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Introducing World University & School in SL
An Open, FreeWorld University & School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
Like Wikipedia withMIT Open Course Ware
Scott MacLeod / Aphilo Aarde in SL
With your Web CamStream what you'd like to teach into
Second Life or to the web
(Veodia.com has made this possible on a trial basis).
Post when you're teaching to the World Univ & Sch Wiki
& Second Life Educational Events' Calendar
With your Web CamWith your web camera,
Record what you'd like to teach
Post it to a video site
Post the link to this 'World University and School' Wiki (editable web pages):
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com
World Univ & Sch Conversation
Add your lesson, course or any class here now
Take any course or class you want,and talk about ideas ~
WUaS is about conversation as learning,mediated digitally.
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com
World Univ & Sch Wiki
Be creative (a course on 'Beings Enjoying Life'?)
Teach what you want in the way you'd like to,academically, too.
Add great courses or instruction you find on the web, as well.
World Univ & Sch in Facebook
Join the open 'World University and School' Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141
Second Life group is in development
World University & School is
World University & School is an open and free
Teaching and Learning Wiki
Where Interactivity takes placeIn Second Life and virtual worlds
World University's Long-term Goals
Open
Free-to-students
Global
Virtual
University & School
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
A Wiki (editable web pages)
which anyone can edit:
Teach in Second Life or to your webcam
Add classes or courses
Request classes
Take courses
Schedule classes
All on the World Univ & Sch Wiki
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
All Languages
Nation States
Subjects
At all Levels
It's like Wikipedia – add a language, a course, or a subject, etc. -
Add a language, start a school
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
Great universities as key players –
e.g. MIT Open Course Ware
e.g. Stanford Engineering Everywhere
& Berkeley, University of Michigan, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne, Ivy League Schools, MIT, etc. e.g. through iTunes University, etc.
for its academic side
- All of these Univs. are developing free, open content, so this will grow
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
World University & School is potentially degree-and credit-granting well in the future
Ph.D.s
Medical degrees, Veterinary degrees
International Baccalaureates
& Music Schools, etc.
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
But I'd like World University & School to always remain open and free
- like Wikipedia
An open access, free World University & School, where we can teach to each other, and learn
- where learning flourishes for everyone
Example in Second Life
• Goethe Institute
• Language and culture learning organization
• Language Get-Togethers in SL
• 5 days a week – 8-9 am PT and Sundays.
• Language class – 7-8 am Tuesdays
• Goethe Institute's island in Second Life
• Free, open, high quality
World University's Long-term Goals(cont.)
WUaS is for everyone:
Especially the DEVELOPING WORLD, beginning with
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) countries:
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, USA (Birmingham, Alabama), Uruguay, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, & Papua New Guinea
WUaS for Knowledge Generation
Since knowledge production is central to the Information Technology revolution
- World Univ & Sch aggregates Classes and Knowledge Generation
- World Univ. & Sch. makes it easy for us to teach and find the knowledge we need.
- People to people Teaching and Learning
WUaS as Aggregator of Content
As a teaching and learning wiki
This World University & School wiki makes possible the aggregation of free & open content
which people and universities have posted already to the web
Fulfilling Computer Users' Educational Needs
WUaS Summary Open Free Teaching and Learning Wiki Where all of us can teach or take classes or
courses. In all languages, subjects, nation states and
at all levels.
Cost Analysis
The financial advantages for the computer end user in WUaS is that it's free
It's people-to-people teaching and learning. It's thus competitive, yet complements the
vast educational opportunities around the world.
WUaS won't replace them, just complement.
Cost Analysis (cont.)
WUaS focuses on:
Group Knowledge Production
Great universities
Freeware & Open source
e.g. MIT Open Course Ware
e.g. Stanford Engineering Everywhere
• the quality and price compared with any competition are unmatchable.
Strengths and Advantages
Open access, free university & school where all of us can teach, learn & share knowledge
People-to-people teaching, using digital technologies
Build on group knowledge production processes, - like Wikipedia where its openness allows everyone to shape something together
Strengths and Advantages
• Focuses also on the Developing World
• As languages come online, a free, open wiki will be there for teaching and learning for everyone.
• Even illiterate people will be able to potentially use this wiki on video capable handheld devices with icons, as they come online.
- Second Life is potentially the classroom
• Develop Second Life for handhelds
World School and Illiteracy
• For example, an ILLITERATE farmer in India could teach a farming practice to their handheld using icons – in Second Life, for example - upload it to a video site, link it to WUaS, and someone 100 miles away could access it.
Archive
- World University & School will create potentially
- an archive of Teaching & Learning opportunities
- that reach hundreds of years into the future.
World Univ. & Sch.'s Structure
• Series of links organized around
• Following wiki pages
• & Sections
• Infinitely extensible as a wiki (editable web pages) – both pages and sections
• Creative Commons law
Courses
• Courses:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses
Subjects
• Subjects:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects
Languages
• Languages:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages
• All languages
• Start a language, start a school
Library Resources
• Library Resources:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
Nation States
Nation States:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States
• All Nation States
• Aggregate free content
• If degree and credit granting take shape - legal questions emerge
Educational Software
• Educational Software:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/EducationalSoftware
Educational Freeware
You at World University
• You at World University
• http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University
Hardware Resource Possibilities
• Hardware Resources
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
WUaS Foundation
• World University & School Foundation
• http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation
Wiki Scheduling Calendar
• Wiki Scheduling Calendar
• In Development
Next Steps of Action for WUaS
Build World Univ. & Sch. community, like Wikipedians
Universitians? Schoolians? Find moderators for 3,000 – 8,000
languages Network with OLPC, so that this easy
Teaching and Learning Wiki becomes familiar in every language
Scale Second Life for this
Second Life: Next Steps of Action
• Aggregate Second Life related content
• Join the Facebook group
• Teach in Second Life and post these to World University & School
Next Steps of Action
• World University & School Foundation
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Foundation
• If you have ideas about building a significant endowment, please come talk to me
• Eventually, if degree- and credit-granting emerge, paying instructors / universities makes sense.
How to Teach at World Univ.
• Let's do this together
• You'll laptop will need a web cam
• Teach something about Second Life
for a minute in SL to Jing - http://www.jingproject.com/download/ -
or video screen capture software
• Upload it to a video site (youtube, etc.)
• Link it to World Univ & Sch
Teaching at World Univ
• You can teach anything.
• Here's something I'm interested in learning:
• How to conceive of the building a whole sim from the beginning in Second Life using topographic or Data Elevation Maps (DEMs)?
• What are the steps?
• So, for example, if you know how to do this … teach this to your web cam in the next 5 minutes, upload it, and post it ...
Thank You
• Let people know about World Univ. & Sch.
• Teach in Second Life, and post what you're teaching to this Wiki (or to the Second Life events' calendar education section, which I've linked to WUaS.
• Post a link to great teaching & learning content you go to anyway, - a link per day, for example.
Questions
• Network World University and School with Second Life?
• Build on Second Life's Strengths?
• Existing free, open courses you know of?
Contact
http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com