3/9/2013 WUaS Business Meeting MINUTES
(Here's the agenda: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-9-open-monthly-business-meeting.html).
(Here's the agenda: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-9-open-monthly-business-meeting.html).
Present: L.V., S.M., and J.M. (watching G+ broadcast and in text chat)
1 News –
Accreditation:
Minute: One main outcome of today's conversation is to seek an EXCEPTION to the state of California's 2009 law (regulated by the CA Bureau of Private Post-secondary Education - BPPE) requiring a physical site (rather than try to change the law), on the grounds that, like libraries, Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW and C.C. WUaS (which is MIT-centric) have a public mission (of free-to-students, C.C., MIT OCW-centric, university degrees), per this article by John Palfrey - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/03/copyright/why-we-miss-the-first-sale-doctrine-in-digital-libraries/- about the large-scale Digital Public Library of America, parts of which should become accessible online in April 2013.
For these reasons:
a.
WUaS is Creative Commons’ licensed MIT OCW-centric and plans to offer, online, free, MIT OCW-centric, C.C., WUaS, university degrees
b.
WUaS is Creative Commons’ licensed and is free, and shares a public mission vis-à-vis libraries
c.
other states may have non-physical site requirement, legal precedent, e.g. Nevada
d.
re: homeschooling laws in different states.
2.2 Finance
a.
Treasurer's report for February 2013
About $1,000 in the WUaS bank account, with no tax-exempt donations in February
2.3 Information Technology
a. Wikidata news
- WUaS hasn’t yet heard back from L.P. concerning my collaboration conversation inquiry. They may not have grown enough to be able to have this conversation yet.
- Wikidata’s search engine ‘sucks big time’ at this point – per one of their core developers.
- Wikidata's inter-languages' focus parallels WUaSs.
b. WUaS’s current academic platform
For planning purposes this is WUaS’s platform - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - with graduate student instructors facilitating the conference method in Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts/ .
2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee
Vis-à-vis other Languages and Countries, WUaS particularly sees possibilities vis-a-vis accreditation in Spain and China, for example, and MIT-centric courses, translation, and OER resources in other languages.
J in Spain: Awesome. Accreditation, Translation and OER resources. I'll keep that in mind.
5. WUaS Board
Scott will get in touch with G.N. again, about his becoming a WUaS Board Member.
7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments
Scott is giving a presentation about WUaS and Quakers in the Second Hour at San Francisco Friends’ Meeting
Action plan:
1. seek an exception to BPPE's (state of California) physical site requirement, soon, by communicating that WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed, pointing to the libraries and the DPLA's exceptions to copyright.
2 start accreditation process (with WASC and DETC)
3. seek students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate in autumn 2014
- WUaS is seeking a ‘mothership’ Law School (much as MIT OCW has the mothership of MIT itself), such as the Stanford Law School, to collaborate with to create online Law Schools in the 204 countries (per the Olympics), and also to create significant numbers of lawyers’ and legal jobs, worldwide.
- World University and School would like eventually to become a significant Creative Commons’ content and course generator and in all 7,413+ languages and 204+ countries, building on C.C. MIT OCW's 2,150 courses.
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