Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
أنانت أقارويل: لماذا الفصول الدراسية المفتوحه (مازالت) مهمة؟
Through blended courses Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, reshaping the university campus experience. Full bio
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(معهد ماساتشوستس للتكنولوجيا)
but education hasn't changed.
increase access to education.
and learn in the large
a blended model of learning.
youthful looks might belie that,
these online technologies,
were teaching our first course
experiment with this some more,
Socratization of education.
be scrambling, taking notes,
for the rest of the hour.
engagements to students?
some of my homeworks
techniques to learning,
How do you teach design?
popped in with an answer,
high schools around the world,
licenses it with the professor
bricks-and-mortar school buildings
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anant Agarwal - Education innovatorThrough blended courses Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, reshaping the university campus experience.
Why you should listen
In the spring of 2012, Anant Agarwal, a professor of computer science at MIT, taught a course called “Circuits and Electronics.” As usual, it was MIT-level challenging, requiring knowledge of differential equations and calculus. Unlike in the past, though, the course enrolled 155,000 students from 162 countries around the world.
It was the inaugural offering of what is now edX , an online learning venture of MIT and Harvard, which Agarwal helms. Through this nonprofit -- one of the leading forces of the massive open online course (MOOC) movement -- Agarwal aims to make higher education globally available, for free.
Which does not preclude in-person education. On campus, Agarwal is pushing for what he calls blended courses, which interweave digital content and face-to-face interactions. "I see online learning as a rising tide that will lift all boats,” Agarwal says.
Agarwal holds the Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and was named one of Forbes' top education innovators in 2012. Find him on Twitter at @agarwaledu.
Anant Agarwal | Speaker | TED.com