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  • Subject: Fwd: Re: KMDI Spring Lecture Series (fwd)
  • From: Iqbal Mohomed <iqbal_iia(at)yahoo.com>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:33:18 -0800 (PST)
Hello,

I think this series of talks will be of interest to
many of the folks on this list. I am sure you will
enjoy Toronto ;-) If you can't visit us in Canada, the
talks are being webcast publicly. I feel that MIT's
initiative for openCourseWare is the start of an
educational revolution. I can vouch for the excellent
presentations given by Professor Ronald Baecker as I
have taken many courses with him at the University of
Toronto.

Regards,
Iqbal
www.mohomed.com

--- Iqbal Mohomed <iq@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:16:33 -0500
> From:	Iqbal Mohomed <iq@cs.toronto.edu>
> To:	iqbal@mohomed.com
> Subject: Re: KMDI Spring Lecture Series (fwd)
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:14:19 -0500
> From: Ron Baecker <rmb@dgp.utoronto.ca>
> To:	dcsall
> Subject: Re: KMDI Spring Lecture Series
> 
> This series may be of interest to DCS Faculty,
> Staff, and Grad Students.
> 
> -----
> At 10:23 AM -0500 1/2/02, KMDI Info wrote:
> >I am pleased to announce the roster of speakers and
> talks for the KMDI
> >Spring lecture series, this year's theme is
> Technology in Support of
> >Learning and Teaching.  The talks will be webcast
> >(http://ePresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca, details below),
> while also remaining
> >free and open to public. I'd like to thank the
> series sponsors who include
> >Bell University Laboraties (BUL) and the
> Collaborative Program in Knowledge
> >Media Design, as well thank Tom Carey (Professor of
> Management Sciences and
> >Director - Centre for Learning & Teaching Through
> Technology at the
> >University of Waterloo) and the staff of the
> University of Toronto's
> >Resources Centre for Academic Technology
> (www.rcat.utoronto.ca)
> >
> >I hope you can attend at least one talk this
> spring, and I look forward to
> >receiving your feedback,
> >
> >Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff
> >KMDI
> >Administrative Director and Series Organizer
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Technology in Support of Learning and Teaching
> >The University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design
> Institute
> >Spring 2002 Lecture Series
> >Wednesdays, February 6 - April 24, 2002
> >5:00 to 6:30 pm -unless otherwise specified*
> >The Lecture Theatre, Room 103, Faculty of
> Architecture, Landscape, and
> >Design
> >230 College Street (at Huron Street).
> >
> >February 6			MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative: A
> Major
> >Initiative in Global Information Sharing
> >Steven R. Lerman, MIT Class of '22 Professor,
> Director, Center for
> >Educational Computing Initiatives, Chair of the MIT
> OpenCourseWare Interim
> >Management Board; with President Robert Birgeneau,
> Dean Carl Amrhein, and
> >Professor Ron Baecker, University of Toronto
> >
> >February 13 		Designing online facilities that
> really leverage
> >learning
> >Steven Shaw, Educational Technology Program,
> Department of Education,
> >Concordia University
> >
> >February 20*     	The Rise and Demise of On-Line
> Education
> >David Noble, Department of Political Science, York
> University.  This talk
> >will begin at 5:30 pm.
> >
> >February 27		Educational Webcasting: Technology,
> Process, Uses,
> >and Issues
> >Ron Baecker (UToronto), Dr. Bob Hsuing (Faculty of
> Medicine, University of
> >Chicago), Dan Keating (OISE/UToronto)
> >
> >March 6     		If a classroom could listen, would
> anyone care?
> >Experiences with eClass
> >Gregory Abowd, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
> >
> >March 13           	Systems Supporting Student (and
> Public) Engagement
> >with Research
> >John Willinsky, Pacific Press Professor of Literacy
> and Technology,
> >University of British Columbia
> >
> >March 20			TBA
> >
> >March 27          	Educational Objects, Human and
> Agent Interaction on
> >the Semantic Web: School just ain't what it used to
> be!
> >Terry Anderson, Professor and Research Chair in
> Distance Education,
> >Athabasca University
> >
