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SUMMARY:Reinventing Education - Anant Agarwal\, President\, edX\,  Profess
 or\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, MIT
DTSTART:20140205T140000Z
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CONTACT:Stoyan Smoukov
DESCRIPTION:Digital technology has transformed countless areas of life fro
 m healthcare to workplace productivity to entertainment and publishing.  B
 ut education hasn’t changed a whole lot.  EdX is a MOOC (massive open on
 line course) initiative founded by Harvard and MIT that aspires to reinven
 t education through online learning.  EdX’s mission is to dramatically i
 ncrease access to education for students worldwide\, while substantially e
 nhancing campus education in both quality and efficiency through blended m
 odels that incorporate the best of both online and in-person elements. \nT
 his talk will provide an overview of MOOCs and edX\, and share student sto
 ries that reveal how they are increasing access to education worldwide. Th
 e talk will also discuss where MOOC technologies are headed\, and how they
  can enhance campus education. Finally\, the talk will provide some recent
  research results from some of the edX xConsortium university partners tha
 t will allow us to improve education online and on campus\, and discuss ho
 w MOOCs might evolve in the future.\n\n*Speaker Bio:*\nAnant Agarwal is th
 e President of edX. Anant taught the first course of edX on circuits and e
 lectronics from MIT\, which drew 155\,000 students from 162 countries. He 
 has served as the director of CSAIL\, MIT’s Computer Science and Artific
 ial Intelligence Laboratory\, and is a professor of Electrical Engineering
  and Computer Science at MIT. He is also a founder of Tilera Corporation w
 hich created the Tile multicore processor. He led the development of the R
 aw multicore processor\, the Sparcle multi-threaded microprocessor\, and t
 he Alewife parallel computer. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT 
 and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works. Anant 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 Dig
 ital Electronic Circuits.” His work on Organic Computing was selected by
  Scientific American as one of 10 World-Changing Ideas in 2011\, and he wa
 s named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. Anant hold
 s a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. Anant is a membe
 r of the National Academy of Engineering\, a fellow of the American Academ
 y of Arts and Sciences\, and a fellow of the ACM. He hacks on WebSim\, a w
 eb-based circuits laboratory\, in his spare time. Anant's twitter handle i
 s @agarwaledu.\n
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Bragg Building\, Cavendish Laboratory\,
   19 JJ Thomson Ave\, Cambridge CB3 0HE
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