World, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, Degree-Granting, Multilingual University & School,

where anyone can take or post (teach) classes

Welcome to the envisioning (and realization(?)) of a global, degree-granting (Ph.D., M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, open, virtual university and school, with great universities (e.g. Harvard University) as key players, using a Wikipedia model, and for everyone and especially the developing world.

In many ways, World University is already open. You can take classes, for example, through MIT's Open Course Ware by clicking on the courses to the right, and learn, for example, what is the equivalent of a masters in physics at MIT. For the time being, Wlobal University might offer degrees over a 10 year horizon.

To facilitate the emergence of a global, virtual, University for the third world and everyone, we'd like to develop other technologies like a US $10,  solar-powered, video-capable, one-to-many, iPhone-like device, in conjunction with One Laptop Per Child. We'd also like to converge and network Second Life, OpenSim, Google Earth, and Croquet, etc. to create other very rich interactive 'spaces.'

In addition, we'd like to model the earth, universe and cosmos in OpenSim-related, virtual worlds using USGS DEMs (data elevation maps), Google earth, Google's street-level photos and user-submitted geotagged photos, as a learning and teaching environment for World University and School.

Here's a synopsis of this University: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/07/forest-global-university.html

For more information, click through the folders on the right, or contact scott@scottmacleod.com - http://scottmacleod.com