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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, digital, open, (potentially degree-granting - bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law, M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT OCW, 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.

World University and School’s Business Plan June 2013

- Why World University and School and WUaS’s team?

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

- Why should we believe WUaS? (i.e. what is your track record)

World University and School just received the 'green light' from the state of California to begin the accreditation process in May 2014.

WUaS incorporated in 2010 as an educational organization in California, and received federal, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status in 2011, and has approximately 580 wiki, subject pages. Accreditation, first in California and with BPPE and WASC senior is a three stage process, where WUaS must graduate its first undergraduate class before receiving full accreditation in 2018. WUaS has a long track record of institutionalizing as an online, startup, MIT OCW-centric university and long term goals and plans.

- Why WUaS?

WUaS will benefit a lot of people with free, MIT OCW-centric university degrees, as well as with schools in all languages. Since these schools, universities and degrees are Creative Commons’ licensed, they will be free, furthering, particularly benefitting the poor as they get mobile computers. WUaS also has a specific educational focus to provide free, online education in the developing world.

- How and why WUaS will run its business: from infrastructure, to customer relationship, to maintenance.

WUaS develops wiki pages are the platform, and WUaS will move to the new Wikidata repository (being written for Wikipedia’s 285 languages). WUaS aggregates great universities’ OpenCourseWare, such as MIT OCW and Yale OYC, and eventually in all languages and countries. WUaS plans to accredit on these Creative Commons’ licensed resources, in all 200+ countries.

WUaS information technology department will do I.T. maintenance and handle related Wiki and I.T. developments, planned for all languages.

As a startup, online university, WUaS’s graduate student instructor’s will be one way WUaS develops relationships with customers, that is students. WUaS is also planning to hire technical support people, perhaps with office hours in a Google + Hangout.

WUaS uses monthly business meeting process in the manner of Quakers as its locus of decision-making, and will thus inform how WUaS runs its business.

- Financial analysis.

A. WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors.

WUaS plans to raise funds from governments, universities, philanthropic foundations, and companies as well as individuals.

B. WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

WUaS also is planning on-the-ground bookstores at some point in the future, perhaps near Apple Computer stores in cosmopolitan cities of learning around the globe.

C. WUaS is also planning an online academic publishing house, both of books and journals, in multiple disciplines in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

- Market analysis - looking at market size and who our customers are.

Markets are numbers of people willing to spend the hours studying at MIT OCW-centric WUaS for free degrees.

WUaS’s market includes all countries.

Since WUaS is free, Creative Commons’ licensed and accrediting, our current competition / peers include the free edX, Coursera and Udacity. But WUaS plans to become a Tier 1, online university, the MIT / Harvard of the internet, and remain Creative Commons’ licensed.

- How many people will WUaS hire, when do we need them, how many thousands of hours of instructors' time?

WUaS may eventually hire 100s of thousands of people. WUaS would benefit greatly with 20 interns this autumn 2013. In the autumn of 2014, and depending on the number of matriculated, undergraduate students, planning to take 32 MIT OCW-centric courses for an undergraduate degree, - ideally 2000 1st year students, WUaS would like to hire graduate students for 30 different undergraduate classes, each class having a maximum of 15 students per section.

- Implementation roadmap: how are you planning to grow in the future and the financial forecasts.

Core US pilot program Year 1 developed concurrently with a number of country -specific programs and focused on 30 initial MIT OCW Audio - Video courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - introductory courses, in Google + group video Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts.

-  Risk analysis to demonstrate you have considered risks and that you are prepared to tackle eventual challenges that may arise.

Market risk: Insufficient number of students - MODERATE

Operational risk: failure/lapses in delivery of courses to students - HIGH Legal risks: reputation, non-delivery, Intellectual Property - LOW Financial risks: liquidity, insolvency - MODERATE TO HIGH

WUaS doesn’t have plant, equipment, or brick and mortar costs.

