{"650286":{"#nid":"650286","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New GT-Microsoft Accessibility Research Seed Grant Program Announces Winning Proposals for 2021 Funding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for 21st\u0026nbsp;Century Universities (C21U) announced four winning proposals for a new\u0026nbsp;accessibility-focused\u0026nbsp;seed grant\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;program funded by Microsoft.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;GT-Microsoft Accessibility\u0026nbsp;Research\u0026nbsp;Seed\u0026nbsp;Grant\u0026nbsp;Program\u0026nbsp;offered\u0026nbsp;up to\u0026nbsp;$45,000\u0026nbsp;in funding per winning proposal and\u0026nbsp;was\u0026nbsp;open to proposals from all Georgia Tech faculty,\u0026nbsp;staff, and students.\u0026nbsp;The program\u0026nbsp;seeks\u0026nbsp;accessibility-focused research and projects in digital accessibility\u0026nbsp;\/\u0026nbsp;assistive technology, diverse student backgrounds, and campus life.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;C21U is thrilled to be supported by Microsoft in offering seed grants to innovative research\u0026nbsp;and project\u0026nbsp;teams\u0026nbsp;in our community,\u0026rdquo; said C21U Assistant Director of Research in Education Innovation\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeonghyun\u0026nbsp;Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Accessibility research is a broad\u0026nbsp;and important\u0026nbsp;theme,\u0026nbsp;and our hope was that the Georgia Tech community would surprise us with creative,\u0026nbsp;aspirational proposals. We were not disappointed.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winning proposals reflect a wide range of transformative concepts\u0026nbsp;including accessible art exhibits, computer science and music education\u0026nbsp;for visually impaired students, digital access\u0026nbsp;and equity as impacted by\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;COVID-19\u0026nbsp;pandemic, and technology-mediated mentoring for\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;students with disabilities. These projects are\u0026nbsp;led by faculty and staff from the College of Computing, the College of Design,\u0026nbsp;the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech Professional Education.\u0026nbsp;The contributing teams involved in each proposal encompass an\u0026nbsp;expansive\u0026nbsp;group of campus units and\u0026nbsp;reflect the collaborative nature of research within the Georgia Tech community.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2021 Funded Research Projects\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDesigning a Computer Science + Music Learning Environment for Visually Impaired Students\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;led by\u0026nbsp;PI\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Garrett\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(School of Music, College of Design),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(School of Music, College of Design), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian\u0026nbsp;Magerko\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETechnology-mediated Mentoring Platforms to Support Research Experiences for Students with Disabilities\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eled by PI\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMaureen Linden\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation, College of Design) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENathan Moon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Center for Advanced Communications Policy)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccessible exhibits at the intersection of art, science and technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;led by PI\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBirney Robert\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(College of Computing)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccessquity: Digital Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;led by PI\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYakut Gazi\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Georgia Tech Professional Education),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChaohua\u0026nbsp;Ou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Center for Teaching and Learning),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Lisle\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Center for 21st\u0026nbsp;Century Universities), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWarren\u0026nbsp;Goetzel\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Office of Information Technology)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the course of the next year, each of these projects will\u0026nbsp;work to create\u0026nbsp;more accessible\u0026nbsp;technology, events, and support structures\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;current\u0026nbsp;and future members of the\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech community.\u0026nbsp;C21U will host a series of seminars in 2022 to highlight the work of each project team and celebrate their contributions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Strategic Plan asks our campus, locally and globally, to work together to create an inclusive environment that cultivates the well-being of all members of our community,\u0026rdquo; said C21U Interim Executive Director\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Harmon\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Accessibility is a critical piece of this\u0026nbsp;work,\u0026nbsp;and we feel confident that these research projects will\u0026nbsp;expand access and remove barriers to success for current and future Yellow Jackets.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) announced four winning proposals for a new accessibility-focused seed grant research program funded by Microsoft."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2021-08-31 14:58:45","changed_gmt":"2021-08-31 15:06:53","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"131901","name":"Provost"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"603290","name":"The Digital Learning Team"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"188767","name":"GT-Microsoft Accessibility\u00a0Research\u00a0Seed\u00a0Grant\u00a0Program"},{"id":"167679","name":"Seed Grant"},{"id":"360","name":"accessibility"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrittany Aiello\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Program Manager, C21U\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ebrittany@c21u.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brittany@c21u.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"649137":{"#nid":"649137","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Will Help Bring Critical Advancements to Online Learning as Part of Multimillion Dollar NSF Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is a major partner in a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E (NSF) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505686\u0022\u003EArtificial Intelligence Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E focused on adult learning in online education, it was announced today. Led by the Georgia Research Alliance, the National AI Institute for Adult Learning in Online Education (ALOE) is one of 11 new NSF institutes created as part of an investment totaling $220 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ALOE Institute will develop new AI theories and techniques for enhancing the quality of online education for lifelong learning and workforce development. According to some projections, about 100 million American workers will need to be reskilled or upskilled over the next decade. With the increase of AI and automation, said Co-Principal Investigator and Georgia Tech lead Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E, many jobs will be redefined.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There will be some loss of jobs, but mostly we will see individuals needing to learn a new skill to get a new job or to advance their career,\u0026rdquo; said Goel, a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (IC) and the chief scientist with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E (C21U). \u0026ldquo;So, how do you help 100 million workers reskill or upskill in 10 years? Because AI is in part responsible for this need, it is our belief it should also be responsible for finding a solution.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is the goal of this project, which will be led by principal investigator \u003Cstrong\u003EMyk Garn\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant vice chancellor for New Models of Learning at the University System of Georgia and senior advisor to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gra.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Research Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E (GRA).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Online education for adults has enormous implications for tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s workforce,\u0026rdquo; Garn said. \u0026ldquo;Yet, serious questions remain about the quality of online learning and how best to teach adults online. Artificial intelligence offers a powerful technology for dramatically improving the quality of online learning and adult education.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo do that successfully, the education must be personalized and scaled to unprecedented levels. Educating 100 million people in online environments will, of course, require far more time and energy than in-person educators can offer their students. That is where AI comes into play.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers will build new AI techniques that can adequately and efficiently train \u003Cem\u003Eother\u003C\/em\u003E AI agents to interact with humans in a classroom setting, similar to the virtual teaching assistant Jill Watson that Goel has used in his online computer science classes for the past five years. This will help satisfy the scalability requirement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s the fundamental advancement in AI,\u0026rdquo; Goel said. \u0026ldquo;A human can train an AI agent in just a few hours how to teach other AI agents on how to interact with humans on various subjects.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo satisfy the need for personalized AI, researchers will train machines to have a mutual theory of mind with their human counterparts. In other words, there will be a greater understanding by both machine and human of the others\u0026rsquo; needs, knowledge, and expectations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our vision is to develop AI agents that achieve a mutual understanding of learning expectations, outcomes, and methods between students and teachers,\u0026rdquo; said Alex Endert, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E who will help the team analyze and understand data from the project. \u0026ldquo;Along with my students, I look forward to developing visual analytic interfaces that serve that purpose to foster trust and interpretability of AI for this domain.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the hope is that education becomes more available, affordable, achievable, and, thereby, equitable. Such an expansive project, understandably, requires the expertise of many kinds from many people. In addition to Endert and Goel, who will be executive director of the ALOE Institute, there will be a host of faculty at Georgia Tech will participate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Georgia Tech members of the ALOE team include \u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Harmon\u003C\/strong\u003E (Industrial Design and C21U), \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Hoffmann\u003C\/strong\u003E (Public Policy), \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Joyner\u003C\/strong\u003E (Online Master of Science in Computer Science), \u003Cstrong\u003ERuth Kanfer\u003C\/strong\u003E (Psychology), \u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Magerko\u003C\/strong\u003E (Language, Media, and Culture), \u003Cstrong\u003EKeith McGreggor\u003C\/strong\u003E (IC and VentureLab), \u003Cstrong\u003EChaohua Ou\u003C\/strong\u003E (Center for Teaching and Learning), and \u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Rugaber\u003C\/strong\u003E (Computer Science).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther partners in the ALOE Institute include Arizona State University, Drexel University, Georgia State University, Harvard University, the Technical College System of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, IMS Global, Boeing, IBM, and Wiley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-joins-us-national-science-foundation-advance-ai-research-and-education\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech is a key partner in two additional institutes\u003C\/a\u003E in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institute of Food and Agricultures, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science \u0026amp; Technology Directorate, and the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Georgia Tech will lead the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4Opt) and the AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsiveness Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING), the latter of which is led by College of Computing Associate Professor Sonia Chernova to support aging-related issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Led by the Georgia Research Alliance, the National AI Institute for Adult Learning in Online Education (ALOE) is one of 11 new NSF institutes created as part of an investment totaling $220 million."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2021-07-29 15:28:18","changed_gmt":"2021-07-29 15:28:18","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611004":{"id":"611004","type":"image","title":"Online learning stock","body":null,"created":"1536259875","gmt_created":"2018-09-06 18:51:15","changed":"1536259875","gmt_changed":"2018-09-06 18:51:15","alt":"Fingers typing on a laptop keyboard","file":{"fid":"232624","name":"online learning.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/online%20learning.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/online%20learning.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":68702,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/online%20learning.jpg?itok=eYvtr4R2"}}},"media_ids":["611004"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-joins-us-national-science-foundation-advance-ai-research-and-education","title":"Georgia Tech Joins the U.S. National Science Foundation to Advance AI Research and Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"649133":{"#nid":"649133","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Joins the U.S. National Science Foundation to Advance AI Research and Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor decades, the Georgia Institute of Technology has focused on advancing artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary research and education designed to produce leading-edge technologies. Over the next five years, Georgia Tech will make a substantial investment in AI that includes hiring an additional 100 researchers in the field, further solidifying its standing as a leader in the teaching and discovery of machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, Georgia Tech received two National Science Foundation (NSF) Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards, totaling $40 million. A third award for $20 million was granted to the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), with Georgia Tech serving as one of the leading academic institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is essential that we bring together our best minds to ensure that AI delivers on its promise to create a more prosperous, sustainable, safe, and fair future for everyone,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u0026Aacute;ngel Cabrera, president of Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;These NSF awards recognize Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s vast expertise in machine learning and AI and will help us further develop our resources and amplify our impact in these crucial fields.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChaouki T. Abdallah, executive vice president for Research at Georgia Tech, concurred, citing major efforts under development to help create a more robust and inclusive future of AI, both on campus and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are incredibly grateful to the NSF for their investment and excited for the opportunities made possible because of this research,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;At Tech, our mission is to advance technology and improve the human condition, catalyzing research that matters. We invested in a unified approach to interdisciplinary research aligned with industry relevance and societal impact, and these awards demonstrate a clear return on that strategy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollectively, NSF made a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303176\u0022\u003E$220 million investment in 11 new NSF-led Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am delighted to announce the establishment of new NSF National AI Research Institutes as we look to expand into all 50 states,\u0026rdquo; said National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. \u0026ldquo;These Institutes are hubs for academia, industry, and government to accelerate discovery and innovation in AI. Inspiring talent and ideas everywhere in this important area will lead to new capabilities that improve our lives, from medicine to entertainment to transportation and cybersecurity, and position us in the vanguard of competitiveness and prosperity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELed by NSF, and in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u0026rsquo;s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Google, Amazon, Intel, and Accenture, the National AI Research Institutes will act as connections in a broader nationwide network to pursue transformational advances in a range of economic sectors, and science and engineering fields \u0026mdash; from food system security to next-generation edge networks. In addition to Georgia Tech and GRA, the University of California San Diego, Duke University, Iowa State University, North Carolina State University, The Ohio State University, and University of Washington are the lead universities included in the 11 AI Institutes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe AI Institutes at Georgia Tech \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three newly established Institutes will address societal challenges, including home care for aging adults; energy, logistics, and supply chains; sustainability; the widening gap in job opportunities; and changing needs in workforce development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/649114\/new-ai-institute-builds-tech-support-aging\u0022\u003ENSF AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING)\u003C\/a\u003E will seek to create a vibrant discipline focused on personalized, collaborative AI systems that will improve quality of care for the aging. The systems will learn individual models of human behavior and how they change over time and use that knowledge to better collaborate and communicate in caregiving environments. Led by Sonia Chernova, associate professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech, the AI systems will help a growing population of older adults sustain independence, improve quality of life, and increase effectiveness of care coordination across the care network.