Daphne Koller | The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits

Daphne Koller, Coursera co-founder and co-CEO, leads an interactive discussion about the massive open online course (MOOC) model.
More About the Lecture
We are at the cusp of a major transformation in higher education. In the past year, we have seen the advent of MOOCs - massive open online courses (MOOCs) - top-quality courses from the best universities offered for free. These courses exploit technology to provide a real course experience to students, including video content, interactive exercises with meaningful feedback, using both auto-grading and peer-grading, and rich peer-to-peer interaction around the course materials. We now see MOOCs from dozens of top universities, offering courses to millions of students from every country in the world. The courses start from bridge/gateway courses all the way through graduate courses, and span a range of topics including computer science, business, medicine, science, humanities, social sciences, and more. In this talk, Professor Koller will discuss this far-reaching experiment in education, including some examples and preliminary analytics. She will also discuss why this model can support an improved learning experience for on-campus students, via blended learning, and provide unprecedented access to education to millions of students around the world.
About the Speaker
Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that works with the best universities to connect anyone around the world with the best education, for free. She has been recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, membership in the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People for 2012. She received her BSc and MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her PhD from Stanford in 1994.
Sponsored by the Michigan Engineering, James R. Mellor Lecture Series. The James R. Mellor Lecture Series showcases an individual whose leadership has contributed to the public good. Its intent is to inspire the ideals of students and other members of the College community.
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