1st Forum of the strategic plan 2016-2021: Future Education

This first forum we aim to reflect on one of the most relevant topics about the future of University and therefore start working towards the definition of the new Strategic Plan 2016-21. Teaching is one of the missions of the university. The digital transformation is influencing many sectors, sometimes dramatically. How must the university address these developments? Should we consider them or continue offering courses like those that we did so far? In case we decide to change, what is the correct speed to achieve it? And in what direction? Which are the models to be followed? How should we adapt them to our specific context?

MIT Professor Anant Agarwal, and edX CEO (edX is the MOOCs platform created by MIT and Harvard University the one UC3M belongs to), will present us his vision about learning in the university of the future. Then several members of our university will reflect and discuss about how education must be in our university in a future. We expect that both they and the attendees to the conference offer interesting insights. The aim is to draw our future.

      PROGRAM

Anant Agarwal talk (in English)

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. He has served as the director of CSAIL and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works. Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World- Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012.

Short Bio at edX

Title of talk:

"Reinventing Education”

Dic 2, Leganés Salón de Grados Padre Soler, 16:00.

Abstract of talk:

Digital technology has transformed countless areas of life from healthcare to workplace productivity to entertainment and publishing.  But education hasn’t changed a whole lot.  edX is a MOOC (massive open online course) initiative that aspires to reinvent education through online learning.  edX’s mission is to dramatically increase access to quality education for students worldwide through MOOCs, while substantially enhancing campus education in both quality and efficiency through blended online approaches.

This talk will provide an overview of MOOCs and edX, and share student stories that reveal how they are increasing access to education worldwide. The talk will also discuss where MOOC technologies are headed, and how they can enhance campus education. Finally, the talk will provide some recent research results that will allow us to improve education online and on campus, and discuss how MOOCs might evolve in the future.
 

Round table (in spanish)

Dic 2, Leganés Salón de Grados Padre Soler, 17:30.

Introduction: Carlos Delgado Kloos, Vice-President for Strategy and Digital Education
 

Moderator: Isabel Gutiérrez, Vice-President for Studies

Pannelists:

• Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras, Professor at the Department of Humanities: History, Geography and Art
• Javier Sanz Feito, Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering
• Alicia Barroso, Visiting Professor at the Department of Business Administration
• Carlos Santiuste, Associate Professor at the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis