IC Colloquium : Reinventing Education
Event details
| Date | 09.11.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:30 |
| Speaker |
Anant Agarwal President, edX Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
Digital technology has transformed countless areas of life from healthcare to workplace productivity to entertainment and publishing. But education hasn't changed. EdX aspires to reinvent education through online learning. EdX's mission is to dramatically increase access to education for students worldwide through online learning, while substantially enhancing campus education in both quality and efficiency through blended models.
EdX's first course offered by MITx on circuits and electronics drew 155,000 learners from 162 countries. Matching the rigor of the same MIT class, the course included video snippets with interleaved exercises, a virtual laboratory, autograded homeworks 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.
EdX 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 platform will be available as open source so it can benefit from improvements from the worldwide community.
Biography
Anant Agarwal is the President of edX, an online learning venture of Harvard and MIT. Agarwal taught the first course of edX on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 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 processor. He led the development of Raw, an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle, an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife, a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits." His work on Organic Computing was selected by Scientific American 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. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. He hacks on WebSim, a web-based circuits laboratory, in his spare time.
Digital technology has transformed countless areas of life from healthcare to workplace productivity to entertainment and publishing. But education hasn't changed. EdX aspires to reinvent education through online learning. EdX's mission is to dramatically increase access to education for students worldwide through online learning, while substantially enhancing campus education in both quality and efficiency through blended models.
EdX's first course offered by MITx on circuits and electronics drew 155,000 learners from 162 countries. Matching the rigor of the same MIT class, the course included video snippets with interleaved exercises, a virtual laboratory, autograded homeworks 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.
EdX 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 platform will be available as open source so it can benefit from improvements from the worldwide community.
Biography
Anant Agarwal is the President of edX, an online learning venture of Harvard and MIT. Agarwal taught the first course of edX on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 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 processor. He led the development of Raw, an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle, an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife, a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits." His work on Organic Computing was selected by Scientific American 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. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. He hacks on WebSim, a web-based circuits laboratory, in his spare time.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Prof. George Candea
Contact
- Christine Moscioni