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The AI-CARING Institute builds on our existing strengths in AI and in technology for aging. It will create not only novel solutions, but a new generation of researchers focused on the interaction between the two,\u0026rdquo; said Charles Isbell, dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair in the College of Computing. \u0026ldquo;Our aim is to build cutting-edge technologies that improve the lives of everyone, and I can\u0026rsquo;t think of a better example than AI-CARING.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news\/team-led-isyes-pascal-van-hentenryck-awarded-20m-nsf-grant-fund-center-study-ai-and\u0022\u003ENSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4Opt)\u003C\/a\u003E will revolutionize decision-making on a large scale \u0026ndash; fusing AI and mathematical optimization into intelligent systems that will achieve breakthroughs that neither field can achieve independently. Additionally, it will create pathways from high school to undergraduate and graduate education and workforce development training for AI in engineering that will empower a generation of underrepresented students and teachers to join the AI revolution. Led by Pascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler III chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, AI4Opt will tackle use cases in energy, resilience and sustainability, supply chains, and circuit design and control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;AI4Opt, with its focus on AI and optimization, will create new pathways for novel tools that allow better engineering applications to benefit society,\u0026rdquo; said Raheem Beyah, dean of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair. \u0026ldquo;This will allow engineers to build\u0026nbsp;higher quality\u0026nbsp;materials, more efficient renewable resources, new computing systems, and more, while also reinforcing the field as a career path for diverse students.\u0026nbsp;The new institute complements the College\u0026rsquo;s commitment to the integration of AI in engineering disciplines.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/news\/649137\/georgia-tech-will-help-bring-critical-advancements-online-learning-part-multimillion\u0022\u003ENSF AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (ALOE)\u003C\/a\u003E will lead the country and the world in the development of novel AI theories and techniques for enhancing the quality of adult online education, making this mode of learning comparable to that of in-person education in STEM disciplines. Together with partners in the technical college systems and educational technology sector, ALOE will advance online learning using virtual assistants to make education more available, affordable, achievable, and ultimately more equitable. This Institute is led by the GRA, with support from Georgia Tech and the University System of Georgia (USG). Ashok Goel, professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, will serve as executive director. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Online education for adults has enormous implications for tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s workforce,\u0026rdquo; said Myk Garn, a GRA senior advisor, assistant vice chancellor for New Models of Learning at the USG, and ALOE\u0026rsquo;s principal investigator. \u0026ldquo;Yet, serious questions remain about the quality of online learning and how best to teach adults online. Artificial intelligence offers a powerful technology for dramatically improving the quality of online learning and adult education.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Future of AI at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is poised to strategically reimagine the future of AI. Currently, 66% of Georgia Tech undergraduate computer science students have an academic concentration in Intelligence, focusing on the top-to-bottom computational models of intelligence. The College of Computing\u0026rsquo;s recently launched Ph.D. program in machine learning pulls from faculty in all six colleges across the Institute, and many new courses are being developed that teach AI as a tool for science and engineering. Georgia Tech is exploring the potential creation of a school or college of AI within the next five years, further building on its expansive AI and machine learning footprint. The NSF AI Institutes awards will enable all AI-related academic programs to scale and further differentiate Georgia Tech as a leader in AI education.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the awards will expand and complement ongoing AI research efforts at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). In the last fiscal year, GTRI received millions of dollars in research awards from the Department of Defense and other sponsors for AI-affiliated research, and currently, many GTRI researchers are focused on AI-affiliated projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As part of Georgia Tech, GTRI will greatly benefit from the advances in AI that will be achieved as a result of these NSF-funded Institutes, helping us further excel in our aim to deliver leading-edge AI research that benefits national security,\u0026rdquo; said Mark Whorton, GTRI\u0026rsquo;s chief technology officer. \u0026ldquo;GTRI is one of the nation\u0026rsquo;s leading institutes of applied research for national security specifically because of our deep engagement and close affiliation with the academic units of Georgia Tech. AI is a tool we use in conducting larger research objectives, and we believe strongly that these AI Institutes will enable GTRI to put more research into practice.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech has for decades now been pursuing new AI technologies, and now leads the way in AI that is responsible to the needs of the humans who use it,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;We have also worked hard to expand access to AI, especially for underrepresented groups. These Institutes will build on that history, expanding both our ability to create new technologies and to train the next generation of innovators. I look forward to watching them grow and develop.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is a top 10 public research university developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute offers business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences degrees. Its nearly 40,000 students, representing 50 states and 149 countries, study at the main campus in Atlanta, at campuses in France and China, and through distance and online learning.\u0026nbsp;As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech is an engine of economic development for Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, conducting more than $1 billion in research annually for government, industry, and society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the National Science Foundation \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. National Science Foundation propels the nation forward by advancing fundamental research in all fields of science and engineering. NSF supports research and people by providing facilities, instruments, and funding to support their ingenuity and sustain the U.S. as a global leader in research and innovation. With a fiscal year 2021 budget of $8.5 billion, NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities, and institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 40,000 competitive proposals and makes about 11,000 new awards. Those awards include support for cooperative research with industry, Arctic and Antarctic research and operations, and U.S. participation in international scientific efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Research Alliance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) helps Georgia\u0026rsquo;s university scientists do more research and start more companies. By expanding research and entrepreneurship capacity at public and private universities, GRA grows the Georgia economy by driving more investment in the state, developing a high-tech workforce, and strengthening Georgia\u0026rsquo;s reputation for innovation.\u0026nbsp;For 30 years, GRA has worked in partnership with the University System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development to create the companies and jobs of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s future. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gra.org\/\u0022\u003EGRA.org\u003C\/a\u003E for more information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EContact: Georgia Parmelee | \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:georgia.parmelee@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egeorgia.parmelee@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E | 404.281.7818\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech received two National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards, totaling $40 million. Over the next five years, Georgia Tech will make a substantial investment in AI that includes hiring an additional 100 researchers in the field, further solidifying its standing as a leader in the teaching and discovery of machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Today, Georgia Tech received two National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards, totaling $40 million."}],"uid":"34602","created_gmt":"2021-07-29 15:00:39","changed_gmt":"2021-08-06 16:23:40","author":"Georgia Parmelee","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649130":{"id":"649130","type":"image","title":"AI map","body":null,"created":"1627568719","gmt_created":"2021-07-29 14:25:19","changed":"1627568719","gmt_changed":"2021-07-29 14:25:19","alt":"map of AI institutes in US","file":{"fid":"246448","name":"AI_map.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AI_map.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AI_map.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":422470,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AI_map.jpg?itok=M0IGxegq"}},"649128":{"id":"649128","type":"image","title":"PIs for AI Institues","body":null,"created":"1627568604","gmt_created":"2021-07-29 14:23:24","changed":"1627576219","gmt_changed":"2021-07-29 16:30:19","alt":"Pascal Van Hentenryck and Sonia Chernova","file":{"fid":"246446","name":"nsf graphic-740px[52].jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nsf%20graphic-740px%5B52%5D.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nsf%20graphic-740px%5B52%5D.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":120078,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nsf%20graphic-740px%5B52%5D.jpg?itok=cc88Xsh2"}},"649129":{"id":"649129","type":"image","title":"Ashok headshot","body":null,"created":"1627568645","gmt_created":"2021-07-29 14:24:05","changed":"1627572766","gmt_changed":"2021-07-29 15:32:46","alt":"Ashok Goel headshot","file":{"fid":"246447","name":"ashok headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashok%20headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashok%20headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36870,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashok%20headshot.jpg?itok=VpzipVLY"}}},"media_ids":["649130","649128","649129"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1276","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"187023","name":"go-data"},{"id":"188087","name":"go-irim"},{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"},{"id":"173894","name":"ML@GT"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Parmelee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ngeorgia.parmelee@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["georgia.parmelee@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"639389":{"#nid":"639389","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF Convergence Accelerator Awards Second Round of Funding to Eduworks, Georgia Tech, USG, Credential Engine for $5 Million Competency Catalyst Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Competency Catalyst, an initiative focused on innovative tools for workforce reskilling and led by partners including Eduworks Corporation (Eduworks), Georgia Tech, and the University System of Georgia (USG), as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/announcements\/090320.jsp\u0022\u003Eone of nine teams selected to receive Phase II Convergence Accelerator funding\u003C\/a\u003E. Over two years, Competency Catalyst will receive $5 million in funding from the NSF Convergence Accelerator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Phase I Convergence Accelerator cohort was announced in 2019 and included the Competency Catalyst team as one of 43 projects to receive Phase I funding. The Phase II cohort includes just nine teams of the original 43 and will provide Competency Catalyst with up to $5 million in funding for prototype development and pilot projects. During the two years of Phase II funding, the Competency Catalyst team, which includes Eduworks, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U), USG, and the Credential Engine, will develop prototypes of digital tools to support critical workforce reskilling in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The unpredictability of the job market over the past year has prompted many people to consider their current career trajectory and skills,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-PI and chief scientist for C21U. \u0026ldquo;It is critical that we leverage technology to develop better tools to sync up employers and educators so that job seekers have clear paths to reskilling. This type of tool is exactly what we hope to develop through the Competency Catalyst project.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the next two years, Competency Catalyst will create two digital resources to support reskilling \u0026ndash; a Skillsync application and a C2 platform. The Skillsync application enables companies to succinctly express reskilling needs for their workforce. This information is then distilled to colleges and universities so that they can design accelerated educational programs with the needed skills as specific learning outcomes. The Skillsync application is built on the C2 platform, which is designed to better describe and align job requirements and opportunities for reskilling in specific knowledge, skill, and ability (KSA) terminology. Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Jill Watson AI-based educational assistant, the Credential Engine\u0026rsquo;s open data infrastructure, and Eduworks\u0026rsquo; digital competency extraction tools and open-source Competency and Skills System (CaSS) will provide the framework for these two innovative new tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The pairing of C2 and Skillsync will empower direct, real-time communication between companies and education providers through an AI-powered digital tool,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Lisle\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of digital learning technologies for C21U and member of the Competency Catalyst development team. \u0026ldquo;We believe that this will have an immediate and positive impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of reskilling America\u0026rsquo;s workforce.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis Convergence Accelerator Phase II Grant is overseen by the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s Convergence Accelerator Program in the Office of Integrative Activities and is associated with the Convergence Accelerator topic area of AI and Future Jobs, and National Talent Ecosystem.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can read more about the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s Convergence Accelerator Grant program and find the list of grant recipients in their September 2020 announcement, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/announcements\/090320.jsp\u0022\u003EAccelerating research to impact society at scale\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOver two years, Competency Catalyst will receive $5 million in funding from the NSF Convergence Accelerator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Over two years, Competency Catalyst will receive $5 million in funding from the NSF Convergence Accelerator."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2020-09-22 14:44:25","changed_gmt":"2020-09-22 18:05:57","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639390":{"id":"639390","type":"image","title":"NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase II Funding for Competency Catalyst","body":null,"created":"1600786086","gmt_created":"2020-09-22 14:48:06","changed":"1600786086","gmt_changed":"2020-09-22 14:48:06","alt":"Accelerating Solutions Toward Societal Impact  - 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The project\u0026rsquo;s collaborative team of industry and academic experts will utilize RAPID grant funding to develop and deploy web-based tools that individuals and employers can use to explore healthcare-related competency frameworks, self-identify skill gaps, and find credentials and training.