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.
via Kofi Annan Centre trains people in Copyright issues | VibeGhana.com.
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.
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.
via Moocs in transition: Not so massive, open or even online | Tech blog.
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard, points out that “it’s very different, trying to watch the BBC iPlayer for the purposes of entertainment versus someone trying to get content which might be criminal for them to see in China or Saudi Arabia, so one has to be very careful about what kind of anonymity is being promised.”
via Can An Israeli Tech Startup Outsmart Iran’s Internet Censors? – Business Insider.
Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard Law School and cofounder of the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, says PlaceAvoider is a “promising approach” that could help avert some of the harmful by-products of life-streaming. Still, he adds, “It’s not just the person operating a recording device who will need help. There need to be ways for people in common environments—students in a class or workers at a meeting—to set default expectations about what levels of privacy they can expect.”
via PlaceAvoider Software Limits Life-Logging Devices | MIT Technology Review.
The work has no single author. It’s a collaboration whose only living human agent, the aforementioned Matias, also now a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University – whose mind was responsible for the final word selections, and thus also for assembling (and dissembling) the poem’s core meaning — describes as requiring an acknowledged role for each of its different agents (i.e. both human and machine).
To many of us, libraries are where the past resides, not where the future is made. But these traditional realms of the book and the shelf are now more 21st than 12th century. For the strongest case study, look at Harvard Law School and its library, where digital experts are busy inventing the future of textbooks, the classroom and information access.
A new study from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society examines how US tweens and teens are using technology in schools, and how they feel about those experiences.
via Harvard Study Examines Youth View on Technology Use in Schools – The Digital Shift.
Reich was one of several speakers at the event, entitled “The First Year of HarvardX: Research Findings to Inform the Future of Online Learning,” which was co-sponsored by HarvardX, the GSE, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He was introduced by Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter K. Bol, who oversees HarvardX.
An oped by Jonathan Zittrain. Not too long ago, the phrase “electronic army” would have conjured up visions of a 1980s cyber-dystopian film — the kind featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a lot of fog machines. But today the idea of an electronic army has been adopted outside the realm of entertainment, as a group called the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has successfully managed to temporarily cripple the online operations of companies like Twitter and The New York Times.