Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata): World Univ & Sch wins ISSIP Award for “Facilitating Excellence in Learning," Honorable Mention, from The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip) http://issip.org/ - https://issip.org/issp-excellence-in-service-innovation-award-recipients/ * * * Stanford talk (5/11/21): The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction - "To what degree could we model in VR the economics' questions you're asking - and, say, planning for electricity, and roads, and returns - in a single realistic virtual earth for economics (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, Tensorflow Artificial Intelligence, and with avatar bots too for virtual social returns, esp.)?" - PS CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in each of 200 countries (per Olympics), and in all 7,139 living languages, seeks to facilitate such a single realistic virtual earth and for everything, including STEM field sites and classrooms - and for the Social Sciences esp.

Dear ISSIP Award Committee, 

Please find attached and below World University and School's application for the ISSIP excellence in service innovation award. Thank you. 

Kind regards, 

Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org -
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -

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.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ... for example (and see, too, the MIT OCW on some of the academic wiki subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects).

 

World University & School - WUaS - Innovations in 2020:
Facilitating Excellence in Learning via best STEAM CC-4 OCW (in 4 languages) with Wikis (Wikidata/Wikipedia) in 300 languages +
 
Overview

World University and School's mission is to offer free university degrees and IB high school diplomas to students in their own countries and in their own languages, building upon Open Courseware in its current languages, and to facilitate Wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all living languages. WUaS is currently in the process of partnering with edX (founded by Anant Agarwal, a MIT and Harvard Professor, and the CEO of EdX) to offer online free-to-students' Bachelor and PhD programs in the autumn 2021. This would start in English, with students matriculating from as many as 200 countries. WUaS plans to license and accredit at the university and high school levels for its online degrees and diplomas, including Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school, in the countries' main languages - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. Our Wikis will involve open and editable people-to-people teaching and learning, both creative and academic (see - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects), but will also involve non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. With time, WUaS will use universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language. Part of WUaS's focus will include an academic press (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) with machine translation and learning. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere.

New Innovations at World University and School

In 2020, WUaS innovations included beginning to: partner with edX; coding for anyone, with each getting a Wikidata Q-item (or similar) number; a new WUaS Opencura WBstack Wikibase platform; creating 1 Realistic Virtual Earth (think Google Street View with time slider) for use as field sites/classrooms, and everything, including a realistic virtual earth for genetics for aging reversal drug therapies; WUaS is planning tele-robotic surgery, and in a realistic virtual earth for surgery at cellular and atomic levels too; #WUaSHomeRobotics developing courses for each of 3 physical WUaS Lego Robotics' kits for #ActualVirtual #PhysicalVirtual robotics with the #Scratch3 programming languages with #GoogleTranslate & its100 languages in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics & re https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/; using a crypto-currency; and, experimenting with Universal Basic Income to alleviate poverty, and connected with free universal Wiki education; reimbursement from ~200 nation states' counties for CC-4 MIT OCW-centric degrees; Sri Lanka WUaS in Google Sites for smartphone in the Sinhala Language https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka and WUaS in English in Google Sites https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/; credit for individual classes along the way to Bach and PhD degrees; print with machine translation to new language from a single book's page URL in the WUaS bookstore; WUaS’s 3 legal entities – a 1) federal 501 c 3, and 2) a non-profit and f3) or profit general stock company in California - are developing; the WUaS Corporation first filed its tax returns for 2017, 2018, 2019.

More information

“Noteworthy Innovations in 2020 for World University and School”
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/03/noteworthy-innovations-in-2020-for.html