WUaS Business Plan Sections

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

World University and School’s team’s international focus makes possible WUaS’s plan to offer accredited, Creative Commons’ licensed, free, MIT OCW-centric, online, university degrees in many languages and countries: bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D., as well as I.B. high school diplomas. WUaS’s team international focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,105+ languages and 204+ countries.

WUaS seeks to build a $20-$50 million dollar endowment as a 5 year target. Within 5 years, WUaS plans to acquire the endowment base necessary to sustain this business with 100,000 students and 2,000 instructors. ... $20-$50 mn ($1mn-$5mn revenue).

WUaS is also planning an online bookstore / computer store and in all languages and countries, for textbooks, intellectual resources, musical instruments for students at WUaS, with a plan to charge 2% less than the competition in various countries (probably on the order fulfillment side).

2. THE TEAM

World University and School's General Board of Clerks / Directors / Trustees

Tito Dimas Atmawijaya (Indonesia, Indonesian): http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=45562960

Gantt Galloway, Pharm.D. (USA, English): http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gantt-galloway-pharm-d/0/3a7/616

Stefanos Kapetanakis (Greece, England, Greek): http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=90181173

Dan Kottke (USA, English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke

Juan Manuel Méndez Rey (Spain, Spanish): http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=109733657

Govindan ("Govind") Nair (USA, Australia; English, French, Spanish, Standard Malay, Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia): http://www.linkedin.com/in/govindnair99

Larry Viehland, Ph.D. (USA, English): http://www.chatham.edu/departments/sciences/undergrad/chemistry/facstaff_details.cfm?ID=19

World University & School's Clerk / Founder / Facilitator / President Scott MacLeod (USA, English, German); Scott MacLeod's M.A., D.R. http://scottmacleod.com

Business Plan

To facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and potentially degrees, eventually) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone, World University and School needs an endowment which we will seek to grow through grants and other funding sources.

(Master Plan)

(Marketing Plan)

World University & School's “customers” are the educators and learners - potentially the whole, wired, teaching and learning world.

As an open, free University and School, like MIT Open Course Ware, WUaS will aggregate, facilitate people teaching, and innovate digitally educationally.

Thus far, World University and School has been on the internet for about 4 years. Without funding we've accomplished the following.

495 wiki pages at World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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

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

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages (including plans for translation between all 3000-8000 languages in an universal translator)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

World University and School would like to build a $1.5 trillion U.S. dollar endowment in the first 10 years, and an additional $1.5 trillion dollar endowment, in the second 10 years.

WUaS Business

World University and School will raise funds for World University and School's endowment.

The primary goal of this business is to build an endowment of U.S. $1.5 trillion (in 2009 dollars) in 10 years (by 2020) to support development of World University and School, and another U.S. $1.5 trillion in the second 10 years (by 2030).

We would like to make an university and school for all One Laptop Per Child countries, and indeed all languages, nation states, subjects, and levels.

The WUaS foundation will pay a large network of teachers and salaries, partner with great universities, and facilitate connecting with the poorest parts of the world and the developing world.

Fundraising Plan

Most schools have their monies in the following spheres:

1) general, - philanthropists / individuals, online bookstore / computer store

2) plant, - online, developing, virtual campus, with rentals

3) endowment, and

4) grants - companies, governments, philanthropic organizations.

WUaS plans to focus its financial operations in the specific areas in these spheres.

Resources for foundation information:

Charity Navigator: http://www.charitynavigator.org

Foundation Center: http://foundationcenter.org/

Scientific Research Foundations

Elton John Foundation - http://www.ejaf.org/

Foundations

Possible WUaS university businesses:

WUaS recycled computers, and smartphones for the emerging world, sending them to potential WUaS students around the world

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

Emphasize R.O.I. here.

WUaS Academic Book Publishing

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

WUaS internet service for the emerging world targetting World University and School communities

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

WUaS Merchandise - T-Shirts, cards ...

