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Flame angelfish (Centropyge loricula): A new Harvard / MIT mandate or remit to edX re CC-4 MIT OCW? * * * bagpiping tunes for 'Honey in the Bag' album * * * Tempos for Tunes - bagpiping tunes * * * Schoolab SF International Evening - Let's keep in touch ab

Hi Jim,

Happy Friday too! I'll seek to wait patiently to hear from edX. Am glad the Chairman of WUaS (Larry) recently said that $5000 is now available for CA BPPE licensing for WUaS, but licensing will be potentially a further challenge now, since partnership with edX doesn't seem possible at this time, and BPPE would likely readily license MIT OCW > MITx courses for example, with platform & grades etc (as they said they would a Google platform or similar).

So getting BPPE licensing going for WUaS before considering heading back to Cambridge for this position would be important (and there's another BPPE workshop in mid-March in Sacramento) which would be valuable to go to with draft document in hand, having gone to a first CA BPPE licensing day-long workshop on 2/20/19 in San Jose. Were I to get this "Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition" edX position, possibly construed in a slightly different way (for example, with a mandate from the edX Board to edX to engage MIT OCW, -since the edX head of business development says there's no relationship whatsoever now between MIT OCW and MITx, for example - yet he's also said there are 205 course in this regard), it would be an amazing opportunity to grow edX into all ~200 countries' official languages, and with existing certificate edX courses possibly buildable into CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees that would be reimburse-able by departments of education in all 200 countries' languages too. Having just seen in a Tweet from edX CEO Anant Agarwal (in my 4-page cover letter too) that Stanford is becoming a member in edX, and having communicated with Stanford Medicine and Law about online medical schools and online law schools in ~200 countries' languages (Harrington MD and Vogl) over some years now, I see a possible opportunity for WUaS to explore additionally developing online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric PhDs and Bachelor's degrees through Stanford edX too. I think though the edX Board's mandate to develop MIT OCW > edX is the more likely candidate for Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, - and I think too that edX could potentially seek reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of education at the rate of what tuition costs at MIT or Stanford ($55,000 per year), prorated per country by GDP or similar.

I hope online academia will be able to generate ever-unfolding research and teaching "to keep their digital" academic faculty and staff in all ~200 countries' languages busy, Jim, - and would like for World Univ & Sch to be able to help here especially (and on both our 501 c 3 wing, and our for profit general stock company wing - both in ~200 countries' languages as world class universities, and in 7111 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning+).

Have a great trip to Portugal, and I hope it's very regenerative for you especially. Thanks again for your great service science, management and engineering thinking, and your communications here especially regarding edX and this great 'Head of Content Strategy ... ' position I continue to be very interested in. Looking forward to emailing with you when you get back potentially, and thanks so much again for your thinking, suggestions and communications. I'll continue to wait patiently for a call back from edx, with the hopes of hearing about scheduling an interview for this "Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition" position. Thank you, Jim, and bon voyage!

Sincerely, Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -





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bagpiping tunes for my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' Scottish small pipes' album, newly arranged ...



6/8 Marches

Duncan McGillivray
Seamus MacNeill
The River Creed
Cameron MacFadyen


2/4 Marches

Hugh Alexander Low of Tiree
P/M Tom MacAllister / Links of Forth 6 pt
The Hills of Perth
Johnny Cope


Strathspeys

Cabar Feidh

The Fiddler

Dalnahasaig
Captain Horne

The Cameronian Rant


Reels

Helen Gladden’s Reel
Loch Carron

Willie Cumming’s Rant

John MacLean, Johnny Red-Rory (Washabuck, Cape Breton)

John Morrison, Assynt House 6 pt

Dolina MacKay

Cabar Feidh

Poisoned Dwarf
Twisted Fingers

The Charms of Whisky
Dancing Feet
The Ale is Dear
Malcolm the Taylor
Muddah Rudh



Hornpipes

The Scotsaire Hornpipe
The Jolly Beggarman
The Man From Skye
Angus John’s Fancy - http://plheineman.net/angusjohnsfancy...

Calum Beag
Zeto the Bubbleman
The Pumpkin’s Fancy
The Streaker



Jigs

Honey in the Bag
Cabar Feidh
Archie MacNab

Skyeman’s Jig
Cutting Bracken
James MacLellan’s Favourite

The Banjo Breakdown ?
The Whistling Postman
Out of the Air
Calm Before the Storm



Slow Airs

From Babylon to the Bay



Gaelic Airs

Morag of Dunvegan
The Mermaid’s Song
Tiree Bridal Song
Chi Mi’n Toman
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Polkas

The Black Watch Polka
The Queen’s Own Highlander’s Polka




Amazing Grace in 5 parts (dubbed over?)



https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/gobies-scott-macleods-honey-in-bag-cd.html




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Tempos for Tunes - bagpiping tunes


Here are my off-the-cuff suggestions for a beginning soloist for these tune types. Keep in mind that bands and more advanced soloists will often play these faster - especially the marches.
Slow Marches, airs & waltzes ........... 45-60 bpm
2/4 marches .................................. 58-68 (maybe up to 74 if not competing)
6/8 marches .................................. 55-68
4/4 marches .................................. 74-80
Reels ........................................... 74-80
Strathspeys .................................. 108-120
Jigs ............................................. 108-120
Hornpipes ..................................... 74-82

Hope that helps.

--Bruce Wright- http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-135600.html - 


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Hi Toffy, Cian, Harold, Torsten (and hoping to see you Soren soon-ish) and Mathieu (and Florence and Jean-Claude as well), 

Nice to meet, see, and talk with you this evening at the Schoolab San Francisco International evening.
Let's keep in touch about Thailand, Denmark, Japan and France World University and Schools in your countries' official / main languages and emerging from here  - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Francehttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/French_language
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Thailandhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Thai_language
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Japanhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Japanese_language
Free-to-students' degrees will also emerge at WUaS from MIT OCW here - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ 
The five online degrees WUaS seeks to offer in each of all ~200 countries are free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medicine, as well as I.B. high schools. 
Another fun part of World Univ & Sch are the wiki subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for open teaching and leanning and planned not only in Wikidata's ~300 languages, but also potentially in all 7,111 known living languages. 
I'm also writing to wish you a happy new year, and including my New Year's letter - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - with its 5 initial reasons WUaS seeks to code, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, and much more.  
With best regards, Scott
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 




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McKay Creek National Wildlife Refuge (Oregon): Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS? MIT-inspiring - but into Lego? * * * 'New Games' movement from the 1960s in ONLINE

Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) https://youtu.be/RlsAh2BTBgE - https://youtu.be/reSKSbTo_-k - https://youtu.be/zlKGf88HFi0  - https://youtu.be/CpYMDyasFYA  >#ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics  ~

Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?)https://t.co/6fUskzXZ9Q - https://t.co/lNADvYLGjR - https://t.co/WlECFg5M8J - https://t.co/Lt1JdljRBf >#ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? https://t.co/D82CmYOQib ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) January 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1221578007321575424


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Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS?
MIT-inspiring - but into Lego? https://youtu.be/9l8QxS8KuPo
- https://www.ll.mit.edu/outreach/first-lego-league … - https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg  - https://youtu.be/RlsAh2BTBgE  #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics  @WUaSPress ~

Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS?
MIT-inspiring - but into Lego?https://t.co/7zme5lvXX1
- https://t.co/I4A1cnolkb - https://t.co/OReK6aJjwl - https://t.co/mM7dsu9xlr #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital - #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics? https://t.co/a53n3kl75l @WUaSPress ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1221129558386036736


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Would love to ...
Collaborate with some MIT Scratch programmers to develop online #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #NewGames or #Tournaments with #HomeLegoRoboticsWithScratch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos re #scratchinpractice #mitscratch #creativelearning in https://scratch.mit.edu/conference/2020 #workshop ?

Collaborate with some MIT Scratch programmers to develop online #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #NewGames or
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1223015296182542336?s=20


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Collaborate with some #MITScratchProgrammers to develop online #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #NewGames or #Tournaments with #HomeLegoRoboticsWithScratch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLegos re #scratchinpractice #mitscratch #creativelearning in https://scratch.mit.edu/conference/2020 #workshop ?

