Dartmouth Events

Reinventing Education

Public talk by Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX. This presentation will provide an overview of how the edX platform has evolved in new, unpredictable ways to transform education.

Thursday, October 9, 2014
4:30pm – 5:45pm
Oopik Auditorium, Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Dartmouth joined the edX consortium in January, 2014, and is planning to launch four DartmouthX courses in 2015. Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, will be at Dartmouth on October 9, 2014 to talk about what the edX community is learning from MOOCs.

Presentation abstract:

EdX is a non-profit, open source enterprise founded by MIT and Harvard in 2012. When we launched edX as a MOOC (massive open online courses) portal, our mission was to increase access to quality education, conduct research into how students learn, and improve on campus teaching and learning. While that three-part mission remains constant, this presentation will provide an overview of how the edX platform has expanded and evolved in new, unpredictable ways to include transforming education through SPOCs (small private online courses), blended courses, collaborations with both for-profit and non-profit entities, and adoption of the open source edX platform across entire countries and global regions, including China, France and the Arab-speaking world.

This presentation will provide an overview of edX’s growth over the last two years, including a summary of who our students are, what makes our courses popular, how our open source platform is evolving. It will also cover how MOOC technologies are currently being incorporated into on-campus courses to improve learning outcomes, and where MOOC technologies are headed. Finally, the presentation will provide some recent research results that suggest ways to improve education online and on campus, and will discuss how MOOCs might evolve in the future to continue to bring innovation to the world of education both on-campus and beyond.

Reception to follow presentation.

For more information, contact:
Barbara Knauff
603-646-0786

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.