Funding possibilities

MacArthur

Omidyar Foundation

Microsoft Elevate America nonprofits grant program: http://www.microsoftupblog.com/post/Announcing-Microsoft-Elevate-America-nonprofits-grant-program.aspx

Ford Foundation - http://www.fordfound.org/issues/education/overview

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - http://www.hewlett.org/

David and Lucile Packard Foundation - http://www.packard.org/home.aspx

Rex Foundation - http://rexfoundation.org/

Skoll Foundation - http://www.skollfoundation.org/

Obama Educational Stimulus Plan http://www.ed.gov/fund/grants-apply.html

Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation

Other Microsoft Foundations

Pew Foundation

Sloan Foundation

Soros Foundation

Intel Foundations

Apple Foundations

Hewlett Packard Labs Open Innovation Office

Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) Foundations

Silicon Valley Company foundations

Domini Society Equity Fund Company Foundations ("The Domini 400")

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The San Francisco Bay Area, including especially Silicon Valley

Pittsburgh Foundation

Nokia

Project RAFT

Cisco Systems

Google

eBay

TechSoup Global

Aetna

Adobe Systems

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Agilent Technologies

Alcoa

Applied Materials

Business Objects

eBay

Intuit

Juniper Networks

LSI Logic

National Semiconductor

NetApp

Nvidia

Oracle Corporation

SanDisk

Sanmina-SCI

Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)

Symantec

Yahoo!

Smith Glaxo Kline Foundations

Gilead Science Foundations

Skoll foundation

Mozilla Drumbeat

Socially Conscious Companies for Foundations

Ethos Foundation

Individuals

Big cities around this country, and around the world

* The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation * Ford Foundation * Google, Inc.   * Harnisch Foundation * Internews * Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation * The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation * The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation * The Microsoft Corporation * Craig Newmark * The Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation

* AOL * AT&T * Best Buy Co., Inc.   * eBay * The Ernst & Young Foundation * John I. Forry * Gartner Group * Philip L. Graham Fund * The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation * Hivos * IBM * Lenovo * Linden Lab * Loopt * McCormick Tribune Foundation * The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation * Mozilla * The Craig Newmark Philanthropic Trust * NewsCorp/MySpace * Novell * The Oak Foundation * The Omidyar Network * Oracle Corporation * PayPal * Reed Elsevier * Reuters, Inc. * The Charles H. Revson Foundation * Sun Microsystems * Symantec * Trend Micro * Turner Broadcasting * United States Department of State * VeriSign, Inc.   * Viacom/MTV International

Web site donations

Like One Laptop per Child relationships with countries and governments

For this 2009 tax year, we'd like to raise $400,000.

$1 million in 2010

Endowment goals

Fiscal year, 2013 (ending December 31, 2013):

$200,000 dollars in this first year

= $30,000 in January 2013, and $85,000 in each subsequent month

1 million dollars in the 2nd year

20 million dollars in the 3rd year

30 million in the 4th year

100 million in the 5th year

200 million in the 6th year

300 million in the 7th year

400 million in the 8th year

500 million in the 9th year

leading to $1.5 trillion in the 10th year

Compensation for Universitians (what World University calls its participants).

Goal in 2010: $1,000,000 the first year, the remainder of which doesn't get spent (below $600,000?) goes into the Endowment

1 General Manager $70,000 – who is the Go To person 1 Head Fundraiser $50,000 - (+ 50% of 1st $100,000, 40% of next $250,000 they raise) – to build a growing team of fundraisers. Develops plan for $1.5 trillion endowment over 10 years.

Each of these could hire 1-5 interns in the first year.

While WUaS is 'placeless,' a number of the first Universitians live in or around Berkeley, California, and we'd like to hire, for example, 2-10 UC Berkeley or Stanford University interns @ $11.50 an hour (but also, potentially, the brightest 20-25 year old students in the world e.g. MIT, Ivy League students, University of Tokyo, Michigan, Cambridge, Oxford, Berlin, etc.) for up to 20 hours a week, posting the job possibilities on the WUaS wiki page. We'd like to then hire 20-100 interns in the 2nd year.