Collaborate with some #MITScratchProgrammers to develop online #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #NewGames or
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1223015958928715781
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1223016456704512000?s=20



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#educators if you're doing fun and creative work with @scratch I encourage you to share your work at this year's #ScratchConference2020 at #MIT in Cambridge, by submitting a #workshop or session. #scratchinpractice #mitscratch #creativelearning https://scratch.mit.edu/conference/2020

#educators if you're doing fun and creative work with @scratch I encourage you to share your work at this year's #ScratchConference2020 at #MIT in Cambridge, by submitting a #workshop or session. #scratchinpractice #mitscratch #creativelearning https://t.co/ZaPLZG5rwa— K.Osiecki (@KnockoutPress) January 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/KnockoutPress/status/1222194121529602049



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Rupal Jain
@rupsthereitis
 There is still time to submit a proposal for this year's Scratch Conference at MIT! Have an idea for a workshop, panel, poster, or ignite talk? We'd love to hear your ideas: http://scratch.mit.edu/conference

There is still time to submit a proposal for this year's Scratch Conference at MIT! Have an idea for a workshop, panel, poster, or ignite talk? We'd love to hear your ideas: https://t.co/DFkxIByNaw— Rupal Jain (@rupsthereitis) January 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/rupsthereitis/status/1218242493508214785




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'New Games' movement from the 1960s in ONLINE #LegoRobotics' #NewGames from HOME with #ScratchProgrammingLanguage? 



'New Games' movement from the 1960s? in ONLINE Lego Robotics' #NEWGAMES from HOME with Scratch programming language? @WorldUnivAndSch https://laughingsquid.com/the-new-gam... #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... ~

'New Games' movement from the 1960s? in ONLINE Lego Robotics' #NEWGAMES from HOME with Scratch programming language? @WorldUnivAndSch https://t.co/JLDhN5qSl7 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://t.co/2Edtz4HcIK ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1222637879181991937?s=20


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New Games movementhttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/New_Games_movement


The New Games Bookhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Games_Book


INSIDE THE FAILED, UTOPIAN NEW GAMES MOVEMENThttps://killscreen.com/previously/articles/inside-failed-utopian-new-games-movement/

The History of the New Games Foundationhttps://jergames.blogspot.com/2008/02/history-of-new-games-foundation.html
Why Study New Games?https://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/turner-gc-why-study-new-games.pdf

New Gameshttps://johnwlaw.com/2016/01/31/new-games/


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NEW GAMES movement from the 1960s? in ONLINE #LegoRobotics' #NewGames from HOME with #ScratchProgrammingLanguage? https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/New_Gam...~

NEW GAMES movement from the 1960s? in ONLINE #LegoRobotics' #NewGames from HOME with #ScratchProgrammingLanguage? https://t.co/64T9xmqRIf
-https://t.co/MED7psPIoy
-https://t.co/wq3RVy5Cfg
-https://t.co/6QKxLv9QJd
-https://t.co/Nx4gNtittj
-https://t.co/FqKdb13Ux8@WorldUnivAndSch~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1222638509107736583?s=20



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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 ~

ONLINE Lego Robotics' Tournaments from HOME at WUaS (with Scratch programming language?) HOW?
Special WeDo 2.0 + Scratch Project BOXERhttps://t.co/eDqhao1RIg? #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego https://t.co/a53n3k3wdN~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1222623600307507200?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1222625242515771392?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1222625362699415552?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1222625907044577280?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1222634058661777409?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1222634783001346048?s=20




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Online Psychoanalysis? (Lacanian-informed?) Psychiatry? Psychotherapy?

Jacques Lacan is
a) practicing his lines for a cameo in the new Beckett play
b) taking the oath of office
c) really, really pleased with just how good his own notes are pic.twitter.com/eUG7pfFMPu— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) January 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/janmpdx/status/1222500416941723649?s=20


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Am glad my mother, Jane MacLeod, is home safely from San Miguel (re my email in this thread prior to her heading there). 
And greetings, Juliet Flower MacCannell (Professor Emerita at UCI), who recently shared with me a Lacanian Journal- (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious - of which she was the editor for nearly 2 decades. 
This Cornell University psychoanalysis conference on "The Act" (is this the "speech act," the happening and practice of psychoanalysis itself, the sexual act perhaps too - about which the speech act may yclept the unconscious?) in 2013 was the basis of the last issue of the journal she edited for nearly 20 years -   http://events.cornell.edu/event/the_act_psychoanalysis_andin_its_effects - Dean MacCannell author of the seminal book The Tourist" (1976) has been receiving emails from this thread.
And how best to develop Lacanian psychoanalysis online - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/ - I wonder, and with excellent analysts or perhaps new developments emerging from the Web (avatar bots in 20 years even)? And what's the current status of psychoanalysis in major cities in the US, I wonder? And how do psychiatry departments in highest achieving universities think about this practice of psychoanalysis? And theoretically what are the benefits of such long term talk therapy re the unconscious and the brain/mind? 
I recently attended an online Stanford Law CodeX Thursday session, where a lawyer, also a psychoanalyst, presented about its intersection - in Brazil. Country and culture and language inform greatly psychoanalysis' practice. In what ways could we even study this at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry)? (And in what ways could Yoga - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga and http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - even be brought into conversation with psychoanalysis and psychiatry newly?)
All the best, Scott
Here too is the blog entry I mentioned from Friday 24 Jan 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/owl-online-psychoanalysis.htmlOwl: Online Psychoanalysis? Psychiatry? Psychotherapy? * Ken (who is a psychiatrist, MD, but not a psychoanalyst, and also not a Lacanian, with its language or 'speech act' re the unconscious focus), Elizabeth (a practicing NYC psychoanalyst) * Dear Juliette, Ed (a KP MD), and Marie, Am appreciating the diversity of the therapists on the BetterHelp.com web site, Marie's articles - "Depression is not a choice," AND "Talking Out Your Problems with a Psychologist vs. a Psychiatrist Who you’re revealing your mental health issues to matters"


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Owl: Online Psychoanalysis? Psychiatry? Psychotherapy? * Ken (who is a psychiatrist, MD, but not a psychoanalyst, and also not a Lacanian, with its language or 'speech act' re the unconscious focus), Elizabeth (a practicing NYC psychoanalyst) * Dear Juliette, Ed (a KP MD), and Marie, Am appreciating the diversity of the therapists on the BetterHelp.com web site, Marie's articles - "Depression is not a choice," AND "Talking Out Your Problems with a Psychologist vs. a Psychiatrist Who you’re revealing your mental health issues to matters"- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/owl-online-psychoanalysis.html -






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Ligers, and Tiligers and Panthera leo x Panthera tigris and Tigons (and Leopons too): In communicating with edX recently about possible World Univ & Sch membership with edX, we've put the conversation about cryptocurrencies on hold * * * "Pi" digital curre

In communicating with edX recently about possible World Univ & Sch membership with edX, we've put the conversation about the Pi digital currency and cryptocurrencies in general on hold for the foreseeable future.



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Scott MacLeod
6:28 AM (1 hour ago)
to Tanya, Larry

Hi Tanya (and Larry),

Thanks again for the "Pi" digital currency heads' up, and the "Mine Pi" app information.

It still doesn't work on my Android smart phone fully, but last night the "Mine Pi" App newly opened on its own on my smart phone with one or two message indicators with Chinese or Asian names, but then the App couldn't open the next web link (which has happened before when I've tried 'driving' the App). Perhaps it's the welcome security architecture on Android.

I'm glad though the 'Mine Pi' App is 'off the shelf' (eg in Google Play Store) and nearly 'there' and has the lightning button coded in, so one can mine this digital cryptocurrency with algorithms. Am seeking at WUaS to explore UBI experiments for all 7.5 billion people (each a new kind of Wikidata PIN# in its ~300 languages) on the planet eventually to alleviate poverty - as well as to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (probably via regulation) and coming after the dollar and the euro (in 19 out of 28 EU countries) currencies.

