World University: Difference between revisions

We're presently in the process of both envisioning and realizing a global, degree-granting (Ph.D., M.D., I.B., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, open, virtual university and school, with great universities (e.g. Harvard, MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard, Cambridge, Cal Tech, etc.) as key players, using a Wikipedia model, and for everyone and especially the developing world - that [[Help:Editing|anyone can edit]].

So, for example, World University might offer four courses, at first, in each of these countries and in many languages, to be engaged possibly on One Laptop Per Child and video-capable, programmable iPhone-like devices. And people in these countries, 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.

World University is already open in rudimentary form, here (and previously here: http://globaluniversity.pbwiki.com) to which you can add courses in any possible field, and couldcan extend thousands of years ininto the future - e.g. http://globaluniversity.pbwiki.com, - potentially generating a remarkable archive of courses over time. But if two paths emerge in World University, - degree and open course ware - in World University, MIT Open Course Ware is our model for degree-granting academic course work.

This "Multilingual University" is open to almost all possible courses, including Ph.D.-related ones, and those in Medicine, Music (both Western and Indian classical, with possible instrumental training possible), Veterinary, Law, Electrical Engineering, etc., as well as 'harmonizing' and therapeutic courses in fields like yoga, Watsu, and acupuncture.

Envision learning, teaching and idea -exchange anew, building on the existing 'University.' Here are some tools: a wiki, video, as well as interactive virtual worlds with type chat, voice, and real time streaming video. :)