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our goal is to encourage people with many of the right skills to become credentialed health care providers and fill in-demand health care roles,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ERobby Robson\u003C\/strong\u003E, the principal investigator from Eduworks. \u0026ldquo;These skills might come from previous experiences, such as military service or a volunteer job, and we want to give learners an easy way to explore their potential and gain the training and qualifications they need.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 2018 report, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/provost.gatech.edu\/cne-home\u0022\u003EDeliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; points to continued innovation in credentialing as a critical path forward for higher education, as universities must provide future learners with relevant educational experiences designed to meet learners\u0026rsquo; needs at specific moments in their career or life. Similarly, employers need tools that enable them to coordinate with universities to provide ready access to courses and credential programs that enable critical workforce development in moments of great change. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry is experiencing such a moment of great change and there is an immediate need for education and credentialing opportunities that will support a new pipeline of qualified healthcare workers and providers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we can build a tool that allows health care workers to easily discover the skills they need in order to fill in-demand roles, we can play a small but meaningful role during the COVID-19 crisis,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Lisle\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of digital learning technologies for the Center for 21st Century Universities. \u0026ldquo;Not only that, but these tools will provide a useful framework as we prepare for the potential of future pandemics or medical crises.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis RAPID Grant is overseen by the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s Convergence Accelerator Program in the Office of Integrative Activities and is associated with the Convergence Accelerator Track B: Future of Work and the Human-Technology Frontier.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can read more about the National Science Foundation\u0026rsquo;s RAPID Response Grant program and response to COVID-19 in its April 2020 announcement, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/announcements\/041720.jsp\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation awards rapid response grants to support coronavirus (COVID-19) research\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eduworks Corporation (Eduworks) and the University System of Georgia\u2019s Bridging the Health Care Skill Gap project is a recipient of a NSF RAPID grant."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2020-06-19 13:46:49","changed_gmt":"2020-06-19 13:56:33","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"636347":{"id":"636347","type":"image","title":"NSF Convergence Accelerator RAPID Grant Awarded to USG, Eduworks for Bridging the Health Care Skill Gap - Image","body":null,"created":"1592574612","gmt_created":"2020-06-19 13:50:12","changed":"1592574612","gmt_changed":"2020-06-19 13:50:12","alt":"An image of a female health care professional on the left and a male health care professional on the right, providing intensive care to a patient. 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DeMillo\u0026rsquo;s second book, \u003Cem\u003ERevolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable\u003C\/em\u003E, was named as a best education book of 2016 by the Association of American Publishers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo has a long history with Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in information and computer science from Georgia Tech in 1972. He then taught as a member of the faculty from 1976 to 1987, before departing for roles in business, academia, and government, including the National Science Foundation and HP. He returned to Georgia Tech in 2002 and served as the John P. Imlay Dean of Computing in the College of Computing until 2009. Under his tenure as dean, the College achieved top-10 ranking status and launched the Threads Curriculum, which drew international acclaim for its dynamic, new approach to undergraduate education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;After 18 years of university administration \u0026mdash; first as director of Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), then dean, then founder and executive director of C21U \u0026mdash; I\u0026rsquo;ve decided that it\u0026rsquo;s time to get back to teaching and research as a professor,\u0026rdquo; said DeMillo. \u0026ldquo;I will spend a substantial amount of my remaining years at Georgia Tech finishing long-delayed writing and research projects in computer science and cybersecurity. The opportunity to help lead educational innovation at my alma mater has been one of the highlights of my career.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEffective immediately, Steve Harmon, who serves as C21U\u0026rsquo;s director of educational innovation and associate dean of research at Georgia Tech Professional Education (GTPE) has been appointed deputy director of C21U, and will assist with operational objectives through the end of June.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA plan for the future leadership of C21U will be determined in the coming months.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERich DeMillo, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Universities (C21U) will step down from the role, effective June 30, and return to a faculty position.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Rich DeMillo will step down from C21U and return to a faculty position. 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The group has released a co-authored report that charts a viable path to developing such infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith contributors from 12 universities across the globe, the Digital Credentials Consortium\u0026rsquo;s new white paper, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/digitalcredentials.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/white-paper-building-digital-credential-infrastructure-future.pdf\u0022\u003EBuilding the digital credential infrastructure for the future\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, outlines a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that provides viable standards for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying digital academic credentials. While the Consortium\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on verified digital academic credentials in higher education, the group also turns a critical lens to interoperability standards for post-secondary, lifelong learning, and non-formal education providers, which extends to credentials for the workplace.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) serves as the Institute\u0026rsquo;s Digital Credentials Consortium liaison and key collaborating unit. The new report features C21U\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Lisle\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of digital learning technologies, and \u003Cstrong\u003EStuart Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E, applications developer, as key contributing authors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;C21U and the Commission on Creating the Next in Education have experimented with blockchain-based credentials for the past year and we are enthusiastic about the opportunity to collaborate with world-class researchers and technologists to build something that is interoperable across institutional boundaries,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EFreeman\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech is excited to be part of the Digital Credentials Consortium and to contribute to a report that seeks to define crucial standards for the future of digital credentials.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Cem\u003EBuilding the digital credential infrastructure for the future\u003C\/em\u003E, the authors reiterate the group\u0026rsquo;s commitment to open source and open standards. The report outlines additional credential standards that the Consortium sees as critical to the development of verifiable digital credentials, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFlexible ways to express the identities of issuers and learners that tie into existing university services\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStronger privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default with attention to regional legal frameworks\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMore reliable revocation mechanisms and credential lifecycle management\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDirect learner agency over one\u0026#39;s lifelong learning record\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EHigher level of consistency between the machine-readable data of the credential, the human-readable visual representation, and the necessary output formats\u0026mdash;paper or digital\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve set our sights on the design and governance of a technology infrastructure for academic credentials \u0026ndash; transforming credentials into tokens of social and human capital that can create new opportunities for participation in education and industry,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EPhilipp Schmidt\u003C\/strong\u003E, advisor to the Vice President of Open Learning at MIT. \u0026ldquo;Our report marks the first step in the process.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the Digital Credentials Consortium\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC) was founded in 2018 by leading universities with expertise in the design of verifiable digital academic credentials. Driven by a mission to create a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that becomes the standard for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying digital academic credentials, the DCC\u0026rsquo;s goal is to contribute to an education landscape that increases learner agency and promotes more equitable learning and career pathways. While the Consortium is primarily concerned with use-cases in higher education, their work is also part of a broader effort to bridge post-secondary and lifelong learning, connecting traditional institutions of higher education, non-formal education providers, as well as the workplace, through interoperable standards. Learn more at digitalcredentials.mit.edu.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFounding Members, Digital Credentials Consortium\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDelft University of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHarvard University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMcMaster University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETecnol\u0026oacute;gico De Monterrey\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETechnical University of Munich\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUniversity of California, Berkeley\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUniversity of California, Irvine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUniversity of Milano-Bicocca\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUniversity of Toronto\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the Center for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) is Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s living laboratory for fundamental change in education. As learners of all ages encounter rapidly changing workforce demands and seek to learn in new ways, Georgia Tech is committed to leading the initiatives that will define the next generation of educational practices and technologies. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EC21U functions as a research arm of the Office of the Provost and works in tandem with campus administrators and faculty to identify, develop, and test new educational platforms and methodologies. Now home to the Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE) Program Office, C21U fosters projects that will redefine the entire pipeline of learning. This effort requires close collaboration with and integration of K-12 education as a key part of our commitment to lifetime education. Innovation in this area is led by the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELearn more at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ec21u.gatech.edu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E or connect with us on Twitter \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/C21U\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E@c21u\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. 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Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ai.xprize.org\/prizes\/artificial-intelligence\/teams\/emprize\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EemPrize team\u003C\/a\u003E, led by Professor of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel \u003C\/strong\u003Eand utilizing Jill Watson as the key technology, was named as one of the semifinalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition started in 2016, the year of Jill\u0026rsquo;s arrival in a graduate computer science\u0026nbsp;course at Georgia Tech, and has \u0026ldquo;sought to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies and spark creative, innovative, and audacious demonstrations of the technology that are truly scalable to solve societal grand challenges.\u0026rdquo; After nearly four calendar years, XPrize will name a winner in April.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the GT emPrize team\u0026rsquo;s work, the Jill Watson TA not only answers student questions about course requirements but can answer questions about another AI named \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vera.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVERA\u003C\/a\u003E, or the Virtual Ecological Research Assistant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJill helps users learn how to use VERA, a system which enables students in GT\u0026rsquo;s Intro to Biology course (and online science seekers) to create their own ecological models from\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;web browser. Unlike the Jill Watson TA, which is currently used only by GT students, VERA is open to anyone with an internet connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother part of emPrize\u0026nbsp;is the Jill Social Agent, whose lead designer, \u003Cstrong\u003EIda Camacho\u003C\/strong\u003E, is a recent\u0026nbsp;alumna of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Online Master of Science in Computer Science program (OMSCS) and understands the pressures and uncertainties of online learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Jill Social Agent in essence gives students just starting online courses a chance at \u0026ldquo;speed friending\u0026rdquo;. If online students feel they have more peer support and connections from the start, this might\u0026nbsp;translate into success in the course. Hear from Camacho on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/10751784\/tu-ep10-jill-social-ai-online-learninG\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETech Unbound podcast with GVU Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as she reveals some of her AI\u0026rsquo;s design and the educational experience that informed her work on emPrize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/emprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/emprize.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or explore a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/JillWatsonTurns4\/Dashboard?:display_count=y\u0026amp;:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etimeline of Jill\u0026#39;s evolution\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJill Watson \u0026ndash; Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s AI designed explicitly for answering student questions about specific courses\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; turned four years old this January, with the AI\u0026rsquo;s birthday coinciding with the announcement of the 10 semifinalists for IBM\u0026rsquo;s AI XPrize competition. Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s emprize team, led by Professor of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel \u003C\/strong\u003Eand utilizing Jill Watson as the key technology, was named as one of the semifinalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jill Watson \u2013 Georgia Tech\u2019s AI designed explicitly for answering student questions about specific courses - was named as one of 10 semifinalists in IBM\u2019s AI XPrize competition."