Very strong 101 lecture on new models for universities.
Major problems with current universities:
Change happens 1 death at a time
TENURE is broken: 6 years = tenure and then there is little to no incentive to keep learning
imparting sacred knowledge
gate keepers
Old school professors:
lecture with notes
drinking from a fire hose
1 to many
New professors:
experience designer: guiding the students through [...]
On Thursday the 25th we are hosting a video webcast with Lawrence Lessigof Harvard Law School on the issues of fair use & copyright in online video. This will be a three part event starting with a streamed video talk by Lessig then an open Q&A online w/Lessig and closing with an in person 45 minute discussionof fair [...]
“In a world of digital network media, copyright policy isn’t just about how to incentivise the product ion of a certain type of artistic commodity. It’s about what level of control we are going to permit to be exercised over our social realities. Social realities that are now inevitably permeated by pop culture. I think [...]
For people more interested in last weeks class on Terms of Service here are three good articles on the topic:
Noticing notice: a large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements
Abstract:
Spyware is an increasing problem. Interestingly, many programs carrying spyware honestly disclose the activities of the software, but users install the software anyway. We report [...]
Group Project Imt 550
View more presentations from Brian Rowe.
Here are the portions of the TOSs to be reviewed before Tuesday. These cover YouTube, Second Life and World of Warcraft. Please be prepared to compare and contrast how they deal with user rights, copyright and digital goods. Feel free to start discussing these topics here or on the private email list:
YOUTUBE TOS
4. General Use [...]
1/26/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live
Topic: Configuring the Networked Self
Guest: Julie Cohen, Berkman Fellow, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School
Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS [...]
To recap the emerging issue, Google said on Tuesday (1/12/2010) in its official blog that due to the recent “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” and continuous disagreement with the Chinese government on the censorship of search results, Google might shut down Google.cn as well as its offices in China.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s [...]
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