MOOCs

A leading thinker on innovation and creativity who was the first faculty member to teach at the Wond’ry sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on the second episode of The Zeppos… Read More

UT-Arlington’s Siemens says professors will track student engagement, students will take ‘learner profiles’ with them From left, retired Navy Capt. Raymond P. Schmidt, Roberta R. Schmidt, Associate Chair for Computer Science Doug Schmidt and Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab Executive Director George Siemens. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt… Read More

School of Engineering announces creation of Schmidt Family Annual Educational Technologies Lectureship As technological advances ‘evolutionize’ higher education, award-winning author and speaker Jeffrey Selingo imagines what the college of the future will look like. Jeffrey Selingo Selingo will deliver the inaugural lecture – College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education… Read More

YouTube: Learn about Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Vanderbilt teams up with University of Maryland to offer trans-institutional sequence of massive open online courses Enabling students taking massive open online courses to dive deeper into learning and develop mastery in a particular subject are the aims… Read More

Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and of computer engineering, will co-chair a workshop Feb. 11-12 in Washington, D.C. to explore and delineate computer science and multidisciplinary research agendas designed to improve formal and informal education. Doug Fisher A recent explosion of public and academic interest in online… Read More