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MITBest OCWSTEM 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.

'''Mission:''' World University & School's mission (http://worlduniversityandschool.org - like Wikipedia with MITbest OpenSTEM-centric Course WareOpenCourseWare), 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 MITbest 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 MITbest Open CourseSTEM-centric WareOpenCourseWare, 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 +.

(for an online WUaS, as a kind of online Harvard / MIT, in all 7,106870+ languages and <242 countries, with free, MITbest OCWSTEM-centric OpenCourseWare, CC, online, bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees in many, many countries and languages).

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 MITbest OpenSTEM-centric Course WareOpenCourseWare) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.

World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 34.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 34.0) - httpshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/34.0/ .