introducing world university school presentation august 2009

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

scott@scottmacleod.com