Internet History, Techology, and

Security (IHTS)
Charles Severance
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
@drchuck
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet
North Quad
University of Michigan
Ann 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 certicates: 4595

Students in SI502 this Fall: 152

Survey Data (n=4701)

Is this your rst online class?

2262 - Yes 2534 - No

Is this your rst 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

Survey Data (n=4701)

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

!
#!!
$!!
%!!
&!!
'!!!
'#!!
'$!!
'%!!
'&!!
'&(#$ #)(*$ *)($$ $)()$ ))+
Age
n=4701
!"#$ &!'
(()
&!' *+)
!"#$
,"--$.$' *//
011"234 567'
489
:!;:0 3* 567'
(9)<
=>1?$61'
(@**
A"2?"6>-'
449
B6"CD
3=A'EA7' 4*@
Education
n=4701
School
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/school.html
n=4701
Location
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/where.html
n=4701
!
#!!!
$!!!
%!!!
&!!!
'!!!!
'#!!!
'$!!!
'%!!!
' # ( $ ) % * &
+,-./0,
1/23
45.06
72869
:,0.
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" / "amplied"

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

Ofce 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 "ag" 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 certicate -
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, condence, 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 Certicates

I will personally sign your certicate

Once you receive your certicate it will have my digital signature on it

Print a copy of your certicate, 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