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Carnegie Corporation Headquarters - New York, NY | Posted: October 24, 2014
Phillip Taylor
News and Media Relations Manager
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Education heavy hitters discuss how online programs and resources will change and direct the future of higher education
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Online Education RoundtableGeorgia Tech sponsored a roundtable forum on Thursday, Oct. 23, inviting some of the top education leaders and reporters to join a discussion on the role online programs and resources will play in the future of higher learning.
The roundtable, “Technology and the Future of Online Higher Education,” was held at the Carnegie Corp. headquarters in New York City.
Georgia Tech stands at the cutting edge of employing the latest technologies in the higher education realm. Notably, the College of Computing in January 2014 year began offering an online master’s degree in computer science (OMS CS), making Georgia Tech the first major university to offer a full-fledged, accredited CS master’s degree to an online audience.
Panelists for the roundtable included:
· Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, an online learning destination funded by Harvard and MIT
· Nelson Baker, dean of professional education at Georgia Tech
· Rafael Bras, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at Georgia Tech
· Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education
· Rich DeMillo, director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech
· Zvi Galil, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing
· Vivek Goel, chief academic strategist for Coursera
· Dewayne Matthews, vice president for strategy development at Lumnia Foundation
· Jason Palmer, deputy director of postsecondary success for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
· Amin Saberi, founder and CEO of NovoEd
· Scott Smith, senior vice president for human resources operations at AT&T
· Sebastian Thrun, CEO and founder of Udacity
· Nathan Urban, the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz distinguished professor of life sciences and interim provost at Carnegie Mellon University
Education reporters from some of the nation’s leading news media outlets also participated in the roundtable.
Georgia Tech’s position on the role technology can and should take in higher education is available here.
