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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img width=243 height=104 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE20BE.524546F0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span class=style4><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span></b></span><span class=style4><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom</span></b></span><span class=arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span class=arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday, March 21, 2013</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><span class=arial>5:00 - 7:00 p.m.</span><br><span class=arial><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14" target="_blank">E14-633</a></span> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=style5><a name=abstract></a><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstract</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><span class=arial>MOOCs (massive open online courses) and other forms of online learning <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education—or to help us <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now inhabit. <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into digital <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>forms, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming teaching <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula, or in our students’ <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>experience, can be filled through technology? What elements of teaching practice <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>can be effectively translated into new media, and what aspects of “teaching” must <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>be redefined? </span><br><br><span class=arial><b>Speakers</b></span><a name=speakers></a><b><br><br></b><span class=arial><a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/723" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anant Agarwal</span></strong></a> the president of <a href="http://www.edxonline.org/" target="_blank">edX</a>, a worldwide online learning initiative of MIT and <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>Harvard University, and a professor in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>science department.</span><br><br><span class=arial><a href="http://sites.middlebury.edu/alisonbyerly/" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alison Byerly</span></strong></a> holds an interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>College and, during 2012-2013, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature Section at MIT. <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>Recently, she was named the <a href="http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/node/442719" target="_blank">17th president of Lafayette College</a> in Easton, Pa. </span><br><br><span class=arial><a href="http://ai.stanford.edu/%7Ekoller/" target="_blank"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Daphne Koller</span></strong></a> is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the computer science department at <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>Stanford University and a founder of <a href="https://www.coursera.org/about" target="_blank">Coursera</a>. Koller will join the conversation remotely. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=arial1><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moderator:</span></em><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://lit.mit.edu/people/dthorburn.php" target="_blank">David Thorburn</a></span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is Professor of Literature at MIT and has been the director <span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span>of the MIT Communications Forum since 1994.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All forums are free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More information: <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum">http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=arial1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Upcoming</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/political_campaigns.html">News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns</a></b><br>Ta-Nehisi Coates, <i>The Atlantic</i><br>Mark McKinnon, <span class=arial>Hill & Knowlton Strategies, <i>The Daily Beast</i></span><br><i>Moderator:</i> Seth Mnookin, MIT<br>Thursday, April 11, 5-7 pm<br>E14-633 at MIT<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=arial1><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/index.html">MiT8: <i>public media</i>, <i>private media</i></a></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Media in Transition international conference<br>May 3-5 at MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brad Seawell<br>MIT Communications Forum<br>MIT 14N-430<br>77 Mass. 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