Master Plan



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The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},

Multilingual University & School

where anyone can teach or take a class or course

Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, open, (potentially degree-granting - Ph.D., M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc.) as key web content generators, based on a Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware model, especially for the developing world, and for everyone.

Mission

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.

Master Plan

To Do List

(Business Plan)

"All Ways Free" to students. Budget for this in perpetuity (perhaps like Tokyo University and Scandinavian universities).

Year 2010

Technologies:

Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach to and learn, in real time, in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.

Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).

Translation between all languages. Using Google Wave translation? Be able to add Languages wiki-like?

Outputs:

Laptop/Desktop - One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life, and all related technologies as they develop, and streaming video; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.

Mobile - Handheld size screen (3x2 inches); NY Times' mobile format?

Printer - Printable teaching and learning materials from World University & School for OLPC countries, and everyone, from OLPC and hand held devices.

New Technologies:

Engage, and help to generate, new technological developments (partnering with MIT?) robustly, as they emerge.

Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.

Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries.

Interns:

Intern positions (task oriented) in the first two years (20 hrs a week maximum):

The following report to the General Manager:

1 intern head of WUaS Universitian community building – like Wikipedians – Everyone can teach – new content generators with web cameras 1 intern head of wiki Academic sections, for eventual degrees (Ph.D., B.A., Music degrees) 1 intern head of One Laptop per Child wiki languages' development 1 intern head of wiki, new, open Teaching and Learning content aggregation 1 intern head of wiki and other Information Technology technical development – including Google Wave 1 intern head of languages' development – liaison with other WUaS languages 1 intern head of nation-state wiki – and eventual accreditation in each 1 intern head of Second Life island development 1 intern head of New Intern Development – nascent Human Resources position – job descriptions 1 intern head of legal questions - Creative Commons law, California Law, U.S. Law 1 intern head of outreach and marketing (and branding?) 1 intern head of Minutes for all the committees, each of the above being a committee, facilitating and training other recording clerks - (email collation?) 1 intern head of Medical School and eventual hospital development 1 intern head of Music School 1 intern head of Design 1 intern head of New Schools (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)

The following report to the 'Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility' (a Quaker):

1 intern head of grant writing (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, Buffett, Sloan, Soros, Silicon Valley computer company foundations, all of the Domini Social Equity Corporations' Foundations (companies that have met socially responsible and activist screens) 1 intern head of corporate liaisons (where WUaS could offer accounting courses for companies, and related course development as 'thank you' courses, for significant grants) 1 intern head of academic liaison for pension and health benefits for FTEs 1 intern head of accounting 1 intern head of communication with board members (for 5 person clerk board and for 100+ person board – a board member in every major city in the world?) 1 intern head of endowment management and planning (socially-conscious mutual fund indexing approach).

Fund Raising

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Start World University & School, as a nonprofit corporation in California, U.S.A.

Apply to the Internal Revenue Service for 501(c)3 status

Engage General Manager and Head Fundraiser interns

Hire 2-10 interns this year

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Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - long into the future, through active outreach, who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - e.g. Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such Universitians?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)

Get One Laptop per Child languages working with at least 4 subjects & 1 intern for all 9 languages, at first; plan to hire a Ph.D. per language to generate a university and school in each language.

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Add 10-20 languages to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each); As a wiki, people can add languages if they want.

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Add 10-20 nation states to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each, textbook sections, legal questions for eventual degree granting)

Year 2011

Hire 20-70 interns this year

Add remaining 175-ish Wikipedia languages, not added earlier

Add 10-20 more nation-states

Plan for mobile video capable device acquisitions, like OLPC handhelds with video, for OLPC countries, to complement OLPC areas, and to reach out to other populations.

Plan for wiring some OLPC countries (New Guinea?) for video capability

Server farms?

Unique WUaS video publishing (e.g. WUaS's own open, free Ustream or Youtube) for some teaching and learning material.

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Year 2012

Add remaining 3000-8000 languages to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects)

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Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation

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Year 2013

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Year 2014

Begin degree granting process - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Law Degrees, Music Degrees, Bachelors Degrees (in the English version)

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Accept first degree students - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Law, Degrees, Music Degrees, Bachelors

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1st year of credit and degree granting

First groups of students matriculate (in partnership with great Universities? All online)

toward the following degrees

Ph.D.s (in 4 different disciplines) (M.A. as part of the process) M.D.s (4 students) Music School (4 instruments, or areas, composition, theory, etc.) Bachelor degrees (in 4 different disciplines) Watsu certificate program Focus on enjoyment?

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Year 2015

online Law School opens (Harvard?)

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2nd year for these 16 students

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Year 2016

online Dental School opens with students (with Michigan?)

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3rd year for these 16 students

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Year 2017

online Veterinary Medicine School opens (with Cornell?)

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Medical students (and Music School? students) graduate - first Medical Degrees and Music Degrees at WUaS

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4th year of credit and degree granting

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Year 2018

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Undergraduate students (and Music School? students) graduate - first 4 Bachelor degrees

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5th year of credit and degree granting

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Year 2019

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Year 2020

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first Ph.D.s graduate

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