Tanya, as you may have noticed in the WUaS Agenda and Minutes, WUaS is seeking to collaborate with edX for MIT OCW into MITx on EdX courses, so am hoping doable 'Finance Theory' and '6 Sigma ..." toolkit courses will appear in the autumn in new format. Perhaps with the completion these, we can begin to think through how your graduation will work for a free-to-student's WUaS Bachelor's degree in Business (even as WUaS develops with licensing and potentially accreditation).

Will keep you posted with this Friendly progress ...

Sincerely,
Scott
- worlduniversityandschool.org


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Pi Network
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The Story Of Pi - The First Digital Currency You Can Mine On Your Phone.


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December 13, 2019
Hi Tanya, (Anant and Larry - greetings, Anant!)

Thanks for your email and with regards to your "If we are in need of me finishing for accreditation I need Finance Theory and Introduction To Lean Six Sigma" at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, for a free-to-students' online Bachelor's degree as an undergraduate Business major per our Course Catalog - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing from http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ .  
Anant, Tanya, is in World Univ & Sch's very first matriculating undergraduate class (albeit not yet licensing, or accrediting), and she is seeking to finish 2 courses for her degree. The MIT OCW for one of these courses didn't work out for her. So I'm including you in this email, as WUaS seeks to begin first licensing with the state of California's BPPE (and then potentially to accredit with WASC senior). How might WUaS and edX explore collaboration? 
Tanya: I just found on this MIT OCW into MITx page - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - the following 
"15.415.1x Foundations of Modern Finance I" https://www.edx.org/course/foundations-of-modern-finance-i ...
Then, not finding any MIT OCW / MITx Intro to Lean Six Sigma COURSES, I found in edX this:
"Six Sigma and Lean: Quantitative Tools for Quality and Productivity"https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/tumx-six-sigma-and-lean
Am not sure about what you might need to know beforehand (15.415 says it's advanced, and Six Sigma doesn't list any pre-reqs, but the course lasts for 6 months)
Then I found in MIT OCW: 
Finance Theory Ihttps://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-2008/
Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methodshttps://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-660j-introduction-to-lean-six-sigma-methods-january-iap-2012/
So, let me communicate with Larry, and look into 

A) collaborating with edX for MIT OCW > MITx  ... and with regards, too, to 
B i) WUaS licensing with CA's BPPE, then B ii) accreditation (with WASC senior?) ... 
C) finding some further possible edX MIT OCW courses relating to the 2 courses for you to graduate with, possibly after WUaS begins accreditation ... (which would increase the value of your Bachelor's degree significantly). 
It could be the autumn when you begin classes again, re the above ... or you might be able (and WUaS is still seeking the initial ~5,000 dollars to begin licensing, as well as annual licensing and accreditation fees after this).  
Please let me/us know what you think about these possibilities, Tanya, and how you might like to proceed (in conversation, if that's helpful). 
(Anant, how might we best communicate about some of this as well? WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class in English in the autumn of 2020, and for students from all ~200 countries, for a 4 year degree - and hopefully with very high retention rates. WUaS is seeking 500-2000 students, as WUaS begins the licensing and accreditation process from California. In what ways could WUaS collaborate with edX in these regards as well. Larry Viehland, above, is the chair of the WUaS Board, and MIT alumnus too!).
Thank you! And looking forward to communicating further about all of this. 
Best, Scott- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University

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September 23, 2019 Hi Tanya (and Larry), 
I just went through a number of steps of downloading and installing "Pi Network" to see how the CryptoCurrency 'Pi' works - which you can 'mine' - but after giving the App my phone number and getting a verification code, which I then entered, I received a "Webpage not available" page/message, with the htttps://app-cdn.minepi.com/auth#access_token=31 ..long_code_follows.... URL and no further ability to do anything with mining Pi, although the Application is open in my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android smartphone. 
I may contact the 3 people here  - https://minepi.com/team - with this information too, adding World Univ & Sch's plans for coding for 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item number, for Universal Basic Income UBI EXPERIMENTS, and to explore distributing a SINGLE cryptocurrency with blockchain, backed somehow by some number of ~200 countries' central banks, (am thinking the 19 out of 28 Eurozone countries in the EU, as one example) ... so post-Euro, (post other currencies), and post US dollar, which is already the de facto international currency as I understand this.
Found this online about the Pi currency. And it probably isn't easy to get on this list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies - and Pi is not on it either. Were you successful in installing the 'Pi Network' and hitting the 'lightning' button to mine Pi, Tanya? Do you own a bit of Pi now? :)
Thanks again for letting me know about Pi ... brainstorming-wise ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html :)
Cheers, Scott
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So the Pi application works somewhat up to a certain stage ... and it may have first come out in March 2019 . Just shared this email with the Pi people: 

Dear Nicolas, Chengdiao, and Vincent (https://minepi.com/#contact), 
A student, 'TanyaTomato', in CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's first undergraduate class just shared "Mine Pi" with me, which I tried unsuccessfully to get operational. I'm writing to come into conversation with you about exploring planning with the Pi Network for Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS to distribute a SINGLE cryptocurrency to people in some number of ~200 countries, and in their languages.

I just went through a number of steps of downloading and installing "Pi Network" to see how the CryptoCurrency 'Pi' works - which you can 'mine' - but after giving the App my phone number and getting a verification code, which I then entered, I received a "Webpage not available" page/message, with the htttps://app-cdn.minepi.com/auth#access_token=31 ..long_code_follows.... URL and no further ability to do anything with mining Pi, although the Application is open in my Samsung Galaxy S3 Android smartphone.I'm contacting you - https://minepi.com/team - with this information, in order to add World Univ & Sch's plans for coding for 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item number, for Universal Basic Income UBI EXPERIMENTS, and to explore distributing a SINGLE cryptocurrency with blockchain with Pi, backed somehow by some number of ~200 countries' central banks, (am thinking the 19 out of 28 Eurozone countries in the EU, as one example) ... so post-Euro, (post other currencies), and post US dollar, which is already the de facto international currency as I understand this.

Found this online about the Pi currency. And it probably isn't easy to get on this list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies - and Pi is not on it either.Thanks to Tanya for letting me know about Pi, and your remarkable development ... brainstorming-wise ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html :) More about exploring distributing a single cryptocurrency via UBI experiments to all 7.5 billion people conceptually here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/lake-mashu-japan-wikidata-googles-stake.html - and re each person a Wikidata Q-item.

Cheers, Scott

worlduniversityandschool.org
scottmacleod.com
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1159573515294523392 -Cheers, Scott

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Friday, September 30, 2019 
Hi Tanya,
Thanks so much for your Mine Pi invitation to me - https://youtu.be/MsOaC61cR3U . And how are you? And where are you with World University and School coursework toward your Bachelor degree? As you may have noticed in the WUaS Agenda & News, WUaS is seeking funding for CA's BPPE for licensing. It would be great to explore doing this through a cryptocurrency even, but I don't think either the state of California's BPPE or WUaS is ready for this. And how did you learn of Mine Pi?
That said, and per WUaS Agenda and News re WUaS seeking to facilitate a single digital currency via UBI experiments, this Mine Pi cryptocurrency is interesting with its Stanford PhD and California origins, and re UBIcs.org (UBI catalyst systems . org) which I just learned of too - for infrastructure and as idea re distribution of single cryptocurrency via UBI.I'd like to learn more about MINE Pi. Brainstorming-wise, building on the state of California's Stockton Basic Income experiment ($500/month over 18 months to 130 adults - with studying academically its effects) - https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article226280230.html & https://time.com/5667715/stockton-california-universal-basic-income/ (picture of bank card re distribution), in what ways could WUaS collaborate with Mine Pi and the state of California to make this become a single cryptocurrency in a large number or percentage of 200 countries' languages (backed by their central banks, a little like the 19/28 Eurozone countries & their central banks in Brussels) and through universal basic income experiments?
Would Stockton UBI experiment recipients be able to 'mine' a cryptocurrency on their smartphone like MAKING A WITHDRAWAL from a bank? Am curious what mining entails in Mine Pi - and also for computer scientists' algorithm-wise. And what it could mean for Stockton residents - IF they had smart phones, and could get their CA basic income from the state of CA in Sacramento (legally too - like central bank approval / authority) that way.I may explore teaching about both this Mine Pi as example of cryptocurrency, as well as Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning newly in my "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - next year. 
I'll seek to bring up Mine Pi per the WUaS Agenda tomorrow - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/xerochrysum-bracteatum-agenda-news-for.html.
Thanks so much, Tanya, and will check it out further with your name code,
Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI 

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Hairy-nosed wombat: Applying for an 'Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition' edX position - https://www.edx.org/careers - and re MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch * Succinct and Original versions of my Cover Letter and Resume to edX

Hey Nick,

How's it going?

