Angela,
I've added your site to the main "Courses" wiki page at World University and School in the "Select Books, eBooks" section - http://worlduniversity.wikia.
I'd just like also to share with you what distinguishes accrediting Creative Commons' licensed CC World University and School from most online schools I know of:
a) on the degree side, WUaS plans
- to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages+ and CC Yale OYC, first in the state of California (BPPE) and via WASC Senior's new incubation policy (ideally WUaS would be incubated by Stanford)); (see, e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/)
- to offer online CC degrees - at the baccalaureate, Ph.D., law and M.D., as well as I.B. high school levels - and in all countries in their main languages, if possible
- to seek applications beginning with undergraduate students applying this autumn, if possible, where they matriculate online in the autumn of 2016 and graduate potentially in 2020 with a free and MIT-centric accrediting baccalaureate degree
- to engage the Conference Method, which Reed College also uses, as our learning approach in our undergraduate education and across languages (e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning)
- WUaS is planning to offer online courses in a) group video with graduate student instructors teaching interactively to MIT OCW faculty in video, b) in interactive virtual worlds (think a hybrid of film-realistic OpenSim / SL / Google Earth), and c) in Google Apps for Education / Google Classroom, to begin.
The Creative Commons' licensing of CC WUaS, CC MIT OCW, CC Yale and CC Wikidata mean that WUaS won't be able to charge tuition (e.g. K-12 public schools in the U.S. also don't charge tuition).
b) On the wiki side (not relating to accreditation)
- People can wiki-teach to each other, and planned in all 7,929 languages
- People can come into conversation with, and teach to / learn from, MIT OpenCourseWare, Yale OpenYaleCourses, Khan Academy and any other resources they find at WUaS, or add there
- WUaS would like to facilitate CC wiki schools in all 7,929 languages and inter-lingually in Wikidata (and for language preservation, generation, etc., too)
On both sides, WUaS is seeking if possible to become the Harvard YP / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and with a focus on knowledge generation, and also enjoyment in university learning vis-a-vis the conference method.
And on both sides, WUaS plans to develop our wiki platform with CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC with Artificial Intelligence, including an Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.
(WUaS is planning to move to a new wiki in MediaWiki-Wikidata - which is the CC inter-lingual database written for Wikipedia's 288 languages - soonish and from the current Wikia site, and the existing WUaS Wikia wiki in about 700 pages will become a template; in the future it should be easier for you or anyone to wiki add resources, that generally free and open (OER)-focused.
Among some recent big achievements for startup WUaS, WUaS is glad to learn of the new WASC Senior "Incubation policy" development. See, this and the other recent big achievements for WUaS here - http://
Would you also mind adding WUaS - http://
Thank you.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Angela Hanners <angela@accreditedschoolsonline.org> wrote:
Hi there,I noticed you have a great selection of online learning tools and resources on your page here: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ I wanted to let you know about a new guide we’ve created to help students of all ages learn more effectively online. The guide looks at MIT OpenCourseware, Khan Academy, and Coursera specifically, and includes advice and keys to success from a panel of online learning experts. You can view our no-cost resource here:The Online Learning Guidebook: http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/ online-schools-guidebook/ As online education continues to grow, many schools are making online education a major part of their curriculum. To help students understand this trend, our guide also includes a detailed breakdown of online learning methods and technologies, as well as information on how to identify quality online schools or programs.Would you mind adding our guide as a resource link on your website? It would really help us inform students who are considering online education.If you have any questions or comments about our guide, please don’t hesitate to email me. I appreciate your time and support.Thanks very much,Angela HannersDirector of CommunicationsAccredited Schools Online
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- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.
World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you.
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