Networked Life @ FIX University Campus

Networked Life

Michael Kearns

Networked Life will explore recent scientific efforts to explain social, economic and technological structures -- and the way these structures interact -- on many different scales, from the behavior of individuals or small groups to that of complex networks such as the Internet and the global economy.

Announcements

Week 2 Quiz Revisions

In response to some of the confusions reported in the first week of the course, I have gone ahead and revised and generally "cleaned up" the Week 2 quizzes a bit. I will generally try to do this in advance of each week in the 6-week pace, and if I get time, to work further ahead of the schedule for those of you who are working at a faster pace. As noted in the last announcement below, this means that students may see slightly different versions of a quiz depending on when they take it.

Most of the quiz questions test basic comprehension of the main concepts in the corresponding lecture, but there are occasional problems asking you to do a simple calculation of some kind. I realize some students may be more adept at this type of exercise than others, and these problems are mainly meant to challenge you a bit.

Some of you have lamented the lack of feedback giving correct answers. The problem is the platform only allows us to give the answers after every quiz attempt, or not at all. Since giving the answers after your first attempt would make a second attempt meaningless, we had to opt for not providing the answers directly. Hopefully the platform will solve this problem soon.

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Prof Kearns

Tue 18 Sep 2012 5:58:00 AM PDT