the edX-WUaS partnership is developing!
February 23, 2021
Hi Matthew (and Larry),
I hope this email finds you well.
I would love to be able to send out with the upcoming WUaS Minutes for the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting last Saturday a link from edX for undergraduate applications, and one for prospective PhD student applications (to individuals MIT departments??? ... who might end up midstream only taking a Master's degree). in addition to my other questions in the 3-4 most recent emails. Thank you so much for your replies so far, Matthew! If possible, WUaS would seek to begin some of this in the May 1, 2021 WUaS term (especially for preparation for a degree program) and for the September 1, 2021 4 month term.
Just filled out a MIT Tech Review Insights' Newsletter poll and found it a helpful focus, idea-wise, for development of WUaS. I've posted some of my responses below for your insight into their language in the poll.
I responded that it's "Critically important" to this following question, and in relation to our upcoming matriculating WUaS students, -
* 7. How important were achieving the following goals to your digital transformation strategy?
More efficient and responsive customer experience delivery
Not at all important Less important Somewhat important Critically important
More efficient and responsive customer experience delivery - Critically important
Thank you much,
Scott
Agenda & News for 2/20/21 open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting -
February 16, 2021 -
February 9, 2021
Dear Matthew,
I hope this finds you well.
And would you be able please to include Larry Viehland in our communications each time, since he's chair of the Board at World University and School? Viehland@chatham.edu
WUaS is still seeking funding. So is WUaS and edX still talking about ~ $17,000 per 50 students per year? And what please would be the next steps and costs to sign the edX-WUaS partnership agreement? (And would you please lay all of these out in writing)? Also, from you edX perspective, could WUaS matriculate 150 undergraduate students (and potentially at least 4 PhD students working toward their Master's degrees) September 1, taking engaging edX courseware which helps with student retention, in 29 majors (licensable be BPPE and accredit-able by WASC), for a first year out of 4 years' college?
Thank you,
Scott
PS
Here are some ideas for where WUaS would like to head with a single science subject from our WUaS CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity (for reimbursement reasons from countries) to edX and beyond, first in English then in other languages with machine translation (some of which will happen in a realistic virtual earth in the Google ecosystem too) ...
Chemistry at OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/
AAA
Thank you,
Scott*
March 3, 2021
Hi Scott,
I hope my note finds you well. I was on holiday when your email came in and happy to address your questions. Regarding a question about an interface with edX and your platform, it would not be my colleague Ned, but we have members of the edX Solutions Architect team that can work with you develop a custom integration with your platform. This integration leverages our tool-kit of integration options, which can include course discovery, SSO, and the metadata for grading and student progress. Ultimately, the extent of what is possible would occur when meeting with our technical team.
To address the questions about MIT application process and survey, while MIT is a founder of edX, edX is a separate entity and we do not oversee the admission aspects of MIT. Apologies if I misunderstood that question or missed any others.
Thank you,
Matthew
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March 5, 2021
Hi Matthew, (Larry),
I hope this email finds you well, and thanks so much for getting back to me again. I'm glad, too, the edX-WUaS partnership is making progress (toward signing the partnering documents). And I'm glad also the edX Solutions Architect team is next to communicate with you. As you know, WUaS is seeking to matriculate 150-500 Bachelor's degrees' students as early as potentially May 1, 2021, and WUaS has 4 prospective PhD students, who may seek to begin their WUaS-edX studies then too (and WUaS is seeking further PhD applicants, first in English).