Am applying for an 'Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition' edX position - https://www.edx.org/careers - and re MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch - which career would be based in Boston with 30-50% travel, so maybe I'll find, meet and connect with a life partner there and begin a family, as well as be able to write my 2nd actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book (newly out of something like the Google Street View platform, with text in the side bar, and printable to paper!).

How's your New Year going? How is your family? Happy Robbie Burns' night a bit belatedly!

- Scott
(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scotland)


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Here are the succinct versions of my Cover Letter and Resume:

January 28, 2020


Dr. Anant Agarwal edX 141 Portland Street, 9th floor Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Dear Dr. Agarwal,
Please accept my application for the role of Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition at edX -  https://boards.greenhouse.io/edx/jobs/1921466.
My passion is to transform education.  Traveling the world and building strong relationships with faculty who have unique and exciting content that inspires the urge to go deeper in a wide range of subjects for diverse multilingual learners is my primary skill set.  World University and Schools was my “one-man army” effort to hone that skill set over the last decade and half.  Even before that I had the luxury to travel the world and experience learning from master educators – I have been very fortunate in this regard.  If possible, I would like the opportunity to join the edX team to help scout out and acquire the best for edX.
Thank you for considering my application.
Scott412 478 0116sgkmacleod@gmail.com

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Scott MacLeod412 478 0116 – sgkmacleod@gmail.com
WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL Founder (2007-present)Content curation in multiple languageshttp://worlduniversityandschool.org
TEACHING POSITIONS Penn State University2007 (Summer) – Society and Information Technology (in Second Life)2007 (Spring) – Introduction to SociologyUniversity of Pittsburgh and Chatham University2007 (Spring) – Society and Information TechnologyPenn State University2006 (Fall) – Introduction to SociologyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara 2003 (Spring) – Communication Research Methods, Department of Communication 2002 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Dept. of Law and Society (Head TA) 2002 (Winter) – Technology and Culture, Department of Anthropology 2001 (Fall) – Anthropological Approaches to the Law, Department of Law and Society University of California, Berkeley2001 (Spring) Reader, Prof. Nelson Graburn’s “Tourism” anthropology course2000 (Fall) Reader, Prof. Aiwha Ong’s “Globalization and Gender” anthropology course
EDUCATION2004 – D.R. in Ethnology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 
EXPERIENCEExtensive travel to academic institution in Europe and the USA. Anthropological publications. Bagpiper. 
REFERENCES  Professor Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 510 642 2120 Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 805 893 8449 




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Here are the original versions of my Cover Letter and Resume:



