Networked Life @ FIX University OCW

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

Volunteers for NPR Program?

All, National Public Radio (NPR) here in the U.S. is doing a story on Coursera and online vs. offline education, and Networked Life is apparently going to be featured. The reporters have expressed interest in talking to international (i.e. non-U.S.) students taking this course, in particular any of you from South Asia and Africa. If you're willing and interested in being contacted by NPR for this purpose, please drop me an email with the subject line "NPR" at mkearns@cis.upenn.edu.

Best Prof Kearns

Wed 26 Sep 2012 8:47:00 AM PDT

Update on Missed Quizzes and Certificates

I have heard back from Coursera staff on ways I can be lenient on those of you who registered late for the course. Here's what I am going to do:

1. The deadline for Week 1 and Week 2 quizzes will be retroactively reset to this coming FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 at 11:59PM Pacific (California) time. By "retroactively", I mean that at the end of this week, I will reset these quiz deadlines. (I don't want to do it now, because if I do, the "Upcoming Quizzes" section will become flooded with these past quizzes, making it impossible to see the current week's quizzes.) So rest assured that as long as you complete these quizzes by this Friday, you will receive full credit for them with respect to grading and certificates. This should take care of all of you who registered late.

2. In addition to the above, I will also drop everyone's FOUR lowest quiz scores in computing your overall average. This allows for people with especially busy work, travel, or other schedule constraints to slip a bit at some point but still do well overall.

Please remember:

* There is one quiz associated with EVERY lecture.

* Quiz due dates (other than the reset for Weeks 1 and 2 above) are always Monday 11:59 PACIFIC time.

Best
Prof Kearns

Tue 25 Sep 2012 3:12:00 AM PDT