Octopus eggs: Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020

Minutes for Saturday, 5/16/20 for World Univ & Sch's open monthly business meeting


Minutes for World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 2020



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World Univ & Sch will seek to translate CC-4 MIT OCW courses with improving machine translation in developing the following:

- Major online Universities in all ~200 countries accessible from here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planned in ~200 nation states' main languages)

- Wiki schools for open teaching & learning planned in 7,117 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - where you, for example, can add a new academic or creative wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in an area you love).

As WUaS seeks to license with CA's BPPE and than to accredit probably with WASC senior, the free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric online Bachelor degrees - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool... - and Ph.D.s, will be in English (re BPPE). Law and medical degrees, as well as I.B. high school diplomas to follow in English, and other languages.

Books don't go across languages very readily, partly due to copyright issues, but WUaS plans also to build on MIT OCW's culture of translation into about 10 MIT OCW languages since its beginning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_OpenCourseWare. These languages include Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Korean and others - https://ocw.mit.edu/about/our-history/.



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Thanks to MIT President Rafael Reif and MIT Professor Sanjay Sarma, VP in the Office of Digital Learning, for making possible a 30 minutes' video conversation on Friday, May 1, 2020 per -  https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html .
Thanks too for Sanjay Sarma's email in these regards:


Hi Scott,

Best to email me and not Rafael. He is as you might imagine, flat out. And stay tuned.

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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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With edX (founded by Harvard and MIT) in about 15-20 languages, and CC-4 MIT OCW in 4 languages currently, - and with Professor Sanjay Sarma's interest in the many languages' focus of World University and School where India has 22 official languages - and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, WUaS will seek to explore further a way to expand our WUaS multiple languages' focus, as well as, conceptually, a CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx on edX approach. This may occur by building a platform in collaboration with MIT and Harvard's emerging online course platforms in the midst of coronavirus as they play for their students in the autumn.
WUaS will follow up about possible ways the MIT Office for Digital Learning might be able to bridge something in a new way in these regards, and make something happen collaboration-wise.




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MIT admissions  re online WUaS students in the autumn (in something like the MIT OCW > MITx on edX platform, conceptually)?

Harvard admissions too? … for highest achieving students …


WUaS is seeking to matriculate 500-2,000 undergraduates this autumn in English online from all ~200 countries, for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees that are CC-4 MIT OCW-centric. Students would register, sign up, and apply via - worlduniveristyandschool.org - and WUaS will seek reimbursement from all ~200 countries' departments of education per student per year, as we plan to offer online MIT or Stanford-caliber degrees.


MIT admissions

$55,000 per country, eventually moving toward, from nation states' departments of education, depending on countries' GDP, MIT's then $55,000

draft letter to Sanjay Sarma



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Re money transfer mechanism, it's also regarding anticipating a single cryptocurrency (or multiple ones), that I think it has much merit to develop WUaS's own money transfer mechanism on both wings (way beyond P.P.) - and also in planning for 7.5 billion people. Will add to Minutes.




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