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MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 5 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring]. January 29. Stanford, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html . |
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 5 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring]. January 29. Stanford, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html . |
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Reed College Strategic Planning. 2015. [http://www.reed.edu/strategicplanning/working_groups.html Reed College Strategic Planning]. Portland, OR: www.reed.edu/strategicplanning/working_groups.html . |
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Revision as of 00:20, 20 June 2015
Please donate to World University and School at
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
Best STEM OpenCourseWare-centric World University & School HIVE meeting space meets on Mondays & Wednesdays at AFSC/SFFM (American Friends Service Committee / San Francisco Friends Meeting) in San Francisco from 10a-12 PT http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation - with an invitation to come in and participate in the development and growth of WUaS - 415 480-4577.
WUaS is listed in Guidestar.org - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx (as of July 2014).
Mission: World University & School's mission (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare), in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform for knowledge generation, and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.
Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, open, free-to-students, university and school, - with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, Creative Commons' licensed, degrees planned e.g. bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D., & Music School, as well as I.B. diplomas - and which engages great universities', such as Yale, MIT, other Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc., free, online, CC, content. WUaS is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and is especially for the developing world, and for everyone. WUaS is planning to be in all 7,106+ languages and 242+ countries; Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 285 languages. Add your course or class here now, and take any course or class you want. World University and School will be in all languages and subjects, focusing, to begin with, on the countries that One Laptop Per Child is also engaging - e.g. Rwanda, Ethiopia, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, USA (Birmingham, Alabama), Uruguay, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, & Papua New Guinea +.
We need your help. Please support the World University and School Foundation by donating today.
The planned World University and School Foundation, will be a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the development, growth, and distribution of free, teaching and learning content, and to making available the full content of this wiki-based (to start) university and school to the developing world, and everyone, free of charge.
We're seeking to build an endowment of U.S. $1.5 million (in 2009 dollars) in the next 10 years.
Quaker-informed World University and School engages Friendly, monthly, business meeting process in which you are welcome to participate. Here's how: "ACCESS to Business Meeting Online Monthly at WUaS" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/12/wuas-business-meeting-online-access.html.
Committees at WUaS
Academic Accreditation Committee at WUaS
Larry Viehland, Clerk
Scott MacLeod
Fundraising Committee at WUaS
Languages/Nation States Committee at WUaS
Scott MacLeod, Clerk
Technical Committee at WUaS
Jim Spohrer
Jim Hendler
Markus Kroetszch
Lydia Pintscher
Giving to World University and School
How to Give to World University and School:
Giving (with Paypal and credit card giving options): http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschoolEndowmentCampaign.htm
Planned Giving (with Paypal and credit card giving options): http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschoolPlannedGiving.htm
Association for World University and School
Planned Giving Donors' Club at World University and School
Capital Campaigns at World University and School
$100,000 Capital Campaign at World University and School
$125,000 Capital Campaign at World University and School
Trillion Dollar Capital Campaign at World University and School (for an online WUaS, as a kind of online Harvard / MIT, in all 7,870+ languages and <242 countries, with free, best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, CC, online, bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees in many, many countries and languages).
Giving Circles at World University and School
Acknowledgement of Giving to World University and School
Gold Giving Circle at World University and School
Silver Giving Circle at World University and School
Bronze Giving Circle at World University and School
Planning World University and School
Select References
MacLeod, Scott. 2015. Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 5 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring. January 29. Stanford, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html .
Reed College Strategic Planning. 2015. Reed College Strategic Planning. Portland, OR: www.reed.edu/strategicplanning/working_groups.html .
World University and School's Board of Clerks / Directors / Trustees
Gantt Galloway, Pharm.D. (USA; English): http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gantt-galloway-pharm-d/0/3a7/616
Larry Viehland, Ph.D. (USA; English):
http://www.chatham.edu/physics/facultydetails.cfm?FacultyID=63
World University and School's General Board of Clerks / Directors / Trustees
Tito Dimas Atmawijaya (Indonesia; Indonesian): http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=45562960
Juan Manuel Méndez Rey (Spain, Spanish): http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=109733657
Govindan ("Govind") Nair (USA, Australia; English, French, Spanish, Standard Malay, Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia): http://www.linkedin.com/in/govindnair99
Jayni Shah (USA, India; English, Hindi, Gujarati): https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=178045239
World University and School's Advisory Board
World University & School's Clerk / Founder / Facilitator / President
Scott MacLeod (USA, English, German); Scott MacLeod's M.A., D.R., research focuses on the anthropology of information technology. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard's virtual Island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. In the classroom, he's taught both anthropology and sociology at Chatham University, at the University of Pittsburgh, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at Penn State-New Kensington, and at UC Berkeley. He's currently writing an ethnographic book about Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, and developing World University and School (like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.
Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com
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 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ .
WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources
Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States
You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software
Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums
Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research
Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions
World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers
Home: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
WUaS's Guidestar.org listing - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx .
Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at
http://worlduniversityandschool.org
Thank you!