The initial intern positions would focus on the following:

Intern positions

The following would 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 U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Department? liaison for pension and health benefits       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).

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 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 1 intern head of outreach, 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 1 intern head of Medical School and hospital development 1 intern head of Music School 1 intern head of Design 1 intern head of New Schools (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)

Business Plan Committee … (Board)

for FTEs

Health insurance Pension (as independent 501 c 3, partnering with the Berkeley Department of Anthropology?).

Add 2 to 100 interns a year?

What happens with faster growth … and more resources?

Educational purpose

Initial incorporation documents

Articles of incorporation Bylaws Minutes of first meeting of the board of directors

Secretary

Clerks' Board

General Board for ideas / resources

Ph.D.s on Board to guide it toward accreditation

A Business Manager / Economist – Wharton? A MBA?

Someone knowledgeable and experienced with 501 c 3s

Someone knowledgeable about making a college a university – Professor Larry Viehland

Someone experience with raising a trillion dollars endowment – Harvard Business School?

Someone experienced with managing rapid growth, and executing a business plan … to go from 0 Universitians to 100s of paid Universitians … and a much larger volunteer community of Universitians, like Wikipedians...

Someone experienced with a multiple LANGUAGES' wiki, with a group-knowledge focus

Someone knowledgeable about Creative Commons legal questions … vis-a-vis a wiki, if necessary

Someone Quaker-oriented with a focus on funding and scaling

Outreach

Initially we'll target Wikia and open source users (Wikipedia, GlobalVoicesOnline.org), and students at great universities, and OLPC languages, and expand from there.

World University and School is in the process of incorporating and has 5 board members, a C.F.O./treasurer and a secretary/recording clerk.

We're not only developing education jobs (we would like to hire a lot of Ph.D.s, after interns), we would also like to build everything associated with modern education, almost exclusively digitally. For example, an online hospital for teaching and learning, an online dental school, veterinary medicine school, etc., as well as potentially develop hardware like video-capable, wireless handheld devices, for 3000-8000 languages. WUaS is open to all subjects, but will stay away from weapons, bomb, nuclear-weapon and related teaching and learning material. In creating World University & School, we're developing a free, open, virtual university & school, potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects and at all levels.

WUaS is a compelling idea that needs support to be realized.

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

Year 2010

Quarter 1

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

Engage General Manager and Head Fundraiser interns

Hire 2-10 interns this year

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Year 2011

Hire 20-70 interns this year

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

Plan for Server farms?

Develop 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 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, 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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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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first Ph.D.s graduate

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Ideas
"Most schools have their money in roughly four buckets: 1) general, 2) plant, 3) endowment, and 4) grants. Most for-profits, Jim notes, have just one such bucket; the nature of the accounting in schools is different in this important way. There are three types of money: 3) permanently restricted (e.g., many endowed funds); 2) temporarily restricted (e.g., grants and other “use-it-or-lose-it money”); and 3) unrestricted (within reason; the board can still constrain its usage somewhat, if needed). Jim emphasized the importance for heads of institutions to be the “translator” of the financial issues related to the school for the community at large. He cites to Herzlinger’s four questions that we (as leaders and trustees) should ask about the financials regularly: 1) are the organization’s goals consistent with its resources?; 2) are the sources and uses of resources matched?; 3) is there intergenerational equity?; and, 4) are present resources sustainable? ”High performing organizations aren’t just lucky,” Jim tells us. Another good line: in education, “you can’t cut your way to prosperity.”" (Harvard business school Professor James P. Honan)

- WUaS Business Plan: Customer Statements, Value Propositions, Channels (to be trusted), Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, and Cost Structure. Learn how these interrelate, and watch Alexander Osterwalder's video about this here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management.