January 28, 2020
To Whom It May Concern: 
I’m writing to apply for Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition position at edX - https://boards.greenhouse.io/edx/jobs/1921466 (https://www.edx.org/careers). In doing so, I plan to, with excellence and skill:   
·      Define and execute edX’s content strategy that aligns with edX’s overall company and product strategies;  ·      Grow edX’s capability to identify and acquire the best courses, credentials, degrees and other types of content to meet our learners’ needs worldwide;·      Grow edX’s research capability and align content (existing or gaps) with the job market to help learners achieve their career outcomes;·      Build strong working relationships with edX partner managers and content providers to ensure successful content acquisition; ·      Identify educational, business and labor trends and lead the necessary research, acquisition and experimentation to understand opportunity and impact; ·      Build, lead, develop and manage a team focused on content strategy and acquisition; ·      Represent and advance edXs’ goals at key public engagements, conferences, industry events and edX partner events, representing the company as an industry leader.
Having developed both a) CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric (in its now 4 languages) wiki World University and School as online universities in all ~206 countries’ main languages, and as wiki schools in all 7,111 known living languages since 2007, and b) my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnographic project (including writing 4 books), and especially in developing the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual earth as social science and STEM virtual field sites (which realistic virtual universe will become a film-realistic, 3D, group build-able, interactive, virtual earth/cosmos/Harbin in all languages ever, with both realistic and fantastic avatars of mammals/species, for actual-virtual comparison, and for what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, a new STEM method), including with plans to model the brain at the neuronal (cellular) and atomic (nano) levels, to begin, for related brain research, for example, I would bring significant experience and an unique approach to edX content strategy and acquisition. All of this represents far-reaching approaches to educational content strategy and acquisition in many significant, new and unique ways.  In addition to the above qualifications, and with regard to ‘best-in-class digital experiences to consumer markets’ (see job application description above), World Univ & Sch has successfully obtained, developed and coded our Wiki into 725 open subject pages including with plans for online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees – and with these degrees planned not only in the English language, but in all ~200 countries’ official / main languages. Building, leading, developing and managing a team focused on content strategy and acquisition in each of ~200 countries’ main languages, as organizing approach, would be potentially a significant addition to edX. World Univ & Sch has also developed a track record of success in business development, in terms of holding WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (using an open, consensus-based Friendly/Quaker approach to WUaS organizational decision-making) for nearly 10 years, regularly, and with a) agenda and b) minutes, including personally leading teams that reliably meet these monthly goals. This includes developing 2 WUaS Boards of Trustees. And while this has involved strong leadership skills, the nature of WUaS Monthly Business Meeting’s decision-making process involves experience collaborating and navigating in a matrixed organization. WUaS’s work in Monthly Business Meeting has also involved experience coaching direct reports and others, aligning teams to goals, setting a strategic vision and creating an engaging, positive work environment. That World University and School, as a 501 (c) 3 non profit (since 2010), has been able to develop a second, for-profit, general stock company parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation (since 2017), in the context of the Internet, proves much ability to thrive and succeed in the fast-paced and ever-evolving environment of the World Wide Web. While WUaS has successfully joined, and developed in, the Handshake platform (‘Handshake is the #1 way college students find jobs and internships, and helps students connect with employers’), WUaS does not yet have experience with hiring, and yet sees developing college students as the best way to grow top talent and design diverse, inclusive, effective and results-driven teams. I would seek to hire via Handshake at edX in the ‘Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition’ position, as well as via edX’s varied approaches including seeking to hire highest achieving graduate students instructors and related faculty from greatest universities locally. I’m in a position to travel 30% - 50% of the time. Lastly in terms of qualifications, having successfully communicated with MIT OCW executive director Cecilia d'Oliveira (a MIT alumna who was MIT Associate Dean for Digital Learning from Dec 2014 – Jun 2017, Executive Director, MIT OpenCourseWare from Sep 2008 – Dec 2014, and MIT OCW’s Technology Director from Sep 2002 – Sep 2008) about use of CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare at WUaS, - as well as being in communication presently with edX about WUaS membership in edX - demonstrates not only the ability to foster working relationships with content providers, but also to develop and maintain good relationships with content partners and the industry at large. In applying for this edX Head of Content Strategy position, and in seeking to make World Univ & Sch the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet in all ~200 countries’ official languages, and wiki schools in all 7,111 known living languages, I would seek to represent the company edX as an industry leader.With regard to online Medical Schools and Law Schools, as potential content acquisition in this edX position, and regarding WUaS significant communications with Stanford Law and Medicine in these regards thus far, it’s great to see that Stanford just joined edX Online - https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1222173479195119617?s=20. World University and School has been communicating for some years with Stanford Law and Medicine and Google’s / Stanford’s / Duke’s Project Baseline, and brainstorming-wise, with regards to online teaching hospitals for clinical care (as well as Project ECHO) – in ~200 countries’ official languages. Thus I would be able potentially via WUaS to bring edX into collaboration with Stanford, and thus further explore developing related collaborations with Harvard Medicine / Law, and other great Boston Universities in these regards.  And with regard to content strategy and acquisition, not only do I seek to explore, regarding edX, teaching or developing 3 courses -  a) “Society, Information Technology and the Global University,” b) “Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ Ethnography,” as well as a c) Reed College-informed ‘Hum 110’ course, which I would entitle “Humanities 101” – newly in the edX platform. I’ve taken the JuryX HarvardX edX course in 2016 taught by Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charles Nesson. There’s much learning potentially in all of these courses, which could be used to make edX really excellent as a learning platform. In terms of content strategy further, I would also seek to develop a MIT Media Lab approach to ‘new technologies and strategies for cultivating creative learning - and with regard to the Media Lab's four guiding principles: Projects, Peers, Passion and Play,’ on the edX platform e.g. https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT - and -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School (see many of the academic and ‘creative’ wiki subjects / schools for open teaching and learning here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects not yet in other non-English languages), and perhaps these wiki pages are an early beginning to such a Media Lab approach. As a publisher, and having begun a new press, the Academic Press at World University and School, and which has now published 4 titles, – I’d bring related new knowledge and experience to this edX position of Content Strategy and Acquisition. WUaS is also planning online Music Schools, with all instruments, - as well as all libraries ever, all museums ever, all online, and each a wiki subject page to begin, in all 7,111 living languages, and in a realistic virtual earth too (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow / Translate / Google platform with realistic avatar bots – and at the cellular and atomic levels, and group-buildable) – which involves significant content strategizing.In terms of content strategy, WUaS also has a plan for developing actual-virtual, physical-digital ‘Home Robotics’ - emerging from the now 3 Lego Robotics’ Educational Kits and which work in conjunction with the Scratch visual programming language out of the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Graduate School of Education – which edX could build on in remarkable ways with courses, in all ~200 countries’ official and main languages.Further in terms of content strategy and acquisition, World University and School is developing with three multi-lingual platforms, in a sense – a) CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages, b) Google Education / platform in ~100 languages, and c) Wikidata/Wikibase in its ~300 languages as a structured knowledge database (and Wikipedia’s “back end”) - and I would bring experience and knowledge of these to this position, and in planning potentially for courses potentially in ~6,800 more languages, and with machine translation and a universal translator (conceptually, think Google Translate). As Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition, I will be responsible for defining edX’s content offering, a critical component of edX’s strategy and ongoing success. In this role, and with regards to the Mission at edX, which is to: 
·      i. Increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere·      ii. Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online·      iii. Advance teaching and learning through research
I would further bring my experience and thinking at World University and School with regards to
·      i. Planning to develop approaches to free universal education, while helping edX to develop sustainably·      ii. Seeking to enhance teaching and learning in new kinds of online campuses and classrooms – in a single developing realistic virtual earth; ·      iii. Studying how students learn, especially inter-lingually and inter-culturally. 
As an American university president, a CEO of 2 startups, and as an educator / professor / publisher and startup founder, it would be great to work for edX, especially since Professor Anant Agarwal just posted to Twitter that edX is rated as one of the best employers in Boston - https://twitter.com/agarwaledu/status/1220427028849201153?s=20. If content is king, and I am offered this position, this position would crown edX. And I think this “head of content strategy and acquisition” position would also thus help edX further to become the industry leader, and thus help people around the world create careers with excellent and improving online education. 
Thank you.
Sincerely, Scott
- Scott GK MacLeod - Founder, CEO, President & Professor- World University and School  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  - @WorldUnivAndSch- 412 478 0116 (Google Voice - 415 480 4577 to same mobile smartphone device) - http://scottmacleod.com  - @scottmacleod 
-       “Minutes for Sat March 16, 2019 World University & School / WUaS Monthly Business Meeting” - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/03/minutes-for-sat-march-16-2019-world.html
-       “A - Minutes for Sat Feb 9, 2019 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting * * * B - Minutes for Feb 9, 2019 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting” - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-minutes-for-sat-feb-9-2019-world.html
2019 - Bark (botany): Immortality - or reversing aging - via gene editing * * * World Univ & Sch Hangout, News, Minutes 3/16/19 (videos) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/bark-botany-immortality-or-reversing.html
2018 - Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering Poetry of Loving Bliss (book) –http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A.... Fr 12/14/18. Poetry Press at World University and School. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578435187
2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video & slides) - 10/26/18 Fr ~ https://youtu.be/dN80Hm_db2I & https://docs.google.com/presentation/... (new slides) ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVir... 
2018 - “Sequoia sempervirens: Reaching out to Stanford re World Univ and Sch, and particularly to Stanford Law, (and to Stanford Medicine eventually too)” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201...
2018 - "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 2/23/18 Fr ~ RESCHEDULED ~ https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
2018 - “Lithops: Collaboration between Stanford Medicine and World Univ and Sch Medical Schools in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, Some details” - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/02/lithops-collaboration-between-stanford.html
2017 - Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (book) –http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html. Poetry Press at World University and School. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692049037.
2017 - ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM: "Naked Harbin Ethnography." UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video? & slides) - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_ar... (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20...)
2017 - MacLeod, Scott G.K. Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations. Canyon, CA: www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html
2017 - MacLeod, Scott, and Mark Judkins Helpsmeet (interviewer). Free Universal School. http://northernspiritradio.org/episod.... Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Northern Spirit Radio 
2017 – Developing realistic virtual Harbin/earth/universe. Visit the virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) - (Think Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth married conceptually with Minecraft/OpenSim/Second Life for group build-ability with physical world, but realistic, with species' AVATAR BOTS - and at the cellular and atomic levels too)  
2017 - Scott MacLeod - SGKMacLeod - online videos (Bagpiping / MacLeod / Brown family history) - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod/videos - (31 videos on 4.6.2019) 
2016 – Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (book) - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVir... and https://twitter.com/HarbinBookhttps://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692646132/ Academic Press at World University and School, planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html  
2016 - IBM CSIG talk “A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test” https://youtu.be/f48b0Z4VffQ (http://cognitive-science.info/communi...)
2016 - “Lamiaceae: MIT OCW CC licensing and endorsement clarifications to WUaS from MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira recently, 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 ... Added these recently to World University Law School (planned in all ~204 countries' official languages) AND the SUBJECT TEMPLATE, (which template informs nearly every page/school at WUaS and potentially in all 7,943 languages+ on WUaS's CC side with MIT OCW on them).” - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/04/lamiaceae-mit-ocw-cc-licensing-and.html  
2016 – “14 planned WUaS revenue streams, Business plan update” - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogs...
2015 - Helianth (Scott MacLeod - Rainbow) online videos (Quaker, virtual Harbin Hot Springs’ ethnography, Cuttyhunk Island, Music, Internet History) - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth/videos - (17 videos on 4.6.2019) 
2015 – “Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences” - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides, but no video) – http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_ar... (http://scott-macleod. spot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-fro...)
2015 - WUaS-1000 Proposed ISSIP Grand Challenge: An Universal Translator, beginning as a Guidebook with Test - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201...
2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” talk - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/op2W_V5xUtM - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_ar... (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201...)
2012 – “Naked, Virtual Harbin” video abstract - UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (video) – https://youtu.be/p8gur9SMPlw - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_ar... (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/201...)
2011–2018 – World University and School’s Monthly Business Meeting and Blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogs...
2009 - “The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator” or “Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction” (video) - https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE - https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth
2008-2019 – http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - Scott Macleod's anthropology of information technology & counterculture: To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss 