}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2020-01-30 17:43:15","changed_gmt":"2020-01-30 18:04:26","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631547":{"id":"631547","type":"image","title":"Timeline: Jill Watson AI at 4","body":null,"created":"1579883925","gmt_created":"2020-01-24 16:38:45","changed":"1580406385","gmt_changed":"2020-01-30 17:46:25","alt":"Timeline: Jill Watson AI at 4yo","file":{"fid":"240330","name":"Jill Timeline at 4yo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jill%20Timeline%20at%204yo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jill%20Timeline%20at%204yo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":743294,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jill%20Timeline%20at%204yo.png?itok=DDqVaflK"}}},"media_ids":["631547"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Preston\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearch Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EGVU Center and College of Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"630793":{"#nid":"630793","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Excel Program Moved to the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEffective Jan. 1, Expanding Career, Education, and Leadership (Excel at Georgia Tech) has become a unit within the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), a restructure that moves the program out of the Scheller College of Business and into a centralized unit within the Office of the Provost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcel at Georgia Tech was founded in 2014 by Professor Terry Blum, Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship and faculty director for the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE) in the Scheller College of Business. The four-year program is designed as an inclusive postsecondary educational (IPSE) program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Excel students are integrated into many aspects of the undergraduate student experience, and with the support of same-aged peer mentors, they strengthen their independent academic, social, fitness, and cooking skills. Upon completion of the program, students receive two separate certificates: Academic Enrichment, Social Fluency, and Career Exploration; and Social Growth, Leadership, and Career Development. Since inception, the program has been organizationally housed within the ILE, with curriculum and certification support provided by Georgia Tech Professional Education (GTPE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe organizational move follows the recommendations of a small institutionalization task force convened by Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Rafael L. Bras in Spring 2019. The task force, chaired by Steven Girardot, associate vice provost for Undergraduate Education, spent several months assessing program objectives and meeting with campus stakeholders including faculty and staff from GTPE, the Scheller College of Business, Student Life and Campus Services, Enrollment Management, Undergraduate Education, CEISMC, and the College of Sciences, as well as members of the Excel Student Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The task force affirmed that the Excel program is well-established and thriving,\u0026rdquo; said Bras. \u0026ldquo;The program is exceptional and has become a part of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s fabric as an institution. This move to a centralized unit will allow us to best ensure its long-term security, sustainability, and success.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcel is one of nine IPSE programs in Georgia and represents one of more than 270 similar programs at colleges and universities across the United States. The first cohort of Excel students began in Fall 2015. As of the last academic term, 38 students were enrolled. In May 2019, seven students received certificates, representing the program\u0026rsquo;s inaugural graduates. Notably, the program has achieved 100% placement of graduates into employment opportunities, compared to an average of approximately 60% by other programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs CEISMC, under the leadership of Executive Director Lizanne DeStefano, takes programmatic and curricular elements of the program, GTPE will continue to contribute to the program\u0026rsquo;s business operations. While newly aligned organizational operations within CEISMC will commence immediately under a transition plan, a physical move will take place at a later date.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Scheller College of Business has been a wonderful home for Excel for the past five years,\u0026rdquo; said Ken Surdin, director of Excel. \u0026ldquo;The faculty, staff, and students of the College have been true champions of the program and its students. But the organizational move to CEISMC does present a great opportunity for the future of the program as we look forward.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EExcel at Georgia Tech has been restructured into CEISMC, moving the program out of the Scheller College of Business, and into a centralized unit within the Office of the Provost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Excel at Georgia Tech has been restructured into CEISMC, moving the program out of the Scheller College of Business, and into a centralized unit within the Office of the Provost."}],"uid":"27165","created_gmt":"2020-01-08 19:29:39","changed_gmt":"2021-07-07 14:36:49","author":"Susie Ivy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"630808":{"id":"630808","type":"image","title":"Excel at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1578576121","gmt_created":"2020-01-09 13:22:01","changed":"1578576121","gmt_changed":"2020-01-09 13:22:01","alt":"Excel at Georgia Tech graduates 2019","file":{"fid":"240126","name":"Excel at Georgia Tech graduates 2019.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Excel%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20graduates%202019.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Excel%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20graduates%202019.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":792378,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Excel%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%20graduates%202019.jpeg?itok=2yrF1i_6"}}},"media_ids":["630808"],"groups":[{"id":"131901","name":"Provost"},{"id":"361651","name":"Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC)"},{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"},{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6946","name":"Excel"},{"id":"411","name":"CEISMC"},{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E404-385-3884\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:excel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eexcel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["excel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628100":{"#nid":"628100","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Commission on Creating the Next in Education Wins AECT Annual Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/provost.gatech.edu\/commission-creating-next-education\u0022\u003ECommission on Creating the Next in Education\u003C\/a\u003E (CNE) has been named the 2019 winner of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual Achievement Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;AECT\u0026#39;s Annual Achievement Award is presented to an individual or group whose efforts resulted in a significant contribution to the advancement of educational communications and technology,\u0026rdquo; stipulates the AECT website. \u0026ldquo;The achievement is defined as high profile usually connected to a public event or announcement. It can be an enhanced or new program or service, a creative or large-scale application of educational technology, a significant publication or production, major changes in planning and practice, and other accomplishments that have occurred usually no more than two years in advance of the award presentation at annual convention.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Commission\u0026rsquo;s 2018 report, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/deliberate_innovation_lifetime_education.pdf\u0022\u003EDeliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; was named as the winner of the AECT award due to its potential to reshape not only the immediate future of Georgia Tech, but to reimagine the successful research university of the future. Produced by the Office of the Provost in conjunction with a cross-unit leadership and faculty group convened for this specific task, the final report of the Commission was the result of a multi-year investigation into the powerful forces that are reshaping higher education, an assessment of the Institute\u0026rsquo;s current methodologies and approaches, and a benchmarking of best practices in higher education, including issues of delivery and accessibility. This extensive process was co-chaired by the College of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s Bonnie Ferri and the Center for 21st Century Universities\u0026rsquo; (C21U) Rich DeMillo, who now oversees the CNE Program Office within C21U.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award was accepted in Las Vegas, Nevada at the 2019 AECT Convention by the Center for 21st Century Universities\u0026rsquo; Steve Harmon, on behalf of the Commission.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIf you would like to find out more about the Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE) or become involved in the Commission\u0026rsquo;s work, please email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ed-innovation@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eed-innovation@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE) has been named the 2019 winner of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual Achievement Award."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2019-10-25 20:10:33","changed_gmt":"2019-10-25 20:12:54","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628102":{"id":"628102","type":"image","title":"CNE Wins 2019 AECT Award - Graphic","body":null,"created":"1572034352","gmt_created":"2019-10-25 20:12:32","changed":"1572034352","gmt_changed":"2019-10-25 20:12:32","alt":"Image of Tech Tower with text that reads, \u00222019 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Achievement Award - Winner: Georgia Tech\u0027s Commission on Creating the Next in Education","file":{"fid":"239178","name":"CNE - 2019 Winner AECT Annual Achievement Award (1).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CNE%20-%202019%20Winner%20AECT%20Annual%20Achievement%20Award%20%281%29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CNE%20-%202019%20Winner%20AECT%20Annual%20Achievement%20Award%20%281%29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":617019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CNE%20-%202019%20Winner%20AECT%20Annual%20Achievement%20Award%20%281%29.png?itok=mvoYaBy5"}}},"media_ids":["628102"],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"},{"id":"131901","name":"Provost"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172565","name":"CNE"},{"id":"168561","name":"Commission on Creating the Next in Education"},{"id":"172807","name":"Steve Harmon"},{"id":"9213","name":"Office of the Provost"},{"id":"182809","name":"AECT"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrittany Aiello\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Program Manager, C21U\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ebrittany@c21u.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brittany@c21u.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"627983":{"#nid":"627983","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Transformation-Ready Institution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe higher education landscape continues to be immersed in change, with institutions navigating declines in federal and state funding, increased competition, and a shrinking, yet more diverse, student population. As competition in higher education continues to intensify, college and university leaders face a growing sense of urgency to prepare for the future and transform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether, the Georgia Institute of Technology, American Council on Education (ACE), and Huron surveyed nearly 500 leaders at four-year, nonprofit colleges and universities to better understand how they are preparing for the inevitable change and disruption.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe collective research, shared in a report titled \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/wf\/click?upn=G62jSYfZdO-2F12d8lSllQB5rWv6sVopNM-2FnDMKjUff8xB2P18CedqgYaQJ-2Bf-2BAzLiml8tXA9W5ALPjVMHFar-2FvG8yALQag6rfiSIxafNuGmXHyLxZ8t2GipvNrpW2cSZBgBLuVUKF2dZP9r8HU5x76TYHQfkoxbj8h-2FQDi0EAGik-3D_-2BuEy5roDJHWHxsENVIa2GZFIMz1uxORrgV6ltCD5IzLHBXEikg75yMF8d-2BXXEXhP-2F8ryAvDsxKILb89a3eUaMAQ9vcb49vjxX6d0LAk4Dm8TAMjfhZ-2BTmv84vZ-2Fn19VFgLGoQJGjTabXfE1IQcy4kA7WZkl7a1ACTkcG1Dom7fYYTzQNB2xrHD-2FCZGjq7laby-2Fy-2BfUkAj95Fu7-2FQb14ne2vadQFpYc1tc8C0ggcRR7SoPgA9UkMrF0DIp0fAyHczFlLGmnVL8TecMjo8j7Fphukd7jIBcahlidohPk34Fz-2BPe4SAjU33cjrPwNDX7R6vOVYzjfp9EwiNwsX312La9ZloHYU8dYlGMhUXQ6R7r2Q-3D\u0022\u003EThe Transformation-Ready Higher Education Institution: How Leaders Can Prepare for and Promote Change\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026quot; revealed that very few higher education leaders are highly confident that their institutions are prepared to respond to these changing market forces. Additionally, leaders are challenged by public perceptions of the value of higher education and increased competition for students both domestically and internationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Higher education leaders have our work cut out for us,\u0026quot; remarks Dr. \u0026Aacute;ngel Cabrera, president of Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026quot;This joint research underscores the opportunity and available tools we have to evolve our institutions and reinforce their essential role in our communities.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENelson Baker, dean of Georgia Tech Professional Education, and Richard DeMillo, executive director of the Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Center for 21st Century Universities, were among the key contributors behind the report. As part of the Educational Innovation Ecosystem at Georgia Tech, their units help to lead and guide the educational innovation mission for the institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReport Highlights:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFew higher education leaders are highly confident that their institutions are adequately prepared for changing market forces.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELeaders have more confidence about the future at institutions with longer planning horizons and integrated performance management structures.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA majority of institutions are planning three to five years out with less than 20% planning 10 years or beyond.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFour transformation-readiness imperatives:\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EEmpowering and promoting a shared leadership model\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EPlanning differently for the immediate- and long-term\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003EPursuing data-driven performance management\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003ECreating student-first engines to meet new demand\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a Strong Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is no universal solution for how institutions can successfully evolve the higher education business model. The report suggests creating a culture of shared leadership that considers multiple perspectives rather than a single person or governing body. This model can help institutions prepare and be nimble enough to respond to these changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost leaders recognize changes are needed to respond to the competitive landscape and acknowledge these investments should align with the evolving student population, with the majority of respondents indicating they are rapidly overhauling their academic programs, investing in technological improvements, and expanding online offerings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The fastest growing population in higher education is adult learners, now comprising nearly half of the total learner population. Working professionals have vastly different needs than those of the traditional student,\u0026rdquo; said Baker. \u0026ldquo;That shift coupled with the fact that technology allows us to provide educational opportunities on a global scale makes it imperative that we plan more strategically and prioritize agility in order to meet the needs of learners today and in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet only 14% of the leaders planning technology investments have strategic technology management integrated across their institutions\u0026mdash;suggesting a potential gap between intentions and leadership\u0026rsquo;s capacity to realize the value of these investments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Many institutions subscribe to planning models that were built for a different time and a different competitive market,\u0026rdquo; said Peter Stokes, managing director in Huron\u0026rsquo;s education business. \u0026ldquo;To become truly transformation-ready, institutions\u0026rsquo; short- and long-term planning efforts should link directly to the needs of increasingly empowered, discerning audiences for whom higher education is not simply a next step after high school.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s Role in Transformation Readiness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELeaders that consider a long-term, yet adaptive, strategic planning approach can better anticipate these market trends and make the necessary changes to thrive now and in the future. Yet only 16% of the survey respondents are looking 10 years or beyond in terms of strategic planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn April 2018, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Office of the Provost released\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/cne-home\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDeliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education\u003C\/a\u003E, a report that explores the future of higher education. 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Beginning in Spring 2019, the Strategic Plan advisory process, as guided by SPAG, will pivot to consult on the CNE Program Office\u0026rsquo;s efforts to seek out faculty, staff, and student engagement in Institute-wide projects and initiatives that will define Georgia Tech as a leading research institution, propelled by \u0026ldquo;progress and service.