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Language Learning
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Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Images, Infographics, etc.
How to Search for Openly Licensed Educational Resources. 2013. How to Search for Openly Licensed Educational Resources. edtechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/olec.jpg.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select References
11 Reasons Every Educator Needs a Video Strategy. 2012. 11 Reasons Every Educator Needs a Video Strategy. September 11. onlineuniversities.com

Abazorius, Abby. 2012. New online learning tool brings 'the crowd' into homework assignments. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu/newsoffice.

Baxi, Viplav. 2012. MOOCology. August 22. Viplav Baxi's Meanderings…where technology meets learning

Barrence. 2012. University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course. September 3. news.slashdot.org.

Bayon, David. 2012. Cambridge offers free online Raspberry Pi course. September 3. London, UK: www.pcpro.co.uk

Beery, Tal. 2012. Barter-Based School Goes Global (INTERVIEW). May 22. shareable.net

Cadwalladr, Carole. Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?. (Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionised by the internet. Next in line? Education. Now US academics are offering world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world, is this the end of campus life?). November 10. Manchester, England: The Guardian.

Carson, Steve. 2012. Leading open learning projects create a massive online course that combines best-of-breed open offerings. August 20. tofp.wordpress.com.

Carson, Steve. 2012. Tightly coupled or loosely joined. July 16. Cambridge, MA: tofp.wordpress.com.

Carson, Steve. 2012. What we talk about when we talk about automated assessment. July 23. Cambridge, MA: tofp.wordpress.com.

Carson, Steve. 2013. Who really cares about MOOC completion?. February 28. Cambridge, MA: tofp.wordpress.com.

Carson, Steve. 2013. Why the “open” in MOOC matters. March 4. Cambridge, MA: tofp.wordpress.com.

City of Boston and edX partner to establish BostonX to improve educational access for residents. 2013. City of Boston and edX partner to establish BostonX to improve educational access for residents. Boston, MA: edx.org.

Corbin, Tarrant, and E.J. Lepke (ed.). 2012. Guide to Open Learning. iamcorbin.net

Chen, Angela. 2012. Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos. June 28. The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Chen, Deborah. 2013. A vision of OCW for the future: In the wake of edX, where does OpenCourseWare fit?. February 8. Cambridge, MA: tech.mit.edu.

Coleman, Gabriella. 2010. The Anthropology of Hackers. September 21. The Atlantic.

Edmundson, Mark. 2012. The Internet Agenda. October 12. Washington, DC: Inside Higher Ed.

Education-Portal.com People's Choice Awards Nominees. 2012. Education-Portal.com People's Choice Awards Nominees. education-portal.com.

Facilitating Online. 2011. Facilitating Online 2011. wikieducator.org.

Free University Oxford. 2011. The Free University at Oxford. Oxford, UK: The Free University at Oxford

Hardesty, Larry. 2012. Is MIT Giving Away the Farm?: The surprising logic of MIT's free online education program. September/October.

Johnston, Theresa. 2012. Stanford for All. Stanford, CA: Stanford Magazine.

Kamenetz, Anya. 2012. Who can Learn Online, And How?. (e.g. Udemy, Coursera, the Minerva Project, Udacity, and edx). Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Lewin, Tamar. 2012. College Credit Eyed for Online Courses. November 13. New York, NY: The New York Times.

lpress. 2012. Presentation Scales In Massive Online Courses; Does Interaction? September 23. tech.slashdot.org

McCracken, Harry. 2011. Open Yale Courses (in "The 50 Best Websites of 2011"). August 16. Time Magazine.

Markoff, John. 2011. Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course. August 16. New York, NY: The New York Times.

mikejuk. 2012. The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity. developers.slashdot.org

MIT Curriculum Guide. 2012. MIT Curriculum Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Norvig, Peter. 2012. Helping the World to Teach. September 11. Mourtain View, CA: googleresearch.blogspot.com

Palfrey, John. 2012. Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching: Kick-Off. February 3. Andover, MA: Phillips Academy Andover.

Rowan, David. 2012. Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab. November 12. London, UK: wired.co.uk.

Sethopia. 2012. Barter-Based School Catching On Globally. May 26. news.slashdot.org

Stanford announces 16 online courses for fall quarter. 2012. Stanford announces 16 online courses for fall quarter: The university, which pioneered massive open online courses, unveils two new homegrown software platforms to host the courses.. September 7. Stanford, CA: news.stanford.edu.

Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online. 2011. Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online. developers.slashdot.org

Stanford launches Class2Go, an open-source platform for online classes. 2012. Stanford launches Class2Go, an open-source platform for online classes: The platform, called Class2Go, allows professors the flexibility to incorporate other online tools and to conduct research as they teach. September 12. Stanford, CA: news.stanford.edu.

theodp. 2012. School's In For Summer At Udacity. July 07. developers.slashdot.org/

Roush, Wade. 2012. [http://www.xconomy.com/national/2012/07/20/can-anyone-catch-khan-academy-the-fate-of-the-u-in-the-youtube-era/ Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? The Fate of the U in the YouTube Era]. July 20. Xconomy.