> >April 3				Medical Education in an Age 
> >of InformaTics:
> >issues and paradigms
> >Charles Friedman, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for
> Biomedical Informatics,
> >UPittsburgh
> >
> >Tues April 9*		The K-12 Classroom of the Future
> >Allison Druin, Human-Computer Interaction Lab &
> College of Education,
> >University of Maryland. This talk will begin at
> 4:30 pm.
> >
> >April 17           		The impact of e-learning on
> the university
> >campus: measuring the costs and benefits
> >Tony Bates, Director of Distance Education and
> Technology, Continuing
> >Studies, University of British	Columbia
> >
> >April 24           		Concluding panel:  Putting it
> all Together
> >
> >Live webcasts will be available at
> http://ePresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca.
> >Webcast attendees should run the test session on
> the web site in advance (at
> >present, Internet Explorer is the preferred
> browser).  THE SERIES IS FREE TO
> >ALL, but we ask that you register at
> mailto:kmdi.info@utoronto.ca.  Details
> >of each week's lecture will be posted beforehand at
> >http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca.   If you have any
> questions, contact
> >mailto:kmdi.info@utoronto.ca.  This series was
> organized with the assistance
> >of RCAT, www.rcat.utoronto.ca and is sponsored by
> Bell University
> >Laboratories (BUL).
> >
> >A DETAILED Description of the First Talk
> >
> >February 6       	MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative:
> A Major Initiative
> >in Global Information Sharing
> >Steven R. Lerman, MIT Class of '22 Professor,
> Director, Center for
> >Educational Computing Initiatives, Chair of the MIT
> OpenCourseWare Interim
> >Management Board; with President Robert Birgeneau,
> Dean Carl Amrhein, and
> >Ron Baecker, University of Toronto
> >
> >In April 2001 MIT announced that it would create
> comprehensive web sites for
> >all of its approximately 2,000 sources and make
> those sites publicly
> >available for educational and research uses. This
> institutional commitment,
> >called MIT OpenCourseWare, will allow faculty and
> individual learners to
> >access the full range of materials MIT professors
> use in their classrooms.
> >Instructors around the world will be free to adapt
> any of the information on
> >this site for their own use, including translating
> any or all of the content
> >into other languages.
> >
> >This presenter will summarize the processes that
> lead MIT to the decision to
> >undertake OpenCourseWare and describe the complex
> organizational and
> >technical issues that the initiative is dealing
> with. He will also give a
> >summary of where the project currently stands and
> the plans for the coming
> >years.
> >
> >Professor Steven R. Lerman holds the Class of 1922
> Distinguished
> >Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology. He served as the
> >Chair of the MIT Faculty from 1998-2001 and as the
> Associate Chair of the
> >Faculty from 1996-1998.  He is currently the
> Director of the Center for
> >Educational Computing Initiatives, the research
> unit of an MIT-wide research
> >center devoted to studying the application of
> computational and
> >communication technologies on education. He also
> Chairs the Interim
> >Management Board of the MIT OpenCourseWare
> initiative and is Deputy Director
> >of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, MIT's largest
> distance education program.
> >>From 1983 to 1988, Professor Lerman directed
> M.I.T.'s Project Athena. This
> >project developed a campus-wide distributed system
> of advanced computer
> >workstations at MIT. Prof. Lerman has been a
> Visiting Foreign Professor in
> >the MBA in International Business Program at
> Gabriela Mistral University in
> >Santiago, Chile since 1993. Dr. Lerman received his
> B.S. in civil
> >engineering and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
> Transportation from M.I.T. in
> >1972, 1973 and 1975 respectively.  Prof. Lerman and
> his wife Lori live on
> >the MIT campus and serve as Faculty Housemasters of
> MIT's newest graduate
> >dormitory. He can be reached via email at
> lerman@mit.edu.
> 
> 


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