Zoji La: EdX-WUaS impasse? ~ No word back yet after our 2nd World University and School (WUaS) inquiry (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0) on Sunday 4/18/21 to edX CEO Anant Agarwal (AND this time with including MIT president REIF, MIT VP of Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma, Alphabet Chairman, and former President of Stanford, and edX's Anant Agarwal's Stanford PhD adviser, John Hennessey, and you, Larry, in the email) * * Creating 2.2 million jobs via 200 online major universities, and bookstores, computer stores, Robotics' stores, hospital Technologies' Distribution Centers, in their countries and their main languages, as well as wiki schools in 7139 known living languages, could be an attractive growth story to the edX platform (for grades etc) as well as to Stanford's EPIC - not yet realized * * the value proposition of WUaS is in the trillions of dollars as universities and as a company, and in planning for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet (and even re alleviating poverty via a single cryptocurrency & UBI experiments, combined with free people-to-people universal wiki education)

EdX-WUaS impasse? 

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Hi Scott,
Periodically, I make a list of the top three things working, and top three things not working.

Then I shift my energy into the top three that are working, and away from the three not working - maybe circling back in a year to take another run at them.

Sorry don't have any great thoughts to share.

Thanks, -Jim

Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120
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From:        Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
To:        Larry Viehland <viehland@chatham.edu>, Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Jim Spohrer <spohrer@us.ibm.com>, Henry Cutter <vfhc@nyc.rr.com>, Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Tym Lenderking <Lenderkingta@yahoo.com>, David R Ross <dross@brynmawr.edu>, rob.f.byrne@gmail.com, David Byrne <david.stewart.byrne@gmail.com>
Date:        04/23/2021 04:40 AM
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: EdX-WUaS impasse?

Dear Larry, Jim, Henry, Sid, Tym, Rob, David, David, (Ed, Janie), No word back yet after our 2nd World University and School (WUaS) inquiry (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0) on Sunday 4/18/21 ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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Dear Larry, Jim, Henry, Sid, Tym, Rob, David, David, (Ed, Janie), 

No word back yet after our 2nd World University and School (WUaS) inquiry (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0) on Sunday 4/18/21 to edX CEO Anant Agarwal (AND this time with including MIT president REIF, MIT VP of Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma, Alphabet Chairman, and former President of Stanford, and edX's Anant Agarwal's Stanford PhD adviser, John Hennessey, and you, Larry, in the email). Our edX representative Matthew (with whom WUaS has been in regular communication, since September 2020) said about 2 weeks ago they are 'standing by' to launch WUaS - so I emailed Anant asking about a solution to what I'm calling question-mark 'edX~WUaS Impasse?' And we have neither the $50,000 to pay edX to integrate their dashboard (for grades etc) into the WUaS G-Suite for Education, nor the high number of prospective PhD and 4-year Bachelor degree prospective students to make it worth it, at this time. 

How best to proceed? Contact our edX representative Matthew to find out what he's heard now from Anant after our last 2 communications with Anant? Proceed exploring collaborating with Stanford EPIC and what it has to offer (here too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/forester-pass-edx-wuas-impasse.html?m=0- thanks to Ambassador Mike McFaul?) - since CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS isn't at all sure that edX courses, with their business focus especially, would retain our WUaS matriculating students for 4 years or longer (even as the Coronavirus 'pandemic,' not epidemic, is receding, and with what edX founders' Harvard and MIT have learned from this, and regarding the new online learning resources they may have created too). 

Beyond edX as a resource for brainstorming re its potential as an online educational platform, I'm not sure edX is the sensible direction to head in further either - since their vision seems to be very business-oriented, and they also don't seem to have excelled, for ex., at translating MIT's MIT OCW into MITx as a fascinating curriculum of online take-able MITx classes for grades (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/), that would retain our WUaS high achieving students, despite edX's attempt in this collection (and these courses Matthew said aren't available to WUaS either - possibly because they aren't a success as online platform). 

A Google-informed realistic virtual earth for STEM,  (https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1376881304709394438?s=19), for genetics, for research (including Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic research) - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1383619885171761158?s=19- and as classrooms, seems to hold much promise here for engaging WUaS students especially. Creating 2.2 million jobs via 200 online major universities, and bookstores, computer stores, Robotics' stores, hospital Technologies' Distribution Centers, in their countries and their main languages, as well as wiki schools in 7139 known living languages, could be an attractive growth story to the edX platform (for grades etc) as well as to Stanford's EPIC - not yet realized. EdX could be a great team for WUaS's team to collaborate with - perhaps if they moved out of their 'lean' organization thinking, and into a growing organization mindset. Engaging edX's founders, Harvard and MIT especially has much merit for WUaS here.

THOUGHTs, ideas, questions, suggestions?

Sincerely, Scott

 https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity





On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:42 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Larry, Ed, Janie, 

As a follow up on this matter, I just got an invitation, and signed up for this Stanford EPIC 2021 Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curricula 2021 - and regarding WUaS (see below). I'm wondering if WUaS could network for a great number of initial courses to offer for credit here, and to build upon the edX-WUaS partnering, as well as regarding WUaS's CC-4 MIT OCW-centricity: 

Please describe the reason(s) for which you are attending this symposium:*

Sincerely, Scott

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:25 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

An updated version & with WUaS course link: 

As WUaS waits to hear back from Anant (and Rafael Reif, Sanjay Sarma, and John Hennessey), am hopeful that they can not only plan for WUaS PhD and 4 year Bachelor degrees, but also re-focus on creating enjoyable edX courses - with grades. This would be for edX dashboard integration into WUaS G-Suite for Education. This will help much with WUaS retention in a 4 year free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree program for ex. While Charlie Nesson's JuryX, edX, HarvardX course, which I took in 2016, is one model for this for me, much has changed since then. And perhaps Stanford via John Hennessey - as well as even virtual Worlds can help - which could be yet another big change for edX, in addition to planning for PhD and 4 year Bach degrees. 

edX-WUaS partnering will likely involve other major (earthquakey) and exciting changes for edX and education, - so I'm glad that edX's other founders, MIT and Harvard, are also involved. This could possibly help focus how edX targets its academic courses for PhD and Bachelor degrees - esp. if they could draw WUaS matriculating students' from Harvard (where more than 50,000 students applied this year, and some 1800 were accepted) and MIT applicants via Bill Fitzsimmons, Dean of Harvard Admissions, for example.