Information Technology Revolution video talks
2007 - 7 The New Economy and Information Technology: Production. July 6, 2007. Google Video (28 mins.): - https://youtu.be/I9awgJlZ93k
2007 - 6 The Internet and Social Political Environments. July 4, 2007. Google Video (31 mins.): https://youtu.be/JNTVix681Ok
2007 - 5 Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization. July 3, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/QKvSITu9XPg
2007 - 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.): https://youtu.be/6VKh-22l-w4
2007 - 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.): https://youtu.be/Fj5cnr-xjJ0
2007 - 2 Social History of the Internet. Posted online: June 17, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.): https://youtu.be/jghU_CM4R9Y
2007 - 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Posted online: June 11, 2007. Google Video (43 mins.): https://youtu.be/FJIy6LpZLeI
2007 - Internet History and the Hacker Ethos. Posted online: March 14, 2007. Google Video (13 mins.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjDjN...
2006 - "Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and 'Middle Eastern' UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online" in 'Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation.' Edited by Rami Farouk Daher, University of Jordan. Tourism and Cultural Change Series, #9, edited by Mike Robinson of Sheffield Hallam University, England, and Dr. Alison Phipps of Glasgow University. Channel View Publications. (https://www.amazon.com/Tourism-Middle... 1845410505. 
2006 - An Empathic Argument for Developing Cuttyhunk Island, and Video to Conserve it: Developing the West End of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts? Harvard University. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast... CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion course. (On Berkman Island in Second Life). Harvard University. Autumn 2006. blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/
2004 - UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’ (http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf). D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland 

Loving Bliss Letters (Eliciting this Neurophysiology)
-       Friends' Dalton Letterscottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm
-       Loving Bliss and Practices to Elicit Thisscottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPract...
-       Loving Bliss as Friendsscottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFr...
-       Eudaimonia is Flow and Blissscottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm
-       Guidelines for Practicing Loving Bliss vis-à-vis Practicing a Musical Instrumentscottmacleod.com/Guidelines...
-       Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) at wiki World University & Schoolhttps://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)

Anthropology papers at the University of California, Santa Barbara
MacLeod, Scott. February 3, 2003. James Clifford's "The Predicament of Culture"
MacLeod, Scott. December 9, 2002. George C. Williams’ “Adaptation and Natural Selection” Précis 
MacLeod, Scott. December 30, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “How the Mind Works” Précis 
MacLeod, Scott. November 11, 2002. Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” Précis 
MacLeod, Scott. May 24, 2002. Social Processes which Shape the Significance of Objects
MacLeod, Scott. May 20, 2002. Who Can Speak for Whom?
MacLeod, Scott. April 22, 2002. Taos Pueblo and the UNESCO World Heritage Designation
MacLeod, Scott. April 15, 2002. Anthropology, Representation and Reality In online UNESCO World Heritage Sites
MacLeod, Scott. April 08, 2002. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online: The "Field Site" in a Global Context
MacLeod, Scott. November 28, 2001. Interpretive Anthropology and Symbol Formation
MacLeod, Scott. November 26, 2001. Science and Interpretive Anthropology
MacLeod, Scott. November 5, 2001. Epistemology and Anthropology
MacLeod, Scott. October 26, 2001. Durkheim’s Functionalism and Agency
MacLeod, Scott. October 17, 2001. Anthropology? The Boasian Revolution and Culture as Unique Phenomena
MacLeod, Scott. October 10, 2001. Boas and the Logic and Sociology of Scientific Inquiry

Anthropology papers at U.C. Berkeley
2001 - Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity). Berkeley, CA:  http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm
2001 - Science in Malinowski, Bateson and Sociocultural Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: http://scottmacleod.com/anth250x.htm
2000 - Consumption of the WWW for Medical Information: What U.C. Berkeley Students Make of It. Berkeley, CA:  http://scottmacleod.com/Anth250x-6.htm
1998-2019 – http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm – Scott MacLeod's Research: World University & School, Courses, Papers, and Media 
1984 - “Women in Religion: Rosemary Ruether's Methodology and Theology in Sexism and God-talk,” Senior Thesis, Reed College, Portland, Oregon

EDUCATION
2016 (fall) - Harvard Law School - JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change with Professor Charles Nesson (Internet Law)
2010 (spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professor Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity) 
2008-2009 (Autumn/Spring) – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Bill Hanks (Linguistics), Charles Briggs (Theories of Modernity), and Paul Rabinow (Foucault & Anthropology of the Contemporary–related) 
2003-2004 – D.R. Diploma of Research, University of Edinburgh, Celtic & Scottish Studies – Thesis Topic: UNESCO World Heritage Tourism to St. Kilda: How Computer Users Visit Online ‘Place’ 
2001-2003 – M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on sociocultural anthropological theory and information technology 
2000-2001 – UC Berkeley – Anthropology graduate coursework with Professors Laura Nader (Classic Ethnographies), Nelson Graburn (Tourism, Art and Modernity), Rebecca Stein (Politics of Consumption), and Professor Manuel Castells (Society and Information Technology) 
1998-2000 – City College of San Francisco (CCSF), full time undergraduate student in Anthropology, Multimedia, and Computer Science 
1987-1988 - Pendle Hill, Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Wallingford, Pennsylvania
1985 - B.A. in Social Science of Religion, German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 
1981-1982 – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (University of Munich), Munich, Germany 
1979 – Diploma, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1977 – 1978 - 1st year 6th Form (high school year abroad in Scotland), Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland 
1972 - 1973 - l'Ecole Internationale de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (6 months in English with some French)

ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORK SITES
http://www.academicroom.com/users/sgk...
https://github.com/ScottWUaS
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQpokz8AAAAJ&hl=en
https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod
https://iris.reed.edu/https://reed.sw...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSchhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaShttps://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Scott_WUaShttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sc...
https://worlduniversityandschool.acad...

SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK SITES
Twitter:Scott Macleod - http://twitter.com/scottmacleod  
World Univ & Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand  


http://about.me/scott_macleod 
http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/ScottMacLeod
https://worlduniversityandschool.acad...
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https://worlduniversityandschool.acad...
http://www.academicroom.com/users/sgk...  
https://www.alignable.com/canyon-ca/w...
Amazon author's page - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity  
https://angel.co/scott-macleod-4 
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/s...
https://www.entrepnr.com/members/1531048
https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper  
https://www.facebook.com/macleod  
https://www.flickr.com/photos/4063266... 
https://github.com/ScottWUaS.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://app.joinhandshake.com/employers/447700https://app.joinhandshake.com/users/19861050
https://www.instagram.com/worlduniver...
https://issuu.com/worlduniversityands...
http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod   
https://livestream.com/accounts/9578703
https://medium.com/@sgkmacleod
https://www.meetup.com/members/243278267
https://mewe.com/profile/5c06c414f9f1...
http://www.mosaichub.com/member/p/wor...
https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott...
https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/world-university-and-school/
https://www.pinterest.com/sgkmacleod/actual-virtual-harbin-hot-springs/
http://www.quakerquaker.org/profile/S... 
http://www.quora.com/Scott-MacLeod-3  
https://www.quora.com/profile/Scott-M... 
https://www.reddit.com/user/ScottMacL...
https://www.Reddit.com/r/Quakers
https://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUniv...
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http://www.reverbnation.com/scottmacl...
http://scholar.google.com/citations?u...
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http://www.slideshare.net/WorldUniversity
https://vimeo.com/user12804337
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch
https://zoom.us/j/3291730207

Email Discussion Groups
Nontheist Friends’ Email Discussion (atheist Quakers?); see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)(accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)-       https://www.friendsjournal.org/light-nontheistic-friendliness-friends-god/-       https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/nontheist%20Friend

ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
Deutschklub: Deutsche Sprachen Community mit Peter Bothe in group video conferencing - https://mewe.com/profile/5be858e9bc86c90ab7b2b9b5
Tourism Studies’ Working Group (TSWG), Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - http://www.tourismstudies.org

MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Scottish small pipes - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm   
Baselines on keyboard (piano)
Musician in Open Band (Berkeley). Scottish Country Dancers and Musicians Welcome - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand 

RESEARCH GRANTS
2003 – (Summer) University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Division Humanities / Social Sciences Pre-Dissertation Research Grant Award ($2,000) 
2002 – University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (ISBER) grant to study “UNESCO online: Information Technology and the Middle East” ($7,000) 

AWARDS
2019 / 1978 - The Iain Macleod Award, Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland 

GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION (GRE)
2000 – Verbal score 99th Percentile

COMPUTER LANGUAGES 
HTML
Scratch:- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/
- http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/user/39398
Website development:
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://scottmacleod.com

WUaS DEGREES (planned) (in ~200 countries’ official / main languages)
M.D. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School
With online teaching HOSPITALS for online clinical care and STEM research - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital

Law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School
E.g. Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS
Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...
- World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool...

