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Select Courses

 * Add free, open Open Access Resources courses below.

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 Blogs
Open Matters. 2013. Open Matters: MIT OpenCourseWare news and information. Cambridge, MA: mitopencourseware.wordpress.com.

Suber, Peter. 2012. Peter Suber's Blog at G+. Mountain View, CA: Google +

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 Books
Suber, Peter. 2012. Open Access (the book). (Wikipedia link). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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 Conferences Online
OpenSym

OpenSym 2014 (formerly WikiSym) in Berlin, Germany, Aug 27-29. In-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB, ACM SIGSOFT, archived in the ACM Digital Library.

General call for papers:

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/general-call/

Track-specific calls for research papers:

1. Open Data:

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-data/

2. Open Educational Resources:

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-educational-resources/

3. Free/Libre/Open Source Software

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-source/

4. (IT-Driven) Open Innovation:

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-innovation/

5. Wikis and Open Collaboration:

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-collab-wikis/

6. Wikipedia

http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/wikipedia/

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
Boellstorff, Tom. 2012. From the Editor: Why the AAA Needs Gold Open Access. Vol. 114, No. 3 (September 2012): 389-393. American Anthropologist.

boyd, danah. 2008. open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals. February 6. Zephoria.org.

Cape Town Open Education Declaration. 2012. Cape Town Open Education Declaration: Unlocking the promise of open educational resources. Cape Town, South Africa: capetowndeclaration.org.

Carson, Steve. 2012. MIT OpenCourseWare video retrospective. February 22. Cambridge, MA: OpenFiction [Blog].

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

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

crazyvas. 2011. For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default. October 04. science.slashdot.org.

Creagh, Sunanda. 2011. Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted. September 28. theconversation.edu.au.

Darnton, Robert. 2011. A Digital Library Better Than Google’s. March 23. New York, NY: The New York Times.

dp619. 2013. How Open Source Could Benefit Academic Research. January 29. news.slashdot.org.

Gikunda, Dennis. 2011. Open Data in Kenya - Setting the Pace for Africa. August 5. Mountain View, CA: Google Public Policy Blog.

Goldberg, Carey. 2001. Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free. April 04. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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

K, Pablo. 2012. Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom. December 4. The Disorder of Things.

Leonard, Guy. 2013. Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu. December 6. svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/.

Model Open Access Policy. 2012. Model Open Access Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Monbiot, George. 2011. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist: Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers]. August 29. Manchester, England: guardian.co.uk

Park, Jane. 2011. Creative Commons & the Association of Educational Publishers to establish a common learning resources framework. June 7. Creative Commons.

Poynder, Richard. 2012. The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber. (http://www.richardpoynder.co.uk/Shieber_Interview.pdf). December 03. poynder.blogspot.co.uk.

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

Sample, Ian. 2013. Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals: Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process. Monday 9. Manchester, England: The Guardian.

van Schewick, Barbara. 2010. The FCC’s Open Internet Proposal – Lessons from Silicon Valley. December 13. Stanford, CA: Net Architecture.

Shieber, Stuart. 2012. Guide released on good practices for university open-access policies. October 17. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. The importance of dark deposit. March 12. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. Dissertation distribution online: my comments at the AHA. February 14th. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. Institutional memberships for open-access publishers considered harmful. March 1. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. JSTOR opens access to out-of-copyright articles. September 8. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. The NIH responds to my letter. June 7. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. On guerrilla open access. July 28. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2011. Subscription fees as a distribution control mechanism. September 11. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication.

Shieber, Stuart. 2013. Thoughts on founding open-access journals. November 21. Brookline, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/11/21/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-journals/.

Shieber, Stuart. 2013. Why open access is better for scholarly societies. January 29th. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu.

Shockey, Nick and Jonathan Eisen. 2012. Open Access Explained!. youtube.com

Stodden, Victoria. 2011. Open peer review of science: a possibility. March 6. New York, NY: blog.stodden.net.

Suber, Peter. 2011. Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #155 - Recent watershed events - Open for edits - Five years ago in SOAN .... March 2. Richmond, IN: SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

Suber, Peter. 2006. Six things that researchers need to know about open access. February 2. Richmond, IN: SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

Zeamer, V. 2012. DIGITAL LIBRARY DIGEST: OCTOBER 23, 2012. October 23. (Digital Public Library of America). Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu.

Select Slideshows
OER Research on student impact and faculty feedback. 2012. OER Research on student impact and faculty feedback. slideshare.net.

Select Video and Audio
Banzi, Massimo. 2012. Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination. TED Talks.

Carson, Steve. 2012. MIT OpenCourseWare video retrospective. February 22. Cambridge, MA: OpenFiction [Blog].

Dimock, Wai Chee. Open Source Platform: An Alternative to MOOCs with Wai Chee Dimock. (Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, talks about an open source platform that may be an alternative to Massive Open Online Courses at the Yale Online Education Open Forum). New Haven, CT: Yale University Youtube Channel.

Hellekson, Gunnar. 2012. Open source in U.S. government in five minutes. October 15. Raleigh, NC: Opensource.com

MIT. 2011. MIT’s Institutional Decision to do OpenCourseWare. Cambridge, MA: Open Course Ware Consortium Global.

Rodrik, Dani. 2011. [http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/5131504 The Future of Convergence. (HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP11-033, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University). Cambridge, MA: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH).

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.

Open-source, open world (9 talks). 2012. Open-source, open world (9 talks). TED Talks.

Select Video Conferences
Green, Cable. 2012. World OER Map: Will You Help Build It?. November 9th. San Francisco, CA: creativecommons.org

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

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

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. 2013. Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. University of Nottingham.

Suber, Peter. 2011. Open Access News: News from the open access movement. Richmond, IN: Earlham College.

Swartz, Aaron. 2008. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. July. Eremo, Italy:

Select Wikis
Open Policy Network. 2013. Open Policy Network: Ensuring open access to publicly funded resources. San Francisco, CA: Creative Commons.

World University and School Links
Academic Books at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Books_at_WUaS

Academic Journals at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Journals_at_WUaS

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

Foreign Languages and Literatures: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Foreign_Languages_and_Literatures

Hacking: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_(certified,_ethical)

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

Internet Studies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Studies

One Laptop per Child: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT

Open Access Funding: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Funding

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

Social Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science

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

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 ....

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

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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

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.wetpaint.com/

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

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

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

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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

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