The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone |
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September 25, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 05 |
The Provost's Office presentsThe Online Revolution: Education for Everyone, a talk by Coursera co-founder Dr. Daphne Koller on October 4 at 5-6 p.m., 200 College Hall.
How will free online learning transform higher education as we know it?
Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company with a mission to make high-quality education available to everyone around the world, for free. Coursera uses video content, interactive exercises and peer-grading to provide a real course experience for students on and off campus. Coursera was launched early 2012 and now has 16 university partners (including Penn) and over 1.3 million students enrolled in its 123 courses, which range from Gamification to Greek and Roman Mythology.
Dr. Koller’s talk will address this newest evolution in education, exploring both the pedagogical foundations behind the ‘flipped classroom model’ and the technological ideas that support them. “We envision millions of people gaining access to the world-leading education that has so far been available only to a tiny few,” explained Dr. Koller, “and using this education to improve their lives, the lives of their families and the communities they live in.”
Dr. Koller is a Rajeev Motwani Professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. She is the author of over 200 refereed publications and has received 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.
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