Ph.D. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

Bachelor - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

International Baccalaureate (online high schools) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme

LANGUAGES 
English, German (Good – Reading, Speaking) 
Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod  
All 7,111 living languages' foci, each a WIKI school, https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch is like CC Wikipedia (in ~300 languages) & CA BPPE licensing:  https://www.bppe.ca.gov/forms_pubs/approval_nonaccredited.pdf & then accrediting on CC OYC OpenYaleCourses and best STEM CC-4 OCW OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages) 

REFERENCES  
- Professor Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 510 642 2120 - Professor Dean MacCannell, UC Davis, Davis, CA, edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu- Professor Juan-Vicente Palerm, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 805 893 8449 - Professor Larry Viehland, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, 412-365-1100 

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Seneca white deer: Interested in matriculating this autumn for free-to-students' online best STEM OCW Bachelor degrees as we seek to collaborate with edX (Harvard & MIT founded)> worlduniversityandschool.org - "World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - 27 Jan 2020

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - 27 Jan 2020

https://youtu.be/XS8mBFbGuSI
Interested in matriculating this autumn for free-to-students' online best STEM OCW Bachelor degrees as we seek to collaborate with edX (Harvard & MIT founded)> worlduniversityandschool.org -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ~

World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - 27 Jan 2020https://t.co/QHCxgDIShF
Interested in matriculating this autumn for free-to-students' online best STEM OCW Bachelor degrees as we seek to collaborate with edX (Harvard & MIT founded)> https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 -https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 27, 2020

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Seeking to collaborate with edX (Harvard and MIT founded) > worlduniversityandschool.org -


Hi Lee,(head of business development at edX),

Thank you for your email. 
I have the recollection (and I noted this too) that when we talked on 18 Dec 2019, that for WUaS to become an edX member it would be $500 (whereas for WUaS to set up edX enterprise integration as partner it would be $75,000). 
1.So, is this 'K' from your email misplaced - "1. Membership is $500K ... "? If not, WUaS can't become an edX member. If edX membership is $500, then WUaS would become a member. And as we talked about on 18 Dec 2019 too, for $5000 World Univ & Sch will begin licensing with CA's Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) which licensing would be for both WUaS Bachelor and Ph.D. online degrees in English around MIT OCW's ~2500 undergraduate and graduate courses, and which WUaS would bring to the table in communicating further with edX about membership. (I found out from our chair of the Board that WUaS would be able to get the $5,000 to begin BPPE licensing which would lead to, concurrently, the WASC senior accreditation process for World University and School).
If edX membership is $500,000, is there an opportunity to be an affiliate, and focus at first on a small number of students, or even an associate affiliate, and to find out what edX offers to us? 
2.Sounds like a plan: "Crypto- no interest or bandwidth to have this discussion at this time, perhaps in the years ahead."
3.Would edX be able to refer individual 4-year online Bachelor's degree students (for best STEM CC-4 MIT OCW-centric free-to-students' degrees which WUaS will seek reimbursement for from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries prorated at what tuition costs to attend MIT or Stanford - about $55,000 per year - per GDP of country, and seek reimbursement potentially via the edX platform) to us? 
In summary, I think it's the CA BPPE licensing for both Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in English around CC-4 MIT OCW's ~2500 undergraduate and graduate courses that WUaS brings to the table in communicating further with edX about membership - since all of edX would benefit from these degrees. (And last 2/20/19 at the licensing BPPE workshop in San Jose, CA, Dianne@DCA <Dianne.Arechiga@dca.ca.gov> said explicitly that the CA Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education could license online Ph.D. degrees in addition to Bachelor degrees - and regarding WUaS's BPPE licensing). She also said they'd readily license Google Education, for example, which I had asked her about because World Univ & Sch has been in Google Education for years now for free - ie this email address is in Google Education - so I think that BPPE would also license edX / WUaS readily too. BPPE licensing is a first step, and works together for 2 years with the WASC senior accreditation process (and WASC accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and 150 other universities on the west coast and some internationally; - is edX or MITx seeking to accredit with the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), which accredits MIT as an institution?). I also think MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, in planning to be in all ~200 countries' official/main languages, could contribute greatly to a diversity focus at edX eventually. And besides this, I think too that World University and School could eventually become an extraordinary growth story for edX - planned as major online universities in ~200 countries' official languages for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, Medicine and IB high school degrees, (and in all 7,111 known living languages as wiki schools too). 
But at this time, WUaS would like to explore becoming a small time edX associate. What might be the next steps to follow up on this further, Lee? 
Thank you.
Best, Scott


Further elaboration:

I'll seek to respond to your 3 points here in a beginning way.

With regard to item 1: I think you said on 18 Dec 2019 that edX membership would be $500 for WUaS, although your email of 1/20/2020 is a bit unclear in these regards. Since WUaS has $500 in the bank account (and about $1375 total), I think re funding that WUaS could cover the $500 edX membership fee immediately. And in talking with Larry, the chair of the World Univ & Sch Board, as well as the CFO, it looks like WUaS may be able to get the $5000 for CA's BPPE licensing https://twitter.com/CaBPPE. If it might be possible to become a member of edX in these regards, which is part of the WUaS plan, then WUaS could begin to focus on developing our world ranking in conjunction with edX. So I wonder about the issue of $500 for edX membership (which WUaS has) and $5000 for CA's BPPE licensing (which WUaS may be able to get), concurrently, - and WUaS's plans, and alignment with edX. Perhaps we could talk about this in another phone conversation. With regard to world ranking and CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World University and School's NAME, WUaS can use the MIT name with these Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - and potentially on the edX platform especially, re WUaS beginning to develop our world ranking further.

Furthermore in terms of WUaS planning, if edX were interested in aligning with MIT OCW-centric World University and School - planned online in each of 200+ countries' official and main languages as major online Universities and offering free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, MD and IB high school degrees - and WUaS licensed (with BPPE) and became accredited (with WASC senior) first in the US, to the great potential benefit of edX too, then edX would have a further major growth plan as well as the potential or working with an expanding MIT OCW-centric set of startup Universities (seeking to hire 2.2 million people over decades even).

With regard to sustainability: if edX and WUaS decide to proceed together - since we might or could also have about 8 months until the autumn of 2020 when WUaS could begin to matriculate our 2nd undergraduate class - and this could give edX, with your databases, time to seek begin to plan for, and to seek, REIMBURSEMENT (is the word MIT OCW's Ceclia d'Oliviera used with CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS) and with your edX payment mechanisms on the edX platform, for potential matriculating 4-year Bachelor's degree WUaS students in all ~200 countries from the students' countries' Departments of Education, targeting the amount of $55,000 per student per year per GDP - per MIT and Stanford's annual tuition - (so I'm wildly guessing $30,000 per student per year for students from India?) for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees and in conjunction with the edX courses/platform, this could benefit edX tremendously.

With regard to item 2: Cryptocurrency, and in particular the mine-able with algorithms 'Pi' digital currency (and potentially in planning for students in all ~200 countries, speakers of all 7111 known living languages, and brainstorming-wise, all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN#, re coding):

You might find this Webinar on-demand with Stanford Law Professor Joe Grundfest interesting: http://learn.stanford.edu/libra-webinar-0120.html

"On June 18, 2019, Facebook announced its plan to launch a more stable and useful “next generation” cryptocurrency in 2020, called “Libra.” Does this new “global digital currency” mark the beginning of a new phase in the evolution of cryptocurrency, or will it fall flat?

Join Stanford Professor and former SEC Commissioner Joe Grundfest, one of the world’s leading experts in cryptocurrency and related regulatory matters, in a conversation about Libra and the future of cryptocurrency.

