Presentation about free, and MIT-centric, World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free, university degrees planned, - and seeking undergraduate students to matriculate online this autumn 2014. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com http://scottmacleod.com

1. World University and School

2. Introducing
World University and School
An Open, Free, Online, Wiki
World University and School –
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com
- like Wikipedia with
MIT OpenCourseWare
Scott MacLeod
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

3. Degrees - as one wing
WUaS is MIT Open Course Ware-centric
(now in English and 8 other languages)
MIT OCW
http://ocw.mit.edu
MIT OCW Audio and Video Courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses
MIT OCW Translated Courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses

4. World University and School is
- planning to offer
the following, online, degrees
- Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, I.B. and M.D., first in English,
then in United Nation’s language,
then in large languages +
- MIT OCW-centric, which is now in English and
8 other languages,
- and is also STEM-centric

5. Autumn 2014
WUaS is seeking students for our first, online
matriculating, undergraduate class, in English,
based on MIT OCW,
(not endorsed by MIT)
where students would take 32 courses
over 4 years, for free, bachelor’s degrees.
Apply to WUaS as if applying to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

6. Admissions at WUaS
Admissions at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_
at_World_University_and_School
- Apply to WUaS as if applying to MIT
- (We would like our students to up to speed to
be able to transfer into MIT)
- WUaS is moving toward selective admissions,
but online education is scalable
- Historic application opportunity for students for
free, MIT-centric education, in early years

7. Ph.D., Law, I.B. & M.D. degrees
first in English, where students would take
MIT OCW courses for grades.
Bachelor – 2014
Ph.D. – 2015
International Baccalaureate-high school (2015?)
Law – 2016
M.D. - 2017 ,
then degrees in
United Nations’ languages, and, for ex. Hindi,
after 2015

8. Creative Commons’ Licensing
WUaS is Creative Commons’ Licensed.
C.C. is a new form of licensing and law
emerging in the Information Age
for legal sharing of online resources.
MIT OCW and Wikipedia are also
Creative Commons’ Licensed (C.C.),
in contrast, for example, to
edX and Coursera, two, other, online educational
projects, which are not.

9. Accreditation
WUaS is planning to accredit first with
- BPPE in the state of California
(Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education),
and concurrently with
- WASC senior
(Western Association of Schools and Colleges)
which also accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley
and about 160 other western US colleges and
universities, some internationally.
WUaS plans to accredit internationally later.

10. Wiki - as the other wing
WUaS is open and editable, like Wikipedia
(now in 287 languages).
YOU can begin a new subject page, for ex., or
Teach what you’d like to your web cam,
Youtube channel or otherwise teach to the web.
Post what or when you're teaching
to a World University and School
Subject page, and eventually in any language http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

11. All languages, All Countries
WUaS is planning to be in all
7,105 languages (per “The Ethnologue”)
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
And in all 242 countries
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_Stat
es
So, WUaS is open and editable as a wiki
(Wikipedia is in 287 languages, by comparison)
and each a MIT OCW-centric university or
school

12. MIT OpenCourseWare
2,150 courses for free in English
Creative Commons’ licensed for sharing
Many courses are already translated into at least
8 non-English languages
I’ve met with in person twice (2012 & 2013)
with Steve Carson,
MIT OCW External Relation’s Director,
And there’s also a beautiful synergy
between MIT OCW and WUaS

13. MIT OCW Sloan School of Management
For example, here are the MIT OCW Sloan
School of Management’s courses, for free –
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-ofmanagement
-both undergraduate and graduate courses,
-and Creative Commons’ licensed for sharing, - and so free.
And here’s WUaS’s ‘Business Management,’
wiki, Subject page –
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_M
anagement

14. Wikipedia and Wikidata
Wikipedia is in 287 languages, with millions of
articles, which we all wrote,
thanks to Wiki technologies, and
Wikipedia just developed and deployed the new,
C.C., inter-lingual, WIKIDATA database,
in which WUAS plans to develop.
(Again, Wikipedia is Creative Commons’ licensed).
Wikidata makes possible an all language,
grass-roots, people-to-people, open, online
learning conversation.

15. India and WUaS
For example,
India - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India
- Hindi language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_langu
age
- Tamil language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tamil_langu
age
- Classical Indian Music

16. Hindi language WUaS
Hindi language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_langu
age
with potentially 1,000s and 10s of thousands of
wiki pages, as this grows into a full university,
in the Hindi language itself, and
MIT OCW and great universities-centric,
created by developers in India.
Would you like to help develop this?

