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==WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources==
===Ideas===
Welcome to potential undergraduate students at World University and School applying in the autumn of 2015, and matriculating online in autumn 2016!
For the matriculating students in autumn 2016, WUaS seeks to develop a cohort approach to online, best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare education (with these Yale OYC and MIT OCW audio and video courses in G+ Hangouts to begin), and a first semester's course of study in English, taking about 4 courses (vis-a-vis WUaS’s planned 32 best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare courses over 4 years for a free undergraduate degree) might look like this:
~ Humanities 101 (required) - see: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities
~ First year Biology course with a programming component (required)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011 ?
~ Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/ ?
~ Information Technology and the Network Society
~ A best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare Introductory Mathematics’ course
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
~ Media Arts’ best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare course for undergraduates?
… all in Google + Hangouts, or similar, for interactivity.
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Begin studying, teaching, learning or creating now at this online, free College at WUaS, at the Subjects' page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - or at this best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare Courses' page - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/.
WUaS plans to accredit on
(Online, wiki, virtual World University & School, with its first, matriculating, Bachelor's degree class in
WUaS plans to offer something like 36 majors, based on these MIT OCW 36 main subject areas - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ - as well as excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics' fields.
WUaS will eventually accredit in at least 50-100 languages/countries, and as many as possible, to offer free, online,
Accreditation to offer Bachelor degrees is a 3 stage process, with WASC, with WUaS's first, matriculating, Bachelor's degree class in
WUaS is planning for a "Admitted Students' Day" for the first, matriculating Bachelor's degree class, on or around Saturday, April 14th,
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World University & School may target Android/iPhone/ smart phone mobile internet devices with video, and group text chat for the conference method - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - of teaching and learning, as the bare minimum hardware to begin to study for a
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In developing the World University and School, online,
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I'm curious about the cultivating the role of parents in the home, in co-learning with their matriculated, undergraduate kids in
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World University and School would like to build the possibilities of innumerable, scientific studies of students' learning, (and professors' teaching) and particularly their enjoyment of learning, by
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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===
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===Select Blogs, Blog Aggregators===
===Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.===
Begin a Google + Hangout:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
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===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.===
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===Select
===Select Conference Materials===
===Select Conferences, Conferences Online===
===Select Conversations / Dialogues / Idea Competitions===
===Select Databases===
===Select Databases of Professionals and Specialists===
===Select Dictionaries===
===Select Encyclopedias===
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===Select Google + Hangouts, UnHangouts, Group Video, Updates, etc.===
===Select
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===Select Institutions, Institutes, Centers, Networks of Centers, etc.===
===Select Interviews, Question and Answers, Q&As===
Jobs, Laurene Powell. 2015. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cL-K2JjaoA Laurene Powell Jobs: Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems [Entire Talk]]. (Video, in conversation with Stanford Engineering Professor Tom Byers) Stanford University ecorner Youtube.com.
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===Select
===Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.===
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
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===Select Newspapers, News, Newsletters===
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===Select
===Select Photos, Pictures, etc.===
===Select Platforms===
===Select Poetry===
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===Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems, FAQs===
===Select Quotes, Quotations, etc.===
Wikidata:Wikiquote. 2014. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote Wikidata:Wikiquote]. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote.
===Select RSS Feeds, SMS, etc.===
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alphadogg. 2013. [http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/2158256/best-tech-colleges-are-harder-than-ever-to-get-in Best Tech Colleges Are Harder Than Ever To Get In]. January 03. news.slashdot.org.
Anderson, Nick. 2013. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-uc-berkeley-chancellor-is-against-rating-colleges-based-on-graduate-earnings/2013/10/28/9732f856-3ff4-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html New UC-Berkeley chancellor is against rating colleges based on graduate earnings]. Washington DC: washingtonpost.com.
Brown, Mark. 2012. [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/behind-the-scenes-of-chemlab-boot-camp.html Behind the scenes of ChemLab Boot Camp: The making of MIT OpenCourseWare's new reality series]. Cambridge, MA: MIT OpenCourseWare.
Brown, Mark. 2013. [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/ocw-provides-challenges-for-a-talented-young-student.html OCW provides challenges for talented young student: Indian teen Tuhin Bagi uses MIT OpenCourseWare to enhance his studies and set his sights on future endeavors]. March 26. Cambridge, MA: MIT OpenCourseWare.
Carey, Kevin. 2014. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/building-a-better-college-ranking-system-babson-beats-harvard.html Building a Better College Ranking System. Wait, Babson Beats Harvard?]. July 28. New York, NY: nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/building-a-better-college-ranking-system-babson-beats-harvard.html .
Carey, Kevin. 2014. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/upshot/the-economic-price-of-colleges-failures.html The Economic Price of Colleges’ Failures]. September 2. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Columbia College's Core Curriculum. 2014. [http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/ Core Curriculum]. ("The Core Curriculum is the set of common courses required of all undergraduates and considered the necessary general education for students, irrespective of their choice in major"). New York, NY: college.columbia.edu/core.
Cortes, Gabriel. 2014. [https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140730045039-10611401-college-should-be-free College Should Be Free]. Mountain View, CA: linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140730045039-10611401-college-should-be-free .
ECAR STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2012. 2012. [http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2012 ECAR STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2012]. educause.edu.