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Campus engagement is a critical factor in the success of strategic initiatives at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said David Frost, chair of SPAG and a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. \u0026ldquo;In the years since SPAG was established, our organization has played a critical role in engaging the Georgia Tech community in institutionalizing this plan. Going forward, we are excited about seeing that same enthusiasm and level of engagement accomplished by the CNE Program Office as it works to partner with faculty, staff, and students to advance an innovative education vision for the Institute\u0026rdquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the publication of the CNE report, Institute leadership\u0026rsquo;s focus has shifted to implementation of many of the ideas and projects outlined in the report. The creation and growth of the CNE Program Office will advance initiatives in focus areas such as flexible learning experiences, new tools for modern advising practices, and early achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We need to foster a campus culture that encourages educational innovation and provides pathways to pilot such ideas,\u0026rdquo; said Rich DeMillo, executive director of C21U and the CNE Program Office. \u0026ldquo;The CNE report describes a new approach for taking deliberate, targeted actions at the organizational, team, and individual levels to create a culture of innovation. 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Repetitive activities would be either automated or outsourced to a single institution within the system, enabling the other campuses to focus resources on more strategic activities. Examples of shared activities: career services, international recruitment, academic advising, legal affairs\u003Ca name=\u0022_SG_7b70df4fc07445a8bc052b3c696f90ab\u0022\u003E, and\u003C\/a\u003E information security.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExample: The University System of Georgia has started the OneUSG initiative to develop and put in place streamlined policies, procedures\u003Ca name=\u0022_SG_4709f74a91d14bf8b94d1edd9a63e9ed\u0022\u003E and\u003C\/a\u003E technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Experiential University\u003C\/em\u003E: Institutions would integrate work experiences into the curriculum, with students toggling between long stretches in the classroom and the work world related to their area of study. 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It would guarantee a certain level of funding from the state over multiple years in exchange for agreements from colleges for tuition limits, cost savings, increased collaboration and consolidation, and private fundraising. Businesses and other employers would also provide insights on curriculum, financial assistance for equipment, and other essential resources.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExample: Maryland\u0026rsquo;s Effectiveness and Efficiency Initiative saved $94 million at its 11-campus system and froze tuition for three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Adopting elements of one or more of these models would require input and collaboration across a diverse set of stakeholders as well as strong leadership,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey J. 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An effective leader will help to design the blueprint for the state\u0026rsquo;s higher educational system and animate the university community to help build and embrace the vision.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA new focus for the university system office: The university system office would need to transition their focus from reporting and compliance to helping to define and measure success by establishing common data structures across the system, providing tools to monitor progress and support decisions, and conducting active communication between the central office and institutions\u003Ca name=\u0022_SG_95d5c1beeaeb4088a954224c6208c56f\u0022\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003EThis additional level of responsibility will demand a concomitant level of authority and funding allocation.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAn institutional culture that puts students at the center: When the needs of the student are at the forefront, decisions about where to invest and focus can be made more clearly, supporting areas that meet student demand. This line of thinking can help to direct investments needed to hire faculty, expand degree\/credential offerings, and invest in new technology.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ENew financial models and incentives: As universities innovate, evolve, and collaborate more frequently within and across a system, the operational changes can affect the current funding model. Analysis would need to be done to rethink how to allocate revenues and costs across the system, and create clear incentives to develop new programs designed to meet the needs of today\u0026rsquo;s and tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s economic realities.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EClear and frequent communication: Change in higher education is fraught with peril\u003Ca name=\u0022_SG_ccbfccb28e194e1f87769fa5629256bc\u0022\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003EMany change initiatives fail to take hold due to lack of stakeholder and leadership buy-in\u003Ca name=\u0022_SG_561177663436419eafd554f8b3443761\u0022\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003EFrequent and clear communication \u0026ndash; painting a picture of the change imperative but also the vision of the improved future state \u0026ndash; is a prerequisite to successfully implementing the difficult change outlined in the report.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe report also includes an analysis of 565 state institutions\u0026rsquo; publicly available strategic plans using text analytics with top focus areas, including: research, enrollment, facilities\/building and programs and offerings. 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educational experience is not an uncommon one.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student grew up in California, where she attended an exclusive high school populated, more or less, by students of privilege who had the time and resources to engage with educators, devote themselves to their studies, and ultimately come out of high school with the skills necessary for academic success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Gonzales wasn\u0026rsquo;t like most of her classmates. It took a lot of effort on both her and her mom\u0026rsquo;s part to make her time in high school a success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach day, Gonzales woke up at 4:30 a.m. so that her mom could take her to school in time to make it to work early in the morning. She made it to the high school about an hour and a half early every day and then, after school, went straight to her job at a t-shirt printing shop. There, Gonzales worked evenings to earn money to help supplement her family\u0026rsquo;s income, a practice she continued when she attended the University of California, Irvine. She paid her own student loans and sent money home to help her family make ends meet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool, she said, was like an obstacle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As much as I loved it, it was limiting,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t have a computer. It became a restriction. There was no way for me to catch up because I was already so far behind on access.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGonzales\u0026rsquo; story can be told by millions of other Americans. For most, that\u0026rsquo;s where the story ends \u0026ndash; an educational deficit never closed because of a lack of access and resources. For her, though, that experience has served as inspiration for her research into the benefits and pitfalls of online educational environments. Gonzales believes that online learning has potential to reach students who, like herself, had limited access to one of the fundamental components of education: time. Online learning has opened up opportunities for students to learn asynchronously from one another, allowing them to participate in courses as their schedules allow for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDegrees like the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program, which has made enormous breakthroughs and turned online learning on its head, aim to broaden access to these types of students. Many in Gonzales\u0026rsquo; position are unable to achieve similar results in traditional education. In theory, by making quality education available online, online learning could provide the same opportunity to those underserved communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut what are the properties of a flourishing online classroom? Why do they work? Who do they work for? And, ultimately, how can the academic community design environments that provide access to quality higher education for all?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarissa, meet Jill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGonzales came to Georgia Tech in 2016 to pursue her Ph.D. after graduating from Irvine with a degree in informatics, concentrating on human-computer interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen she arrived, she approached Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E, who had just achieved \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/When-the-Teaching-Assistant-Is\/238114\u0022\u003Einternational attention for Jill Watson\u003C\/a\u003E, an artificially intelligent teaching assistant that answered students\u0026rsquo; questions in the online section of his Knowledge-Based AI class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I literally just took (Goel) aside and said, \u0026lsquo;Look, I\u0026rsquo;m interested in your work,\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; Gonzales said. \u0026ldquo;\u0026lsquo;I really like this concept going with the virtual TA, and I\u0026rsquo;d like to help.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInitially, she saw the opportunity as one to evaluate the system. How did it affect the students? Was it helping them become more engaged or helping overall grades? As she began to dig in to the project, though, she realized that there was an opportunity and a need for more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we learn, there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of factors that affect how we learn or affect our feeling about learning, about the classroom, the teacher, the material,\u0026rdquo; Gonzales explained. \u0026ldquo;How much do we value the experience and how much does that value impact our overall performance? Do we feel like we\u0026rsquo;re getting something out of it? Are we learning to use specific strategies for academic improvement and reflecting on our performance?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These are all things that go on in residential classrooms. What about online classrooms, where the sense of a learning community is perhaps obscured, and where students aren\u0026rsquo;t just working with the teaching staff, but with intelligent agents?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding Design Implications for Online Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs she dug, Gonzales concluded that she needed to evaluate more than just how AIs could ease the load on teaching staff, making them more available to provide additional in-depth assistance to students online. Instead, she needed to take a more holistic view about the students\u0026rsquo; online experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince she began, Gonzales has performed evaluations after each semester for both the residential and online sections of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/cs-7637-knowledge-based-artificial-intelligence-cognitive-systems\u0022\u003EKnowledge-Based AI class\u003C\/a\u003E in which Jill Watson and other AIs are used.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal is to gain a more complete understanding of the online educational experience and how the design and implementation of these AI assistants, among other design decisions in online learning environments, can help or hurt the process of offering quality education online. Online learning, Gonzales said, isn\u0026rsquo;t going anywhere anytime soon. As OMSCS has shown, a quality education can be achieved beyond just a residential program. But it is important that researchers get in front of potential future challenges as online opportunities become more common.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have to get in front of it and understand what works and what doesn\u0026rsquo;t work before the demand becomes too great to keep up,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Ultimately, online learning should broaden access to more populations, but it\u0026rsquo;s important that we design and implement programs that provide a complete educational experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her two years at Georgia Tech, Gonzales has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/news\/591828\/ic-phd-student-marissa-gonzales-receives-goizueta-foundation-fellowship\u0022\u003Eawarded the Goizueta Foundation Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E, which is designed to help attract and promote doctoral students of Hispanic\/Latino origin, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/news\/601381\/georgia-tech-focus-intel-diversity-fellowship-helping-ics-marissa-gonzales-study-online\u0022\u003EIntel Diversity Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E from the Georgia Tech Focus Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe aims to pick her dissertation topic in the next few months and is on track to complete her degree in 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A challenging educational experience as a teen has helped inform and drive Gonzales\u0027 current research in online educational environments."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2018-06-12 15:59:50","changed_gmt":"2018-06-12 15:59:50","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606945":{"id":"606945","type":"image","title":"Marissa Gonzales","body":null,"created":"1528818866","gmt_created":"2018-06-12 15:54:26","changed":"1528818866","gmt_changed":"2018-06-12 15:54:26","alt":"Marissa Gonzales","file":{"fid":"231509","name":"Marissa Gonzales rotator.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marissa%20Gonzales%20rotator.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marissa%20Gonzales%20rotator.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":119951,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Marissa%20Gonzales%20rotator.jpg?itok=Gv64g65U"}}},"media_ids":["606945"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"},{"id":"1305","name":"Georgia Tech Academic Advising Network (GTAAN)"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"176882","name":"marissa gonzales"},{"id":"112431","name":"ashok goel"},{"id":"169183","name":"Jill Watson"},{"id":"121521","name":"OMSCS"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"606868":{"#nid":"606868","#data":{"type":"news","title":"C21U\u2019s DeMillo and Selingo Named to Advisory Board of The Learning House, Inc.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBringing together experts in education and technology, The Learning House, Inc. has announced the formation of a new Board of Advisors and has named \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/team\/staff\/demillo\u0022\u003ERich DeMillo\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities (C21U)\u003C\/a\u003E, and C21U visiting scholar Jeff Selingo, as founding advisors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Learning House, Inc. is a company that seeks to, \u0026ldquo;helps people improve their lives through education.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Higher education is rapidly changing and I hope to use this opportunity to continue to drive thought leadership and change in this area,\u0026rdquo; 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Perhaps part of the problem was how CS was taught?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Across the country, top computing colleges and departments and national computing organizations have recognized that undergraduate computer science curricula have become \u0026nbsp;ossified, too inflexible to meet the needs of students or the requirements for individual \u0026nbsp;competitiveness,\u0026rdquo; read the report, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/threads-white-paper-2006\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECreating Symphonic Thinking Computer Science Graduates for an Increasingly Competitive Global Environment\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, co-written in 2006 by then-College of Computing Dean Rich DeMillo and Distinguished Professor Merrick Furst.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EForging a new direction\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These curricula have become very good at producing a single kind of graduate \u0026ndash; inflexible, inadaptable graduates, far from the symphonic-thinking graduates that will be leaders in the future of computing\u0026hellip; The breadth of computing and computer science has not been successfully tapped in the design of curricula.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnter \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/bachelors\/computer-science\/threads\u0022\u003EThreads\u003C\/a\u003E. When it debuted in Fall 2007, this new approach to an undergraduate CS curriculum was something of a curiosity\u0026mdash;and a risk. Georgia Tech has always prided itself on its academic rigor, and CS was no different. Some faculty worried that Threads would be perceived as \u0026ldquo;dumbing down\u0026rdquo; traditional CS instruction. In that first semester, just four students took advantage of the new curriculum. So the jury was out: Would Threads help resurrect undergraduate computing enrollments and usher in a new era of computing education?