[LINK] President of edX on E-learning in Canberra 26 February 2014

[Tom Worthington]

Professor Anant Agarwal, President of edX, and a panel of experts, will 
discuss "Blow up the lecture? Is the traditional lecture on the way 
out?", at the Australian National University in Canberra, 2:30 PM, 26 
February 2014

Register online: http://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=105905

ANU is currently accepting enrolments for its first two edX on-line 
courses: Engaging India and Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe: 
https://www.edx.org/course-list/anux/allsubjects/allcourses

ps: My own view is that neither lectures, nor MOOCs (Massive Open Online 
Courses), are the future of university education. Lectures, live or via 
video, are a useful supplement to an education program, but are not 
essential. Lectures, and their on-line equivalent, should be offered as 
an optional extra for the mainstream of education, which will be 
on-line, task based and text rich.


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Tom Worthington, PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia