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western prairie fringed orchid: BERKELEY, and there's a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest * * *

Hello Ed, Came off ridge to get out of heat: 96 F the car said, 89F the smartphone said. Found my way to BERKELEY, and there's a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest on MLK and Allston near Berkeley High, your kids' alma mater (Amelia's at least so far). People with signs are on both sides of the road, that I saw. Putting on my bandana mask, and may head out to join ... see you there? Have just seen 5 cop cars drive by at corner of Allston & McKinsley. How are you? EdX for courses at WUaS is looking promising this autumn! :)

Lots of Black Lives Matter signs, no speeches, no bullhorns, cars are honking as they pass in solidarity, most demonstrators are wearing novel coronavirus masks, about 73F, possibly 50-150 protesters, many kids - with signs

But Telegraph Ave near campus had absolutely no one on it, and no tie die tables, bong and pipe vendors, or artists' displaying their creations for sale.



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Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU

MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg

Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc

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Brian, Alexandra, Leanna, 

You can see the beginnings of learning 'machine learning' with Lego robotics here (WeDo 2.0 and with a MIT 1999 competition) in this blog entry - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html - and potentially with Google Research Football machine learning. 
See you soon, Scott
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
MIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics ~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20



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Wonderful and thank you, Leanna and All, 
I learned some new Lego language. 
A realistic virtual earth for Lego ... from Lego Duplo bricks - and the creative computing projects you shared - to Lego machine learning with the WeDo 2.0 special Lego Robotics' kit (maybe with 2 smart hubs, etc) and in Google Research Football etc. - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html  - are a lot of virtual world dots to connect, but would open up vast learning horizons (in so many countries and languages even, and re World Univ & Sch).
Am interested in building a MIT OCW-centric WUaS curriculum for Lego Robotics for WUaS College level Engineering majors, potentially taking courses on the edX platform in addition to the one MIT OCW Lego resource - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/- as well as curriculum for something like IB high school science majors. Please keep your ears open if you learn of people creating this. (Am reading Karen Brennan's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/karen_brennan - and re Creative Computing with Scratch programming in these regards, but am not seeing much about Lego Robotics with Scratch out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which is a direction WUaS is heading in for major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages! ). Thank you!
I appreciated your coding progression slide - about the 6th to last - in these regards too. Very nice to meet you too, Alex, Brian and Leanna!
Best regards, Scotthttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Roboticshttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learninghttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/

Again, brainstorming-wise -
Home ONLINE #LegoRobotics in #RealisticVirtualHarbin w #ScratchProgramming & #MachineLearning HOW? Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYUMIT Lego Robot Competition '99 https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
Google Research Football https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning… -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223721119191977984?s=20

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW? Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXER
https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20

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Here's a draft letter to our current 5 prospective undergraduate students, for this autumn: 
"Dear World University and School prospective students, 

World University and School is delighted to let you know that WUaS will be matriculating students this autumn in August and September. Students will be taking edX courses, many derived from CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare courses, and offering these 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Engineering, 3) General Science, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business.
Please stay tuned for the next steps in how you can enroll, and the courses that you can choose from in your first year of studies at WUaS, which you will access from here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Thank you for your interest in studying at World University and School for a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor degree. 
Sincerely yours, Scott GK MacLeodPresident, Founder and ProfessorWorld University and School" 



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Dear Larry,

Looks like Sanjay's email was about both linking edX courses, and licensing/ endorsement clarifications.
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Thinking in terms of Shahbaz Sanjer in India, one clarifying question for MIT legal:Can WUaS add all edX courses, in English lit, for ex., to the WUaS course catalog (not just MIT OCW into MITx)?
I think Sanjay said we can here.
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In that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC)?3
Reimbursement from countries' Depts of Education, non-student sources via edX - pegged on MIT tuition level?4
Am glad WUaS may be getting in communication with MIT legal (rather than edX legal), since this could open avenues to other questions regarding WUaS matriculating students each a Wikidata PIN # in 300 languages (7117 living languages too regarding WUaS wiki schools too?, & 7.5 billion people re UBI experiments too?), transcripts, - and re questions of money transfer mechanism.This would be a very edX-centric set of developments for WUaS, - and I hope that the MIT LEGAL licensing clarifications re above would include questions of remuneration for WUaS.Am hoping Shahbaz can enroll in the autumn, as example. Quality of WUaS degrees will inform reimbursement from countries' questions. Glad too that Sanjay is beginning to think in terms too of WUaS (and that Rafael Reif has his PhD from Stanford too, like Anant).Sincerely, Scott
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/matilija-poppies-romneya-online-free-to.html?m=0 -



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Tue, Jun 2, 9:50 AM (2 days ago)
to Govind, Kyle, tito, Juan, Jayni, Yuping-CASPA, LarryDear Larry, and Jayni, and Board of Directors,

Re my email to Varun Shukla in India just now, am wondering about the value, with time, of having our WUaS applicants take a standardized exam online like the CLT - https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/10/21/classic-learning-test-aims-challenge-sat ... which currently costs around US $54, probably out of the range of Varun, and many high achieving students from the developing world seeking a better future for themselves. So would WUaS cover the cost of this? To be seen. What do you think?  
In further communication with the MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma, who's uncle or similar is a politician in India I think, am wondering too about reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
FYI, here's where World Univ & Sch stands with licensing currently: 
World Univ & Sch continues to seek to observe the CC-4 MIT OCW, and the edX, licensing terms (and per our communication with MIT OCW director Cecilia d'Oliveira previously, that WUaS may 1) share, 2) adapt, 3) but non-commercially the CC-4 MIT OCW (now in 4 languages), - and see the further licensing clarifications here per her: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - 
MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )And see too correspondence with MIT's Sanjay Sarma - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html - 
And as WUaS prepares for a possible autumn collaboration with edX, WUaS has listed about 75 CC-4 MIT OCW courses, ~14 edX courses, and about 19 CC-3 Yale OYC courses in our course catalog (but wouldn't yet have access to edX MITx courses from MIT OCW grades, for example) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/).
WUaS is currently waiting to hear back from MIT Legal per Sanjay with regard to further exploratory steps re linking, licensing and much more. 
Sincerely, Scott

Email today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India: 
Thank you for your mail. And greetings! Is this your Twitter URL - https://twitter.com/varunss2211? And what languages do you speak? MIT OCW-centric wiki World University & School admission's process is in progress. At this stage, World Univ & Sch will likely offer only 4-year Bachelor degree programs, with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -  but since you already have a Ph.D., why might you be interested in a Bachelor degree? And what major might you apply for?

WUaS will likely have space in our Business major for a free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, providing WUaS could move forward together with edX and regarding the edX platform (which is something WUaS is in communication with edX about). The enrollment process would then be similar to edX's, but stay tuned since WUaS may seek essays, language proficiency, letters of recommendation, & test scores (possibly the CLT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Learning_Test), etc. - as if someone from India were applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) itself on-the-ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to offer our online Bachelor's degree classes in collaboration with edX this autumn 2020, the WUaS Ph.D. degrees would begin the following autumn 2021 at the earliest. Applying would probably occur through - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and I will add you to WUaS's monthly business meetings' emailings. Thank you again for your interest in MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch.

Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeodFounder, President  & Professor
PS What does D.B.S. stand for? 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 
Varun Shukla in India has written again with an interest in matriculating at World Univ & Sch this autumn in the General Science major. Our recent correspondence is below. 
It's great that WUaS has a prospective student who is interested in our proposed General Science degree, potentially beginning this autumn. Am wondering how the WUaS Admissions' process will grow over the years' ahead. Am wondering too about WUaS seeking a variety of Department of Educations in India for reimbursement, for example; in what ways might WUaS engage MIT Professors, Sanjay Sarma, the VP in the Office of Digital Learning, or Anant Agarwal, edX's CEO in these regards? 
As you'll see in this recent blog post, MIT OCW doesn't have a "Science" page upon searching, but it does have a page for our other 5 majors - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html - and WUaS has alos posted only one edX from MITx from MIT OCW Science courses so far. 
All the best, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 



*Dear Sir,
I have done Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited).

Yes @varunss2211 is my twitter.
I would like to take major in General Science
My mother tongue is Gujarati. I also speak English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.

Yours,Dr. Varun ShuklaNavi Mumbai,India

Thank you for your response. Stay tuned as World Univ & Sch develops its admissions' process, as well as our collaborations with edX. WUaS is seeking to offer courses like this over 4 years - Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life:  https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secret-of-life-3 - for World Univ & Sch credit, as we seek to develop online free-to-students' Bachelor degrees, and also to seek reimbursement from nation states, countries, counties, and states' Departments of Education. 
Thank you, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages


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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 

By the way, Varun Shukla in India writes he's completed both a high school degree and an online, it appears, "Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited)" - from Universal Life Church and costing $59 - see: https://store.ulc.net/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=doctor-of-biblical-studies AND https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/ulc-scamage.39628/ - so I can understand perhaps now why he is interested in the WUaS free-to-students' 'accrediting' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree. He could conceivably even afford the CLT exam from India. 
The first step of licensing and accreditation for WUaS may be to go through the CA BPPE's "Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited" - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf" but I've read that the related BPPE workshops are cancelled. 
So, in terms of WUaS's licensing (CA's BPPE) which is the first step in then concurrently accrediting (probably with WASC), all of the CA BPPE workshops have been cancelled through the end of 2020 (probably due to the coronavirus pandemic) - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/schools/application_workshops.shtml - this makes it difficult for WUaS to begin to offer online Bachelor (or Ph.D.) degrees that will then become accredited (as WUaS becomes accredited). (Also WUaS doesn't have the BPPE fee money to begin this process anyway). 
So I'm wondering if state of California licensing / accreditation ONLINE is the right direction to head in at this stage - since online licensing / accreditation may be impossible at this stage. And could WUaS collaborate with edX to create potentially our own forms of accreditation, per recent correspondence with Larry: "in that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC)?
In a related vein: am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors Heather Paxson (Quaker, I think), and Graham Jones (who's a Reedie - a Reed College Alum), as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . And do you know this Monty Python version of 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth
https://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)
Thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions? 
All the best, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
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Browser was shutting down as I was writing the last email, and with a familiar error message was popping up just before the Safari browser shut down - the 3-repeat message happens and then Safari closes - and then the 3-repeat message but Safari didn't close ... is this a Google Apple process? 
So BPPE may have had its highs and lows in recent decades, and may also be saying with 'non-accredited' licensing to end users, like people in India, PERHAPS to BEWARE. Shall WUaS seek edX 'accreditation' or its own creation, or seek BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation for both Bachelor and Ph.D.s (per BPPE, and first in English) - if WUaS had the $5,000 for BPPE and the $10,000 eligibility fee, and then the $1,000 per year per student I think - and then the $10,000 or so to become accredited - with accreditation happening only AFTER we graduate our first undergraduate Bachelor's degree class (but with provisional accreditation in the interim). What  do you think? And what would be best for our students, and seeking reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries (and if we were collaborating with edX as well)? And what about 'the other America' and the non-rich 'developing world'? I'd think if we could guarantee quality of degrees, and make these relevant for India and other countries in the developing world, their Departments of Education might appreciate less of an outlay for WUaS degrees (re accreditation) ... even as WUaS seeks to peg reimbursement on MIT's tuition for studying from home degrees. 
I've also renewed WUaS's Grants.gov password over the weekend for about the 10th or 15th time, - every 6 weeks (WUaS didn't get a $250,000 grant through Grants.gov a few years ago) - and just received today Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's Grants' Newsletter, a few days late after the beginning of the month, which lays out grant opportunities. Would a granting agency fund WUaS NEWLY to license with BPPE and then seek accreditation with WASC senior? (Can't also attend the BPPE workshops if they are closed through year's end). Would a granting agency award WUaS monies to hire graduate student instructors from MIT and Harvard and Stanford, without WASC senior or similar accreditation? 
Where might the CLT play a role in WUaS seeking and finding high achieving students from around the world - https://www.cltexam.com/home ? Princeton's Robert George on this page went to Quaker schools too I think. I've met him at Stanford as well. I don't think accepting the CLT exam would cost WUaS anything.  
Thoughts, ideas, questions, comments? I think a WUaS US degree would have much more value if WUaS was accredited - opening avenues to many careers otherwise inaccessible. 
Cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 



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Dear WUaS Board, 

Each person in the world, all 7.5 billion people, a WUaS Wikidata PIN# (nee Wikidata Q-item #), beginning with matriculating WUaS students in all ~200 countries' official languages, and then speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki teachers and learners at WUaS - since WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development, and got the front end WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence? For ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University .

Just asked these questions, as I registered for this Stanford Law SVDX webinar on Tu June 9, 2020 at 10 am PT - https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/6/9/esg-resiliency-in-a-time-of-turmoil-webinar: "Brainstorming-wise, what role could UBI experiments in all ~200 countries and their main languages, in order to distribute a single cryptocurrency (with block chain ledger), facilitate further ESG goals, (and even conceptually regarding all 7.5 billion people, re universal, to alleviate poverty)? What if a hypothetical "Mine Pi" (coded by Stanford students), or a "Bitcoin" could even be listed, by a company with its Board, on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange (which has passed one SEC hurdle, I've read) - and, for example, to address the 40 million unemployment claims in the US due to the novel coronavirus pandemic? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)"
... and somehow backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and post dollar as de facto international currency)? This could be because WUaS Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official languages code for this, and our WUaS Law Faculty teach this too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. 
I think the Stanford Law SVDX webinar is open - and its focus is Board Members actually. All of the above would be in the WUaS Corp legal entity in all likelihood. 
Still waiting to hear back about edX licensing and similar from Sanjay Sarma, MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, and re MIT Legal, which he said he would brief regarding MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, and they - MIT Legal - would get back to WUaS. 
Sincerely, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress - 








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Hoopoe: CYC June 1 2020 Newsletter and COVID Plan, Emergency planning for a so-called second wave of local coronavirus infections? (Am hypothesizing and really hoping much of this coronavirus pandemic is a "fire drill" or "in case of emergency" in the even

CYC June 1 2020 Newsletter and COVID Plan - (Cuttyhunk Yacht Club, Massachusetts)

Emergency planning for a so-called second wave of local coronavirus infections? 

Could an infectious diseases' MD from Cuttyhunk circles help further develop the CYC Phase 1 / Phase 2 guidelines?




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CYC June 1 2020 NewsletterHappy almost summer! We know this has been an anxious and difficult spring for many families. We hope we can provide a small dose of light-hearted moments for you this summer -- as safely as possible. This will require everyone’s cooperation with our guidelines. Below are important details about our operating plan for Summer 2020:Directory and Boutique:We feel like we owe it to the Community to continue to honor some of our annual traditions: the Directory will be printed this year, and the boutique will be openWe are sending our Directory to the printer on June 1, so if you haven’t renewed your Membership, this is your last call! We will put your Directories in the mail this year, so please be on the lookout for it in JuneThe Boutique will be open. Jenn Warr is ordering a limited run of 2020 swag, and she will notify everyone of her operating plan via our social media channels later in JuneBoat availability and classes:We are able to get boats on the water this summer and provide recreation, with modifications. We ask that everyone works together with us to follow the State of MA and local guidelines, out of respect for each other, our staff and students, and our island communitySome important items of note:There will be no communal life jackets this summer. To participate, you must bring your own PFDThe number of boats on the water may be limited due to a rotating maintenance schedule (N10s) or the need for creating safe distances for rigging (floats)There will be no walk-up boat borrowing, due to required cleaning protocolsWhen social distancing cannot be maintained, face masks must be worn on CYC property

In Phase 1, there will be no traditional A, B, or C group. We will offer structured boat borrowing only. Anyone with an active Membership and signed waiver (online) may participate. Family members/cohabiting family only, allowed together in boatsStaff will accompany the fleet in crash boats to offer support, and maybe some fun structured activitiesYou may sign up to participate via a white board 24 hours in advanceMorning Fleet: 9-11am N10s, Zests, LasersAfternoon Fleet: 1-4pm Lasers, Zests, 420sTyphoons will not be available until end of June/early JulyIn Phase 2, A, B, and C group may resume, with modificationsFamily members/cohabiting family or consenting “cohorts” only allowed together in boatsA, B, and C groupers who cannot sail independently must be accompanied by a capable family member or assigned partner to participate

Full details can be found on the COVID page of our website

Thank you everyone for your understanding and flexibility adapting to the circumstances this summer. Let’s make the best of this by each doing our part, and the good times will follow.

CYC Board


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Hey Cuttyhunkers, 
Appreciating the CYC wild apricot web site.
I just now renewed my CYC membership - https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org/ ... I figure it'll be great too for when I begin a family :)
Am hoping travel potential emerges too re heading to Massachusetts (from the SF Bay Area) later in the summer. :) 
Thanks for your great CYC work,Scottscottmacleod.comThere is a Sailing wiki subject for open teaching and learning at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch: - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing -and which eventually will find further form in a #RealisticVirtualEarth https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click and for sailing eg in https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans?src=hashtag_click ... 
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/PPSKnow of any 17-18 year olds interested in a free-to-students' online MIT OCW-centric education this autumn, potentially via the edX platform (founded by MIT and Harvard), see:

WUaS LiveStream 6/1/20 - Breakthrough - Dear Students: upcoming free-to-students' degrees in fall https://t.co/ooTnO4DAfp
-https://t.co/jWqJRiU74i
Breakthrough: https://t.co/VDgFTwmjZA
English courses: https://t.co/QGLXnYBWTR
6 majors: https://t.co/mhVBY4lGzX @WorldUnivAndSch ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267509540045504519?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1267508089667764229?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1267509134204850178?s=20

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"So, give three cheers for Cuttyhunk,
Our spirits all are free.
And no one knows the time of day,
Or cares, that's why we,
Love this isle of Gosnold,
and every wind that blows.
In rain or shine we all have fun,
From spring to summer's close."
~Leila Tucker Hall






-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 



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Charmaine, Grant, John, David and All,

To what degree are you planning for CYC classes this summer with this kind of information:
Baker says camps, child care can reopen during phase two of reopening
"Summer camps and child care facilities can open in Massachusetts during Phase 2 of the state’s gradual reopening of the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Charlie Baker said Monday"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/01/metro/baker-says-camps-childcare-can-reopen-during-phase-2-reopening-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/
I can read Boston Globe articles behind its pay wall with the Tor browser - https://www.torproject.org/download/ - if that might be helpful

3 Cheers!, Scott






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Charmaine Gahan4:34 AM (8 hours ago)
to Grant, John, David, Chris, David, Joan, Seymour, Sarah, Janie, Jim, Matt, Peggy, cathy4ford, Duane, ggkidder, Sandy, me, ScottHi Scott, thanks for the article. There has been a lot of info coming out in the past few weeks and it's hard to keep track of it all. None the less taking what guidelines we had in May, the CYC Board of Governors, in consultation with other area yacht clubs and US Sailing guidance, put together a plan for CYC which addresses the Governor's plan in phase 1 and in phase 2. We put them up on our website, if you take a look I always welcome comments and feedback. https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org/COVID19 The nice thing about Phase 1 for CYC is that it gives us a chance to "start slow" and see how things go, how compliant and comfortable our community is with the guidelines. If we are able to comfortably move to Phase 2, we certainly will. The other nice thing about Phase 1 is that it gives us a chance to catch up with the many many maintenance projects we seem to never get around to in a typical season, so although it will be financially less revenue for CYC in those weeks without class registrations, it really is an important opportunity for the long term health of CYC.

Stay well Scott and look forward to seeing you on island. Charmaine Gahan



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Hi Charmaine, Grant, John, David, All, 

Thanks and interesting, 
I wonder if there are any emerging or existent Massachusetts' health department guidelines for what happens in an emergency, for example, regarding another possible testable corona-viral leading to Covid-19 symptoms' outbreak on Cuttyhunk, even, for example. Emergency plan for a so-called second wave of local coronavirus infections? (Am hypothesizing and really hoping much of this coronavirus pandemic is a "fire drill" or "in case of emergency" in the event of a very very serious global viral epidemic - or otherwise, (hypothetically), why would Massachusetts' health officials be allowing camps to open again, without a vaccine in place?). What do you all think? And could an infectious diseases' MD from Cuttyhunk circles help further develop the CYC Phase 1 / Phase 2 guidelines? (No one comes to my mind immediately, but perhaps someone will emerge). Thanks for the helpful 'CYC COVID-19 Operating Plan' - https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org/COVID19 . Stay well, All, and look forward to seeing you on island.
3 Cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Cuttyhunk - 

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 


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to Charmaine, David, Nicholas, Nicholas, Bob, elmorebee, james, dbillman, Doug, Hilly, dblout, Christine, david.joan184, jenwarr, Grant, John, Chris, David, Joan, Seymour, Sarah, Janie, Jim, Matt, Peggy, cathy4ford, Duane, ggkidder, Sandy, Scott, pbfroth, loon40Charmaine and Cuttyhunkers, 


Regarding CYC Covid-19 planning this summer, Charmaine writes: 
"There has been a lot of info coming out in the past few weeks and it's hard to keep track of it all. None the less taking what guidelines we had in May, the CYC Board of Governors, in consultation with other area yacht clubs and US Sailing guidance, put together a plan for CYC which addresses the Governor's plan in phase 1 and in phase 2. We put them up on our website, if you take a look I always welcome comments and feedback. https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org/COVID19 The nice thing about Phase 1 for CYC is that it gives us a chance to "start slow" and see how things go, how compliant and comfortable our community is with the guidelines. If we are able to comfortably move to Phase 2, we certainly will. The other nice thing about Phase 1 is that it gives us a chance to catch up with the many many maintenance projects we seem to never get around to in a typical season, so although it will be financially less revenue for CYC in those weeks without class registrations, it really is an important opportunity for the long term health of CYC."

"Comments and feedback" ... ?
3 Cheers, Scott- Blog post: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hoopoe-cyc-june-1-2020-newsletter-and.html - 






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Antillean crested hummingbird: 'I want to get admission in Bachelor's Degree and also want to know the processor of admission in Ph.D. * Emails today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India, prospective 'General Science' major, at World Univ & Sch student

Dear Sir,

I want to get admission in Bachelor's Degree and also want to know the processor of admission in Ph.D. 
I have completed my 12th Grade (HSC) from Maharashtra Board and Ph.D. in Religion & D.B.S.
Yours,Dr. Varun ShuklaNavi Mumbai,India


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Emails today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India, prospective 'General Science' major, at World Univ & Sch student:

Dear Varun, 
Thank you for your mail. And greetings! Is this your Twitter URL - https://twitter.com/varunss2211? And what languages do you speak? MIT OCW-centric wiki World University & School admission's process is in progress. At this stage, World Univ & Sch will likely offer only 4-year Bachelor degree programs, with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - but since you already have a Ph.D., why might you be interested in a Bachelor degree? And what major might you apply for?

WUaS will likely have space in our Business major for a free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, providing WUaS could move forward together with edX and regarding the edX platform (which is something WUaS is in communication with edX about). The enrollment process would then be similar to edX's, but stay tuned since WUaS may seek essays, language proficiency, letters of recommendation, & test scores (possibly the CLT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Learning_Test), etc. - as if someone from India were applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) itself on-the-ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to offer our online Bachelor's degree classes in collaboration with edX this autumn 2020, the WUaS Ph.D. degrees would begin the following autumn 2021 at the earliest. Applying would probably occur through - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and I will add you to WUaS's monthly business meetings' emailings. Thank you again for your interest in MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch.

Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeodFounder, President  & Professor
PS What does D.B.S. stand for? 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/





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Dear Larry, and Jayni, and Board of Directors,

Re my email to Varun Shukla in India just now, am wondering about the value, with time, of having our WUaS applicants take a standardized exam online like the CLT - https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/10/21/classic-learning-test-aims-challenge-sat ... which currently costs around US $54, probably out of the range of Varun, and many high achieving students from the developing world seeking a better future for themselves. So would WUaS cover the cost of this? To be seen. What do you think?  
In further communication with the MIT Professor and VP in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma, who's uncle or similar is a politician in India I think, am wondering too about reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries. Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?
FYI, here's where World Univ & Sch stands with licensing currently: 
World Univ & Sch continues to seek to observe the CC-4 MIT OCW, and the edX, licensing terms (and per our communication with MIT OCW director Cecilia d'Oliveira previously, that WUaS may 1) share, 2) adapt, 3) but non-commercially the CC-4 MIT OCW (now in 4 languages), - and see the further licensing clarifications here per her: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - 
MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )And see too correspondence with MIT's Sanjay Sarma - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html - 
And as WUaS prepares for a possible autumn collaboration with edX, WUaS has listed about 75 CC-4 MIT OCW courses, ~14 edX courses, and about 19 CC-3 Yale OYC courses in our course catalog (but wouldn't yet have access to edX MITx courses from MIT OCW grades, for example) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/).
WUaS is currently waiting to hear back from MIT Legal per Sanjay with regard to further exploratory steps re linking, licensing and much more. 
Sincerely, Scott

Email today to Varun Shukla near Mumbai, India: 
Thank you for your mail. And greetings! Is this your Twitter URL - https://twitter.com/varunss2211? And what languages do you speak? MIT OCW-centric wiki World University & School admission's process is in progress. At this stage, World Univ & Sch will likely offer only 4-year Bachelor degree programs, with these 6 majors - 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -  but since you already have a Ph.D., why might you be interested in a Bachelor degree? And what major might you apply for?

WUaS will likely have space in our Business major for a free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree, providing WUaS could move forward together with edX and regarding the edX platform (which is something WUaS is in communication with edX about). The enrollment process would then be similar to edX's, but stay tuned since WUaS may seek essays, language proficiency, letters of recommendation, & test scores (possibly the CLT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Learning_Test), etc. - as if someone from India were applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) itself on-the-ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to offer our online Bachelor's degree classes in collaboration with edX this autumn 2020, the WUaS Ph.D. degrees would begin the following autumn 2021 at the earliest. Applying would probably occur through - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and I will add you to WUaS's monthly business meetings' emailings. Thank you again for your interest in MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch.

Sincerely, ScottScott GK MacLeodFounder, President  & Professor
PS What does D.B.S. stand for? 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/



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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 
Varun Shukla in India has written again with an interest in matriculating at World Univ & Sch this autumn in the General Science major. Our recent correspondence is below. 
It's great that WUaS has a prospective student who is interested in our proposed General Science degree, potentially beginning this autumn. Am wondering how the WUaS Admissions' process will grow over the years' ahead. Am wondering too about WUaS seeking a variety of Department of Educations in India for reimbursement, for example; in what ways might WUaS engage MIT Professors, Sanjay Sarma, the VP in the Office of Digital Learning, or Anant Agarwal, edX's CEO in these regards? 
As you'll see in this recent blog post, MIT OCW doesn't have a "Science" page upon searching, but it does have a page for our other 5 majors - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html - and WUaS has alos posted only one edX from MITx from MIT OCW Science courses so far. 
All the best, Scott


*Dear Sir,
I have done Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited).

Yes @varunss2211 is my twitter.
I would like to take major in General Science
My mother tongue is Gujarati. I also speak English, Hindi, Marathi and Bengali.