Regarding edX for business, licensing and accreditation will be invaluable: So California's Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE), whose Dianne A said in Feb 2019 that they could license WUaS for PhD as well as Bachelor degrees, is an accreditation agency, along with WASC, that WUaS seeks to engage, but the issues are complicated with students in all 200 countries and in so many ways - so this is something WUaS continues to have in mind re edX courses as well, but is currently on the back burner. And leaving aside the many issues involved with BPPE / WASC for now, eg students' identity verification, proctoring of tests - in addition to grades - and the list is long regarding BPPE / WASC (https://twitter.com/CaBPPE - https://twitter.com/
As you may have read in my recent emails to you, WUaS would seek to let our prospective PhD and Bachelor degrees' students know, as soon as possible, about how they could apply to WUaS to matriculate as early as this May 1, 2021 (for preparatory course work, eg English as a second language, possibly learning a programming language, eg with Scratch etc), and perhaps with a single URL from edX, and for 29 WUaS Bachelor degree majors. And could edX now develop this for our prospective WUaS PhD students too? So, and to reiterate, and since you said in our last video conference that edX has Master's degree courses, and in your last email that WUaS PhD students won't be applying through MIT departments (thanks to your and Larry's communications), would it be possible please to inquire with the edX Solutions Architect team if WUaS could develop an initially edX-WUaS application process for both Bachelor and PhD degrees? I just reached out to prospective WUaS PhD candidates with the following:
"Hi Prasanth, and prospective WUaS PhD candidates, ...
I just received these PhilPapers' philosophy items, and one synopsis mentioned cognitive science, which I thought might interest you.
Introduction to Philosophy of Science. Carlos Mariscal - forthcoming - In Benjamin D. Young & Carolyn Dicey Jennings (eds.), Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
Am hoping you can apply for a WUaS PhD program, beginning September 1, 2021, with preparatory edX courses beginning May 1, 2021 even. But it looks as if you may apply through edX rather than through MIT departments, per an email yesterday.
Best wishes, Scott
( ... where Prasanth is interested in studying toward a PhD in cognitive science, and beyond developing WUaS in the Tamil language - https://wiki.
Introduction to Philosophy of Science. Carlos Mariscal - forthcoming - In Benjamin D. Young & Carolyn Dicey Jennings (eds.), Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
This chapter will be a brief survey of the concepts from general philosophy of science for those interested in cognitive science. It covers several major topics in the philosophy of science: scientific explanation and underdetermination, reductionism and levels of nature, and scientific realism. We will discuss the goals of science, the methods of science, and the most plausible interpretations of science. To demonstrate the importance of these topics, the chapter includes cases in which confusion over these issues has led scientists astray. These cases include instances in which cognitive neuroscience has failed to discover adequate explanations for phenomena, when previously established research did not withstand further scrutiny, and the increasingly complex and bewildering interrelationship between the study of the mind and the study of the brain and its parts. These issues are common to many areas of science, but they can be particularly fraught in a field like cognitive neuroscience, as researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci come together to develop a systematic understanding of the mind.
Thanks for your email, Prasanth. Cognitive science questions, and the English language, come together with precision and careful thought in other academic disciplines like philosophy (in the English language) - and will do so probably in Tamil too (if such questions, thinking, cognitive science, brain science, etc. aren't emerging in Tamil already). There's much both to read in English in cognitive science, as well as create digitally. Am a bit concerned that Tamil machine translation isn't far enough along science-wise to facilitate ease of learning from English ... but maybe it will develop rapidly in the future.
Am hoping you can apply for a WUaS PhD program, beginning September 1, 2021, with preparatory edX courses beginning May 1, 2021 even. But it looks as if you may apply through edX rather than through MIT departments, per an email yesterday.
Waiting to hear back from edX about next steps and even something like an URL for prospective Bachelor (150-500?) and PhD degree (where WUaS currently has 4 possible applicants) students to apply to WUaS, for May 1, and September 1, 2021.
Best wishes, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.
- https://scott-macleod.
Matthew, while WUaS has been in G Suite for Education since 2015 or so, I'm very glad to write that on March 23 - for the first time ever - WUaS will participate in a "Get Started with Google Workspace for Education." Would there be a way please to interoperate this with the edX Solutions Architect team - and with edX for Business goals especially (and even regarding a generative self-sovereign internet - https://scott-macleod.
So, would it be possible please - in your communications with the edX Solutions Architect team - to inquire if it's possible to get a single URL for WUaS Bachelor and PhD students to apply with (something like - https://courses.edx.org/
Thank you so much, Matthew.
All the best, Scott
2/18/21 WUaS MBM Agenda & News - https://scott-macleod.
2/20/21 WUaS MBM Minutes (sent 3/1/21) - https://scott-macleod.
- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation - http://
CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki WUaS is planned in all ~200 countries and in their official languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, accessible from here in due course - https://wiki.
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