Town Hall: Georgia Tech & Online Education

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday September 13, 2012 - Friday September 14, 2012
      11:00 am - 11:59 am
  • Location: Room 1116, Klaus Building
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Contact

Victor Rogers
Communications & Marketing
404-894-6398

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Campus leaders discuss the Institute's latest foray into the world of web-based learning

Full Summary: Provost Rafael L. Bras welcomes faculty, staff and students to participate in an open forum that will discuss Georgia Tech and its newest partnerships in the world of online education.

Provost Rafael L. Bras welcomes faculty, staff and students to participate in an open forum that will discuss Georgia Tech's newest partnerships in the world of web-based learning. The conversation will include a panel of faculty who are teaching courses via Coursera. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Featured speakers include:

  • Rich DeMillo, director of Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) and distinguished professor of computing and business;
  • Donna Llewellyn, associate vice provost for Learning Excellence and director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning; and 
  • Nelson Baker, dean of Georgia Tech Professional Education.

To attend, an RSVP is requested. For those unable to attend, the event will be streamed at www.provost.gatech.edu/town-hall.

 

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C21U, Coursera, online education, provost, town hall
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  • Created By: Michael Hagearty
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Aug 7, 2012 - 6:17am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:59pm