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SUMMARY:IC Seminar : The Online Revolution : Education for Everyone by Pro
 f. Daphne Koller\, Computer Science Department\, Stanford University
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Daphne Koller\nAbstract\nDaphne Koller and Andrew Ng\n\n
 Last year\, Stanford University offered three online courses\, which anyon
 e in the world could enroll in and take for free.  Students were expected
  to submit homeworks\, meet deadlines\, and were awarded a "Statement of A
 ccomplishment" only if they met our high grading bar.  Together\, these t
 hree courses had enrollments of around 350\,000 students\, making this one
  of the largest experiments in online education ever performed.  In the p
 ast few months\, we have transitioned this effort into a new venture\, Cou
 rsera\, a social entrepeneurship company that partners with top universiti
 es to provide high-quality content to everyone around the world for free.
   Coursera currently has around 650K registered students in 42 courses\, 
 and around 1.5 million enrollments.\n\nIn this talk\, I'll report on this 
 new experiment in education\, and why we believe this model can provide bo
 th an improved classroom experience for our on-campus students\, via a fli
 pped classroom model\, as well as a meaningful learning experience for the
  millions of students around the world who would otherwise never have acce
 ss to education of this quality.  I'll describe the pedagogical foundatio
 ns for this type of teaching\, and the key technological ideas that suppor
 t them\, including easy-to-create video chunks\, a scalable online Q&A for
 um where students can get their questions answered quickly\, sophisticated
  autograded homeworks\, and a carefully designed peer grading pipeline tha
 t supports the at-scale grading of more open-ended homeworks\, such as ess
 ay questions\, derivations\, or business plans.  Through such technology\
 , we envision millions of people gaining access to the world-leading educa
 tion that has so far been available only to a tiny few\, and using this ed
 ucation to improve their lives\, the lives of their families\, and the com
 munities they live in.\n\n\nBiography \nDaphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwan
 i Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and 
 the Oswald Villard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Her main 
 research interest is in developing and using machine learning and probabil
 istic methods to model and analyze complex domains. She is the author of o
 ver 180 refereed publications\, which have appeared in venues that include
  Science\, Cell\, and Nature Genetics (her H-index is over 80). She also h
 as a long-standing interest in education. She founded the CURIS program\, 
 the Stanford Computer Science Department's undergraduate summer internship
  program\, and the Biomedical Computation major at Stanford. She pioneered
  in her classroom many of the ideas that are key to Stanford's massive onl
 ine education effort. She was awarded the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellows
 hip in 1996\, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998\, the Presidential 
 Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999\, the IJC
 AI Computers and Thought Award in 2001the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 
 in 2004\, the ACM/Infosys award in 2008\, and was inducted into the US Nat
 ional Academy of Engineering in 2011. Her teaching was recognized via the 
 Cox Medal for excellence in fostering undergraduate research at Stanford i
 n 2003\, and by being named a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Educ
 ation.
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