Yours,
Dr. Varun ShuklaNavi Mumbai,India

Thank you for your response. Stay tuned as World Univ & Sch develops its admissions' process, as well as our collaborations with edX. WUaS is seeking to offer courses like this over 4 years - Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life:  https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secret-of-life-3 - for World Univ & Sch credit, as we seek to develop online free-to-students' Bachelor degrees, and also to seek reimbursement from nation states, countries, counties, and states' Departments of Education. 
Thank you, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages


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Dear Larry, Govind, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Yuping, Juan, WUaS Board, 

By the way, Varun Shukla in India writes he's completed both a high school degree and an online, it appears, "Ph.D. in Religion & Doctor of Biblical Studies (D.B.S.) both from ULC, Modesto, California (unaccredited)" - from Universal Life Church and costing $59 - see: https://store.ulc.net/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=doctor-of-biblical-studies AND https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/ulc-scamage.39628/ - so I can understand perhaps now why he is interested in the WUaS free-to-students' 'accrediting' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor's degree. He could conceivably even afford the CLT exam from India. 
The first step of licensing and accreditation for WUaS may be to go through the CA BPPE's "Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited" - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf" - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE - but I've read that the related BPPE workshops are cancelled through 2020. 
So, in terms of WUaS's licensing (CA's BPPE) which is the first step in then concurrently accrediting (probably with WASC), all of the CA BPPE workshops have been cancelled through the end of 2020 (probably due to the coronavirus pandemic) - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/schools/application_workshops.shtml - this makes it difficult for WUaS to begin to offer online Bachelor (or Ph.D.) degrees that will then become accredited (as WUaS becomes accredited). (Also WUaS doesn't have the BPPE fee money to begin this process anyway). 
So I'm wondering if state of California licensing / accreditation ONLINE is the right direction to head in at this stage - since online licensing / accreditation may be impossible at this stage. And could WUaS collaborate with edX to create potentially our own forms of accreditation, per recent correspondence with Larry: "in that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC)?
In a related vein: am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors Heather Paxson (Quaker, I think), and Graham Jones (who's a Reedie - a Reed College Alum), as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . And do you know this Monty Python version of 

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birth
https://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)
Thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions? 
All the best, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 
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Browser was shutting down as I was writing the last email, and with a familiar error message was popping up just before the Safari browser shut down - the 3-repeat message happens and then Safari closes - and then the 3-repeat message but Safari didn't close ... is this a Google Apple process? 
So BPPE may have had its highs and lows in recent decades, and may also be saying with 'non-accredited' licensing to end users, like people in India, PERHAPS to BEWARE. Shall WUaS seek edX 'accreditation' or its own creation, or seek BPPE licensing / WASC senior accreditation for both Bachelor and Ph.D.s (per BPPE, and first in English) - if WUaS had the $5,000 for BPPE and the $10,000 eligibility fee, and then the $1,000 per year per student I think - and then the $10,000 or so to become accredited - with accreditation happening only AFTER we graduate our first undergraduate Bachelor's degree class (but with provisional accreditation in the interim). What  do you think? And what would be best for our students, and seeking reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries (and if we were collaborating with edX as well)? And what about 'the other America' and the non-rich 'developing world'? I'd think if we could guarantee quality of degrees, and make these relevant for India and other countries in the developing world, their Departments of Education might appreciate less of an outlay for WUaS degrees (re accreditation) ... even as WUaS seeks to peg reimbursement on MIT's tuition for studying from home degrees. 
I've also renewed WUaS's Grants.gov password over the weekend for about the 10th or 15th time, - every 6 weeks (WUaS didn't get a $250,000 grant through Grants.gov a few years ago) - and just received today Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's Grants' Newsletter, a few days late after the beginning of the month, which lays out grant opportunities. Would a granting agency fund WUaS NEWLY to license with BPPE and then seek accreditation with WASC senior? (Can't also attend the BPPE workshops if they are closed through year's end). Would a granting agency award WUaS monies to hire graduate student instructors from MIT and Harvard and Stanford, without WASC senior or similar accreditation? 
Where might the CLT play a role in WUaS seeking and finding high achieving students from around the world - https://www.cltexam.com/home ? Princeton's Robert George on this page went to Quaker schools too I think. I've met him at Stanford as well. I don't think accepting the CLT exam would cost WUaS anything.  
Thoughts, ideas, questions, comments? I think a WUaS US degree would have much more value if WUaS was accredited - opening avenues to many careers otherwise inaccessible. 
Cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/antillean-crested-hummingbird-i-want-to.html - 







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Cypripedium candidum (slipper): WUaS Livestream News Q&A Mon 6/1/20 at 10a PT Topic: Breakthrough: Adding edX < MITx from OCW @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress to WUaS Course Catalog

Hi Universitians, Here's the 
'WUaS LiveStream 6/1/20 - Breakthrough - Dear Students: upcoming free-to-students' degrees in fall' 
- video from today - https://youtu.be/6TNjnKswlWI(accessible eventually from - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - by clicking on the WUaS Livestream link). 
And for your interest, here's a talk I did about The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography - Scott MacLeodhttps://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI
Am thinking about how to handle text chats during WUaS LiveStreaming; (would anyone like to help?) Someone said someone from India had been and been texting, but I'm still learning about this, and not seeing what was texted here - https://youtu.be/6TNjnKswlWI - at the moment.
M, June 8, 2020 at 10 am PT is the next WUaS LiveStream - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status.
Cheers, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/cypripedium-candidum-slipper-wuas.html
Breakthrough: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html
English courses: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/matilija-poppies-romneya-online-free-to.html
6 majors: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html @WorldUnivAndSch ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267509540045504519?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1267508089667764229?s=20
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WUaS Livestream News Q&A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/1/20 at 10a PT Topic: Breakthrough: Adding edX < MITx from OCW @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress to WUaS Course Catalog https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing >worlduniversityandschool.org
Qs? @ScottMacLeod info@w

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Qs? @ScottMacLeod info@w— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 1, 2020

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Matilija poppies (Romneya): Online free-to-students' English degrees in the autumn from India at World Univ & Sch? * * Please stay tuned * * English literature: MIT OCW literature (127 courses) - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/ Yale OYC literatur

Hi Shahbaz, 

Thanks for your emails, and your inquiries about an online free-to-students' Bachelor's degree program in English from India beginning this autumn 2020. And I hope you are doing well in these coronavirus pandemic times. 
The good news is MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma, and VP in the Office of Digital Learning has said (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html) that World University and School can add MIT OCW > MITx courses on the edX platform to our WUaS Course Catalog https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). Thanks to Sanjay! And WUaS has begun to add these edX courses. 
The further good news is that there are about 69 'English' (7) and 'Literature' (62) edX courses (from many different universities offered on the edX platform), which I found recently (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html), but these are not necessarily MITx from MIT OCW courses (which WUaS is focused upon due to licensing questions). There are also numerous CC-4 licensed MIT OCW LIterature courses, and there are a fair number of CC-3 licensed Yale OYC English courses too. All of these courses could be offered for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees, - with the edX courses on a more degree-oriented platform than the OpenCourseWare / OpenYaleCourses. WUaS is seeking to ask students to take about 40 courses over 4 years to complete a Bachelor's degree. 
In terms of WUaS's licensing (CA's BPPE) which is the first step in then concurrently accrediting (probably with WASC), all of the CA BPPE workshops have been cancelled through the end of 2020 (probably due to the coronavirus pandemic) - https://www.bppe.ca.gov/schools/application_workshops.shtml - which makes it difficult for WUaS to begin to offer online Bachelor (or Ph.D.) degrees that will then become accredited (as WUaS becomes accredited). (Also WUaS doesn't have the BPPE fee money to begin this process anyway).
So the answer to your question is that World Univ & Sch is working to offer online free-to-students' Bachelor degrees in English, and in all of our 6 planned WUaS majors / programs by this autumn 2020, but there are some challenges ahead. Please stay tuned. 
Sincerely, Scott- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/English_Literature - - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - 




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English literature: 
MIT OCW literature (127 courses) -
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/

Yale OYC literature (4 courses) -
https://oyc.yale.edu/english


"English literature" Courses (7 results)
https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English%20literature


"Literature" Courses (62 results)
https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=Literature%20


"English" Courses (71 results)
https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English


Dear Larry,

I clicked on all of our CC-4 MIT OCW links in WUaS's 6 majors - about 75 courses - and found about 14 edX < MITx courses, and have listed them -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing.

WUaS 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog had, by far, a majority of CC-3 licensed Yale OpenYaleCourses (OYC) with no YaleX links whatsoever - https://oyc.yale.edu/courses - so WUaS doesn't have the ability to offer the first year of an 'English' major, a major I'd think might have many WUaS applicants. And the MIT Literature courses I checked out don't have any edX links as well. These 7 courses, however, could be good starting places - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English%20literature - from BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX. There are however 62 'Literature' courses in edX. And It seems like Yale is listing many online courses with Coursera, and not edX. (Could be worth exploring if we could add these Coursera links/URLs as well to WUaS's catalog with time? )

Our WUaS prospective 1st English major, Shabhaz Sanjer, in India, just just now emailed, and asked about an English major beginning in the autumn, and perhaps the above would work as a starting point.

One question/ further clarification for MIT Professor and VP in Office of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma: "Could WUaS please add these other edX courses to our WUas course catalog, as MIT and Harvard prepare their online platforms for the autumn in this time of coronavirus pandemic" OR "WUaS is going to add other edX courses, besides MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform ... " I wonder what edX's relationship with these other BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX etc. universities is, re fees, and who can list, and how reimbursement to these Universities from edX works?

So WUaS is a little short presently on courses beginning in the autumn for WUaS undergraduates in our 6 majors, but I wonder about listing other edX courses - and regarding seeking reimbursement, and regarding the edX money transfer mechanism. Am wondering too what MIT lawyers, or MIT legal processes the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and edX too, check out at MIT in all these regards too. There are probable enough courses to work with to cobble something together, all in all. Am not sure, however, how edX will communicate with the Departments of Education in all ~200 countries however. Our WUaS outreach is also a question.