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOh yes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a start, enrollments have not just rebounded but exploded. Fall 2007 marked the low point of CS enrollments, which began to climb steadily and today are higher than ever. In Fall 2017, some 2,110 students are majoring in computer science, and that doesn\u0026rsquo;t include a few hundred more majors in the B.S. Computational Media (CM) program, as well as the rapidly growing number of students minoring in computing. Speaking of CM, in 2011 the College of Computing and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts moved the joint program to a \u0026ldquo;threaded\u0026rdquo; curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd, in a very telling move, within a few years of Threads\u0026rsquo; introduction, other top computing programs launched new undergraduate curricula that looked \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eecs.mit.edu\/academics-admissions\/undergraduate-programs\/curriculum\u0022\u003Euncannily\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cs.stanford.edu\/degrees\/undergrad\/Tracks.shtml\u0022\u003Esimilar\u003C\/a\u003E to what was going on at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the curriculum\u0026rsquo;s first 10 years, individual threads have varied in popularity. Information Internetworks has proven the most popular thread by a significant margin. In fact,\u0026nbsp;about half of all CS graduates since Threads\u0026rsquo; inception have selected it as one of their two threads.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the advent of machine learning and AI-powered technology, the Intelligence thread has steadily risen in demand over the decade, selected by about a third of CS grads. And as the worlds of entertainment and technology have continued to converge, Media took its place as the third most popular thread at just over 30 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECurricular evolution for changing student interests\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn all, some 2,114 Georgia Tech students have received their B.S. CS degrees via Threads, and even that number will jump sharply in the next few years with overall enrollments growing so large.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Threads has shown not just the value but the genuine need for curricular evolution in the face of changing student interests and industry priorities,\u0026rdquo; said Katie Raczynski, director of undergraduate advising in the College. \u0026ldquo;It also set the tone, I think, for an openness among College of Computing faculty to further innovations and improvements in our undergraduate curriculum that would not be so easy to do at other universities.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndeed, since Threads launched, the College of Computing has continued to provide leadership for the world in computing education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2013 it announced the online M.S. in Computer Science (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOMSCS\u003C\/a\u003E) program, which has since grown to nearly 6,000 students. In 2016 it announced \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/digital-learning\/article\/2017\/08\/09\/georgia-tech-plans-extension-undergraduate-online-computer\u0022\u003Ea first-of-its-kind online Intro to Computing course\u003C\/a\u003E that has been used both for on-campus instruction and by free MOOC learners around the world. It\u0026rsquo;s continued to produce scholarly evidence for and best practices in CS educational innovations through the work of researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003EMark Guzdial\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/barbara-ericson.strikingly.com\/\u0022\u003EBarb Ericson\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/betsydisalvo.com\/\u0022\u003EBetsy DiSalvo\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShaking things up\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough Fast Company specifically cited OMSCS as the reason for naming the College as one of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2017\/02\/20\/fast-company-names-georgia-tech-list-most-innovative-companies-education\u0022\u003Ethe World\u0026rsquo;s Most Innovative Companies\u003C\/a\u003E in 2017, it could easily be viewed as an honor earned by an overall body of work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With Threads, we showed that innovation in education can have a tremendous impact on student engagement and that we shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be afraid to examine longstanding pedagogical practices or shake them up once in a while,\u0026rdquo; said Executive Associate Dean Charles Isbell, who worked with DeMillo and Furst to design and implement Threads.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Would our enrollments have rebounded without Threads? 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This challenging topic was facilitated by Jeff Selingo, author and visiting scholar at both C21U and Arizona State University. A Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE) panel followed with an exploration of the work of the commission and an engaging discussion of \u0026ldquo;what\u0026rsquo;s next\u0026rdquo; in higher education innovation at Georgia Tech. This panel was facilitated by CNE co-chair Bonnie Ferri of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Participants included Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Colin Potts, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development Susan Cozzens, and Associate Dean of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Engineering, Larry Jacobs. 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Once these ideas are finalized in February, Georgia Tech will host a summit to explore the concepts and find ways to turn collaborative ideas into real world solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther OpenIDEO Challenge sponsors include ASU GSV Summit, Level Education from Northeastern University, USA Funds and the U.S. Department of Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;American college students are more diverse than ever before. The \u0026lsquo;new normal\u0026rsquo; student may be a 24-year-old returning veteran, a 36-year-old single mother, a part-time student juggling work and college, or a first-generation college student. While America has some of the best colleges and universities in the world, we need to better support these students and all students. To do so we simply must innovate. I\u0026rsquo;m excited to see the ideas that this challenge will spark,\u0026rdquo; said U.S. Education Under Secretary Ted Mitchell.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta chapter of OpenIDEO, which \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medium.com\/@scottshigeoka\/db94c56203d9#.xv0hzyexk\u0022\u003Erecently completed a project to bring human-centered design to students\u003C\/a\u003E, maintains an active relationship with Georgia Tech students. Through the OpenIDEO Challenge, Georgia Tech hopes to stimulate the world\u0026rsquo;s best out-of-the-box design thinking about the future of global postsecondary education as it seeks to define the technological university of the 21st century. 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Lisle arrives at Georgia Tech from the University of Texas at Austin where he was a Digital Course Design Coordinator. He was also the Creative Director for Enspire Learning, a company that creates simulations, games and interactive learning experiences for higher education as well as industry. Lisle received his MEd in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERob Kadel \u003C\/strong\u003Eis the Assistant Director for Research in Education Innovation for C21U. Kadel\u2019s expansive educational research focuses on the efficacy of learning technologies in both K-12 and higher education. He has held faculty positions at Penn State University and Johns Hopkins University, and continues to teach online courses in sociology of education and more at the University of Colorado Denver. 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It is believed to be the first study of \u201crandom projection,\u201d the core component of the researchers\u2019 theory, with human subjects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo test their theory, researchers created three families of abstract images \u2014 some originally as large as 500 x 500 pixels \u2014 and extracted very small, random samples from them, ranging in size from 6 to 20 pixels square. Humans and simple neural networks were shown the whole image for 10 seconds, then randomly shown 16 smaller sketches and asked to identify the original image. Using abstract images ensured that neither humans nor machines had any prior knowledge of what the objects were.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were surprised by how close the performance was between extremely simple neural networks and humans,\u201d Vempala said. \u201cThe design of neural networks was inspired by how we think humans learn, but it\u2019s a weak inspiration. 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With the Knuth Prize, Lipton joins a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigact.org\/Prizes\/Knuth\/\u0022\u003Eshort list\u003C\/a\u003E of extraordinary computer scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Knuth Prize means a great deal,\u201d Lipton said. \u201cIt is very exciting to be recognized by your peers for work that spans over 40 years.\u0026nbsp;I feel very special\u0026nbsp;and thankful to have been selected.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELance Fortnow, chair of the School of Computer Science, offered his praise:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dick\u0027s work has had a major impact in quite diverse areas across theoretical computer science and has heavily influenced many researchers including myself. I can think of no one more deserving of this award.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn presenting the award, the selection committee cited:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELipton\u2019s development of the planar separator theorem. Working with Turing Award winner Robert Tarjan, Lipton created a \u201cdivide-and-conquer\u201d approach to solving difficult network problems by breaking problems into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELipton\u2019s pioneering work in the design of algorithms that make random choices in order to solve computational programs. He showed that when working with complex algebraic problems, it was sufficient to check a program by running it against randomly chosen but related inputs and comparing the results for consistency.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHis development of a fundamental theorem in circuit complexity with Richard Karp, another Turing Award recipient. This demonstrated that NP-complete problems are unlikely to be solved by the best algorithms even with specialized hardware.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHis status as an early developer of communication complexity, the study of the number of bits of communication needed for agents to solve computational tasks, and in DNA computing, which uses the combination and replication of the vast numbers of DNA strands that fit in a test tube as a basis for parallel computation.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Knuth Prize is named in honor and recognition of Turing Award winner Donald Knuth, professor emeritus at Stanford University. Knuth is well-known for his ongoing multivolume series, \u003Cem\u003EThe Art of Computer Programming\u003C\/em\u003E, which played a critical role in establishing and defining computer science as a rigorous, intellectual discipline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELipton earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. 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Warren is also a Georgia Tech alumnus, having earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics and mathematics in 1978.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the time he offered the endowment, Warren said Georgia Tech holds a special place for his family, particularly since his parents met here when Roger Warren was earning a chemical engineering degree and Charlotte Warren was a nursing student at the former Crawford Long Hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022After being at Georgia Tech, you want to be able to give back,\u0022 Warren told \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/development.gatech.edu\/campaign-georgia-tech\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Campaign Quarterly\u003C\/a\u003E last August. \u0022The question is, at what time, and how to go about doing that. There were a lot of pieces that went into this being the right time and the right thing to do.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week, the final piece fell into place with the approval of DeMillo as the first chair. DeMillo\u2019s long career of scholarship and leadership in computing includes a six-year tenure as the Imlay Dean of Computing from 2002 to 2008, as well as his current role as director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E. He was also recently named as one of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/lumina-taps-rich-demillo-among-inaugural-fellows\u0022\u003Efirst fellows of the Lumina Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, a private foundation focused on education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am thrilled and honored to be the first to hold the Charlotte B. and Richard C. Warren Chair,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cAlan Warren has been an important guiding voice in the College and a source of wisdom and support for me when I was dean. So holding the chair that bears the names of his parents has special meaning for me personally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want to both congratulate Rich for this well-deserved honor and to Alan Warren for his generosity in endowing this chair,\u201d said Zvi Galil, the current Imlay Dean of Computing. \u201cIt\u2019s especially appropriate for Rich to be the first Warren Chair since he recruited Alan to our Advisory Board. I look forward to creating more endowed chairs so we can appropriately recognize our most accomplished senior faculty.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer College of Computing dean serves as inaugural holder of newly endowed chair funded by Google executive and Georgia Tech alumnus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Former College of Computing dean serves as inaugural holder of newly endowed chair funded by Google executive and Georgia Tech alumnus."}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-03-25 09:47:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242311":{"id":"242311","type":"image","title":"Rich DeMillo","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Rich DeMillo","file":{"fid":"197815","name":"demillo-headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":423499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg?itok=EFZlqSAV"}}},"media_ids":["242311"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"},{"id":"30491","name":"Rich DeMillo; 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Specifically, they will focus on the foundation\u2019s Goal 2025: to increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality college degrees, certificates and credentials to 60 percent by 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u0027s a great honor to be selected by Lumina for this important role,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cReaching Lumina\u0027s 2025 goal is a challenge for all of us in higher education, and it will take innovation on a large scale to be successful. I look at my role as painting futures for colleges and universities. The alternative is to be left behind as the rest of society figures out how to meet the challenge.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a former dean of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, DeMillo founded C21U in 2011 and continues to direct this \u201cliving laboratory\u201d for fundamental change in higher education. Also as chair of the Provost\u2019s Council for Educational Technology, DeMillo is responsible for educational technology innovation on the Georgia Tech campus. He is a frequent speaker on higher education and the author of \u003Cem\u003EAbelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities\u003C\/em\u003E, published in 2011 by MIT Press.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo joins three other thought leaders as the first group of Lumina Fellows for an initial two-year appointment. Together the fellows will, through various forms of public communication, enrich the conversations about college attainment and provide recommendations for policy makers, higher education and business leaders and other important stakeholders to help the ability for the United States to dramatically increase college attainment levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other fellows include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/about_us\/lumina_fellows_program\/long.html\u0022\u003EBridget Terry Long\u003C\/a\u003E, academic dean and the Xander Professor of Education and Economics at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/\u0022\u003EHarvard Graduate School of Education\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/about_us\/lumina_fellows_program\/kolb.html\u0022\u003ECharles Kolb\u003C\/a\u003E, president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.frenchamerican.org\/\u0022\u003EFrench-American Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/about_us\/lumina_fellows_program\/benitez.html\u0022\u003EMargarita Benitez\u003C\/a\u003E, interim director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/leadership\/Pages\/the-emerging-leaders-group.aspx\u0022\u003EEmerging Leaders Group\u003C\/a\u003E at the American Council of Education.