MOOCs Turn 4: What Have We Learned?
Daphne Koller (Coursera)
CSE Distinguished Lecture - Ben Taskar Memorial Lecture
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 3:30pm
EEB-105
Abstract
It has been nearly four years since the first MOOCs (massive open online courses) were offered by Stanford University. MOOCs are now offered to tens of millions of learners worldwide, by hundreds of top universities. MOOCs are no longer an experiment - the learning, reach, and value they offer are now a reality. I will show how MOOCs provide opportunities for open-ended projects, intercultural learner interactions, and collaborative learning. I will discuss some of data that we are collecting from MOOCs, and what we are learning from these data about both courses and learners. I'll also describe data and examples regarding the kind of transformative impact that can be derived from providing millions of people with access to the world's best education.
Bio
Daphne Koller is the President and Co-Founder of Coursera, the largest open online education provider with more than 15 million registered learners worldwide. Daphne leads the growth and nurturing of Coursera's partnerships with over 130 universities and educational institutions. Previously, she was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She is the author of over 180 refereed publications appearing in venues such as Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Daphne was recognized as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2012 and Newsweek's 10 most important people in 2010. She has been honored with multiple awards and fellowships during her career including the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001, and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004. Daphne was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.