Sunday, August 5, 2012

Videos to Watch-12: What we're learning from online education by Daphne Koller



Published on Aug 1, 2012 by TEDtalksDirector
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed.


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A great quote of Daphne Koller:
"We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.” 


A brief biographical sketch of Daphne Koller from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Koller


Also kindly see:
Massive online education: Daphne Koller at TEDGlobal 2012

(a write-up with photos by James Duncan Davidson)
http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/massive-online-education-daphne-koller-at-tedglobal2012/


Grateful thanks to Daphne Koller, TEDtalksDirector, TED Blog, James Duncan Davidson and  and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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