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In many ways, World University is already open. You can take classes, for example, through MIT's Open Course Ware by clicking on the courses to the right, and learn, for example, what is the equivalent of a masters in physics at MIT. Or you post a very fun class about Mozart or massage. For the time being, WlobalWorld University might offer degrees over a 10 year horizon.

So, for example, World University might offer four courses, at first, in each of these countries anand dinin many languages, to be engaged possibly on One Laptop Per Child and programmable iPhone-like devices. And people in these countries can, of course, can add their own courses to this Wiki, with knowledge they would like to share. In terms of possible degree-granting, Harvard professors, for example, might also teach 4 courses at the undergraduate level, and 1 graduate level course, in the fall of 2009, with at-large participation possible. A video-capable iPhone-like device would allow people who are illiterate to take and post courses to this wiki. Almost every aspect of learning that takes place in a classroom or learning situation now, is possible to engage interactively in virtual worlds like Second Life today, and these virtual world technologies will develop a lot in the next few years.

People ultimately train their own mindsbodyminds in whatever learning context, and World University may well facilitate this in new ways. World University engages an approach to knowledge where learning also occurs through various forms of dialogue and conversation, such as those that occur in seminars and through libraries' books and journals. And World University will engage the far-reaching potentials of the Information Technology revolution to make learning and teaching - knowledge exchange, very widely construed - global and innovative in an ongoing way.