I've also listed all 260 MITx courses I found in edX just below WUaS majors - as one link in the WUaS Course Catalog. And I listed the "MicroMasters® Program in Finance" on one line in the Course Catalog too, with its 5 courses, just under the WUaS Business Major.

Time to begin to see if we can add some more non-MITx courses to the WUaS Course Catalog, then figure out WUaS credit hours, - and perhaps even a rockin' first year required Reed Hum 110 course transposed into WUaS Hum 101, but on the edX platform, and created by Reed - and then figure out planning for WUaS cohorts too, if possible, with this Hum 101 course?

Build this all out on a Google Sites' platform professionally, and with planning for many languages? What about registering our WUaS students with a Wikidata Q-item number or Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University?

Suggestions, questions, thoughts, ideas?

Sincerely, Scott

https://ocw.mit.edu/

https://www.edx.org/

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/#OCWRelatedCourseware

https://oyc.yale.edu/

https://www.coursera.org/

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University



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Dear Sanjay, and Larry, 

Thanks for the clarification. World Univ & Sch continues to seek to observe the CC-4 MIT OCW, and the edX, licensing terms (and per our communication with MIT OCW director Cecilia d'Oliveira previously, that WUaS may 1) share, 2) adapt, 3) but non-commercially the CC-4 MIT OCW (now in 4 languages), - and see the further licensing clarifications here per her: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/). Am appreciative of the opportunity to communicate with you as MIT Professor and VP in the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and with Anant Agarwal as edX CEO (and with John Hennessy as chair of Alphabet, and former president of Stanford for 16 years, and Anant's professor as well; John may also be helpful with regards to WUaS planned Law and Medical degrees in ~200 countries' official languages emerging from Stanford Medicine and Stanford Law), - with regards to where World Univ & Sch is heading first with online Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees (per CA's BPPE) first in English (and soon in many languages). Thank you!
All the best, Scott


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Dear Larry,
Looks like Sanjay's email was about both linking edX courses, and licensing/ endorsement clarifications.
1
Thinking in terms of Shahbaz Sanjer in India, one clarifying question for MIT legal:Can WUaS add all edX courses, in English lit, for ex., to the WUaS course catalog (not just MIT OCW into MITx)?
I think Sanjay said we can here.
2
In that edX is creating a MicroBachelors and MicroMasters degrees - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroMasters (and edX here is listed as owner, with Anant and Sanjay as key people) - and since our BPPE workshops are cancelled, could edX/WUaS somehow create a NEW 'MacroBachelor' or 'MajorBachelor' degree with edX name credibility? A 'MacroPhD,' 'MajorPhD' too (and skip BPPE & WASC altogether)?
3
Reimbursement from countries' Depts. of Education, non-student sources via edX - pegged on MIT tuition level?
4
Am glad WUaS may be getting in communication with MIT legal (rather than edX legal), since this could open avenues to other questions regarding WUaS matriculating students each a Wikidata PIN # in 300 languages (7,117 living languages too regarding WUaS wiki schools?, & 7.5 billion people re UBI experiments too?), transcripts, - and re questions of edX money transfer mechanism.
This would be a very edX-centric set of developments for WUaS, - and I hope that the MIT LEGAL licensing clarifications re above would include questions of remuneration for WUaS.
Am hoping Shahbaz can enroll in the autumn, as model. Quality of WUaS degrees will inform reimbursement from countries' questions. Glad too that Sanjay is beginning to think in terms too of WUaS (and that MIT President Rafael Reif has his PhD from Stanford too, like Anant Agarwal).
Sincerely, Scott
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/matilija-poppies-romneya-online-free-to.html?m=0 -





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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romneya_trichocalyx


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romneya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romneya_coulterihttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20514012

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Native iris (Patersonia species): Yo Yo Ma: "The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ..." * * actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, especially creating a realistic virtual Harbin - https://tw

Taylor, 
I found this insight fascinating from 
Yo Yo Ma: 'The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ...'

"Most of all the whole point of Solve is service. It's you use your technique to transcend it in order to serve."


At about the 1:05 of this 1:34 MIT video:Virtual Solve at MIT 2020: Event Recap - "We're All One Crew."https://youtu.be/9SIa7Pt1SjA
(I attended this online conference and regarding to GM CEO Mary Barra's talk with MIT President Rafael Reif: https://solve.mit.edu/articles/solve-at-mit-builds-partnerships-to-tackle-complex-challenges) 

Scott




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Thursday, May 28, 2020
Hi Taylor, 

Good music-making (bagpiping) this evening in Skype. (I didn't know you had philosophical inclinations, which I noticed in Academia.edu, even in the 'Religion' vein, which I studied and majored in at Reed College). Am finding Cellist Yo Yo Ma a remarkably virtuosic music teacher as well. 
Yo Yo Ma: 
Something like: "The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ..."
At about the 1:05 of this 1:34 minute MIT video:https://youtu.be/9SIa7Pt1SjA
Thank you.
Piping cheers, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 



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Taylor, thanks! My Reed thesis was on feminist theology and focused on Rosemary Ruether's book "Sexism and God-talk: Toward a Feminist Theology," but one of my junior qualifying exams was on the problem of evil (re theodicy and John Hick's work - https://www.iep.utm.edu/hick/). Am now somewhat atheistically Quaker inclined (Nontheist Friends - or NtFs), UU too, - although my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, especially creating a realistic virtual Harbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - for soaking too is a main focus these days (a bit on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic), and I suppose am a bit of a Harbin-ite in some ways as well; see: https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity). Reed's Hum 110 required first year course also focused on Aquinas and Augustine, for example. Academically, for me, ahead: MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School. :)

Happy piping, Scotthttp://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.htmlVisit the Harbin gatehouse here, and 'walk' down the 'road' 4 'miles' to 'amble' around Middletown, CA ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~).


-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 


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You can get my book ~ Naked Harbin Ethnography (in the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch) ~ here http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & via @HarbinBook

You can get my book ~ Naked Harbin Ethnography (in the Academic Press at World Univ & Sch) ~ here https://t.co/DsAzwS5EvX & via @HarbinBook pic.twitter.com/jOWtCVtCbW— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) September 26, 2016

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/780500135721566208




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Hi Mary, and Mark, 
Good to connect on LinkedIn, Mary. I'm writing to introduce you to one another, Mark, Mary - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-murrin-84a353/ - has been working at Chevron for about 6 years in the Houston area, and was a neighbor of mine in Pittsburgh, and my high school years there from 1974 -1979. Mark is now living in Portland, Maine, having just relocated from Newfoundland, Canada, after decades there; Mark is doing remarkable genealogical work these days family-wise.
This is Mark's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-macleod-7a048916/ and Anne's is https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-shoemaker/ . I've been in touch with Mark recently. 
How are your sister Cathy doing, and your mother, Mary?
Regards, Scott- https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/ - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>10:32 AM (2 hours ago)
to Mark, MaryGlad to see you two connecting.

Seeking too to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology?src=hashtag_click - in a single realistic virtual earth (for everything) - and conceptually like Google Street View / Maps / Earth with TensorFlow AI and group buildable too like SL, but realistic, and at the cellular and atomic levels too. This would be for actual-virtual, physical-digital developments in science, as well as robotics especially. (Here's a Livermore CA oil fields' example - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/double-flowered-world-univ-schs-live.html - coming into conversation with a Stanford Geology talk, where Mark got his Master's degree leading to his career, I think). This would be at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, and as STEM field sites, and as classrooms too - but also entrepreneurially/commercially (like for oil extraction with atmospheric and ocean science planning).
All the best, Scotthttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Geology_and_Geophysics(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)
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Double-flowered: World Univ & Sch's Live Hangout on Air 10.22.18: A) Actual-Virtual Lego Robotics & B) Twin Studies, both in a Realistic Virtual Earth https://youtu.be/RJGEeU0Eo5c A) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics & B) https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Twin_Studies > #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego & #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR, How might we best develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth, as #RealisticVirtualEarthForGeology for geology & environmental safety+, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory re images and maps from different dates & places, and for machine learning image comparison > One focus would be to find Stanford students to take the classes, who could both add photos and videos and maps to Google Street View with TIME SLIDER, and THEN to work with them with machine learning, I see a lot of potential for a comparative actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project and actual-virtual Livermore oil fields project - and for STEM ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (as a form of crowdsourcing this) - and as a Stanford starting place for building out a realistic virtual earth at the street view, cellular and atomic levels, for knowledge generation, soaking ...- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/double-flowered-world-univ-schs-live.html -


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Mark, this just popped up in Twitter:
A compact comparison between Julia, R and Python - Data science in 2020
#DataScience #rstats #JuliaLang #Python by Günter Röhrich via
@TDataScience

