EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 15, 2013

EVENT: “MOOCs and More: The Changing Landscape of Online Education”

In a free, public event, University of Michigan faculty members Martha Pollack and Scott Page will discuss the growing popularity of massive, open online courses. MOOCs, taught by instructors from leading universities in the U.S. and around the world, are free noncredit courses open to anyone with Internet access. U-M, Princeton, Stanford and Penn were among the initial set of universities producing MOOCs for Coursera, a MOOC hosting service.

Pollack, U-M’s vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs, will address U-M’s interest in developing MOOCs, as well as its work in deploying other instructional technologies. She will also provide thoughts on how the MOOC revolution is changing higher education.

Page, director of the U-M Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, will describe his experience of teaching one of U-M’s first MOOCs, “Model Thinking,” to tens of thousands of students.

PLACE: Christman/MML Building, First Floor, 208 North Capitol Ave., Lansing, Mich.

SPONSORS: Wolverine Caucus, U-M Office of Government Relations and U-M Alumni Association

INFORMATION: Veronica Wilkerson Johnson, (517) 372-7801, veronicj@umich.edu