Internet History, Techology, and Security (IHTS)

Charles Severancehttp://www.dr-chuck.com/

@drchuck

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

North QuadUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI, USA

2455 North Quad

a.k.a. Quadworts

Severus Snape

• Number of seats in the UM Football Stadium: 109, 901

• Number of students signed up for IHTS: 45572

• Number of IHTS students completing week 1: 11640

• University of Michigan Undergraduate Degrees (appx): 6,600

• Number of students who took the IHTS Final: 5401

• Number of IHTS certificates: 4595

• Students in SI502 this Fall: 152

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• Is this your first online class?

• 2262 - Yes 2534 - No

• Is this your first large, free, online course (i.e. MOOC)?

• 3101 - Yes 1687 - No

• Are you currently a student in a school or college?

• 1299 - Yes 3483 - No

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• Are you currently a teacher?

• 602 - Yes 4173 - No

• Are you thinking about reusing this material for your own course?

• 727 - Yes 2022 - No

• What is your gender?

• 3217 - Male 1521 - Female

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My Goals For the Course

Be an Introductory Course

• We need low-stakes "pre-requisite" courses in Coursera

• How to behave

• How to use the software

• How to write

• Figure out technical issues

• 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"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9rPidDyfVE

New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Ann Arbor MI, WIlmington, NC, Chicago IL, Washington, DC, Memphis, TN,

Seattle WA

Things That Worked Well• Using Twitter as the way to contact

me

• Discussion tool is outstanding

• Multi-take quizzes with auto-morphing questions

• Lecture video format with me looking at the Cintiq

• Discussion forums and their voting

• Cognitive load from the forums to me was manageable

• Mail to the class needed to come from me

• Office hours as small focus groups to help me improve the course

Things I Would Do Differently• Better Welcome Lecture

• How to use the software lecture from Coursera (i.e. like resources)

• How and when to use the "flag" icon

• How do Late Days work?????

• Describe community communication guidelines - when we will delete a thread

• Delete threads more often

• Faster lecture translating

• All writing assignments are extra credit (because this is an intro class)

• I still don't get reputation points and how I should use them

• More student editable spaces

Things I Would Do Differently• Better way to identify natural leaders

in the community and give them ways to communicate broadly other than "+1 votes" in the discussion

• Split lectures at week boundaries (oops)

• Add a "breath/pause" during lecture recording to allow me to later decide where to put a question.

• Come up with an extensive preview so people don't register just to peek

• Tell late entrants that after week 3 they will not likely get a certificate - perhaps even close registration - you can go on a wait list and see the materials but not take the quizzes

• I would like to come up with a self-paced version - but the software would need to be different

Going Forward...

My personal quest to teach techology to "everyone else"...

What Course Will I Teach Next?

• IHTS will likely be taught 2-3 times per year

• There is an approval process for new Coursera courses at University of Michigan and I will apply to teach "Python for Informatics" - but that will take some time

• I will be preparing materials and I will make them public as I get them ready through my current web sites that I use for my UMich courses

A Sequence of Courses

• Internet History, Technology, and Security

• Raise skill, confidence, and cause students to become curious

• Python for Informatics: Exploring Data

• Teaching programming as a way to explore people, information and technology (i.e. not applied math and not the science of computers)

• Building Dynamic Web Sites with Google App Engine

• HTML, CSS, Python, Database, JavaScript, JQuery ...

Inverting my Classroom January 2013

Signed Certificates

• I will personally sign your certificate

• Once you receive your certificate it will have my digital signature on it

• Print a copy of your certificate, mail it to me (address in a course-wide email), and include a self-addressed stamped envelope

• I will sign and return all that I get...

Thank you.

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet