Revision as of 04:01, 16 September 2011 (edit) m>Helianth No edit summary ← Older edit		Revision as of 17:17, 20 September 2011 (edit) (undo) m>Helianth No edit summary Newer edit →
Line 99: QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS? Send an email to: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com ~~mailto:World-University-and-School@googlegroups.com~~ Line 120: <div style="text-align:left;"> We're presently in the process of both envisioning and realizing a global, degree-granting (Bachelors~~, Law~~, Ph.D., Law, and M.D.), free-to-students, open, online university and school, with great universities' (e.g. MIT, Yale, Stanford, Ivy League Schools~~, Stanford~~, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Caltech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc., open course ware, especially) as key players, using a Wikipedia with MIT OCW model, and for everyone, and especially the developing world - which [[Help:Editing\|anyone can edit]], primarily by teaching, adding, requesting or taking courses. <br> World University and School also makes program and course content (MIT OCW-focused) available to universities. <br> In many ways, World University & School is already open here. Add a course, or teach to your web camera, now. And you can take classes, for example, through MIT's Open Course Ware by clicking on the appropriate links, and learn, for example, what is the equivalent of a Master's Degree in Physics or in "Society, Technology and Science," through MIT, right now. MIT's Open Course Ware's web site contains over 2,050 courses, with many video lectures posted. Or you can post a very fun or fascinating class about Mozart, massage, painting, calculus, sculpture or your area of interest or specialization. Also, create a page with what you know, what courses you'd like to teach or take, and what courses you've taken; by creating your own, on this page (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University), to begin adding a free course, by language, country, degree, or to take a course. <br> ~~WUaS will encourage people enrolled in its degree programs to dance actively 30 minutes a day to your favorite music at home, by yourself or with a friend, or with a friend mediated digitally.~~ WUaS is planning for credit- and degree-granting, and in multiple countries. As these two paths develop at World University, - degree and a meta-directory for open courses and teaching & learning resources, - MIT Open Course Ware is our model for degree-granting, academic, course work. <br> For the time being, World University might offer degrees over a 10 year horizon. So, for example, World University might offer four degrees, at first, in 50-100 country and languages, to be engaged possibly on One Laptop Per Child and video-capable, programmable, handheld devices. And people in these countries, of course, can add their own courses or instruction to this WUaS wiki, with knowledge they would like to share. In terms of possible degree-granting, MIT professors, for example, might allow a camera in their classroom, with another instructor in a virtual world. A video-capable, internet, mobile-phone device would allow people who are illiterate to take and post courses to this WUaS wiki. WUaS is planning for credit- and degree-granting, and in multiple countries. As two paths emerge in World University, - degree and open courses, - MIT Open Course Ware is our model for degree-granting, academic, course work. For World University & School's free, degree-focus approach, we seek to accredit for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, using MIT Open Course Ware as a basis, and ~~potentially~~eventually in 50-100 ~~languages~~countries for degrees, and with interactivity in virtual worlds and via multiple, video-conferencing windows, for a conference-method approach. WUaS seeks its first, matriculating, Bachelor's class in 2014, its first Ph.D. class in 2015, its first class in law in 2016, and its first medical class in 2017, anticipating graduating 100 students in each, to begin. Its first, matriculating, foreign-country, degree class for a Bachelor's degree-equivalent, accredited in that country, will begin around 2015. WUaS seeks overachieving students (such as might go to Harvard and Stanford), and also plans to offer these overachievers, and all interested learners, a developing set of learning possibilities, paralleling the internet, as it develops into the future. ▼ <br> Beginning in 2014, WUaS would like to place web cameras in great universities' professors' classrooms, for example, with another instructor in a virtual world. ▲For World University & School's free, degree-focus approach, we seek to accredit for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees, using MIT Open Course Ware as a basis, and potentially in 50-100 languages for degrees, and with interactivity in virtual worlds and via multiple, video-conferencing windows, for a conference-method approach. WUaS seeks its first, matriculating, Bachelor's class in 2014, its first Ph.D. class in 2015, its first class in law in 2016, and its first medical class in 2017, anticipating graduating 100 students in each, to begin. Its first, matriculating, foreign-country, degree class for a Bachelor's degree-equivalent, accredited in that country, will begin around 2015. WUaS seeks overachieving students (such as might go to Harvard and Stanford), and also plans to offer these overachievers, and all interested learners, a developing set of learning possibilities, paralleling the internet, as it develops into the future. <br> While all countries and territories (around ~~220~~200, perhaps starting with the countries, and places, in GlobalVoicesOnline.org), and all languages, (possibly 8,000 +, including 'dead' languages, but starting with those in languages in Google Translate and in Wikipedia) will be part of this, we'd like to focus at first on the communities in countries that One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), emerging from MIT), is also engaging - Rwanda, Ethiopia, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, USA (Birmingham, Alabama), Uruguay, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, & Papua New Guinea - as well as your interests. WUaS is planning to make its content available on One Laptop Per Child computers, and video-capable, programmable, handheld devices (video), as these develops. And people in these countries, of course, can add their own courses or instruction to this WUaS wiki, and by teaching to their web cameras, with knowledge they would like to share. A video-capable, internet, mobile-phone device would allow people who are illiterate to take and post courses to this WUaS wiki. <br> Line 203 ⟶ 216: {{HeadingA\|What's new on {{SITENAME}}}} ;20 September 2011 - World Univ & Sch is planning to be an university/school in ALL countries and ALL languages, as wiki (Wikipedia is in around 281 languages) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/ . Which country will first seek to become part of WUaS, by becoming a member country, or states' party? There are significant opportunities for joining early in this process ... worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com . Open, free, people-to-people, accredited WUaS in your country (and language) will help so many people. ;12 September 2011 - Building on the 3, free, online, interactive, Stanford, open, computer courses, http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-science-081611.html , with professors, this autumn, the < 2000 MIT OCW courses, http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm , the now 35 Yale OYC, - http://oyc.yale.edu/ , all here at World Univ & Sch - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - (plus much more), WUaS facilitates a new, university conversation, where YOU can teach, learn and create, all from home on your computer.

World University: Difference between revisions

World University (edit)

Revision as of 17:17, 20 September 2011