Stanford Takes Landmark Step in Online Learning. 2012. Stanford Takes Landmark Step in Online Learning. September 4. Palo Alto, CA: paloalto.patch.com.

Thrun, Sebastian. 2012. Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning. SmithsonianMagazine.

The U. of Michigan's Contract With Coursera. 2012. The U. of Michigan's Contract With Coursera. July 19. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Watters, Audrey. 2012. 6.003z: A Learner-Created MOOC Spins Out of MITx August 14. Hack Education.

Watters, Audrey. 2012. Online Video Meets STEM Education, with MIT's New Reality TV Series August 13. Inside Higher Ed.

Watters, Audrey. 2011. Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: The Higher Education Bubble. December 13. Hack Education.

We can do better than lecture videos. 2012. We can do better than lecture videos. lilly.tumblr.com/post/37172490640/we-can-do-better-than-lecture-videos

Weigel, Margaret. 2013. MOOCs and online learning: Research roundup. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative.

Young, Jeffrey R. 2012. A Conversation With Bill Gates: The Future of Online Courses in Higher Education. June 29. Redmond, WA: The Gates Notes.

Young, Jeffery R. 2012. Inside the Coursera Contract: How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses. July 19. The Chronicle for Higher Learning.

Select Search Engines
Creative Commons' Search. 2013. Creative Commons' Search. San Francisco, CA: search.creativecommons.org.

Select Slideshows
Whittle MD, Amy, and Anda Kuo MD. 2011. From Dinosaur to Digital: Adapting Traditional Curriculum to Blended E-Learning Formats. San Francisco, CA: USCF.

Select Timelines
What You Need to Know About MOOC's. 2012. What You Need to Know About MOOC's. New York, NY: Chronicle of Higher Education.

Select Video and Audio
Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free. 2012. Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free. September 30. National Public Radio.

Price, Richard (Interview). 2012. Academia.edu and the Evolution of Peer Review with Richard Price. July 25. San Francisco, CA: mendelspod.com.

SparkAmerica. 2013. technology education in public schools. San Francisco, CA: sfciti.com.

Wesch, Michael. 2012. How Our Course Works. February 7. mediatedcultures.net

Select Video Conferences
Park, Jane. 2012. Course Creation 101 with P2PU. November 6th. San Francisco, CA: creativecommons.org

Select Websites
Club Academia. 2013. Club Academia: where every student is a teacher. (Math, Sciences, History, Languages, Arts, Upload Video - Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate). clubacademia.org.

Course Finder. 2012. Course Finder. Cambridge, MA: MIT OpenCourseWare.

Lesson Planet. 2012. Lesson Planet.

MOOC2Degree. 2013. MOOC2Degree: Free, Open Online Courses As A First Step Toward A Degree. (Some of the early participants in Academic Partnerships' MOOC2Degree initiative include: Arizona State University, Cleveland State University, Florida International University, Lamar University, University of Arkansas System, University of Cincinnati, University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing, University of West Florida and Utah State University). Dallas, TX: Academic Partnerships.

MediaWiki Administration and Development. 2012. MediaWiki Administration and Development: Administration and optimization of a MediaWiki installation. codelesson.com

Norvig, Peter. 2012. course-builder. (Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic). Mountain View, CA: Google Inc.

Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. 2012. Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. ("... the fourteenth edition of Web Ranking Universities. The July 2012 edition includes nearly 21,000 higher education institutions worldwide, classified according to their academic and research performance, prestige and international visibility and their commitment to open access policies. Access to the Rankings portal: http://www.webometrics.info/ The report provides the results for four indicators: Presence, which measures the volume of information published on the web; Impact, built from the links received from third parties; Openness, counting the number of documents that are freely available from scientific repositories and Excellence, which only includes the quality papers that are among the 10% most cited of each discipline."). Madrid, Spain: Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

Teach Your Technology. 2012. Teach Your Technology: Bring your technical expertise to the CodeLesson learning community. codelesson.com.

World Education University Catalog. 2013. World Education University Catalog. theweu.com/catalog/.

MIT OpenCourseWare main pages

Audio/Video Courses http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

ChemLab Boot Camp http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/chemistry/chemistry-lab-boot-camp/ https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1712244/12960/?v=a

Courses http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

edX Related CourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/edx-related-courseware/

OCW Scholar http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/

Supplemental Resources http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/

Academic Press at World University and School
Academic Press at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

Admissions at World University and School
Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MIT OCW-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Blog at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/.

Careers
Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Coordinates
... in a virtual world

Credits
Many thanks to each of you!

Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.

Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequency

Broadcast to TV

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit
Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

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

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme (probably in United Nations' languages only - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php. Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number
Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Digg.com's World University and School - http://digg.com/worlduniversityandschool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 (This group may be archived).

Google + - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (Scott MacLeod) - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

Google Profiles World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Google Groups' World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School

Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

World University & School subject group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://l.anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots

World University and School Licensing
World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, as of 2011.

World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.

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Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities

Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions

World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers

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