A compact comparison between Julia, R and Python - Data science in 2020#DataScience #rstats #JuliaLang #Python by Günter Röhrich via @TDataScience https://t.co/1ef8hyTQHh— Robert Zembowicz (@rzembo) May 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/rzembo/status/1266771604371103746?s=20 - https://towardsdatascience.com/julia-r-and-python-7cd50c2b0fe4 - 
I think the Tweeter is the chief CTO of Vanguard Mutual Funds (of all things) and Tweeting much about AI and machine learning. 
And will these be the next programming languages for one realistic virtual earth (re geology and atmosphere simulations too)? There's both a windy road picture in the article (that's like the one on my Google Smart TV - so presumably in Google Street View too) ... And there's also a data table in the article for an iris flower - also germane to a realistic virtual earth for evolutionary biology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution?src=hashtag_click - and keying flower species (angiosperms). Is the windy road in a Celtic language country? 
And could the windy road image have anything to do with John Hennessy, chair of Alphabet, and former president of Stanford for 16 years? 
All of this is very germane too for creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot springs for actual-virtual, physical-digital ethnographic comparison (into one realistic virtual earth / universe! :) ... See blog post again - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/double-flowered-world-univ-schs-live.html - in these regards too. 
Mark, do you know Robert Zembowicz, or John Hennessy? 
The idea with all of us creating a realistic virtual earth together - ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (I'm calling this) - would be even as a new kind of publishing (post -

You've been reading a lot. How much have you been writing? Here's some help to get you started. https://t.co/bYXrj1nbep— Yale Univ Press (@yalepress) May 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/yalepress/status/1266792774281703425?s=20 ).
All the best, Scotthttp://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.htmlVisit the Harbin gatehouse here, and 'walk' down the 'road' 4 'miles' to 'amble' around Middletown, CA ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~).
PSwill Julia, R & Python be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualHarbin? See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution~

will Julia, R & Python be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualHarbin? See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution~ https://t.co/Sj5qz7HPvT— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1266800634763726848?s=20


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Greetings to Cathe, Mary - and to your mom. My mother's enjoying her new cottage out in Verona / Oakmont - and I think they're in communication, although I didn't see your mom over Xmas, like I saw many of their friends. Do you miss your home on Linden, then your parents' home on Juniata Ct, all of a block and a half away:)? I sometimes wonder if we live longer than the upper age limit of 122 due to aging reversal genetics - https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk (and if we're in good health) - whether my mother could consider re-purchasing her home on Juniata Ct as a kind of creative project even, in addition to a home (since I could conceivably send my kids to Shady Side Academy as a high school perhaps, for ex., too) :)

Mary, what does Corporate Affairs entail? (World Univ & Sc is seeking to create major universities in all ~200 countries with online law schools even!)

Stay well!, Scott 
Here's Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church (again):"How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?"https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk- which you'll also find a couple of times in these longevity label blog posts - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity ... 


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realistic virtual Harbin

will Julia, R & Python be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualHarbin? See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution~

will Julia, R & Python be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualHarbin? See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower #RealisticVirtualEarthForEvolution~ https://t.co/Sj5qz7HPvT— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1266800634763726848?s=20


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will Julia, R & Python https://towardsdatascience.com/julia-... be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualHarbin? @HarbinBook See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1266818396584243200?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1266829706285838336?s=20



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realistic virtual earth

will Julia, R & Python https://towardsdatascience.com/julia-r-and-python-7cd50c2b0fe4 be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualEarth? @HarbinBook See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower

will Julia, R & Python https://t.co/s9dYat6TUK be the next programming languages for #RealisticVirtualEarth? @HarbinBook See both windy road picture in article (like the one on Google Smart TV, so presumably in #GoogleStreetView too) And see data table in article for iris flower https://t.co/vG9Qbmr5RA— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1266817942152343553?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1266818202832527360?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1266830015737393152?s=20





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Mary, Mark,

Bogged a bit about all this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/native-iris-patersonia-species-yo-yo-ma.html (didn't your Dad, Regis, have an interest in Bog men? and partly re archaeology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology?src=hashtag_click ? :)

Regards, Scott




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Taylor,

Have blogged about this some today -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/native-iris-patersonia-species-yo-yo-ma.html?m=0
- and much more, including UUs, family, and, - so cool - probable next programming languages for a single realistic virtual earth for everything.

Happy piping,
Scott
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm -







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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2712331

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia_sericea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia_occidentalis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia_fragilis



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patersonia_maxwellii



http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp8/patersonia-sp.html
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Starfish (Fromia monilis): CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford? (Is this all Plan Z?) * * * Pl

CC-4 MIT OCW links in World Univ & Sch's 6 majors - with about 75 / 2400 courses * WUaS's 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog * Collaborating with Yale, and MIT & Harvard, as well as Stanford?



*Plan Z?
Dear Larry, 
I clicked on all of our CC-4 MIT OCW links in WUaS's 6 majors - about 75 courses - and found about 14 edX < MITx courses, and have listed them -  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing. 
WUaS 'English' and 'History' majors in Course Catalog had, by far, a majority of CC-3 licensed Yale OpenYaleCourses (OYC) with no YaleX links whatsoever - https://oyc.yale.edu/courses - so WUaS doesn't have the ability to offer the first year of an 'English' major, a major I'd think might have many WUaS applicants. And the MIT Literature courses I checked out don't have any edX links as well. These 7 courses, however, could be good starting places - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=English%20literature - from BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX. There are however 62 'Literature' courses in edX. And It seems like Yale is listing many online courses with Coursera, and not edX. (Could be worth exploring if we could add these Coursera links/URLs as well to WUaS's catalog with time? ) And there are 413 'History' courses on edX - https://www.edx.org/search?tab=course&q=History. 
Our WUaS prospective 1st English major, Shabhaz Sanjer, in India, just just now emailed, and asked about an English major beginning in the autumn, and perhaps the above would work as a starting point. 
One question/ further clarification for MIT Professor and VP in Office of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma: "Could WUaS please add these other edX courses to our WUas course catalog, as MIT and Harvard prepare their online platforms for the autumn in this time of coronavirus pandemic" OR "WUaS is going to add other edX courses, besides MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform ... " I wonder what edX's relationship with these other BerkeleyX, HarvardX, TsinghuaX and WellesleyX etc. universities is, re fees, and who can list, and how reimbursement to these Universities from edX works? 
So WUaS is a little short presently on courses beginning in the autumn for WUaS undergraduates in our 6 majors, but I wonder about listing other edX courses - and regarding seeking reimbursement, and regarding the edX money transfer mechanism. Am wondering too what MIT lawyers, or MIT legal processes the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and edX too, check out at MIT in all these regards too. There are probable enough courses to work with to cobble something together, all in all. Am not sure, however, how edX will communicate with the Departments of Education in all ~200 countries however. Our WUaS outreach is also a question. 
I've also listed all 260 MITx courses I found in edX just below WUaS majors - as one link in the WUaS Course Catalog. And I listed the "MicroMasters® Program in Finance" on one line in the Course Catalog too, with its 5 courses, just under the WUaS Business Major. 
Time to begin to see if we can add some more non-MITx courses to the WUaS Course Catalog, then figure out WUaS credit hours, - and perhaps even a rockin' first year required Reed Hum 110 course transposed into WUaS Hum 101, but on the edX platform, and created by Reed - and then figure out planning for WUaS cohorts too, if possible, with this Hum 101 course? 
Build this all out on a Google Sites' platform professionally, and with planning for many languages? What about registering our WUaS students with a Wikidata Q-item number or Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University? 
Suggestions, questions, thoughts, ideas? 
Sincerely, Scott
https://ocw.mit.edu/
https://www.edx.org/ 
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/#OCWRelatedCourseware
https://oyc.yale.edu/
https://www.coursera.org/ 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University 


* Plan A: 

Dear Larry, 

But assuming WUaS won't be able to engage all these other institutions, re our CC-4 MIT OCW-centric focus, perhaps we can focus on plan A, namely, to hire graduate student instructors from great universities to teach to CC-4 MIT OCW courses in real time with live group interactivity. In a sense WUaS could give such graduate student instructors, learning to become faculty, free rein to "riff" with MIT OCW courses. And in these regards, I did find all of WUaS's majors, except 'General Science' (go figure, or go solve for X, or something) at MIT OCW: 
EECS: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/
Science: 
Engineering:https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/
English: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/
History: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/
Business: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/
Perhaps we could provide a bit of structure for our WUaS graduate students as well, like finding students, and providing a few other benefits of teaching in an online platform in a startup great university. 
The lack of 'Science' MIT OCW page, upon searching, is a bit of a concern, but WUaS can probably work around this as well :)
And then perhaps we can combine Plan A with my previous email today as a kind of Plan Z :)
Thanks to the MIT Office of Digital Learning! 
Sincerely, Scott
Blogging about this today: - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/starfish-fromia-monilis-cc-4-mit-ocw.html - 



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Am curious if WUaS could eventually request MIT OCW courses to be translated into MITx / edX courses. Here's an Anthropology course taught by MIT Professors (Quaker I think) Heather Paxson, and Reedie (Reed College alumnus) Graham Jones, as an example - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-157-the-meaning-of-life-spring-2019/ . Can't seem to find Python's original meaning of life, but this will do:) ... Do you know this Monty Python version of 
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Miracle of Birthhttps://youtu.be/_YruT2ROEUc :)
Seeking I think first to list only the MIT OCW > MITx - and then to look at the rest of the MITx courses, as well as the rest of the edX courses. Searching by starting date could have merit too. What do you think about all this cross-referencing of lists? Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions? 
Sincerely, 
Scottworlduniversityandschool.org






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fromia_monilis
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1954511

...

