Welcome to Internet History, Technology, and Security

Who Should Take This Course?
Everyone (including your friends and family) !
There is no math. There is no computer programming. Really.
We talk about cool technical things but it is not a technical course.
The purpose of this course is to explain things and make you think and reflect

What is the Course About?
Oral history from Internet and Web innovators
Not just names and dates - real history is a bit messy
You will need to interpret and think critically
How the Internet and Web function

Dr. Chuck...

North Quad
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2455 North Quad

Dr. Charles SeveranceClinical Associate Professor
University of Michigan
School of Information
Twitter: @drchuck
www.dr-chuck.com
www.si.umich.edu

Nuthin' But Net
Internet: TCI

1995 - Internet: TCI
Charles Severance / Richard Wiggins
https://vimeo.com/4275919
00:52

IEEE Computer Magazine
I write a monthly column for IEEE Computer magazine called "Computing Conversations"
There is a video interview for each article
IEEE Computer Society has given permission to use the articles for free in this course
www.computer.org (Thanks!)
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/computing-conversations

1996
http://www.syncomat.com/

1999
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

Fifteen years later...
1996

Dr. Chuck
Twitter: @drchuck
www.dr-chuck.com

Course Overview

About this Material
This is part of a course at the University of Michigan School of Information
SI502: Networked Computing: Storage, Communication, and Processing
www.pythonlearn.com - Lectures slides, audio, open book
Internet History, Technology, and Security is taught between chapters 11 and 12

Goal: Be an Introductory Course
We need low-stakes "pre-requisite" courses in Coursera
How to behave
How to use the software
How to write
Learn to use MOOC software
How to learn from others and help others learn....

Be an Open Learning Community
Open Source works well when there is a "Benevolent Dictator"
There needs to be real and enforced rules - but as few as possible
Those in power must not hide behind their power and must share their power with those who show the right behavior
Must make valued behaviors "infectious" / "amplified"

Lectures
Lecture Notes - PDF / Print / PowerPoint
My slides are CC-BY so you can use them in your own teaching
Most of the videos are up on YouTube
Some videos have IEEE Articles with them - these remain Copyright IEEE

Schedule Notes
See the Syllabus for the course duration and topic outline
I am expecting you to invest a minimum of 3-4 focused hours per week to watch lectures, think and reflect, and take assessments
I want to make it so that folks can still join during the first two weeks and earn a certificate but
At some point I will shut down new enrollment (archives are open)

Location
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/where.html
n=4701

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zlQZcM72o
New York NY, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC, Chicago, Washington, DC, Memphis, TN, Seattle WA, Seoul, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam
Manila

Assessments
The in-video questions do not count
One quiz per week - mostly multiple-choice style questions that randomize and you can retake andkeep the highest score (10 points)
Final exam
Peer graded writing assignments (10 points each) - Extra Credit

Peer Grading
All peer-graded material is extra credit for the course - you do not have to participate in the peer graded assignments to earn a certificate
Your peers *will* determine your grade on the assignments - no appeals
Write your submissions with this in mind....

Course Scoring
A course percentage above 75% will earn a certificate
If you really want a certificate don't do the minimum to get to 75%
There will be no individual arrangements / regrades / point appeals
total_assn + exam + total_extra
-----------------------------------------
total_assn + exam
(7 * 10) + 30 + (3 * 10)
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(7 * 10) + 30

Certificates
See the syllabus for the details
I don't like two levels of certificate because performance ifs too often correlated with skill level prior to course entry.
http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2012/09/coursera-scores-and-certificates-with-distinction/

Getting and Giving Help
The answer to most questions like this will be "use the forums"
With thousands of students in a class - other students will be the best source of answers (21 minute average response time in one course)
Feel free to ask each other questions about the quizzes and the questions on the quizzes - the purpose of quizes is to *learn* not to judge you

Plagarism
Plagarism is about using material copied and pasted from sources without attribution and representing it as your own
In this course it typically comes up on the peer-graded assignments
Peer graders will take points off as follows (10 point assignment)
A portion of the answer was text from another source without attribution (-5)
The entire essay was taken from another source (-10)

Honor Code
The final exam is to be taken according to the Honor Code:
"You are agreeing to take this examination on your own, without asking anyone for help. You will not discuss the questions or your answers on this examination with anyone other than the course instructor or grader."
I will try to be clear when I am applying the honor code in each assessment
For quizzes, you should take the quiz without help, but you can discuss the questions in the forum.

Contacting Dr. Chuck
It is not practical for me to interact individually with a class with thousands of students
I and others will be monitoring the forums - if there is a problem and lots of students hit the same problem it will bubble up in the forums and get attention
You can follow me on twitter @drchuck
I may do Google Hangouts or mini-lectures if something pops up

Bring Your Friends!
Watch the first week's lecture and if you like it - get your friends to join - the more the merrier and forming a study group will be easier!
The first video from Bletchley Park is longer than most (25 minutes) - the rest wil be shorter
They should be able to earn a certificate (if that is what they are going for) adding during the first two weeks

www.pythonlearn.com

Please Help!
Doing this is very cool but still evolving
This is social - you are an important part of the learning
It is as much about learning how to work together to learn at scale as it is about "History, Technology, and Security"
Help each other learn the material and make suggestions for improvement

Copyright Thanks
Thanks to IEEE Computer for permisison to use IEEE Computer magazine articles associated with the videos
Thanks to Richard Wiggins for the use of his video material
Thanks to Dave Malicke and Open Michigan (open.umich.edu) for help with copyright review of these materials

Open Content
My slides and my lecture videos (feel free to dowload and retain) are Creative Commons Atribution
I encourage and am honored if you would reuse / remix in any way you like