Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What is World University & School's Mission?

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/ - 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.

How do I teach at, or add resources to, World University & School?

World University and School is for free, open teaching and learning resources ... (and not advertising). If you've taught to a web camera, or in other ways online, click 'edit this page,' and copy the format a nearby reference, into the appropriate section. Or hop into a virtual world, or onto Skype, and teach live there ... WUaS can add any live teaching to the bud of its scheduling calendar. Please join these groups to stay in touch: http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School & http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 with an invitation to add teaching and learning resources :) Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) is one good example, but there are many ways you can teach.

And please look through the WUaS Wiki (editable web pages) to learn from it - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com. There's a lot! of teaching and learning content here already, including 2045 MIT OCW courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings). This is an open, free world university and school, so anyone can teach here, - to their web camera, or interactively in a virtual world, like Second Life or Open Simulator, and you'll find an enormous amount of material here, as teaching examples.

To schedule to teach interactively, simply join this Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School - and then you can schedule when you'd like to teach on the Google wiki-like calendar there, and how you'd like to teach. Or simply post a course online to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Individual_courses, or to the subject page, etc.

If credit- and degree- granting emerge at WUaS after some years, WUaS will let people know about that teaching process here. Right now, WUaS is an 'edit this page,' open, free university and school, potentially in all languages, nation states, subjects, and at all levels.

For the present, simply 'edit this page' at WUaS, and join the Google (http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141) groups to stay in touch.

How I can create an online course?

a. Build it gradually. For example, simply start teaching to your web camera for 3 minutes, mention a book, then build a syllabus and a series of lectures, and invite potentially learners to meet in a Google + Hangout, for example.

b. Use some of this course making software using, for example, Google's course-builder - https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ - which is available here at WUaS's Course Management Systems - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Course_Management_Systems - with other course-making software, or start one on a free wiki, which software is also accessible on this page.

c. For a MIT-centric course, that might eventually be taught for credit on the degree side of WUaS, use a MIT OCW course as a model, and then construct the course on a web page, or using the above software.

Once I teach to my webcam, how do I make that part of World University?

Answer: Post it to youtube.com, for example, and link that to a subject at World University, or create at new subject. Check out the Bassoon lesson here at the World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School by New York Philharmonic player Frank Morelli.

Or schedule when you'd like to teach in a virtual world at this wiki-like schedule (Google calendar), by adding your name to World University and School's Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

(CALENDAR: Schedule classes you'd like to teach or see class schedules, after joining the World University and School's Google Group, in Google Calendar).

How does my university, or country, become a member of World University and School?

World University and School makes program and course content (MIT OCW-focused) available to universities, through a developing membership program, open to universities, countries, 'languages,' and other interested parties. Send an email to worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com.

What is a the link for good introduction to the wiki?

Here's a Press Release for now ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/10/press-release-for-world-university-and.html ... Who might be asking for this? Parents interested in free MIT-centric degrees in 2014 for their kids, or teachers and editors at wiki-World University and School ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ?

WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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

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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