17. Hindi language WUaS
Hindi language WUaS beginnings:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_langu
age
MIT OCW degrees planned in Hindi, as a large
language:
Bachelor’s degree (32 courses)
Ph.D., Law, I.B. and M.D.
Would you like to help develop this?

18. Tamil language WUaS
Tamil language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tamil_langu
age
with potentially 1,000s and 10,000s of pages as
this grows into a full university,
in the Tamil language itself, and
MIT OCW and great universities-centric,
created by Indian developers
Would you like to help develop this?

19. WUaS and Classical Indian Music
- Classical Indian Music:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Classical_In
dian_Music
- Carnatic Music:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Carnatic
Music
-Eventually we’ll add all Indian musical
instruments, each a wiki, Subject page, with
real, real time music-making in Google + group
video Hangouts

20. World University Music School
World University Music School:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_Unive
rsity_Music_School
- All languages, all instruments
- Each musical instrument a wiki page
-Real, real time music making
-in Google + group video Hangouts, for example

21. Creativity in Teaching & Learning
You can teach creatively –
add your lesson, course or any class to WUaS
here now.
Take any course or class you want,
and talk about ideas ~
WUaS is about conversation as learning,
in Wiki, with a MIT OCW academic standard.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com

22. Creative Potential & Openness
Media Lab at WUaS –
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_
at_World_University_and_School
( and a course on 'Beings Enjoying Life’?
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Beings_Enjoying_Life ?)
Teach what you want in the way you'd like to,
both openly and academically, too.
Add great articles, courses, instruction you find
on the web, as well.

23. Interactivity in Learning
For both degree and wiki WUaS wings,
Teaching and learning interactivity takes place
for ex., in Google + group video Hangouts
and in virtual worlds like Second Life & OpenSim
MIT Faculty in video, with graduate student
instructors in Google + Hangouts for the
Conference Method of Teaching and Learning
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

24. Google + group video Hangout
Examples of Google + Hangouts
World University and School’s Youtube Channel
http://youtube.com/WorldUnivAndSch
(Linked with this Gmail ID worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com)

25. WUaS – Great University-centric
In addition to MIT OpenCourseWare-centricity
WUaS will wiki add great universities’ open and
C.C. educational resources
e.g. Stanford Engineering Everywhere
WUaS seeks to become the MIT, Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, etc.,
of the Internet

26. WUaS – Flourishing Learning
How to generate a flourishing conversation
in learning and teaching for everyone?
- Seeking best & overachieving students
(those who might otherwise apply to & get
into MIT, HYP, Stanford, Oxbridge)
- MIT-centricity particularly STEM-wise
- Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics

27. WUaS is for All & Tech. Reqs.
especially in the DEVELOPING WORLD,
beginning with
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) countries
- For free degrees, matriculated, undergraduate
students will need reliable, broadband video
access for 4 years.
- Begin an undergraduate, first semester on a
smartphone, if needed

28. WUaS for Knowledge Generation

Since knowledge production is central to the
Information Technology revolution
- WUaS brings together students with MIT
OCW-centric classes for knowledge
generation
- World Univ. & Sch. makes it easy for us to
teach and generate the knowledge we
need.
- People-to-people Teaching and Learning in
new, online Networks, in all languages

29. Cost Analysis
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The financial advantages for the computer
end user in WUaS is that it's free.
It's people-to-people teaching and learning.
It's thus competitive, yet complements the
vast educational opportunities around the
world.
WUaS won't replace them, just complement
them.

30. Cost Analysis (cont.)
WUaS focuses on:
Group Knowledge Production
Freeware & Open source educational resources
e.g. MIT Open Course Ware
e.g. Great universities OER
• the quality and price compared with any
competition are unmatchable.

31. WUaS and Illiteracy
•
For example, an ILLITERATE farmer in India
could teach a farming practice to their
handheld using icons – especially on the wiki
side - upload it to a video site, such as
Youtube, link it to WUaS, and someone 100
kilometers away could access it and/or reply.

32. Resources into the Future
- World University & School will potentially
create an ARCHIVE of Teaching & Learning
opportunities and resources that reaches
hundreds of years into the future.

