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[[Image:AphiloWorldUniversitySchool5Sep07.jpg|200px|thumb|left|World University and School {in a virtual world}]]
 
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Friends,
 
World University Sign Up - Free & CC
 
Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. & I.B. degrees planned in many large languages and all 200+ countries
 
What are your name, email address and when you'd like to begin:
 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Gd8qeBkWe8Q9hfSi8GHYk-L8Mmb9dimFaunB-nlMNwQ/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link
 
 
or here: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
 
 
* Add or take a '''free, open''' Admissions at World University and School course.
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==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
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===Ideas===
 
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If you are a high school student actively interested in applying to this best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare World University and School in English, or know of one - with complete applications due by January 1, 20152016, at 12 pm Pacific Time - please email WUaS now at worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com with this application information - http://web.mit.edu/admissions/ (See, too - http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/Common-App-StatementFinal.pdf). Here's the link to the developing Admissions at WUaS page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School. International students are welcome.
 
 
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(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.
 
 
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MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
 
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
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Dobie vs. the Machine. 1961. [http://www.hulu.com/watch/725079 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Dobie vs. the Machine]. (Dobie and Maynard are unable to decide their future after graduation from high school so they decide to let a computer make the decision for them.). hulu.com/watch/725079 .
 
Weitz, Paul (Dir.). 2013. Admission. (Drama about the Admissions' department at Princeton University). Imagine Entertainment, Relativity Media, Stuber Productions.
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Scott Jaschik, Scott. 2013. [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/25/experts-consider-truths-and-fictions-tina-fey-film-admission Does 'Admission' Merit Thumbs-Up?]. March 25. Inside Higher Ed.
 
 
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HALPER, JAMIE D. 2017. [https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/3/junior-deferral-program-expanded/ Law School Expands Junior Deferral Program to Students at All Colleges]. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Crimson.
 
 
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Lederman, Doug. 2013. [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/affirmative-action-innovation-and-financial-future-survey-presidents Affirmative Action, Innovation and the Financial Future: A Survey of Presidents]. March 1. Inside Higher Ed.
 
Leonhardt, David. 2015. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/upshot/07up-leonhardt.html New Prize Rewards Economic Diversity at Colleges]. April 7. New York, NY: nytimes.com/2015/04/07/upshot/07up-leonhardt.html .
 
Lewis, Harry. 2012. [http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2012/02/weird-harvard-students.html "Weird" Harvard Students]. Cambridge, MA: harry-lewis.blogspot.com.
 
LinkedIn University Rankings Based on career outcomes. 2015. [https://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/gb/graduate?trk=mkt_eml_grankings_s_CTA LinkedIn University Rankings - Based on career outcomes: From university to career, see which universities are launching graduates into desirable jobs]. linkedin.com/edu/rankings/gb/graduate?trk=mkt_eml_grankings_s_CTA .
 
Liptak, . 2012. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/us/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-affirmative-action.html Race and College Admissions, Facing a New Test by Justices]. October 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.
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Waldron, Travis. 2012. [http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/03/28/453632/half-college-students-drop-out/ Study: Nearly Half Of America’s College Students Drop Out Before Receiving A Degree]. March 28. Think Progress.
 
Winsor, Ben. 2015. [http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-that-are-harder-to-get-into-than-harvard-2015-3 10 things that are harder to get into than Harvard]. (As Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust once said, "We could fill our class twice over with valedictorians"). businessinsider.com/10-things-that-are-harder-to-get-into-than-harvard-2015-3 .
 
Yale College Course Selection in Freshman Year. 2013. [http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/course-selection-freshman-year Course Selection in Freshman Year]. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/course-selection-freshman-year.
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Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA). 2013. [http://www.aneca.es/ANECA Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA)]. Madrid, ES: aneca.es/ANECA .
 
 
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Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
 
Assessment and Grading at WUaS as Part of Conversation in Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assessment_and_Grading_at_WUaS_as_Part_of_Conversation_in_Learning
 
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_%26_Used)_at_WUaS
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WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
 
 
 
 
 
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==WUaS Navigation==
 
New WUaS in MediaWiki:
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20150324001526/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page
 
 
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===Digital and Print course catalog===
 
Digital course catalog
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing
 
 
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(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
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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.
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Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/
 
 
===Linked Open Data===
 
Linked Open Data, Linked Data for artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on privacy and security.
 
 
 
===List of Wikipedias===
 
List of Wikipedias. 2015. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias .
 
 
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MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
 
 
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'''Select Translators'''
 
Babelxl. 2015. [http://babelxl.com/ Babelxl: the best translator]. http://babelxl.com/ .
 
Babylon Online Translation. 2015. [http://translation.babylon.com/ Babylon Online Translation]. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/ .
 
Free-translator.com. 2015. [http://free-translator.com/ Free-translator.com]. free-translator.com/ .
 
Google Translate. 2015. [https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate]. translate.google.com/ .
 
SDL Free Translation. 2015. [http://www.freetranslation.com/ SDL Free Translation]. freetranslation.com/ .
 
Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. [http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products/ Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products]. worldlingo.com/en/products/ .
 
 
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Amara.org. 2015. [http://www.amara.org/en/ Amara.org: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified]. (Amara makes video globally accessible: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified). amara.org/en/
 
TED Open Translation Project. 2015. [https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project TED Open Translation Project]. (See - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project - and - https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/get-started). ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project .
 
 
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All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ .
 
 
MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications
 
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu
 
 
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Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
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