going to seek reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of education, per student per year. So this would be part of our conversation ahead, as we think through how you might best prepare to apply for Ph.D. candidacy at World Univ & Sch. And initially the application process would be similar to the new approach WUaS has outlined fairly recently here - worlduniversityandschool.org - but which will develop further as our website grows.

Regards, Scott

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/

Thank you dear Scott for your effort and your time, actually i don't know Brian Seilstad but I'm glad to get in touch with him and i will send a friend request, about the city where i live it's called "Salè" which is attached to the capital Rabat, they are separated by river called "Abou regrag",the ifrane city is about 192 km from here and it's one of the most beautiful city of Morocco.

I'm looking forward to hear from you in the next coming days about any updates and thank you again for your dedication.

My regards

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edX

Hello Scott,

I hope my note finds you well. As we approach the new year, I was curious if we can arrange a time next week to discuss your progress with the initiative and ensure that we are on the same page with the direction of the partnership.

Regarding access to learners sign-ups and grades, this takes place on the admin dashboard. Accessing learner data requires a signed agreement with edX and prepaid access to courses. I have included a link below for what the Admin Dashboard looks like for your review.

Thanks again and feel free to select a time to meet here:30 Minute Call with Matthew Gusching from edX.

Best regards,

Matthew

Book a time to speak with me

Matthew Gusching

Account Representative

Phone: 617.253.2966

141 Portland Street, 8th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for reaching out, and I hope this email finds you well.

Sounds good. Where please is the link to the Admin Dashboard - I don't see it in your email.

I'm also sharing with you an email exchange I just now engaged in with a new prospective student, and Larry Viehland, regarding his inquiry into taking edX courses. Perhaps we could talk about this email too, when we video chat. Thank you. As WUaS builds out our Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD degrees, and IB high school diplomas, in all ~200 countries, and in their official and main languages - and plans for all speakers of all 200 countries' main and official languages, each a Wikidata Q-tiem #, then also speakers of all 7,117 known living languages - and then brainstorming-wise for all 7.8 billion people on the planet - https://worlduniversityandschooldatabase.wiki.opencura.com/wiki/Item:Q4 - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/12/nov-21-2020-minutes-for-world.html ... - I can see how a 7 year average time to finish a Ph.D. at WUaS might not be in Zalmat's interests, at this time. Let's keep in touch about this as well. I'll let you know if and how Zalmat replies in our meeting. Thank you.

Best regards, Scott

scholarship application

I hope my request can be taken into consideration and evaluated, and I will appreciate any feedback from you regarding my application and thank you.

Best regards

Dear Zalmat,

Best regards,

Scott

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

Hello Scott,

That sounds great, I look forward to connecting and discussing further. Here is an attached PDF to the Admin Dashboard for your review.

Best,
Matthew

Dear Larry,

I've just scheduled a meeting with Matthew at edX on Monday afternoon in MIT Zoom, and he's also sent me the template for the emerging edX dashboard, regarding "learners' sign-ups and grades." This is the information we've been asking for, and it looks like a good starting point - since WUaS could potentially interoperate our own Wikidata Q-item #s or WUaS Q-item PIN #s for 7.8 billion people, on our end, emerging, with this (and even for Stanford 'Mine Pi' cryptocurrency brainstorming-wise).

What other information might WUaS want from such an edX "learners' sign-ups and grades"' information source, - and compared with our own hypothetical dashboard which we might create for students studying MIT OCW courses into our own Learning Management System, such as in G Suite for Education?

What do you think of this edX Dashboard?

Sincerely, Scott

Hello Scott,

Thanks again and feel free to select a time to meet here:30 Minute Call with Matthew Gusching from edX.

Best regards,

Matthew

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ISSIP Discovery Summit

ISSIP Discovery Summit: Future of Work & Learning Series http://www.issip.org/issip-discovery-summit-future-of-work-learning2/

Hi everyone,

Looking forward to your participation at the ISSIP Discovery Summit in less than 3 hours, today, 2-5 pm PST.

