Randy Picker is no stranger to on-camera teaching. In 2015 Picker, AB’80, AM’82, JD’85, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, became the first professor at the Law School to teach a massive open online course, or MOOC. It took him about a year to prepare—and 40 hours to film—Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms. 

He didn’t have the same luxury of time when the University announced a shift to remote instruction for Spring Quarter, so he threw himself into learning Zoom in preparation for his Network Industries class. In an April 3 interview conducted after the Law School’s first week of classes, Picker told the Magazine how things were going so far. This interview has been edited and condensed. 

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