Master Plan: Difference between revisions

Year 2010

Technologies:

Database of open Teaching and Learning Materials, in all languages; anyone may teach to their web camera in this open wiki. Information technologies here include human minds. Anyone may teach to and learn, in real time, in a virtual world, like Second Life, using the wiki-like Google calendar, for example.

Video capable hand held computer devices (e.g. OLPC and mobile computer devices - with robust video bandwidth and infrastructure in OLPC countries, and everywhere).

Translation between all languages. Building on Google Translate and others? Be able to add Languages wiki-like?

Outputs:

Laptop/Desktop -

One Laptop per Child size screen (6x4 inches), capable of virtual worlds like Second Life, and all related technologies as they develop, as well as streaming video; web pages - markup languages, what people create and do with this, etc.

Classroom -

MIT OCW & Khan Academy, for example, in Arabic on Egyptian classroom projectors (even on little Pica projectors) through World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages? (Each language at WUaS will become its own ONLINE University or School wiki for people-to-people teaching & learning, too).

Mobile -

Handheld size screen (3x2 inches); NY Times' mobile format, with video?

Printer -

Printable teaching and learning materials from World University & School for OLPC countries, and everyone, from OLPC and hand held devices.

Plan for Google TV

'Harbin Bubble Glasses'

WUaS Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

New Technologies:

Engage, and help to generate, new technological developments (partnering with MIT?) robustly, as they emerge.

Budget robustly for technological innovation and experimentation.

Become the low cost worldwide provider of internet access, focusing on the OLPC countries.

'Brainwave' headsets

2011

WUaS will prioritize for DESIGN (think Apple) & robust information technological development in hiring, as we aim for a billion Universitians on the SCHOOL idea-social network side of WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan - and for around 100 undergraduate students on the UNIVERSITY, free, degree-granting side, first matriculating in 2014, with MIT OCW for course curriculum (32 15 week MIT courses over 4 years).

Apply to the Internal Revenue Service for 501(c)3 status

Engage General Manager and Head Fundraiser interns

Hire 2-10 interns this year

Begin accreditation process

Build community of Universitians - like Wikipedians - long into the future, through active outreach, who contribute richly idea-wise to WUaS (e.g. students, worldwide, at great universities - e.g. Cal, Stanford, MIT, Ivy Leagues, Cambridge, Sorbonne, etc. as one group of such Universitians?; Quakers as another group?; Bohemians as another?; Peace community as another?)

Quarter 4

Add 10-20 nation states to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each, textbook sections, legal questions for eventual degree granting)

Begin accreditation process - Bachelors Degrees and Ph.D. (in the English version), with BPPE and WASC senior

For BPPE forms:

[[Chief Operating Officer]]

[[Chief Academic Officer]]

[[Chief Executive Officer]]

Apply to World University and School by January 1, 2014

as if applying to MIT for a bachelor's degree in English: Transcripts with grades, SATs, essay, AP classes, letters of recommendation, language proficiency examinations (TOEFL, etc.)

Begin developing WUaS with Wikidata?

Begin WUaS Bookstore / Computer store ?

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS

First, bachelor degree applications due by December 1 / January 1 2014

Seeking 100,000 applicants toward free, online, MIT-centric, Creative Commons' licensed, bachelor's degrees

Get One Laptop per Child languages working with at least 4 subjects & 1 intern for all 9 languages, at first; plan to hire a Ph.D. per language to generate a university and school in each language.

World University and School Intern / Student Managers' positions:

Internship Program at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internship_Program_at_World_University_and_School

Volunteers at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers

WUaS Intern positions: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Intern_positions

[[WUaS Intern positions]] in the first two years (typically 8-12 hrs a week):

The following report to the [[WUaS Executive Director]]:

1 [[WUaS intern manager]]

1 [[WUaS intern accountant]]

1 [[WUaS intern web designer)

1 [[WUaS intern head of University community building]] – like Wikipedians – Everyone can teach – new content generators with web cameras

1 [[WUaS intern head of wiki Information Technology technical development]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of wiki Academic sections]], for eventual degrees (Ph.D., Bachelor, Law, M.D.)

1 [[WUaS intern head of One Laptop per Child wiki languages' development]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of wiki, new, open Teaching and Learning content aggregation]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of broadband development in OLPC countries]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of languages' development]] – liaison with other WUaS languages

1 [[WUaS intern head of nation state wiki development]] – and eventual accreditation in each

1 [[WUaS intern head of Virtual Worlds development]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of New Intern Development]] – nascent Human Resources position – job descriptions

1 [[WUaS intern head of Legal Counsel]] - Creative Commons law, California Law, U.S. Law

1 [[WUaS intern head of outreach and marketing]] (and branding?)

1 [[WUaS Recording Clerk]] Minutes for all the committees, each of the above being a committee, facilitating and training other recording clerks - (email collation?)

1 [[WUaS intern head of intern head of Medical School and Teaching Hospital]] development

1 [[WUaS intern head of Music School]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of Law School]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of Design]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of New Schools]] (e.g. Law, Veterinary, Dental)

1 [[WUaS intern head of WUaS Membership Schools]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Courses' wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Subjects' wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of wiki Languages' development – liaison with other WUaS languages]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Nation States' wiki development – and eventual accreditation in each]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of 'You at World University' and School wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Research wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Educational Software wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Library Resources' wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Museums' wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of Hardware Resource Possibilities wiki page development]]

1 [[WUaS intern director of the WUaS Foundation page]]

The following report to the [[WUaS Head of Fundraising and Fiduciary Responsibility]]:

1 [[WUaS 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 [[WUaS 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 [[WUaS intern head of academic liaison for pension and health benefits for FTEs]]

1 [[WUaS intern head of accounting]]

1 [[WUaS 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 [[WUaS intern head of endowment management and planning]] (socially-conscious mutual fund indexing approach).

Add 10-20 languages to WUaS in rudimentary form (with around 4 subjects each); As a wiki, people can add languages if they want.

Hire 20-70 interns this year

Add remaining 175-ish Wikipedia languages, not added earlier

Add 10-20 more nation-states

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

Server farms?

Unique WUaS video publishing (e.g. WUaS's own open, free Ustream or Youtube) for some teaching and learning material.

Accept first WUaS bachelor's degree students for admission.

Accepted students attend the online gathering

1st year of credit and degree granting begins for the WUaS bachelor's degree

First groups of bachelor's degree students matriculate (in partnership with MIT OCW, all online).

toward the following degrees

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 in learning with overachievers.

Students begin classes on the same day MIT begins its classes.

August

Apply to World University and School by January 1, 2015

as if applying to MIT for Ph.D. and bachelor's degrees: Transcripts with grades, SATs, GREs, essay, AP classes, letters of recommendation, language proficiency examinations (TOEFL, etc.)

September

Grades due? / or only P/F and no grades the first semester?

Year 2015

Quarter 1

2nd year for these 15 students

online WUas Law School in English opens (collaborating with Harvard?)

3rd year for these 16 students

online WUaS Medical School opens in English opens (collaborating with Harvard?)

Medical students (and Music School? students) graduate - first Medical Degrees and Music Degrees at WUaS

4th year of credit and degree granting

Undergraduate students (and Music School? students) graduate - first 4 bachelor degrees

5th year of credit and degree granting

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MIT OCW-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.

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

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin

[[The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School]]

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit in April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, as of 2011.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ .

SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm