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Mission
The mission of World University and School (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare) is to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning through open, editable wikis. WUaS plans to accredit at the university and high school levels to offer online degrees and diplomas. WUaS’s wiki will involve open and editable teaching and learning but also non-editable courses prepared under a Creative Commons’ license. WUaS will facilitate the use of free CC courses as credits toward degrees. Due to the rapid spread of broadband worldwide, WUaS plans to make this accessible to underserved parts of the world and to poor people everywhere. WUaS will explore the possibility of using universal translators to extend the project automatically to any language with time.
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
July 2014
See, as of January 2024, this WUaS Business Plan -
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School -
WUaS Educational Services' Stores for Books, Computers, Robotics +
Business Plan for a Startup Business - 2024
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtXNAEzFp4DdVqKq3pxOPQOQE7ZCS8zqSQhxJmTz3-k/edit?usp=sharing
- 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’ 3 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 international team focus also facilitates open wiki-schools, for people-to-people teaching in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries.
- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
- 5816 Callowhill St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206
1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
- Why should we believe WUaS? (i.e. what is your track record)
MIT OCW-centric,
wiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects,
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
World University and School just received the 'green light' from the state of California (BPPE) to begin the accreditation process in May 2014.
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
WUaS incorporated in 2010 as an educational organization in California, and received federal, 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status in 2011, and has approximately 672 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.
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org
- Why WUaS?
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
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.
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
WUaS develops wiki pages are the platform, and WUaS will move to the new Wikidata repository (being written for Wikipedia’s at least 300 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.
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod
WUaS information technology department will do I.T. maintenance and handle related Wiki and I.T. developments, planned for all languages.
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod (all 7,168 known living languages at WUaS)
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 $1.5 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 $1.5 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. ... $1.5 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
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.s
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 smart phones 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
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
Endowment goals
Fiscal year, 20132015 (ending December 31, 20132015):
$200500,000 dollars in this first year
5 interns in the first year.
= $30,000 in January 2013, and $85,000 in each subsequent month
1 million dollars in the 2nd year
WUaS Five Year Plan
20 million dollars in the 3rd year
"The TOTAL resource requirements (financial, human, legal, marketing, etc) of a minimum 5-year plan with objectives, milestones, and target measurable indicators, need to be spelled out, together with a funding strategy and resource mobilization and implementation strategy."
30 million in the 4th year
See:
100 million in the 5th year
World University and School’s Business Plan in GDoc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YKwTIlRuilrTggo7uIcY1GqPImqaA5XHteoZzBtEyM/edit?usp=sharing
Objectives
200 million in the 6th year
Milestones
Measurable Indicators
Funding strategy
Resources mobilization
Implementation strategy
Financial
300 million in the 7th year
Human resources
Legal
Marketing
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
Started World University & School as a nonprofit corporation in California, U.S.A.
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
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
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.
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Year 2012
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Quarter 1
Year 2014
Guidestar Goldstar label
�http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx
Quarter 2
Year 2015
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Year 2014
Begin degree granting process - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Law Degrees, Music Degrees, bachelors Degrees (in the English version)
Quarter 2
Accept first degree students - Ph.D., Medical Degrees, Music Degrees, bachelors
Quarter 3
3 Reed College FWS interns, "on the teaching side" of WUaS
1st year of credit and degree granting
1-3 Harvard GSHE unpaid interns
First groups of students matriculate (in partnership with great Universities? All online)
toward the following degrees
High school students' application from around the world
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?
Year 2016
Year 2015
online Law School opens (Harvard?)
Quarter 3
Matriculate first class of 2020 undergraduates to graduate with bachelor degrees
2nd year for these 16 students
Quarter 4
Year 2016
online Dental School opens with students (with Michigan?)
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
3rd year for these 16 students
Quarter 4
Year 2017
online Veterinary Medicine School opens (with Cornell?)
Quarter 2
Medical students (and Music School? students) graduate - first Medical Degrees and Music Degrees at WUaS
Quarter 3
Matriculate first class of 2021 undergraduates to graduate with bachelor degrees
4th year of credit and degree granting
Quarter 4
Quarter 2
Undergraduate students (and Music School? students) graduate - first 4 Bachelor degrees
Quarter 3
5th year of credit and degree granting
Quarter 4
Quarter 3
6th year of credit and degree granting
Quarter 4
Quarter 2
first Ph.D.s graduate
Quarter 3
7th year of credit and degree granting
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8th year of credit and degree granting
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9th year of credit and degree granting
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10th year of credit and degree granting
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11th year of credit and degree granting
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12th year of credit and degree granting
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13th year of credit and degree granting
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14th year of credit and degree granting
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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 progamprogram 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)
CC MIT OCW
CC Yale OYC
WUaS Wiki
- Key Partners
Quakers
MIT OCW
a wiki
in Google + group video Hangouts
between people teaching and learning
Open Journal Systems. 2012. [http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs 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.
===Q item in Wikidata===
===Select Analytics===
===Select Blogs, Blog Aggregators===
===Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.===
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts
https://plus.google.com/hangouts
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
===Select Books, eBooks===
Add an ISBN.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks
===Select Calendars for Events in this Subject===
===Select Call for Papers, Chapters, Submissions, etc.===
===Select Case Studies===
===Select Challenges===
===Select Channels===
===Select Chapters, Book Chapters, etc.===
===Select ConferencesConcerts Online===
===Select Conference Materials===
===Select Conferences, Conferences Online===
===Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions===
===Select Databases===
===Select Databases of Professionals and Specialists===
===Select Dictionaries===
===Select Encyclopedias===
===Select Google + Hangouts, UnHangouts, Group Video, Updates, etc.===
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(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
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(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).
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Wikidata:Wikiquote. 2014. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote Wikidata:Wikiquote]. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote.
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Healy, Beth. 2013. [http://www.boston.com/business/2013/09/24/harvard-endowment-gains-percent-beating-internal-target-but-underperforming-yale/Su6aZWSFJ9ZOMhj00LAyTO/story.html Harvard endowment gains 11.3 percent, beating internal target but underperforming Yale]. September 24. Boston, MA: Boston Globe.
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity]. January 29. Stanford, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html .
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/brazil-wood-how-best-to-publish-my.html Brazilwood: Brazilwood: How best to publish my Harbin manuscript to paper, and also via Google Books and Google Library project, for example online, The Quaker "Inner Light Books" Publisher, WUaS Revenue & Business Plans, a) "Academic Press at World University and School," b) "Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS," c) "WUaS Universal Translator," d) "Library Resources" (planned for ALL languages)]. August 15. Emeryvielle, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/brazil-wood-how-best-to-publish-my.html .
Palfrey, John. 2012. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2012/07/10/new-heads-of-school-institute-part-ii/ New Heads of School Institute (Part II)]. (4 buckets - for financial sustainability) July 10. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/.
Walk, Hunter. 2013. [http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130301044325-7298-manager-okrs-maker-okrs-how-i-d-change-google-s-goal-setting-process]. March 1. linkedin.com.
WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci. 2015. [http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity]. Feburary 1. worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html .
Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. 2012. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/37/2011-12_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE_.pdfWikimediaFoundation
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Create Your Business Plan. 2013. [http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/how-write-business-plan Create Your Business Plan]. Washington, DC: sba.gov.
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Fundraising: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising
WUaS Master Plan: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan
==WUaS Navigation==
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===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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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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