Red cage fungus: Victor (& Angela), I just noticed your beautiful new 'Yoga aereoplane in Lesvos Greece' painting, Victor - https://angela-victor.com/blogs/victo... - thank you! * And I turned on Raga, and in a way began flying ~ ~ ~ The

Victor (& Angela), 
I just noticed your beautiful new painting, Victor -  https://angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/unpredictable-future - thank you!
And I turned on Raga, and in a way began flying (from here in my East Bay MUD forested home, Canyon 94516, and next to 'Indian Valley') ~
Nikhil Banerjee Raga Piloo Live in Stockholm 1975https://youtu.be/BNAH-JLBGKc
~ flying into a Yogic understanding of meditative yes.
Something about Nikhil Bannerjee's playing in Stockholm, and Denmark, Amsterdam and Berkeley in the late 1960s and early ' 70s that makes his raga different from all the others (Ravi Shankar and others excluded). Is this culture (alternative culture even, something about even counterculture of the times informing note duration)? 
Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)https://youtu.be/ikGyZh0VbPQAlso in #StreetView - https://google.com/maps/place/Montreux,+Switzerland/@46.4461237,6.8456803,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x478e9b20cdb650cd:0xccc07a7fc46d1847!8m2!3d46.4312213!4d6.9106799(Related GD label https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead) >#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -

Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' -
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)https://t.co/tOZQw8PG9U
Also in #StreetView - https://t.co/ODWOESFsCx
(Related GD label https://t.co/V68OyKwvwq) >#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265750904562581504?s=20
The little microscopic rosies on the aereoplanes will pass too :)
Will blog ... (see 'genes' label in blog as well:)
Love, ScottyAngela & Victor blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yogaHippy~anjali Yoga Notations ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~
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A pool of water begins this Raga ... Sitar Samrat Nikhil Banerjee: Raga Piloo: Live : Copenhagen Denmark: 1982
https://youtu.be/frYoIs0zla8
... for further Yogic flying ~
blog - 
Scotty



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"Hair" Hair (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)
https://youtu.be/w_zaSKZks1A


The 1972 album "Hair" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zaSKZks1A&list=RDw_zaSKZks1A&start_radio=1&t=0&t=1
Blog label ~
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical

:)
Scott



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Marc Ami,
Have you been down to Montreux recently, from your mountain haven (sans hot tub, n'est-ce pas?)
Here's another way to 'get there' - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water 1972 (High Quality)https://youtu.be/ikGyZh0VbPQ
I see Blonay here!, Vevey too! - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Montreux,+Switzerland/@46.4461237,6.8456803,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x478e9b20cdb650cd:0xccc07a7fc46d1847!8m2!3d46.4312213!4d6.9106799
How are you?
:)Scott'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical
... not yet in a realistic virtual earth for musicals but there is this - #realisticvirtualearthformusic https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic?src=hashtag_click



-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com 





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Tweets:

"Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)
https://youtu.be/w_zaSKZks1A
Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zaSKZks1A&list=RDw_zaSKZks1A&start_radio=1&t=0&t=1 See, too: 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical) >
New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals ~

"Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)https://t.co/YzXYWRYmqf
Album: https://t.co/EbZwbc0Uxo See, too: 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)https://t.co/liniKOyBd3) >
New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265753375548731392?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265752079659720704?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265752959364640769?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265753673210028032?s=20





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New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals #hashtag :)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals?src=hashtag_click ~

beginning with
'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (1972)



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Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' -
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)
https://youtu.be/ikGyZh0VbPQ
Also in #StreetView -
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Montreux,+Switzerland/@46.4461237,6.8456803,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x478e9b20cdb650cd:0xccc07a7fc46d1847!8m2!3d46.4312213!4d6.9106799
(Related GD label
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Grateful%20Dead) >
#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -

Have you been down to Montreux, Switzerland recently? Here's another way to 'get there' -
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (1972)https://t.co/UlHfZ3CJQc
Also in #StreetView - https://t.co/mKt0KLNka3
(Related GD label https://t.co/mrYDl3BAND) >#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic -— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265750175823196160?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265750904562581504?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265752634863964160?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265753461649338368?s=20





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Scott MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com>11:30 AM (4 minutes ago)



to Marc, Scott, Scott, Angela, victor, Lynn, satya, Andrew, Patricia, Barbara, Patti

It probably has been a good thing to be away from Harbin for the past 5 years or so ... don't you think?

But am hoping to get a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs off the ground for soaking from home bathtub in the not too distant future ... potentially in Google Street View in a digital mask ... or in the back of some REI glacier glasses ...  https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click ~
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265031889833717760?s=20 ... 
Common garter snake: Big Canyon Road near Harbin Hot Springs~PHOTOS & Poems of mine relating to these pictures https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/common-garter-snake-harbin-hot-springs.html Camped on this side road near Harbin Springs re @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin in Street View - field work in 2011 https://goo.gl/maps/aQntSVwQRbCkViPz9 ~

* Hair" from 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' (the original Broadway cast) (lyrics)https://youtu.be/w_zaSKZks1AAlbum: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w_zaSKZks1A&list=RDw_zaSKZks1A&start_radio=1&t=0&t=1 See, too: 'Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical' label in blog: :)https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%3A%20the%20Tribal%20Love%20Rock%20Musical) > New! > #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicals ~
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265752959364640769?s=20
ScottyVisit the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here in StreetView ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg {accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~}- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html - 


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Deep Purple 'Hair'


Marc Ami, I've just added some of this 'transportation' to Montreux here ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html
Salut, Scott




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Am wondering if some of those people signed up for your Dartington Hall Yoga course seminar:

Dartington Hall, Devon, UKAngela Farmer and Victor van Kooten~ https://angela-victor.com/content/schedule ~ (3rd weekend of July)
would take it online in their homes - from Dartington Hall in the background - and with you in Eftalou, Lesvos, Greece? Kinda like an aereoplane idea internet-wise without plague-like ring around the rosie posies ... Am realizing you're not heading in the computing direction, but if all is one, and a computer is an airplane, well ... And would other people 'travel' in their homes - to Dartington Hall - for this Yoga course even? It wouldn't surprise me ... but you'd probably need some new artistic pilots gliding with you through it all ... in fact, you, Angela and Victor, could probably be in your Eftalou Yoga Hall, and even bypass the Dartington Hall, although it might be interesting for the English Dartington Hall Yoginis and Yogis to take their course with you there (even with you in Greece, and they in their homes:)
And next an Angela and Victor Yoga course from the Harbin Conference Center in 2012, or from the Harbin Temple in 2008? :) All virtually (in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER) ... with you in front of your iPads, or laptops (and maybe with just a video camera or two in your Yoga Hall in Eftalou) ... I don't know of any artistic aereoplane virtual Yoga hall pilot internet videographers however, I'm sorry to say. (A 'Partner Yoga' course from a virtual Harbin warm pool eventually too? ... with everyone eliciting the relaxation response inner releasing action meditation-wise while in the bath at home? ... :)
Scotty~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/red-cage-fungus-victor-angela-i-just.html ~
Loving bliss and practices to elicit this~ http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm ~
Was jotting some of the above down, as this was going down in the background too ~Sitar Legend Ravi Shankar: Raga Mishra Pilu: Tabla Legend Alla Rakha: 1966
https://youtu.be/K6tp7Lrp5_g:)


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrus_ruber
...

Cosmos bipinnatus: World Univ & Sch's letter to MIT Professor {and President} Rafael Reif, Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX co

Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX courses - to World University and School's course catalog, another major breakthrough :) 
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - 



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Dear Sanjay,
Thanks so much for your email.

WUaS is going to list edX links in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing, accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Is there anything we should be aware of in these regards?

We intend to offer free-to-students' programs with 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.  How can World Univ & Sch collaborate with the MIT Office of Digital Learning to begin to offer those programs in English this autumn?  Other languages would follow shortly afterwards.

World Univ & Sch intends to seek reimbursement from non-student sources regarding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform. How might we use the money transfer mechanism on edX to accomplish this?

Thank you, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod - 


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Sanjay Emani Sarma4:02 AM (5 hours ago)
to meThanks Scott.

-Sanjay
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).
Assistant: Laura WhiteT: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>5:58 AM (3 hours ago)
to Larry, Anant, JohnDear Larry,I think we're / WUaS is good. Sanjay writes : "Thanks Scott."Now to figure out the next steps.California's BPPE preferred the "Programs' ' word to the "Majors" ' word in February 2019.Sincerely, Scott
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sanjay Emani Sarma <sesarma@mit.edu>
Date: 4:02AM, Wed, May 27, 2020
Subject: Re: Your email to President Reif
To: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Thanks Scott.

