[UCI-Calit2] The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone 2/5/13

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Fri Jan 25 09:10:08 PST 2013


Event:			The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone 

Speaker:		Daphne Koller, professor of computer science,
Stanford University; co-founder and co-CEO, Coursera

Time:			1-2 p.m. 

Date:			Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013

Location:		Calit2 Auditorium, UCI Campus

Abstract:		We are at the cusp of a major transformation in
higher education. In the past year, we have seen the advent of MOOCs -
massively open online classes (MOOCs) - top-quality courses from the
best universities offered for free. These courses exploit technology to
provide a real course experience to students, including video content,
interactive exercises with meaningful feedback, using both auto-grading
and peer-grading, and rich peer-to-peer interaction around the course
materials. We now see MOOCs from dozens of top universities, offering
courses to millions of students from every country in the world. The
courses start from bridge/gateway courses all the way through graduate
courses, and span a range of topics including computer science,
business, medicine, science, humanities, social sciences and more.

In this thought-provoking seminar, Daphne Koller will report on this
far-reaching experiment in education, including some examples and
preliminary analytics.  She will also discuss why this model can support
an improved learning experience for on-campus students, via blended
learning, and provide unprecedented access to education to millions of
students around the world.

Bio:			Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in
the computer science department at Stanford University and the
co-founder of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that works
with top universities to make the best education accessible to everyone
around the world, for free.  In her research life, Koller works in the
area of machine learning and probabilistic modeling, with applications
to computer vision, systems biology and personalized medicine.  She is
the author of more than 200 refereed publications in venues that span a
range of disciplines, and has given more than a dozen keynote talks at
major conferences. She is the recipient of many awards, including the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE),
the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACM/Infosys award, and
membership in the National Academy of Engineering. She is also an
award-winning teacher, who pioneered in her Stanford class many of the
ideas that underlie the Coursera user experience. She received her BSc
and MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her PhD from
Stanford in 1994.

Additional Information:	Free and open to the public; no registration
required. Event is co-sponsored by the Donald Bren School of Information
and Computer Sciences and UC Irvine Extension

For more information, contact Melissa Loble: (949) 824-6733 or
mloble at uci.edu.






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