Am interested in teaching 'Society, Information Technology and the Global University' - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html- this year at WUaS and maybe via the edX platform too.

Sincerely, Scott

PS
you might enjoy this while we wait to hear back - https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1384177793508937728?s=19

:)

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 5:59 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Larry (and Ed),

As WUaS waits to hear back from Anant (and Rafael Reif, Sanjay Sarma, and John Hennessey), and hopeful that they can not only plan for WUaS PhD and 4 year Bachelor degrees, but also re-focus on creating enjoyable edX courses - with grades. This would be for edX dashboard integration into WUaS G-Suite for Education. This will help much with retention in a 4 year free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree for ex. While Charlie Nesson's JuryX, edX, HarvardX course which I took in 2016, is one model for this for me, much has changed since then - and perhaps Stanford via John - as well as even virtual Worlds can help, which could be yet another big change for edX - in addition to planning for PhD and 4 year Bach degrees. 

edX-WUaS partnering will likely involve other major (earthquakey) and exciting changes for edX and education, - so I'm glad that edX's other founders, MIT and Harvard, are also involved. This could possibly help focus how edX targets it's academic courses for PhD and Bachelor degrees - esp. if they could draw WUaS matriculating students' from Harvard and MIT applicants via Bill Fitzsimmons, Dean of Harvard Admissions, for example.

Am interested in teaching 'Society, Information Technology and the Global University' this year at WUaS and maybe on the edX platform too.

Sincerely, Scott

PS
you might enjoy this while we wait to hear back - https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1384177793508937728?s=19

:)

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 12:58 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Larry, (and Ed),

Following up on these 1) WUaS Monthly Business Meeting emails today, 2) whether John Hennessey might help by coming in conversation with edX CEO Anant Agarwal, regarding the question mark of  'edX-WUaS Impasse?', and 3) re my attending a Stanford Medicine Drug Discovery conference online on Monday and Tuesday on behalf of WUaS  .... 

It would be great for WUaS to work with Pfizer on aging reversal genetic drug therapies and even clinical trials (which have had fewer side effects reported than Moderna, for example, I've read) - and even in collaboration with Stanford - and re this Stanford Medicine Drug Discovery conference ...

Clinical trials are unfolding with the Coronavirus pandemic - in a topsy turvy way, since they should have been carried out by the FDA BEFORE vaccine administration, to protect Americans' health. Health issues (e.g. blood clots forming from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's vaccines) with them, and deaths too, are growing, ... Scary SCEPTICISM-evoking stuff ... Glad I carry a vaccine 'passport' now in my pocket - and as the pseudo-clinical-trials' testing - not by the FDA - unfolds on a large scale, worldwide even, on the public! The internet News' media hasn't been warning about the risks of non-FDA approved vaccines at the molecular level, I think, too. 

Hopefully aging reversal genetic drug therapies will undergo extensive clinical trials by the FDA.

It would be great to collaborate with the best organization designing genetic therapies - with their collection of knowledgeable bodyminds - and could Pfizer be this (in comparison with Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson and Johnson)? To be seen. 

Talk with you soon in WUaS MBM!

Sincerely, Scott

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:01 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Larry, 

As we at WUaS wait to hear from MIT Prof and edX CEO Anant Agarwal about this - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edxwuas-impasse.html- am hopeful John Hennessey might come in conversation with Anant to help him think this through regarding CC-4 OCW-centric WUaS (http://ocw.mit.edu/), since there are some complex implications - and even as Anant's former Stanford PhD adviser, and as former President of Stanford for 16 years. John might also be able to think through WUaS-edX partnering developments for (Stanford influenced too?) WUaS PhD and Bachelor degrees, first in English, - AND with Stanford-informed CC-4 OCW-centric MD and Law degrees ahead too. 

Are there other avenues here for furthering the conversation with edX CEO and MIT Professor of EECS Anant Agarwal that you can think of?

How can we best announce with a registration link to our prospective PhD and Bachelor degree students - with a link ideally - that they can matriculate on September 1, 2021?

Am glad to be attending an online Stanford Medicine Drug Discovery 2 day conference - http://med.stanford.edu/cvi/events/2021-drug-discovery-conference.html- on Monday and Tuesday in these regards too, and regarding WUaS's planned online 'Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)' -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)!

https://authn.edx.org/register(something like this at first)


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Regarding 
Reaching out to Harvard Dean of Admissions' Bill Fitzsimmons (perhaps in the same email), for possibly 500 more high achieving smart online students, who might have applied to Harvard, but not gotten in ...

Harvard Dean of Admissions' Bill Fitzsimmons -
https://youtu.be/WSUcwGMwc2E  Harvard seeks inspiring talented students, accepting 1,968 of 57,435 applicants in 2021! How best to apply Harvard Admissions' thinking to @WorldUnivAndSch>
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_Schoolas WUaS partners with edX? -

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