-Sanjay
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).
Assistant: Laura WhiteT: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu




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Dear Larry, 
I've started to add MIT OCW > edX courses to the WUaS Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing .
I went here - MITx Courses and Related OCW Coursewarehttps://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/
searched on "engineering" and found https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/#2.961xRelatedOCWCoursewarewhich links to - https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
emerging from - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-96-management-in-engineering-fall-2012/

and so I added this to the WUaS catalog: 
GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng. https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
- and there are 2 MIT professors teaching it. 
Success! This edX course starts August 11, and is an 'intermediate' course per edX. Shall we add the rest of these MITx courses, and then announce some of the courses' beginning dates in next month's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting News and Agenda? I think Edward G. has expressed interest in an engineering major. 
Thanks for your excellent 'MIT English' again re Sanjay's affirmative response!
Sincerely, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html -



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Dear Larry,

Thanks so much. I could see this further letter in conversation with Sanjay - in hindsight - as a bit of a gamble, but I think the language of "WUaS is going to list edX links ... " is good logical MIT 'engineering' language, while recognizing a system, and which worked ... and it means that the MIT Office for Digital Learning doesn't have to do anything to speak of, whatsoever ... since there was no response to the questions. I think the timing was good too - ie we hadn't heard back yet regarding Sanjay's "Stay tuned" ... and so WUaS emailed, and then we did hear back this morning with "Thanks Scott." - and WUaS is in the driver's seat so-to-write. The "Your email to President Reif" thread is also a developing conversation. 
Now how to plan for using a kind of WikiTree end user schema (presumably wiki and planning for 7.5 billion people) for WUaS matriculated students), and even for our WUaS remuneration / bookstore ? And re UBI experiments too, here's the Stanford Basic Income Lab new map of "Global Map of UBI Experiments: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?" - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/news/lab-updates/global-map-of-ubi-experiments-where-have-we-been-where-are-we-now-and-where-are-we-going/ - in an email this morning from Juliana Bidadanure (who's French, and Stanford professor of philosophy) and is executive director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. (And it could be good to connect now with the "Mine Pi" folks at Stanford, or the "BitCoin" folks at MIT with Neha Narula - and the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank, and the Silicon Valley long term stock exchange :)).
Would be great for a programmer to simply add all the relevant links from CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on edX to the WUaS Course Catalog ... but probably not yet, and I'll seek to add some, or all 205 of these courses, by hand. These GDocs WUaS Course Catalog spreadsheet links may eventually become a master course catalog that will feed into the WUaS Wiki Universities on relevant subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in all Wikidata's ~300 languages. :)
Thank you, Larry, for our MIT email drafts' conversations! 
Sincerely, ScottPSToday's blog post with all this good news - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html ...
PPSYay! WUaS has begun to add MIT OCW > edX courses to WUaS Course Catalog > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing(worlduniveristyandschool.org) > 'GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng.' https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
2 MIT profs; Starts 8/11 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html ~

Yay! WUaS has begun to add MIT OCW > edX courses to WUaS Course Catalog > https://t.co/XAKqIJMN3l (https://t.co/WEojn3DugH) > 'GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng.' https://t.co/riofSuUOjU
2 MIT profs; Starts 8/11 https://t.co/VDgFTwmjZA~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265711832372666368?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1265714309784432640?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1265714603712933888?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1265715755036766209?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1265716550880727040?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1265717494565629952?s=20



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Dear Larry, 
Also could Stanford's John Etchemendy (via John Hennessy?) help with BPPE licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE  ... no new workshops seem posted, and maybe things are shifting there too, - and WUaS doesn't have the monies anyway. How is it that you thought to edit/add the "programs' word (in addition to the 'majors' word) into the WUaS email?

I'm hoping the BPPE licensing process goes much more automatically than I got the sense of at the 2/20/19 workshop - and re MIT OCW > edX courses!

Sincerely, Scott




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Stanford Law Codex - 5/28/2020

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Hi Sachin, Julie, Emil, Siva, Roland and All, 

Thanks for your excellent presentation (and nice to share today's meeting) just now at Stanford Law Codex - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/27/codex-meeting-may-28th-2020/! 



Here's the WUaS News' announcement I shared: 
Very glad to announce that MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch will begin to list MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform links in the World Univ & Sch Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing - 
for online free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees this autumn, universities in many languages to follow, and law schools as well. 

Scott 

(sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org and 
see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html) 


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_bipinnatus
...

Cosmos bipinnatus: World Univ & Sch's letter to MIT Professor Rafael Reif, Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX courses - to World

Heard back from MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma in the Office of Digital Learning this morning and will begin adding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx from the edX platform - so edX courses - to World University and School's course catalog, another major breakthrough :) 
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - 



* 
Dear Sanjay,
Thanks so much for your email.

WUaS is going to list edX links in our WUaS course catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing, accessible from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. Is there anything we should be aware of in these regards?

We intend to offer free-to-students' programs with 6 majors: 1) EECS, 2) General Science, 3) General Engineering, 4) English, 5) History, 6) Business - see: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.  How can World Univ & Sch collaborate with the MIT Office of Digital Learning to begin to offer those programs in English this autumn?  Other languages would follow shortly afterwards.

World Univ & Sch intends to seek reimbursement from non-student sources regarding CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on the edX platform. How might we use the money transfer mechanism on edX to accomplish this?

Thank you, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod - 


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Sanjay Emani Sarma4:02 AM (5 hours ago)
to meThanks Scott.

-Sanjay
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).
Assistant: Laura WhiteT: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu


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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>5:58 AM (3 hours ago)
to Larry, Anant, JohnDear Larry,I think we're / WUaS is good. Sanjay writes : "Thanks Scott."Now to figure out the next steps.California's BPPE preferred the "Programs' ' word to the "Majors" ' word in February 2019.Sincerely, Scott
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sanjay Emani Sarma <sesarma@mit.edu>
Date: 4:02AM, Wed, May 27, 2020
Subject: Re: Your email to President Reif
To: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Thanks Scott.

-Sanjay
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanjay Sarma, 35-206 MIT. 617 253 1925 (T). 617 253 7549 (F).
Assistant: Laura WhiteT: 617.324.7456  E: whitela@MIT.edu




* * *

Dear Larry, 
I've started to add MIT OCW > edX courses to the WUaS Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing .
I went here - MITx Courses and Related OCW Coursewarehttps://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/
searched on "engineering" and found https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/#2.961xRelatedOCWCoursewarewhich links to - https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
emerging from - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-96-management-in-engineering-fall-2012/

and so I added this to the WUaS catalog: 
GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng. https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
- and there are 2 MIT professors teaching it. 
Success! This edX course starts August 11, and is an 'intermediate' course per edX. Shall we add the rest of these MITx courses, and then announce some of the courses' beginning dates in next month's WUaS Monthly Business Meeting News and Agenda? I think Edward G. has expressed interest in an engineering major. 
Thanks for your excellent 'MIT English' again re Sanjay's affirmative response!
Sincerely, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html -



* *

Dear Larry,

Thanks so much. I could see this further letter in conversation with Sanjay - in hindsight - as a bit of a gamble, but I think the language of "WUaS is going to list edX links ... " is good logical MIT 'engineering' language, while recognizing a system, and which worked ... and it means that the MIT Office for Digital Learning doesn't have to do anything to speak of, whatsoever ... since there was no response to the questions. I think the timing was good too - ie we hadn't heard back yet regarding Sanjay's "Stay tuned" ... and so WUaS emailed, and then we did hear back this morning with "Thanks Scott." - and WUaS is in the driver's seat so-to-write. The "Your email to President Reif" thread is also a developing conversation. 
Now how to plan for using a kind of WikiTree end user schema (presumably wiki and planning for 7.5 billion people) for WUaS matriculated students), and even for our WUaS remuneration / bookstore ? And re UBI experiments too, here's the Stanford Basic Income Lab new map of "Global Map of UBI Experiments: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?" - https://basicincome.stanford.edu/news/lab-updates/global-map-of-ubi-experiments-where-have-we-been-where-are-we-now-and-where-are-we-going/ - in an email this morning from Juliana Bidadanure (who's French, and Stanford professor of philosophy) and is executive director of the Stanford Basic Income Lab. (And it could be good to connect now with the "Mine Pi" folks at Stanford, or the "BitCoin" folks at MIT with Neha Narula - and the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank, and the Silicon Valley long term stock exchange :)).
Would be great for a programmer to simply add all the relevant links from CC-4 MIT OCW > MITx on edX to the WUaS Course Catalog ... but probably not yet, and I'll seek to add some, or all 205 of these courses, by hand. These GDocs WUaS Course Catalog spreadsheet links may eventually become a master course catalog that will feed into the WUaS Wiki Universities on relevant subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in all Wikidata's ~300 languages. :)
Thank you, Larry, for our MIT email drafts' conversations! 
Sincerely, ScottPSToday's blog post with all this good news - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html ...
PPSYay! WUaS has begun to add MIT OCW > edX courses to WUaS Course Catalog > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing(worlduniveristyandschool.org) > 'GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng.' https://www.edx.org/course/management-in-engineering-ii
2 MIT profs; Starts 8/11 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/cosmos-bipinnatus-heard-back-from-mit.html ~

Yay! WUaS has begun to add MIT OCW > edX courses to WUaS Course Catalog > https://t.co/XAKqIJMN3l (https://t.co/WEojn3DugH) > 'GENG 302 Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership Major-3 Mech. Eng.' https://t.co/riofSuUOjU
2 MIT profs; Starts 8/11 https://t.co/VDgFTwmjZA~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1265711832372666368?s=20
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Dear Larry, 
Also could Stanford's John Etchemendy (via John Hennessy?) help with BPPE licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE  ... no new workshops seem posted, and maybe things are shifting there too, - and WUaS doesn't have the monies anyway. How is it that you thought to edit/add the "programs' word (in addition to the 'majors' word) into the WUaS email?

I'm hoping the BPPE licensing process goes much more automatically than I got the sense of at the 2/20/19 workshop - and re MIT OCW > edX courses!

Sincerely, Scott





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