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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:02:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
Message-ID: <p06240859ccd2e395d2ab@[10.0.1.10]>
College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
By TAMAR LEWIN
November 19, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to
Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30
times, and a textbook he co-wrote is in its eighth edition. But last
summer, as he transformed the class into a free online course, he had
to grapple with some brand-new questions: Where should he focus his
gaze while a camera recorded the lectures? How could the 40,000
students who enrolled online share their ideas? And how would he know
what they were learning?
In many ways, the arc of Professor Duneier's evolution, from
professor in a lecture hall to online instructor of tens of
thousands, reflects a larger movement, one with the potential to
transform higher education. Already, a handful of companies are
offering elite college-level instruction - once available to only a
select few, on campus, at great cost - free, to anyone with an
Internet connection.
Moreover, these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, harness the
power of their huge enrollments to teach in new ways, applying
crowd-sourcing technology to discussion forums and grading and
enabling professors to use online lectures and reserve on-campus
class time for interaction with students.
The spread of MOOCs is likely to have wide fallout. Lower-tier
colleges, already facing resistance over high tuition, may have
trouble convincing students that their courses are worth the price.
And some experts voice reservations about how online learning can be
assessed and warn of the potential for cheating.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/education/colleges-turn-to-crowd-sourcing-courses.html
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Those who can't, teach.
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:40:07 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Man convicted of hacking into at&t cell data will appeal
Message-ID: <20121122034007.GA5775@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction
by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Andrew Auernheimer found a problem in AT&T's servers that linked iPad
users' email addresses with SIM card serial numbers
A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email
addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his
conviction on two felony charges.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/112112-atampt-ipad-hacker-plans-to-264460.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:34:00 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon plans to throttle speeds for anti-piracy effort
Message-ID: <20121122033400.GA5219@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Verizon will throttle repeat offenders in anti-piracy effort
by Jared Newman
Verizon home Internet subscribers may get slapped with slower speeds for downloading
too much pirated content and ignoring warnings to stop.
The company revealed its anti-piracy plans during a panel discussion in New York,
TorrentFreak reports. The plans are part of a joint effort by Internet service providers and
media companies, known as the Copyright Alert System, to warn and in some cases punish
repeat offenders.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014298/verizon-will-throttle-repeat-offenders-in-anti-piracy-effort.html
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http://tinyurl.com/d6xqgfy
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:51:23 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Lightsquared petitions for NOAA spectrum
Message-ID: <20121122035123.GA6369@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
LightSquared Petitions for NOAA Spectrum Use
This spectrum would replace the 1545-1555 MHz spectrum segment [for]
terrestrial purposes
LightSquared has filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to
allocate the 1675-1680 MHz band for terrestrial mobile use. Along with
the 1670-1675 MHz spectrum it already has. This spectrum would replace
the 1545-1555 MHz spectrum segment [allocated for] terrestrial
purposes, avoiding--LightSquared claims--the problems of interference
to GPS receivers that have thwarted its efforts to roll out a
nationwide wireless network.
http://www.tvtechnology.com/distribution/0099/lightsquared-petitions-for-noaa-spectrum-use/216524
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http://tinyurl.com/b7whf83
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