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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Toward Interdisciplinary Research in Online Educat
 ion Technologies
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DTEND:20121108T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Armando Fox\, Academic Director\, Berkeley Resource Center for
  Online Education (BRCOE)\nProfessor in Residence\, Computer Science Divis
 ion\, University of California\, Berkeley\nAbstract\nThe "new generation" 
 of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has re-catalyzed conversations abou
 t teaching and learning across the country. While it's unsurprising that c
 omputer scientists have led the recent charge in online education in their
  role as technologists\, I will argue that computer science _research_ mus
 t play a continuing leadership role as well in guiding the evolution of th
 is new field. The work will be interdisciplinary not only across CS resear
 ch areas\, but between CS\nand the other departments representing the othe
 r 99% of human study. To mention just a few opportunities\, the scale of t
 hese courses enables "near-real-time"  pedagogy research at a pace and si
 gnificance level never before possible\, but we must design the right inst
 rumentation tools and analyses while guarding student privacy. Research in
  human-computer interaction has begun to focus on activities enabled by so
 cial networking and crowdsourcing\, but engagement with education research
 ers will be needed to understand how these activities are related to the r
 oles of collaboration and community in online learning.\nPushing the envel
 ope of automatic grading frees up valuable instructor time and gives stude
 nts more opportunities to get feedback on their work\, but much remains to
  be done to apply state-of-the-art techniques in statistical language proc
 essing and image recognition to such tasks.\n\nThe ideal outcomes will pol
 ish our on-campus courses\, increase the level of intellectual engagement 
 in our personal interactions with students\, open new interdisciplinary re
 search opportunities both within and outside CS\, and provide high quality
  education to millions of students who might otherwise be denied it. A pit
 fall to avoid is transplanting existing classroom teaching techniques unch
 anged (whether we think they work well or not) to the new medium of online
  education\, or thinking of online education as a one-to-one substitute fo
 r existing learning experiences.\n\nBiography\nArmando Fox (fox@cs.berkele
 y.edu) is Professor in Residence in UC Berkeley's Computer Science Divisio
 n as well as the Academic Director of the Berkeley Resource Center for Onl
 ine Education (BRCOE).  His research spans cloud computing in the AMP Lab
  (Algorithms\, Machines & People)\, highly productive parallel programming
  in the Par Lab (Parallel Computing Laboratory)\, and most recently\, onli
 ne education.  During his previous time at Stanford\, he received teachin
 g and mentoring awards from the Associated Students of Stanford University
 \, the Society of Women Engineers\, and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Soci
 ety. He was named one of the "Scientific American 50" in 2003 and is the r
 ecipient of an NSF CAREER award and the Gilbreth Lectureship of the Nation
 al Academy of Engineering. In previous lives he helped design the Intel Pe
 ntium Pro microprocessor and founded a successful startup to commercialize
  his UC Berkeley Ph.D. research on mobile computing. He received his other
  degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and the U
 niversity of Illinois and is an ACM Distinguished Member.
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