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Kolowich, Steve. 2013. [http://chronicle.com/article/Duke-Us-Undergraduate/138895/ Duke U.'s Undergraduate Faculty Derails Plan for Online Courses for Credit]. April 30. Chronicle of Higher Education.
LaRiviere, Wells. 2015. [https://reed.switchboardhq.com/posts/12185-md-md-phd-admissions-guide-counseling MD & MD-PhD admissions guide & counseling]. Portland, OR: reed.switchboardhq.com/posts/12185-md-md-phd-admissions-guide-counseling .
Learner, Kristen, Jeffrey Wong and Nikki Magaziner Mills. 2013. [http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/india/2013/06/06/for-international-students-college-checklists-for-june/ For International Students, College Checklists for June]. June 6. New York, NY: New York Times.
Leonhardt, David. 2014. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-college-worth-it-clearly-new-data-say.html Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say]. May 27. New York, NY: New York Times.
Lewin, Tamar. 2013. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/education/california-bill-would-force-colleges-to-honor-online-classes.html California Bill Seeks Campus Credit for Online Study]. March 12. New York, NY: The New York Times.
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Porter, Caroline. 2013. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578255992379228564.html College Degree, No Class Time Required: University of Wisconsin to Offer a Bachelor's to Students Who Take Online Competency Tests About What They Know]. January 24. New York, NY: The Wall Street Journal.
Selingo, Jeff. 2012. [http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121211005338-17000124-big-idea-2013-rethinking-our-vision-of-what-college-should-be Big Idea 2013: Rethinking Our Vision Of What College Should Be]. December 11. linkedin.com.
Selingo, Jeff. 2013. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324874204578440901216478088.html The Diploma's Vanishing Value: Bachelor's degrees may not be worth it, but community college can bring a strong return]. April 26. New York, NY: The Wall Street Journal.
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Selingo, Jeff. 2013. [http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130311111525-17000124-five-ways-free-online-classes-will-change-college-or-not Five Ways Free Online Classes Will Change College, or Not]. linkedin.com.
Selingo, Jeff.
Sullivan, Paul. 2013. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/your-money/measuring-college-prestige-vs-price.html Measuring College Prestige vs. Cost of Enrollment]. April 19. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Weissmann, Jordan. [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/our-college-crisis-a-powerpoint-presentation-by-bill-gates/265283/ Our College Crisis: A PowerPoint Presentation by Bill Gates]. November 15. The Atlantic.
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.
Yale College Distributional Requirements by Year. 2013. [http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/distributional-requirements-year Distributional Requirements by Year]. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/distributional-requirements-year.
Yale College Distributional Requirements by Year. 2013. [http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/thinking-ahead-about-major Thinking Ahead about a Major]. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/thinking-ahead-about-major.
Yglesias, Matthew. 2013. [http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/undermatching_half_of_the_smartest_kids_from_low_income_households_don_t.html Smart, Poor Kids Are Applying to the Wrong Colleges: How an information mismatch is costing America’s best colleges 20,000 low-income students every year]. March 11. slate.com.
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Adams Housing Day Video - 2013 "Gold Digger". 2013. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx2D1cp5Ahw Adams Housing Day Video - 2013 "Gold Digger"]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Anything Could Happen at Harvard. 2013. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5pKtnmHTxg Anything Could Happen at Harvard]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Youtube channel.
Brown, Bob. 2012. [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/061412-google-chair-schmidt-to-boston-260206.html Google Chair Schmidt to Boston University grads: 'You can write the code for all of us']. June 14. Network World.
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===Select Video Conferences===
===Select Videocasts and Podcasts===
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Useful Handouts and Study Strategies. 2013. [http://www.princeton.edu/mcgraw/library/for-students Useful Handouts and Study Strategies]. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
===Select Wikidata Queries===
===Select Wikis===
WikiBase (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client)
WikiData (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata)
===Select Workshops===
===Select Writers, Researchers, etc.===
===Subject's Social Networking Sites===
===Tutoring===
===Wikimedia Commons===
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
===Wikipedia===
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
===Wikiquotes===
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
===Wikisource===
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
===Wikivoyage===
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/
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==WUaS Navigation==
New WUaS in MediaWiki:
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-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.
Digital and Print catalog
===Assistive Technologies===
WUaS plans to anticipate numerous developing assistive technologies for sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, and similar -
Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies
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===Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)===
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ .
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===Coordinates===
Geodetic datums such as WGS84 or GPS
Geohash keys
... in a virtual world
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Broadcast to radio
Broadcast to TV / television
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Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)
Google Glass
MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/
Oculus Rift
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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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(beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)
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===In Virtual World===
(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
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
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ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
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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.
SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/
There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/
Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar
Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/
WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/
World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage
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Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
About Me - World University and School -
http://about.me
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Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/
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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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===Save this page for download in the following formats===
atom
GeoJSON
csv.csvm
map.html
csv
xls
rdf
klm
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Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
MIT UnHangouts - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/
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AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/
Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection
ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com
sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/
Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok
Vyew - http://vyew.com/
Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/
Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/
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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/ .
'''Select Video with Subtitles for Translation'''
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 .
===The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School===
[[The "Universitian" Newspaper at
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Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.
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===World University and School Licensing===
World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.
World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.
All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
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LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
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MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
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NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
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SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
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Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
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For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
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WUaS's Guidestar.org listing -
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx .
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Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at
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http:/
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Thank you!
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