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Making Sense of the MOOC Hype - Chris Peterson

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Making Sense of the MOOC Hype. On Nov.26, 2012, under general. A few weeks ago I was contacted by the managing editor at The EvoLLLution. He asked me to write two pieces for a special publication on the Internet and adult education. This article, an attempt to make sense of MOOCs, was originally posted to their site. And crossposted with permission. What are their promises and perils for adult education? Over 400,000 students – more than the entire Big Ten – primarily through its online progr...Isn&#8217...

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Papers - Chris Peterson

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Losing Face: An Environmental Analysis of Privacy on Facebook. An unpublished working paper adapted. From my undergraduate thesis. Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions. An essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education. About how web analytics complicate college admissions. MOOCs: A (Mostly Harmless) Hustle. An articule in The EvoLLLution talking about the peril and promise of MOOCs. The First Step is to Understand Your Audience. Defending the Banned Books Map. A rebuttal of Mitchell Muncy’s.

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Beyond Accessibility: The Influence of E2E in Imagining Internet Censorship - Chris Peterson

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Beyond Accessibility: The Influence of E2E in Imagining Internet Censorship. On Dec.02, 2012, under general. In 1984 three MIT researchers published a paper. A traceroute follows a packet’s journey from MIT to Stanford. Ends are indeterminate: what is an end and what is an intermediary on the Internet depends on one’s frame of reference. As an argument, however, end-to-end crystallized dull practices into shiny principle. Tarleton Gillespie has traced. Do you know what ‘metaphor’ means? The end-to-end ar...

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Projects - Chris Peterson

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Here is a list of projects with which I am or have been affiliated:. A Ushahidi instance mapping the best burgers across the world. Read more. Co-PI of a cross-institutional partnership to help better understand the landscape of information availability in US schools and libraries. Held annually on April 4th; a sort of “Banned Websites Day” to raise awareness about access and control on the web. A collective of do-gooders, loosely organized around the Center for Civic Media. Or read more at FastCo.

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Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions - Chris Peterson

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Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions. On Jan.23, 2013, under general. Today my guest post Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions. Went live on for Chronicle of Higher Education’s Head Count. Blog I’ve been working on this post with Chronicle editor Eric Hoover. For a few months. It shares some of the surprising (and, for admissions officers, disturbing) effects that web analytics pose for selective college admissions processes. Here’s an excerpt:. You can read the rest here. Beyond Ac...

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berkman

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Facebook, Network Effects, and the Birth of Giants. On Jun.04, 2012, under general. An excellent activist and academic associated with the Center for Civic Media and Berkman Center (among others), has a widely-circulated blog post up entitled Why Facebook’s Network Effects are Overrated. This is something I wrote about in Losing Face. Ben makes a lot of really good points, but there are a few with which I disagree, and I wanted to comment on them further here. He writes:. Tableau is Windows only? The rea...

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On Oct.28, 2011, under general. 8230;is the name of the system which protects Facebook from things that look like spam. And it checks 25 billion. Actions every day autonomously. FIS very likely makes Facebook a much better, safer place in most of what it does. But when you’re talking about that scale, you can’t help but think about the problems automated deletion pose for legitimate speech. Facebook, J30Strike, and the Discontents of Algorithmic Dispute Resolution. On Oct.15, 2011, under general. Public ...

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DDoS as Civil Disobedience: The Debate Continues. On Dec.15, 2010, under general. Last summer I posted “In Praise of [Some] DDoSs? A quick essay documenting the response gap between DDoS attacks and sit-ins. My argument didn’t equate the two so much as it pointed out that there are some conceptual similarities (in terms of denying access as a form of protest) and vastly different criminal responses. A few thoughtful posts out there include:. Nancy Scola’s 10 Ways To Think ABout DDoS Attacks. At the Berkm...

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Sorry, Nerds, But Obama Was Right About The Jedi Meld (And Metaphysics) - Chris Peterson

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Sorry, Nerds, But Obama Was Right About The Jedi Meld (And Metaphysics). On Mar.01, 2013, under general. Today, during a heated discussion on the sequester. A frustrated President Barack Obama made the following statement. To the press corps as they challenged him to show more leadership in negotiations:. 8220;I’m presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don’t take it means that I should somehow, you know, do a Jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what’s right.”. A novel written by t...

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Media - Chris Peterson

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Sometimes people ask my opinions on:. I’m usually available at contact [at] cpeterson [dot] org. Minerva Project aims to transform elite education. College Confidential: A Field Guide. Chronicle of Higher Education. Colleges Assess Cost of Free Online-Only Courses. SandyCrashPads: Couchsurfing To Make The Hurricane’s Aftermath More Manageable. Content Blocked: Students Combat Anti-Piracy Bills. January 2012). See also my related Why We Blacked Out The Blogs. Why Did Facebook Block UK Strike Website?