Friday April 12 - Scalable learning: the beautiful paradox of massive open online courses (MOOCs)
1:00-2.30 pm
ANU has become the only Australian member of edX.org, the online learning enterprise founded by In this seminar, we will hear from the two pairs of academics behind the first ANUx courses: Professor Brian Schmidt and Dr Paul Francis, who will be teaching Astrophysics; and Dr McComas Taylor and Dr Peter Friedlander, teaching a MOOC entitled Engaging India.
We will also hear from Dr Lyndsay Agans, Convenor of the CAP Digital Learning Project, who will discuss some of the organisational thinking and approach behind the development of Engaging India. Lyndsay will open a dialogue on the 'paradox' of distance learning and mass scale as one that actually allows for a more personalised design of education for individual needs, and in particular, the implications of evolving educational theory of teaching in an open and massive online environment.
Please come and share this thoughtful and critical conversation about the evolving role of technology in higher education and, in turn, the changing place of higher education in the society in which it functions.
Register here (Venue will be advised to registrants once we have an idea of numbers.)
Dr
Senior Lecturer - Staff Education (Teaching & Learning)
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching
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