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ping items before they are purchased. In a lecture on Thursday afternoon, Sunstein explored the advantages and disadvantages of impersonal default laws, generic data rules applied en masse, versus active choosing, where the consumer decides which information to share with retailers. He described a hybrid called personalized default rules, which allow the entities that consumers interact with to know their
The College announced Thursday that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 academic year. The online courses will be taught by Dartmouth faculty, who will receive support from academic computing and library staff to create and manage their online course content, according to a College press release. The College’s MOOCs will be open at no cost to any interested student with access to a computer and the Internet. -L@ Q[ I VWVXZWÅ \ WZOIVQbI\QWV \PI\ []XXWZ\[ MOOCs from over 30 institutions worldwide. MOOCs are taught in self-paced modules and include assessments and interactions with other students. Upon completion of some courses, students may apply for an identity^MZQÅ ML KMZ\QÅ KI\M WN KWUXTM\QWV College President Phil Hanlon, a former member of the MOOC provider Coursera’s advisory board, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership. “By joining edX, we enable our faculty to pave the way for the future, discovering new ways to teach that will take Dartmouth’s classrooms to the world,” Hanlon said in a statement. Interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley said he was hopeful that the courses would help professors explore
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After a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the revocation of his offer to become Tucker Foundation dean, the Right Rev. James Tengatenga started his position as a presidential fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. this month.
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been the driving goal behind Fagin’s entire life and career, he said. “There is absolutely no question in my mind that life on Earth is something that I would be willing to leave behind for a future on Mars,” Fagin said. Physics and astronomy professor Kristina Lynch, head of the Lynch Rocket Lab where Fagin worked from 2008 to 2013, called Fagin “fanatical” about Mars. “He is very interested in
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