Douglas Fisher

Harnessing the power of computers to help create an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable future – that is the purpose of a major new grant issued by the National Science Foundation to a new network of universities and organizations that includes Vanderbilt University. Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt University seeks to be on the leading edge of the field with the opening of its Institute for Digital Learning. The institute will focus on developing massive open online courses as well as other digital learning platforms, which includes a partnership with Coursera. Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer… Read More

  Alumni Hall will be home to the new Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (Vanderbilt University) Massive open online courses and other digital learning platforms will be the focus of a new institute being launched this fall at Vanderbilt University. The new Institute for Digital… Read More

[This guest post by Douglas H. Fisher, an associate professor of computer science and of computer engineering, also appeared today in The Chronicle of Higher Education] In Fall 2011, Stanford announced three, free massively open online courses, or MOOCs. Two of these courses, database and machine learning,… Read More

James Clarke, CE, and Douglas Fisher, EECS, are members of a diverse group of experts at Vanderbilt University who have created the Climate Change Research Network. The network combines researchers from areas of earth and environmental sciences, political science, law, engineering, business, management, economics and nursing to investigate one of… Read More