Govind Nair suggests (April 2013): Business plan + proof of concept. Upstream U.S. based pilot with students, platform, operational + pedagogical delivery; Malaysia as a testbed for globalizing a MIT-centric education model - requires global sponsors. Find sponsors whose contributions would cover capital and operating costs of an initial 4 year pilot progam leading to MIT OCW-centric degree virtually delivered. Cost model + financing plan + model from operating and capital costs over 4 year program with financing plan. Map out marketing plan to concurrently develop or follow financing plan.

WUaS Business Plan:

Tools for Business Model Generation [Entire Talk] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2875

03:09 Talking About Business Models

Experiment, succeed and fail, learn from insights

03:32 The Business Model Canvas

see nine aspects below

05:55 Sketching Out a Business Model

see below

04:30 Using Business Models to Beat the Competition

free, accredited MIT OCW-centric degrees no competition so far online, but different countries' on-the-ground, non-U.S., free universities are competition

04:28 Mapping Customer Pains to Value Proposition

Customer gains and pains

gains - free MIT OCW- / Yale OCW-centric degrees

pains - 32 courses, MIT / Harvard online with grades ... making it easier via the conference method

Business Canvas...

- Customer Statements

Quaker students

Overachieving students

- Value Propositions

free bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law, M.D., & Music School degrees

open teaching and learning

- Channels (to be trusted)

MIT OCW

Yale OYC

WUaS Wiki

- Customer Relationships

Governments in 205 countries

Companies in 205 countries

Individual Philanthropists

- Revenue Streams

Annual Appeal

Bookstores / Computer stores (new and used) online

On-the-ground Bookstores / Computer stores (new and used)

Fundraising

- Key Resources

MIT OCW

Yale OYC

WUaS Wiki

Wikidata and Wikibase

- Key Activities

facilitation of open teaching and learning

free university degrees

music school

- Key Partners

Quakers

MIT OCW

Yale OYC

- Cost Structure

expenses:

Accreditation

hiring graduate student instructors in all languages

hiring WUaS staff in all languages

- These interrelate via

a wiki

in Google + Hangouts

between people teaching and learning

between countries

between languages

- Palfrey, John. 2012. New Heads of School Institute (Part II). (4 buckets - for financial sustainability) July 10. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/.

- World University and School is the brand

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

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

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 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
Blodget, Henry. 2012. Harvard's Top 5 Endowment Managers Make Almost As Much As 450 Professors Combined. Dec. 7. businessinsider.com.

Conroy, Tom. 2013. [http://news.yale.edu/2013/09/24/endowment-earns-125-return#! Endowment earns 12.5% return]. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Cowan, Alexander. 2013. hat’s the Business Model Canvas?. alexandercowan.com.

Healy, Beth. 2013. Harvard endowment gains 11.3 percent, beating internal target but underperforming Yale. September 24. Boston, MA: Boston Globe.

Palfrey, John. 2012. New Heads of School Institute (Part II). (4 buckets - for financial sustainability) July 10. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/.

Walk, Hunter. 2013.. March 1. linkedin.com.

Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. 2012. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdfWikimediaFoundation 2011-12 Annual Plan]. wikimedia.org

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 Websites
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/

MIT OCW email page http://ocw.mit.edu/jsp/emailpage.jsp

OCW Course Champions Program http://ocw.mit.edu/donate/ocw-course-champions-program/

Matching gifts http://giving.mit.edu/ways/matching-gifts/

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

Our Supporters http://ocw.mit.edu/donate/our-supporters/

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

Support MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/support/

Your Donation Makes a Difference https://giving.mit.edu/givenow/ocw/MakeGift.dyn

Create Your Business Plan. 2013. Create Your Business Plan. Washington, DC: sba.gov.

World University and School Links
Fundraising: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising

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, Greatest Universities-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
MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

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 (beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

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

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

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 and http://www.opencroquet.org/

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

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

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. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.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

Bar code

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....

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

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

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

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool

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

Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - 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-4024337

Quora - http://www.quora.com/

Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/

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 page' 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:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

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

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

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://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

Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

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 - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-instating its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of September 2013, effective 2010.

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/.

The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.

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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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