Although this MIT article today 24 Jan 2020 From MIT Technology Review "An uncertain future for Facebook’s Libra" suggests differently - https://mailchi.mp/0a7161b67515/an-uncertain-future-for-facebooks-libra?e=8139914a0f - https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615083/vodafone-is-the-eighth-company-to-quit-facebooks-digital-currency-project/.

With regard to item 3:

With regard to a single student (from India), and Shahbaz Sanjer in India could be a kind of test case, since one student's tuition could look reasonable to department of education compared with 100 or 500 students per year reimbursement, I've emailed this to Shahbaz in India (and Anant and Larry) on Wed 1/22/20. And see the last paragraph from item 1.


"Hi Shahbaz (your first name), Anant and Larry,

Thanks for your email, the information, your interest and your persistence. Having said that, getting started with edX for your English literature major at World University and School (and as WUaS begins licensing with the state of California's BPPE) sounds complicated (before autumn 2020). Given that, perhaps WUaS can start you with a CC-4 MIT OCW course or two for credit, and as a kind of independent study even. Let me get in touch with the head of business development at edX again, and then get back to you. As a graduate of Higher Secondary School in India, would you be interested in picking a course from CC-4 MIT OCW's English Literature, e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-000j-writing-about-literature-fall-2010/ and begin studying for WUaS credit (or from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/ or another MIT introductory literature course from https://lit.mit.edu/curriculum/introductory-subjects/)?

Thank you again for your ongoing support and enquiry.

Regards, Scott"


Lee, could Anant help with getting in touch with the Department of Education in India (and I have a Stanford contact in these regards too) re matriculating students from India - 100-500? - at WUaS in the autumn of 2020?

World University and School platform development would be part of all 3 items, and with regard also to BPPE licensing (and WASC senior accreditation too). Am curious too if WUaS could we collaborate with edX for coding our WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki platform too - and with Wikidata / Wikibase in its ~300 languages?

I'd like to point out to you, Lee, and Anant too how slowly and small WUaS is starting, but WUaS does have 3 Bachelor's degree students:

1) Tanya S: majoring in Business, needs to 6 Sigma and 'Finance Theory' to graduate - and it's possible that if she were to do these 2 courses through edX (having begun the BPPE licensing process), she could graduate from WUaS in the autumn of 2020, and WUaS could become fully accredited by WASC Senior much sooner than the 4 years we learned it would take in 2013. And perhaps WUaS could even get the .edu suffix soon, having graduated our first class and thus become fully accredited. (Tanya is in WUaS's first matriculating undergraduate class, as you may know).

2) Shahbaz S: majoring in English (need to plan a 4 year course of study for this degree - hypothetically in edX)

3) Edward G: planning to major in Engineering (need to plan a 4 year course of study for this degree - hypothetically in edX)

I also think Shahbaz in India could become a way for WUaS with edX to think through how to seek reimbursement from its Department of Education, whether state or federal. (And similarly with Tanya in Florida and Edward in Tennessee - and could these states (counties even) help reimbursement WUaS via edX? What does edX have going in these regards?)

Thanks so much for your email, Lee.

Sincerely, Scott

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(And if I were to draft the BPPE application and head to Sacramento as early as on W March 13, 2020 for a BPPE workshop, this would give BPPE enough time to process the WUaS application to begin matriculating students at licensing WUaS in August or September of 2020).

- https://www.bppe.ca.gov/schools/application_workshops.shtml -

Sincerely, Scott








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Non-theist Friends Network, #NontheistFriends (#NtFs), #NontheistQuakers #AtheistQuakers #AgnosticQuakers NONTHEIST QUAKERS: ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020 Nontheist Friends Network Annual Conference 2020 Friends’ House, Euston, London from Sa-Su 28-29 March 2020 https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk ~

Non-theist Friends Network, #NontheistFriends (#NtFs), #NontheistQuakers #AtheistQuakers #AgnosticQuakers
NONTHEIST QUAKERS: ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020 Nontheist Friends Network Annual Conference 2020 Friends’ House, Euston, London from Sa-Su 28-29 March 2020 https://t.co/Pvv9Z0DCiE~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) January 15, 2020

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a British Quaker perspective on #Friends & caring & sharing & Christmas https://twitter.com/BritishQuakers/status/1208058581796429825?s=20 … Aye:) #NontheistFriends #NtFs  #NontheistQuakers #AtheistQuakers #AtheistFriends #Quakers Re #CultureIdentity #SocioculturalAnthropology too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends @WorldUnivAndSch ~

a British Quaker perspective on #Friends & caring & sharing & Christmas https://t.co/N7yOFabrKA Aye:) #NontheistFriends #NtFs #NontheistQuakers #AtheistQuakers #AtheistFriends #Quakers Re #CultureIdentity #SocioculturalAnthropology too https://t.co/3EJWODIqfT @WorldUnivAndSch ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) December 20, 2019

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Peter Atkins debates Stephen Law-Science or philosophy, which is best? (World Humanist Congress) https://youtu.be/i5AyjXBgjvA
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Science
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
(>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) … #NontheistFriends #AtheistQuakers #NontheistQuakers #NtFs?)

Brilliant stuff again from @CosmicSkeptic
Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) https://t.co/nV2aU9yQfZ To Philosophy https://t.co/MZW9pW4LO0
& possibly #NontheistQuakers / #AtheistFriends - https://t.co/sSZR2v2RMk ~ @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1196202521557004288?s=20


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Brilliant stuff again from @CosmicSkeptic
Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) https://youtu.be/jv-daraEJu8 To Philosophy https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy
 & possibly #NontheistQuakers / #AtheistFriends - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) … ~
@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

Brilliant stuff again from @CosmicSkeptic
Atheist Alex (and theology graduate student at Oxford @OUPAcademic) https://t.co/nV2aU9yQfZ To Philosophy https://t.co/MZW9pW4LO0
& possibly #NontheistQuakers / #AtheistFriends - https://t.co/sSZR2v2RMk ~ @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1183198577167716352?s=20


NtF Cheers, Scott

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Another #UnitarianUniversalist blog post https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/tualatin-river-national-wildlife-refuge.html… (see UU label) & re Harvard's 1st Parish (Unitarian) Church Cambridge, MA, & identity-struggle, in unfolding liberal religious thought since 1632 & abt #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords + brain modeling re #Connectome ~

Another #UnitarianUniversalist blog https://t.co/f7JySku0PP (see UU label) & re Harvard's 1st Parish (Unitarian) Church Cambridge, MA, & identity-struggle, in unfolding liberal religious thought since 1632 & abt #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords + brain modeling re #Connectome ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) January 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1220822594150006784?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1220823038398095360?s=20


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Green sea turtle: Your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley, ("Eric Schilling

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
Replying to @SpeakkVisually and @scratch
Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley ~ https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html ~

Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling & Zoe Bentley~https://t.co/O2qraft5Ed ~ https://t.co/7oBJR44bFj ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1221483720785317894?s=20


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Eric Schilling

Green sea turtle: Your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley, ("Eric Schilling

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
Replying to @SpeakkVisually and @scratch
Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley ~ https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html ~

Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling & Zoe Bentley~https://t.co/O2qraft5Ed ~ https://t.co/7oBJR44bFj ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1221483720785317894?s=20


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Eric Schilling

Green sea turtle: Your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley, ("Eric Schilling

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
Replying to @SpeakkVisually and @scratch
Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley ~ https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html ~

Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling & Zoe Bentley~https://t.co/O2qraft5Ed ~ https://t.co/7oBJR44bFj ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1221483720785317894?s=20


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Eric Schilling

Green sea turtle: Your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley, ("Eric Schilling

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
Replying to @SpeakkVisually and @scratch
Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling and Zoë Bentley ~ https://youtu.be/tCMZckWp82w ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/panamanian-golden-frog-world-university.html ~

Not quite the same, Eric @speakkvisually, but I blogged about your great Scratch Hour of Code Webinar for Educators 12/2/19 - in my daily blog (not a daily work out, but perhaps a daily write-in:)
Eric Schilling & Zoe Bentley~https://t.co/O2qraft5Ed ~ https://t.co/7oBJR44bFj ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1221483720785317894?s=20


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