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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


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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.

(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 Academia.edu http://www.academia.edu or Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/ - or Spire - http://spire.sciences-po.fr/web/ - for example); See Library Resources below at WUaS for further resources.

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, Repositories, 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 Quotes, Quotations, etc.
Wikidata:Wikiquote. 2014. Wikidata:Wikiquote. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote.

Select References
Brown, Mark. 2011. Culture: Personal info returned to UK consumers with 'midata'. November 11. Wired UK.

Citizens Connect: Making Boston More Beautiful. 2012. Citizens Connect: Making Boston More Beautiful. Boston, MA: City of Boston.gov.

Conlan, Tara. 2012. BBC creates charter for use of web data. January 25. London, UK: The Guardian.

dcblogs. 2012. Vendors Take Blame For Most Data Center Incidents. February 29. news.slashdot.org.

Haselton, Bennett. 2012. The Google Transparency Project Transparency Project. June 26. yro.slashdot.org.

How to make your own work open access. 2012. How to make your own work open access. Wikipedia.

itwbennett. 2012. Big Data's Invisible Open Source Community. March 1. news.slashdot.org.

judgecorp. 2012. Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers. February 24. it.slashdot.org.

Li, Anna. 2013. Online course shows impact, importance of data-driven journalism. Sep. 13. poynter.org.

Markoff, John. 2011. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11predict.html Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’]. October 10. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Markoff, John. 2012. Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs. November 23. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Markoff, John. 2012. Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers. May 21. New York, NY: The New York Times.

The midata vision of consumer empowerment. 2011. The midata vision of consumer empowerment. UK: BIS - Department of Business Information and Skills.

Moe-Behrens, Gerd. 2012. Tool Tales: Leukippos – Synthetic Biology Lab in the Cloud. May 1. Nature.com.

Mydex and the UK government’s new midata policy. 2011. Mydex and the UK government’s new midata policy. Scotland: Mydex.org.

Ohlig, Jens. 2014. Establishing Wikidata as the central hub for linked open life science data. Oktober 22. blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/22/establishing-wikidata-as-the-central-hub-for-linked-open-life-science-data/.

Pearce, Rohan. 2013. How Defence tackles the challenge of big data with machine learning: DSIC sheds light on how the organisation is employing machine learning to trawl through large data sets. March 13. computerworld.com.au.

Pintscher, Lydia. 2015. Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger. January 3. Berlin, DE: blog.wikimedia.de/2015/01/03/scaling-wikidata-success-means-making-the-pie-bigger/.

Rayna St. 2013. Opening the Black Box of Governance: Alleviating Poverty With Data. April 5. Cambridge, MA: globalvoicesonline.org.

Schmidt, Eric. 2013. Data Permanence. June 8. Mountain View, CA: plus.google.com.

Shieber, Stuart. 2012. Open letter on the Access2Research White House petition. May 21. Cambridge, MA: Occasional Pamphlet.

Sparrowvsrevolution. 2012. Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops. July 03. yro.slashdot.org/.

Tufte, Edward. 2012. EDWARD TUFTE'S BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE. Chesire: CT: edwardtufte.com.

Vrandečić, Denny, and Markus Krötzsch. 2014. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base. Vol. 57 No. 10, Pages 78-85 10.1145/2629489. (Creative Commons' licensed). Communications of the ACM.

Who Has Your Back? 2013. [https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013 Who Has Your Back? 2013]. San Francisco, CA: Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Wikidata/Data model. 2012. Wikidata/Data model. meta.wikimedia.org/.

zacharye. 2012. AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK. February 28. mobile.slashdot.org.

References to Add

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/11/181200/patient-just-wants-to-see-data-from-his-implanted-medical-device

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/2356231/how-big-data-became-so-big

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=98&utm_source=OII+Newsletter&utm_campaign=776275768a-OII_Newsletter_20120814

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/20/120216/uc-berkeley-offers-free-big-data-class-this-week

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/15/0153245/wrong-number-why-phone-companies-overcharge-for-data

http://slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1226240/how-sensors-and-software-turn-farms-into-data-mines

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/17/1954241/microsoft-wants-to-nix-data-center-backup-generators

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/09/25/1356211/data-breach-reveals-100k-ieeeorg-members-plaintext-passwords

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/30/1539213/indian-minister-says-telecom-companies-should-only-charge-for-data

http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/29/2316256/how-big-data-is-destroying-the-us-healthcare-system

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/11/29/025218/disabled-woman-denied-entrance-to-us-due-to-private-medical-records

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/13/1834208/1gb-of-google-drive-storage-now-costs-only-002-per-month

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/05/a-russian-gulag-for-american-social-networks-data/

http://www.crisscrossed.net/

http://fortune.com/2014/08/03/meet-fortunes-2014-big-data-all-stars/

Hadoop

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-taps-global-network-of-innovation-centers-to-fuel-linux-on-power-systems-for-big-data-and-cloud-computing-272297201.html

https://aws.amazon.com/datasets

http://global.census.okfn.org/

Select Video and Audio
Jayaram, Malavika. 2014. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/05/jayaram Does Size Matter? A Tale of Performing Welfare, Producing Bodies and Faking Identity]. May 13. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Suber, Peter and Stuart Shieber. 2012. How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You're at Harvard or Not) - Celebrating Open Access Week. October 23. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Vrandečić, Denny. 2012. Wikimania 2012: Technology & Infrastructure V: Data. Wikimedia District of Columbia Youtube channel.

Watson, Sara. 2014. Living with Data: Stories that Make Data More Personal. April 29. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/04/watson.

Select Websites
BASE - 2012. BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Bielefeld, Germany: base-search.net.

Blue Button - Download my Data. 2012. Blue Button - Download my Data. Washington, DC: Department of Veteran's Affairs.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals. 2012. DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals. Lund, Sweden: Directory of Open Access Journals

Food inspection data. 2013. Food inspection data. foodinspectiondata.us/.

Harvard Open Access Project. 2012. Harvard Open Access Project. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

IQSS Dataverse Network. 2012. IQSS Dataverse Network. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

The OAIster® database. 2012. The OAIster® database. (Millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors). Dublin, Ohio: oclc.org.

Tufte, Edward. 2012. Edward Tufte's Website. Chesire: CT: edwardtufte.com. World Bank 'Data'. 2012. Data. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia
DBpedia 2014 Downloads. 2014. DBpedia 2014 Downloads. (This pages provides downloads of the DBpedia datasets; DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link the different data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope that this work will make it easier for the huge amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in some new interesting ways). wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads2014?v=jd3.

Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/

Wikiquotes
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikisource
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/

World University and School Links
Computer Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science

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

Database Systems: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Database_Systems

Open Access Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources

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

Web Page Design and Production: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production

WUaS Information Technologies and Data Plan: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan

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.

Digital and Print catalog

Assistive Technologies
WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar -

Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies

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

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
Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS

Geohash keys

... 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 frequencies

Broadcast to TV / television

Create EMail group for page

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

Google Glass

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

Oculus Rift

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
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)

3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

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

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

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

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.

SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/

There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/

Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

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

World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

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 ....

About Me - World University and School - http://about.me

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

Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/

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 - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com

sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎

Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok

Vyew - http://vyew.com/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

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 WUaS

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

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.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
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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.

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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

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