Please see the zoom information below.

Thanks,

Yassi

Yassi Moghaddam | Executive Director, ISSIP | +1 (408) 318-0332 | yassi@issip.org | www.issip.org | Li | T

Hi Terri,

Thanks for your great moderation of the ISSIP conference. Regarding workcraft (Job crafting is a means of describing the ways in which employees utilize opportunities to customize their jobs by actively changing their tasks and interactions with others at. work. Those who engage in these actions are called job crafters, and research suggests they can. - https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/What-is-Job-Crafting-and-Why-Does-it-Matter1.pdf) .

Am curious whether Google kind of front-ends work crafting in their hiring process regarding this questions -

What is something you learned that made everything that came after easier?
Have more of your achievements come as a result of solitary effort or teamwork?
What do you enjoy more, solving problems or pushing the discussion forward?
What is the most rewarding job you've ever had? Why?
Describe the best team you ever worked with. What made that experience stand out?

which leads to a series of other questions in the career-hiring process at Google that might further inform their work crafting from the beginning (and given too that Google is kind of an AI company per Peter Norvig) ...

and re what I asked in chat:

"Am an applicator of Google - invite them to ISSIP (brainstorming-wise)? - I looked up their hiring practices - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/ - and am wondering how T-shaped approaches might interoperate. How might these approaches to careers at Google interface with T-shaped thinking re ISSIP? Thanks!"

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions?

(MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch may well engage these Google practices, in 200 countries, and in 7,117 known living languages, when we begin to hire). Thank you!

Thanks, Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

Dear Terri, Jim, Yassi, Deb, Jutta, Obinna, Ammar, John Garrett, Ulf, Pk Agarwal, All,

Thanks for your presenting at the ISSIP Discovery Summit: Future of Work & Learning Series http://www.issip.org/issip-discovery-summit-future-of-work-learning2/

Let's stay in touch about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch planned in all ~200 countries, and in all 7,117 known living languages, and even in a realistic virtual earth for everything (Think Google Street View / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow AI, and regarding realistic artificial humans, aka like Samsung Neons - eg https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click ).

Am an appreciator of Google - invite them to ISSIP (brainstorming-wise)? - I looked up their hiring practices - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/ - and am wondering how T-shaped approaches, job-crafting, and service design, might interoperate in regards to Google's career hiring practices. How might these approaches to careers at Google interface with T-shaped thinking re ISSIP? Thanks!

World University and School just became a member of ISSIP as well! Thank you, Yassi and Jim!

Best, Scott worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com ~

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor

Thanks Scott for all your support of ISSIP!

If I can find the links, there are some online videos of Googlers talking about the need for T-shaped people - but will take some digging to find them.

Thanks, -Jim

Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120
(o) 408-927-1928<spohrer@us.ibm.com>
(m) 408-829-3112<spohrer@gmail.com>
Innovation Champion: http://service-science.info/archives/2233

Obinna: Thanks and great! And thanks for your service design foregrounding. May I ask please how, and if, as you were hired at Google you engaged these steps - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/- and re service design in particular? Thank you! :)

"Am an applicator of Google - invite them to ISSIP (brainstorming-wise)? - I looked up their hiring practices - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/- and am wondering how T-shaped approaches might interoperate. How might these approaches to careers at Google interface with T-shaped thinking re ISSIP? Thanks!"

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

12:41 PM (4 hours ago)

to Terri, Deborah, Ammar, anyaobinna, Jutta.Williams, Jim, Yassi

Jim, Yassi, and All,

Great! Looking forward to the "online videos of Googlers talking about the need for T-shaped people - but will take some digging to find them...." Looking forward to checking them out regarding this definition of a Googler - https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/ - again. (Am wondering what some of the limitations of WUaS hiring eventually, and engaging these Google "how we hire" approaches).

Thanks so much,

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

President, CEO, Founder, Professor