Kofi Annan Centre trains people in Copyright issues | VibeGhana.com, 3 February 2014

The Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in collaboration with the Harvard Law School, the Harvard X Distance Learning Initiative and the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society also at Harvard University in the US has begun a 12-week online course in Copyright for 28 persons.

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Facebook, 10 years after | Harvard Gazette, 3 February 2014

Facebook turns 10 Tuesday. Gazette staff writer Christina Pazzanese interviewed Harvard’s Jonathan L. Zittrain by email about its evolution from an online social directory for Harvard College students to a communications giant worth $135 billion and used by 1.2 billion people. Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, and a professor of computer science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also the co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

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Moocs in transition: Not so massive, open or even online | Tech blog, 2 February 2014

Although free, Fisher limited his first online course last year to 500 people chosen after extensive applications. Subjects like law are best taught in seminars of no more than 15 led by an expert, he argues. So he split his online audience into groups of 25 and allocated a teaching assistant to each, assuming a 40 per cent drop-out rate.

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