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMobilizing a broad cross section of society is critical if we are to reach Goal 2025,\u201d said Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation. \u201cThe four Lumina Fellows represent a variety of talents and backgrounds, which will help us address the challenges in system redesign and in rethinking policy to dramatically increase education attainment in the United States\u2014the only acceptable outcome if the country is to maintain a competitive workforce and a healthy democracy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELinks:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/newsroom\/news_releases\/2013-10-02.html\u0022\u003ELumina Foundation Announcement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Lumina Foundation recently appointed Distinguished Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/about_us\/lumina_fellows_program\/demillo.html\u0022\u003ERich DeMillo\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities (C21U)\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, as one of its inaugural Lumina Fellows. \u0026nbsp;The Lumina Foundation is the nation\u2019s largest private foundation dedicated exclusively to increasing students\u2019 access to and success in postsecondary education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2013-10-08 12:40:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:05","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242311":{"id":"242311","type":"image","title":"Rich DeMillo","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Rich DeMillo","file":{"fid":"197815","name":"demillo-headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":423499,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demillo-headshot_0.jpg?itok=EFZlqSAV"}}},"media_ids":["242311"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"1432","name":"education"},{"id":"75581","name":"Lumina Foundation"},{"id":"68131","name":"Rich DeMillo; 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In a traditional course of study, students can be forced into a one-size-fits-all experience with little room for specialization and application of their studies toward real-world situations. Through Threads, students experience a cohesive, coordinated set of contexts for understanding computing skills thereby spending their entire four years of study engrossed in real-world computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur faculty adopted Threads to more accurately and effectively reflect what our students will experience in the actual world of today,\u201d said Charles Isbell, senior associate dean for the College. \u201cWe are humbled by the receipt of this prestigious award from the Board of Regents recognizing the leadership role the College has played and continues to play in computing education. 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The on-campus students actually took the course through Tech and earned credit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis flipped classroom model allowed the Tech students to watch lectures and complete homework assignments online, which freed up class time to work on problems and do other activities together,\u201d said Mike Schatz, the physics professor who led the MOOC. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, as part of the course, students were asked to complete five video labs where they recorded a moving object, analyzed it using software, and created a five-minute lab report to share with the class. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen on campus, students were able to do a dry run of their lab reports during the face-to-face time with Schatz, allowing for them to get feedback before uploading their final videos to YouTube. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis exercise was valuable, because we were able to catch some wrong turns and help students improve along the way,\u201d Schatz said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESorrentino is quick to share that being part of the small cohort of on-campus students was a plus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere was good camaraderie among us,\u201d she said. \u201cAlso, there was greater accountability. 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The illustrations cover everything from the differences between length and time measurements to friction. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI thought they were great,\u201d Sorrentino said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was because they were a novelty or if I am just a visual learner, but the video illustrations made it easier to understand the information being taught.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five- to 15-minute videos were primarily created by several undergraduate students, which allowed the students to become engaged in the teaching process, Schatz said. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom writing the script and creating the storyboard to editing the footage, each video took about eight to 10 hours to complete. The team is still producing videos, with the goal being to have a library of about 100.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe MOOC will be offered again beginning Aug. 19, and will run for 16 weeks. 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Once you have your number, you will be able to get breakfast and participate in activities that will be underway. There will be a group exercises and speakers to get you warmed up for the walk and the day\u2014so don\u2019t be late! The walk will start at 9:00 AM.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003ESessions\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESessions for participants will begin at 11 AM. There will be separate sessions for high school and younger students and adults.Topics for students will range from college prep, job interview skills, financial literacy, and a day in the life of a college student. There will be sessions designed for parents and adults on a variety of topics in education. Teachers accompanying students will have the option to attend sessions with their students or attend adult sessions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EParty\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck out what we will have going on:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEnjoy performances and artwork by students\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudent group tables\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVendor and sponsor tables\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBook distribution to high school and younger students\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMW-Girl Scout Patch distribution\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHealthy living tips\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESign up to become a mentor or mentee\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELunch!\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ET-shirt distribution to those with a walk number\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eand more!\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-08-02 12:26:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:38","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"226311":{"id":"226311","type":"image","title":"Mentor Walk 2013","body":null,"created":"1449243566","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:26","changed":"1475894899","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:19","alt":"Mentor Walk 2013","file":{"fid":"197429","name":"mw-banner.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mw-banner_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mw-banner_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":37219,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mw-banner_0.png?itok=9Mc-2sYo"}}},"media_ids":["226311"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mentorwalk.org\/","title":"2013 Mentor Walk"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.c2pf.org\/","title":"Campus Community Partnership Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"70531","name":"C2P"},{"id":"70541","name":"Campus Community Partnership Foundation"},{"id":"1432","name":"education"},{"id":"70521","name":"mentor walk"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKashi Sehgal\u003Cbr \/\u003EProgram Director, Mentor Walk\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-713-0393\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kashi@mentorwalk.org"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"222801":{"#nid":"222801","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Moody\u2019s Says MOOCs Could Raise a University\u2019s Credit Rating","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn May, Moody\u2019s announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s MOOC-like master\u2019s degree in computer science is credit positive for the university. 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To request a copy, please \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:editor@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eemail the editor\u003C\/a\u003E at editor@coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStory by \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lyndsey.lewis@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELyndsey Lewis\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhotos by Zach Porter\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a problem with the robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/%7Emagnus\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/a\u003E eyes them with dismay. His robots, rotund little things that wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a Roomba ad, are misbehaving. They\u2019re crawling toward two silver cases in the middle of the floor, but just before reaching them, they\u2019re supposed to sense the obstacles and skitter away.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe demonstration is the highlight of Egerstedt\u2019s lecture; it is the center ring of this particular circus. A professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), Egerstedt is teaching a class on robot control, and the point of the course tends to be lost if the robots in question are going rogue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToward the cases they go, but wait! They\u2019re sliding this way and that way. They come to halting stops or turn dizzily, and some of them don\u2019t recognize the cases at all and slam into their shiny edges. HAL 9000 these robots are not, but their predicament is looking dire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s as if they\u2019re drunk \u2014 and in a way, they are. The robots, all Khepera IIIs, have infra-red sensors that are sensitive to light, and they\u2019re suffering beneath the harsh glare of studio lamps. This isn\u2019t a typical classroom lecture \u2014 these robots are starring in a massive open online course, or MOOC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt is teaching in a familiar way, but the setting is different. There are no students present, and instead of a classroom or lecture hall, the lesson is being given in a studio with a jungle of lamps overhead. Every move Egerstedt makes is recorded for online broadcast, and his robots are not taking kindly to the extra light. Frustrated, Egerstedt calls out to Brian Wilson, the instructional media producer who is filming the lesson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBrian, can we do it again?\u201d he asks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m just going to keep rolling,\u201d Wilson replies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYeah,\u201d Egerstedt says. \u201cTill it works.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd it does work eventually, and when it does, the effect is sublime. Egerstedt turns triumphantly to his student assistant, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jpdelacroix.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJean-Pierre de la Croix\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYeah!\u201d he exclaims. \u201cRobotics is so easy, man.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA MOOC is a special type of online class. Available to anyone with an Internet connection, most MOOCs offer college-level material via pre-taped lectures, and course enrollments can swell to tens of thousands of students. 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They\u2019re engaged with each other, and they\u2019re engaged with the instructor.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of her group\u2019s research, Ferri recently attended a conference on online education and talked with a number of instructors who are using MOOCs in their classrooms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey were using MOOCs as extra resources for the class; it was not replacing the lecture because it was all optional,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother method is to remove all of the lecture material and put it on the MOOC, then use the classroom time for recitation, active learning, problem solving and hands-on experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe consensus, from talking to a number of people, is if you\u2019re going to do this \u2014 especially the second method \u2014 take all of the higher level learning and do that in class,\u201d she said. \u201cMake the most of the time with the professor. [Consider] what do you want the students to be able to do? Have them do the high-level work \u2014 synthesis work, evaluation, problem solving \u2014 in class. And have them do lower level things, like studying facts they need to memorize, online.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerri and her colleagues had some case studies on campus where instructors are replacing lectures in class with the MOOC. One case study was ECE 4555: Embedded and Hybrid Control, taught last spring by Professor Magnus Egerstedt in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The MOOC was on \u201cControl of Mobile Robots,\u201d and Egerstedt worked with a 4000-level class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is unusual because it\u2019s a mathematical class taken by graduate students as well as seniors,\u201d Ferri said. \u201cIt\u2019s very high level and not your typical MOOC because of the level of depth, and it was rigorous.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this case, all of the lecture material was online, allowing students to review the material in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is a lot more efficient to get through the material in the online format,\u201d Ferri said. \u201cIt takes less time to cover the material in this format than in class.\u0026nbsp; Students can go at their own pace; some will watch the videos at 1.5 times the speed while others will pause often and also re-watch videos.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt replaced the in-classroom time with quizzes on the lecture material (to make sure the students actually listened to the lectures) and with project time, a new element he added to the class. 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Schatz added a communications component to the class in which students present a lab report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the biggest challenges is assessment. Is this method working better than the traditional approach? How effective is this as an educational model?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerri and her mini innovation hub colleagues are working with the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) to come up with a plan for assessing MOOCs, so that instructors will not have to create an assessment plan on their own from the ground up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy using a pilot study, we can take this information and feed it back to improve the class,\u201d Ferri said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBonnie Ferri is searching for an answer. The question? 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This topic has become the focus of one of seven mini innovation hubs that are researching questions related to MOOCs and online learning. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn some ways, the video labs provide students and instructors with a better experience than being in a traditional lab,\u201d said Ed Greco, an instructor in the School of Physics and \u201cchampion\u201d of the innovation hub that is examining the question of labs in MOOCs. \u201cThe videos single students out in a way that forces them to demonstrate their knowledge in a brief period of time, and it\u2019s easier for instructors to hone in on who is getting the material and who isn\u2019t.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are 17,000 students enrolled in the MOOC, 11 of which are a part of a for-credit Georgia Tech version of the course where students have both online and on-campus experiences. (More details on the structure of this MOOC will be featured in a future Whistle article.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll students are asked to complete five labs as part of the course, which will wrap up the last week of July. Each lab requires students to do the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERecord a moving object (using any device that will take video).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnalyze the video using the free video analysis package, Tracker.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECreate models of motion using computer programs written in Python\/VPython.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECompare the observations to the models.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECreate a five-minute video lab report.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUpload the video to YouTube.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVideos are then graded by fellow classmates based on a six-item rubric that includes questions such as \u201cDoes the author state the problem and show a result?\u201d and \u201cIs the video easy to follow?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut, there have been a few challenges when it comes to the labs. For example, many of the students enrolled in the course live in countries that ban YouTube.