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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Reinventing Education
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DESCRIPTION:Anant Agarwal\nPresident\, edX\nProfessor\, Electrical Enginee
 ring and Computer Science\, MIT\nAbstract\nDigital technology has transfor
 med countless areas of life from healthcare to workplace productivity to e
 ntertainment and publishing. But education hasn't changed.  EdX aspires t
 o reinvent education through online learning.  EdX's mission is to dramat
 ically increase access to education for students worldwide through online 
 learning\, while substantially enhancing campus education in both quality 
 and efficiency through blended models.\n\nEdX's first course offered by MI
 Tx on circuits and electronics drew 155\,000 learners from 162 countries. 
 Matching the rigor of the same MIT class\, the course included video snipp
 ets with interleaved exercises\, a virtual laboratory\, autograded homewor
 ks and exams\, a discussion forum and a wiki.  Approximately 7200 passed 
 the course. This talk will discuss  the online learning experience on edX
 \,  its platform features\, as well as lessons learned from its existing 
 worldwide courses as well as its blended campus classes.\n\nEdX was formed
  in May 2012 as a joint venture of Harvard and MIT\, with a combined $60M 
 commitment from the two universities.  EdX is a non-profit\, and its plat
 form will be available as open source so it can benefit from improvements 
 from the worldwide community.\n\nBiography\nAnant Agarwal is the President
  of edX\, an online learning venture of Harvard and MIT. Agarwal taught th
 e first course of edX on circuits and electronics from MIT\, which drew 15
 5\,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of CSAIL
 \, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\, and is 
 a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.  He is
  also a founder of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore pro
 cessor. He led the development of Raw\, an early tiled multicore processor
 \, Sparcle\, an early multithreaded microprocessor\, and Alewife\, a scala
 ble multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was th
 e founder of Virtual Machine Works. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize f
 or computer architecture\, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teach
 ing. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array\, a
 nd is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electro
 nic Circuits." His work on Organic Computing was selected by Scientific Am
 erican as one of 10 World Changing Ideas in 2011\, and he was named one of
  12 Bostonians changing the world by Boston Globe Magazine in 2012. Agarwa
 l holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. He hacks o
 n WebSim\, a web-based circuits laboratory\, in his spare time.
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