[Sci-tech-public] Communications Forum reminder: MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom, Thursday, March 21, 5-7 pm

[Brad Seawell]

MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom

Thursday, March 21, 2013
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
E14-633 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14>  

Abstract

MOOCs (massive open online courses) and other forms of online learning 
have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education-or to help us 
better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now
inhabit.  
This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into
digital 
forms, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming
teaching 
and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula, or in our
students' 
experience, can be filled through technology?  What elements of teaching
practice 
can be effectively translated into new media, and what aspects of "teaching"
must 
be redefined? 

Speakers

 <http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/723> Anant Agarwal the president of edX
<http://www.edxonline.org/> , a worldwide online learning initiative of MIT
and 
Harvard University, and a professor in MIT's electrical engineering and
computer 
science department.

 <http://sites.middlebury.edu/alisonbyerly/> Alison Byerly holds an
interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury 
College and, during 2012-2013, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature
Section at MIT. 
Recently, she was named the 17th president of Lafayette College
<http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/node/442719>  in Easton, Pa. 

 <http://ai.stanford.edu/%7Ekoller/> Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani
Professor in the computer science department at 
Stanford University and a founder of Coursera
<https://www.coursera.org/about> . Koller will join the conversation
remotely. 

Moderator: David Thorburn <http://lit.mit.edu/people/dthorburn.php>  is
Professor of Literature at MIT and has been the director 
of the MIT Communications Forum since 1994.

All forums are free and open to the public.

More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum



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Moderator: Seth Mnookin, MIT
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Brad Seawell
MIT Communications Forum
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.

Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.3521

 

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