Online Education

Some of the nation’s online education pioneers debated technology’s impact on higher education at a symposium held in conjunction with the National Academy of Engineering regional meeting at Stanford.

Stanford Computer Science Department Chair Jennifer Widom remembers the day less than two years ago when one of her colleagues announced plans to teach his popular artificial intelligence class online for free. Widom and another computer science professor joined the experiment and taught their own free online classes – launching the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and igniting a still-raging revolution in higher education.

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Innovative 'Crash Course' inspires students around the world to think in new ways.

If there's one thing everybody in the world can agree upon, no matter where they are, who they are or what language they speak, it's that they don't get enough sleep.

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The two newest classes, "Introduction to Computer Networks," and “Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries,” offer participants the chance to learn from some of Stanford's most accomplished faculty.

Tens of thousands students have already signed up for Stanford’s two newest free online classes, both being offered this fall via Class2Go, the university’s first open-source nonprofit online education platform.

The classes, “An Introduction to Computer Networks” and “Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries,” both begin on October 8.

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Venture Lab, developed by Stanford faculty and students, hosts five courses this fall on entrepreneurship, education, creativity and finance.

A new online course on a new online platform at Stanford succeeds not only in joining people from dozens of countries but enabling them to directly collaborate on group projects: A group of women in Iran put together a tourism project; three men in India devised a way of connecting Indian musicians, audiences and venues; a pair of men in Trinidad and Tobago figured out h

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The platform, called Class2Go, allows professors the flexibility to incorporate other online tools and to conduct research as they teach.

The newest member of the family of platforms hosting online university courses was formally presented in society last week. Its name is Class2Go, and its proud parents are a team of eight engineers at Stanford's Computer Science Department.

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The university, which pioneered massive open online courses, unveils two new homegrown software platforms to host the courses.

Sixteen courses and two new platforms for interactive learning will highlight Stanford's free online offerings this fall, with more to follow during winter and spring quarters.

From cryptography to science writing, technology entrepreneurship, finance and a crash course in creativity, the courses are open to anyone with a computer, anywhere.

As the number of Stanford online courses has grown, so too has the range of fields, which now include computer science, mathematics, linguistics, science writing, sociology and education.

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The professor of electrical engineering has been a pioneer of streaming video and online education technologies for two decades. The position is new to the School of Engineering and is seen as a clear acknowledgement that online education has come of age.

Bernd Girod, a professor of electrical engineering and (by courtesy) computer science and a key figure in the type of multimedia technology that has revolutionized online education, has been named to the new position of Senior Associate Dean for Online Learning and Professional Development in the School of Engineering, Dean James D. Plummer announced today.

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The creation of the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning – part of the larger Stanford Online initiative – signals both a restructuring of the university and its dedication to ensuring pedagogical agility and rigor in the face of global, economic and social transformations.

Stanford University today announced the creation of an Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning, a landmark step in its commitment to bring new teaching and learning methods to Stanford students – and to students around the world – in response to the requirements and potential of the 21st century.

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The team leading Stanford's online education initiative announces seed grants to faculty members across campus for course development. "It's been a grassroots phenomenon, which really reflects Stanford's tradition of innovation and creativity," said John Mitchell, professor of computer science and President John Hennessy's special assistant for educational technology.

Responding to a university-wide call for proposals last month, more than 40 individual faculty and small teams outlined plans for innovation in online learning, and around half – from the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Education, Medicine and Engineering – will receive full or partial funding.

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Participants in the latest version of Stanford's popular iPhone and iPad apps online course will find help and inspiration 24 hours a day through Piazza, a peer-to-peer social learning site.

This summer, Stanford will again offer a free online video course on creating apps for the iPhone and iPad – but with a difference.

This time, participants will have their questions answered by course instructors ("course captains") and by their fellow online learners. This peer-to-peer social feature is a first for Stanford online courses.

It is also a first for any course hosted on iTunes U, which will once again carry the iPhone/iPad course.

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