Updated CV with MIT OCW-centric Global University and Artificial Intelligence focus:
Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod, III, M.A., D.R.
P.O. Box 442 (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 USA
415 480 4577 – scott@scottmacleod.com
MIT OCW-centric WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL (WUaS)
WUaS TRYING TO HELP UNIVERSITIES TRANSFORM
MIT OCW-centric World University & School (WUaS) as Startup
Main Areas:
Languages:In all 7,106+ online - each a University or School; MIT OCW Translated Courses-centric: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/
Countries:In all 242+ online - each a University or School
You at WUaS:Registering at WUaS - for C.C., MIT OCW-centric, online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees, accrediting on MIT OCW Audio-Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/- 5.4 billion people eventually?
Subjects: Edit a wiki page, Create, or Start a Subject at WUaS: SUBJECT TEMPLATE)
Courses & Schools: CC MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/and CC Yale OYC: http://oyc.yale.edu/
Planned first in English, then U.N. and large languages:
Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
The College at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School
Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School
World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School
World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
Music School at WUaS: Planned for all languages and all instruments, each a wiki subject page to being;
Library Resources: In all 7,106+ languages
Museums: In all 7,106+ languages
Hardware Resource Possibilities: In all 7,106+ languages
Educational Software: In all 7,106+ languages
Research:MIT OCW-centric, STEM, and inter-lingual
UNIVERSITIES AS STARTUP ENGINES OF REGIONS
World University & School is planning degrees in most of 242+ countries/regions (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) and in their main languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages), as well as wiki schools in all 7,106+ languages.
STARTUP PLATFORM OF MIT OCW-centric WUaS
Wikidata/Wikibase, MediaWiki, aLabel, SemanticWiki, accessing WikiCommons with planned smartphone App
COGNITIVE/AI PLATFORM FOR WUaS & UNIVERSTIY-BASED STARTUPS
WUaS would gladly explore Watson as its Cognitive/AI platform
See: Artificial Intelligence subject/school at WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
World University & School, like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare
2008-2014 - Founder, Professor, Developer, CEO, President, Head Clerk
TEACHING POSITIONS (upper division)
World University & School in Second Life and Google + Hangouts
2014 (Fall) – Network Society, Information Society and the Global University
World University & School in Second Life and Google + Hangouts
Harvard's Virtual Island (Berkman Island) in Second Life
2007-2013 (Fall) – Network Society and Information Society
I have 7 years of experience with, as well as 8 semesters teaching in, virtual worlds via a course I teach on 'Information Technology and Society’ on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life.
Penn State University
2007 (Summer) –Society and Information Technology (in Second Life)
2007 (Spring) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)
University of Pittsburgh (OSHER Program)
2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)
Chatham University
2007 (Spring) – Society and Information Technology (in actual life)
Penn State University
2006 (Fall) – Introduction to Sociology (in actual life)
COURSES TAUGHT AS A GRADUATE STUDENT
University of California, Santa Barbara
2003 (Spring) – Communication Research Methods, Department of Communication
2002 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Dept. of Law and Society (Head TA)
2002 (Winter) – Technology and Culture, Department of Anthropology
2001 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Department of Law and Society
EDUCATION
2010 (Spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professor Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity)
2008-2009 (Autumn/Spring) – UC Berkeley –Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Bill Hanks (Linguistics), Charles Briggs (Theories of Modernity), and Paul Rabinow (Foucault & Anthropology of the Contemporary–related)
2003-2004 –Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies – Topic: UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’
2001-2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on sociocultural anthropological theory and information technology
2000-2001 – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Laura Nader (Classic Ethnographies), Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity), Rebecca Stein (Politics of Consumption), and Professor Manuel Castells (Society and Information Technology)
1998-2000 –City College of San Francisco (CCSF), full time undergraduate student in Anthropology, Multimedia, and Computer Science
1985 – B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1981-1982 – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (University of Munich), Munich, Germany
PROGRAMMING
2006 – 2014 – Developed all aspects MIT OCW-centric World University and School’s two wikis
1998 - 2014 – HTML, web site development
PUBLICATIONS
2014 – Book in preparation, tentatively titled: Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography –Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin.
2007-2014 – http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com- Scott Macleod's anthropology of information technology & counterculture: To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss
2006 –“Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and ‘Middle Eastern’ UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online,” in Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation. Channel View Publications.
1998-2014 – http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm– Scott MacLeod's Research: World University & School, Courses, Papers, and Media
LANGUAGES
English, German (Good – Reading, Speaking)
GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION (GRE)
2000 – Verbal score 99th Percentile