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[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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Colleagues/

MOOCs Go Presidential !

/Gerry

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) / Tentative Agenda
November 30, 2012

National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC
Lecture Room

Agenda as of November 2, 2012

9:00 am Welcome from PCAST Co-Chairs

John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Co-Chair, PCAST
Eric Lander, Co-Chair, PCAST

9:05 am PCAST Study Update: Networking & Information Technology R&D (NITRD) 2012 Study

Speakers:

David E. Shaw, NITRD Working Group Co-Chair and PCAST Member
Susan L. Graham, NITRD Working Group Co-Chair
Peter Lee, NITRD Working Group Co-Chair

9:30 am Massively Open Online Courses & STEM Education

Speakers:

  *   Sebastian Thrun, CEO, Udacity (accepted)
  *   Daphne Koller, Co-founder, Coursera; Professor, Stanford University (accepted)
  *   Anant Agarwal, President, edEx; Professor, MIT (accepted)
  *   Frank DiGiovanni, Director, Training Readiness and Strategy, Department of Defense (accepted)

10:45 am Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education

Speakers:

Linda Rosen, CEO, Change the Equation (accepted)
Mark Rosenberg, President, Florida International University (accepted)

11:30 pm Public Comment

12:00 pm Adjourn

Source and Webcast Link Available Via

[ http://alternative-educate.blogspot.com/2012/11/webcast-presidents-council-of-advisors.html ]

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011

http://alternative-educate.blogspot.com/

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