33. World Univ. & Sch.'s Structure
•
Series of links organized around a wiki
•
It’s a platform
•
Following wiki pages and main pages
•
Infinitely extensible as a wiki (editable web
pages) – both pages and sections
•
Creative Commons licensing

34. Courses
•
Courses:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
-
WUaS is course-centric
-
Great Universities’ course-centric
-
You can add a course you’ve created here
-
Open, free course aggregations +

35. Subjects
•
Subjects:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
-
Add resources or teach to a specific subject
-
Add a subject itself
-
Add a subject in a new language
-
Start a subject to become an expert

36. Languages
•
Languages:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
• All 7,105 languages
•
Planning a Universal Translator, from and to
all languages, building on, for example,
Google Translate and Android for speech
and text

37. Nation States
Nation States:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States
•
All Nation States
•
Accredit in many for online undergraduate
and graduate, Law & Medical Schools
•
Degrees in languages with 3-8 million or
greater speakers, as needed

38. Library Resources
•
Library Resources:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
- All open, free libraries, in all languages, linked
and curated at WUaS, and as wiki, so
anyone can add a library

39. Educational Software
•
Educational Software:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/EducationalSoftware
-
Educational Freeware
-
Open Educational Software
-
Highest Quality
-
All languages
-
Add open educational software you write

40. Museums
Museums
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums
- All languages
- Substantial, free online content
- Connect this altogether eventually in virtual
spaces or in a virtual world?

41. Research
Research
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research
- Double-blind, clinical trials mediated by the
web, with apparatus sent through post office
- Shared modeling
- Inter-lingual research (all languages)
- MIT STEM-centricity

42. You at World University
•
You at World University
•
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
-
Secure, academic registrar / transcripts
-
G+ Profile?
-
Linked to the bookstore / computer store
-
For flourishing, academic conversation
-
For Music School, too

43. Hardware Resource Possibilities
•
Hardware Resources
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
-
Online, low cost hardware possibilities
-
Do It Yourself Hardware (DIY)
-
Sharing ideas and teaching and learning
about creating hardware

44. WUaS Foundation
•
World University & School Foundation
•
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
-
Board and Advisors
-
501 (c) 3
-
Incorporated as nonprofit in California in 2010
Fundraising from Governments and Companies
- Online Bookstore / Computer store

45. Next Steps of Action for WUaS

Build WUaS community, like Wikipedians,
language by language

Collaborate with Wikidata

Universitians, as name for wider community

Find moderators for 3,000 – 8,000
languages

46. Next Steps of Action
•
World University & School Foundation
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Foundation
• If you have ideas about building a significant
endowment, please come talk to me
• Eventually, if degree- and credit-granting
emerge, paying instructors / universities
makes sense.

47. How to Teach at WUaS
•
Let's do this together
•
You'll laptop will need a web cam
•
Upload it to a video site (Youtube, etc.)
•
Link it to World University & School

48. WUaS Summary
Degree wing:
Free, MIT, and C.C.
MIT OCW-centric degrees in large languages
first
Global – planned for all countries, including
online law schools under one umbrella
Online Bookstore for required textbooks, and
New / Used Computer store

49. WUaS Summary
Wiki wing All Languages (7,105, where Wikipedia is in 287)
Nation States (242 countries, with accreditation
in some)
Subjects (open-ended – create one if you like)
Add highest quality online educational resources
at all levels – Kindergarten through Ph.D.
Add a language, start a school – You as creator

50. WUaS Summary

Open and Free and MIT and C.C. and Wiki

Teaching and Learning Wiki platform
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Where all of us can teach or take classes or
courses, or otherwise innovate
educationally.
In all languages and nation states and
potentially in all subjects and at all levels.

51. Questions?
•
What can you do?
•
Invite your best students to matriculate as
undergraduates at WUaS
•
Edit a WUaS page, or teach something to it
•
Help become a developer of Tamil WUaS, or
the Classical Indian Music pages, or similar

52. Contact Info and Thank You
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com
http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandsch
ool.html
- http://scottmacleod.com
- http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com
worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com

53. WUaS – MIT / Harvard of Internet
WUaS seeks to become the MIT / Harvard of the
Internet and in all 7,105 languages and 242
countries.
And this is YOUR university and school, which is
wiki and C.C., for open, teaching and learning –
with an invitation to engage it.
What makes WUaS unique is a) its all-languages
focus, b) its C.C. licensing (so free), c) its MIT
focus and d) its being wiki.

54. World University and School