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 Upcoming News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/political_campaigns.html> Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Mark McKinnon, Hill & Knowlton Strategies, The Daily Beast Moderator: Seth Mnookin, MIT Thursday, April 11, 5-7 pm E14-633 at MIT MiT8: <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/index.html> public media, private media Media in Transition international conference May 3-5 at MIT ---------------------------------- Brad Seawell MIT Communications Forum MIT 14N-430 77 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 617.253.3521
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