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents living in places like Pakistan and China where they don\u2019t have access to YouTube have been pretty frustrated with the lack of an alternative,\u201d said Mike Schatz, the professor leading the MOOC. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to have to think of a way to work around this with future versions of the course.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen there\u2019s the issue of engagement. Schatz estimates that of the thousands of students enrolled, about 1,000 are actually regularly participating in some aspect of the course, whether it\u2019s watching lectures, completing homework or quizzes, or participating in the online forum. But he estimates that only 300 to 400 are doing the labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth Schatz and Greco agree that this is an issue that this hub will be considering as they tweak the course, which they hope to offer again in the fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to figure out what we should expect of MOOC students when it comes to things like time spent on assignments and the money we should expect them to pay for a textbook,\u201d Greco said. \u201cOnce we get a better handle on this, it will help us address the poor retention numbers that MOOCs typically have.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo join the hub, email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:edwin.greco@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGreco\u003C\/a\u003E. 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We are now through the first few weeks of the eight-week course, supported by the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. Veteran MOOC instructors warned me that the early weeks would be bumpy. The actual experience has often left me panicked\u2014and worried that the course would not be successful. This is not like a traditional course, in which you have a day or two to deal with issues that come up in class. MOOC students expect immediate responses, and that means nearly 24\/7 monitoring of the course.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-06-24 10:39:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:27","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"204411":{"id":"204411","type":"image","title":"Karen Head","body":null,"created":"1449179967","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:27","changed":"1475894859","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:39","alt":"Karen Head","file":{"fid":"196676","name":"karen.head__0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/karen.head__0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/karen.head__0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21785,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/karen.head__0_0.jpg?itok=DSwg5D_B"}}},"media_ids":["204411"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"34321","name":"composition"},{"id":"43811","name":"MOOCs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:karen.head@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekaren.head@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"218491":{"#nid":"218491","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Three Ways MOOCs Will Change Colleges","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When you teach a MOOC, you have to be a deliberate teacher,\u0022 said Richard DeMillo, director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georgia Institute of Technology, at the U.S. News 2013 Stem Solutions Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-06-22 02:46:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:32","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pointsolutions","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/06\/18\/three-ways-moocs-will-change-colleges","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"56881","name":"C21U; Center for 21st Century Universities; Richard DeMillo; Higher Education; C21U; MOOCs; Online Education;"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"217111":{"#nid":"217111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MOOC Matters: Keeping Students Engaged","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAre my students engaged? This is the burning question that can be challenging to answer when you\u2019re teaching students face to face \u2014 let alone when they are squirreled away behind a computer screen halfway across the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why a group of faculty members from Georgia Tech is looking into the issues related to keeping students engaged and involved in massive open online courses (MOOC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out what can and cannot be replicated when you transition a course from an on-campus to an online learning environment,\u201d said Al Ferri, associate chair for\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate Studies in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the project \u201cchampion.\u201d \u201cAnd we also want to know about subtle things that can help students successfully complete MOOCs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis project is one of seven being explored by a group of mini innovation hubs that are researching questions related to MOOCs and online learning. The hubs are part of an initiative led by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and the Center for 21st Century Universities.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs luck would have it, when our hub was forming, ME was getting ready to run a special course called \u2018The Buzz on Open Online Courses,\u2019\u201d Ferri said. \u201cThe students who signed up for the course each took two MOOCs of their choice and were the perfect subjects to help us learn more about our research topic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring spring of 2013, 13 students enrolled in a number of MOOCs \u2014 ranging from Aboriginal Worldviews and Education offered by the University of Toronto to Introduction to Finance offered by University of Michigan \u2014 and completed all assignments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their participation, the students gave final presentations about their experiences with the MOOCs. There were a number of\u0026nbsp; common themes that students shared:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudents enjoyed the convenience and ability to \u201cgo at your own pace\u201d that MOOCs provide.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThey found technical glitches were particularly frustrating when coupled with the lack of access to a professor.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudents who had peer-evaluation activities associated with their MOOCs mentioned that they did not like it.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMany students mentioned the importance of having a good instructor in their MOOCs. They commented on instructors\u2019 \u201centhusiasm,\u201d \u201cexpertise,\u201d and \u201ccare for their students\u2019 learning.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMany commented that they wanted\/needed to see the professors\u2019 heads in the inset box on the computer screen.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe students said forums are an important part of the success of MOOCs, but they must be managed to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio. Assigning expert personnel to monitor the message boards is crucial in making effective use of this medium.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStudents indicated variety is important, even in a world of six-minute modules. They reacted very positively to mixing lectures with demos, interviews, outside videos, etc.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe consensus among the students was that they liked the MOOCs as a way to gain exposure to a new subject area or to review a topic they had already studied, but they acknowledged that the rigor and depth of most of the courses were not up to the level found in their Tech face-to-face classes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe hub is taking the information gained from the students and will continue their research in the months to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe study that we did in the spring semester showed what sorts of things a MOOC developer could do to encourage students to stay engaged, and what mistakes can discourage or frustrate students,\u201d Ferri said. \u201cBut we need to know much more about what drives a student to complete a MOOC, why the attrition rate is so high in MOOCs, and why completion and pass rates in face-to-face classes are so much higher in \u003Cbr \/\u003Ecomparison.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information or to join this hub, contact Ferri at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:al.ferri@me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eal.ferri@me.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Seven groups of faculty, staff, and students, called \u201cmini innovation hubs,\u201d were formed. These groups have been busy defining their research questions and exploring how to address them. Members of six of the seven hubs presented their progress during a showcase a few weeks ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe requirements for the mini innovation hubs were simple,\u201d said Donna Llewellyn, director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and associate vice provost for Learning Excellence. \u201cEach group exploring a research question needed a faculty champion and a group of people interested in exploring the topic. The organizers did not tell the groups what questions to ask.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELlewellyn is leading the initiative with Mike McCracken, director of Online Course Development and Innovation for the Center for 21st Century Universities; Wendy Newstetter, senior academic professional in the College of Engineering; and Lauren Margulieux, graduate student assistant in the School of Psychology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe seven hubs are considering the following topics and questions: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDual Use: What are the special issues of using a MOOC to flip or blend a course? Champion \u2014 Bonnie Ferri, Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDelivery Mechanisms: How can mixed- reality technologies be used to enhance MOOC learning and on-campus courses? Champion \u2014 Racel Williams, Architecture\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPhysics Labs: How can a physical science lab experience be designed for students in a MOOC or other online learning environment? Champion \u2014 Ed Greco, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELibrary Support: How can the Library provide resources in a MOOC? Champions \u2014\u0026nbsp; Lori Critz, Library; and Cari Lovins, Information Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMotivation: What are the issues associated with keeping students engaged and involved in a MOOC? Champion \u2014\u0026nbsp; Al Ferri, Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMath Bridge: Can a MOOC environment help Tech to efficiently and effectively serve incoming students who need a bridge course to ensure success in their first math course? Champion \u2014 Shannon Dobranski, Center for Academic Success\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMultidisciplinary: How can an online environment be harnessed to offer a truly multi-disciplinary course addressing the challenging issues of today? Champion \u2014 Katja Weber, International Affairs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe May showcase was the first update from the hubs, and the research is continuing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is not a closed process,\u201d Llewellyn said. \u201cThese mini hubs don\u2019t have fences around them. 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The degree will be provided in collaboration with online education leader Udacity Inc. and AT\u0026amp;T.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EAll OMS CS course content will be delivered via the massive open online course (MOOC) format, with enhanced support services for students enrolled in the degree program. Those students also will pay a fraction of the cost of traditional on-campus master\u2019s programs; total tuition for the program is initially expected to be below $7,000. A pilot program, partly supported by a generous gift from AT\u0026amp;T, will begin in the next academic year. Initial enrollment will be limited to a few hundred students recruited from AT\u0026amp;T and Georgia Tech corporate affiliates. Enrollment is expected to expand gradually over the next three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s vision is to define the technological research university of the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century. We will explore technologies and instructional approaches that will improve our role as a leading provider of the best and most effective education in the state of Georgia, the nation and the world,\u201d said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech has been involved in online education for more than 30 years, and in the past year has taken a national leadership role in massive open online courses. Offering a master\u2019s degree in this format is the next step in expanding Georgia Tech\u2019s online offerings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe are thrilled to be able to join with Udacity and AT\u0026amp;T in taking this bold next step,\u201d Bras said. \u201cWe are proud of the visionary role of Dean Zvi Galil in the creation of this degree offering from our nationally renowned College of Computing.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe are excited to team with Georgia Tech, whose College of Computing offers CS degrees of the very highest caliber. AT\u0026amp;T is a champion for innovation in education, and we are grateful for its vision in supporting this endeavor,\u201d said Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun. \u201cUdacity has been at the forefront of innovation in online pedagogy. We hope our work with Georgia Tech and AT\u0026amp;T will induce transformational change in higher education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EThe OMS CS could help address the nation\u2019s growing shortage of qualified workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, one of the primary reasons AT\u0026amp;T decided to lend its financial support. The company also supports vastly expanding the accessibility and lowering the cost of quality education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u201cBecause of this collaboration, anyone with a broadband connection will have access to some of the finest computer science instruction in the world,\u201d said Randall Stephenson, AT\u0026amp;T chairman and CEO. \u201cWe believe that high-quality and 100 percent online degrees can be on par with degrees received in traditional on-campus settings, and that this program could be a blueprint for helping the United States address the shortage of people with STEM degrees, as well as exponentially expand access to computer science education for students around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003ESaid U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: \u201cMassive open online courses (MOOCs) have quickly become one of the most significant catalysts of innovation in higher education. As parents know all too well, America urgently needs new ideas about how to make higher education accessible and affordable. This new collaboration between Georgia Tech, AT\u0026amp;T and Udacity, and the application of the MOOC concept to advanced-degree programs, will further the national debate\u2014pushing from conversations about technology to new models of instruction and new linkages between higher education and employers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EWhile courses related to the OMS CS will be available free of charge on the Udacity site, only those students granted admission to Georgia Tech will receive credit. Degree-seeking students will pay tuition based either on individual courses or the entire degree program. Georgia Tech and Udacity also will develop a separate credential for those students who successfully complete courses but do not qualify for full graduate standing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u201cThe OMS CS will set a new agenda for higher education\u2014real, rigorous and marketable graduate education in computer science will now be available to tens, even hundreds of thousands of additional students around the world,\u201d said Zvi Galil, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech. \u201cComputing is \u003Cem\u003Ethe\u003C\/em\u003E catalytic field of the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century. Now we could potentially double the number of trained computing professionals worldwide in as little as a decade.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EAdditional details on the Georgia Tech OMS CS can be found at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.omscs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.omscs.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world\u0027s premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s top public universities, the Institute enrolls 21,500 students within its six colleges. Georgia Tech is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education and is the nation\u0027s leading producer of engineers as well as a leading producer of female and minority engineering Ph.D. graduates. Holding more than 848 patents and receiving approximately $689 million in research and development expenditures, Georgia Tech ranks among the nation\u0027s top ten universities (without a medical school) in research expenditures. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E for more information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 10th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u2019s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human-centered solutions. For more information about the Georgia Tech College of Computing, its academic divisions and research centers, visit \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttp:\/\/\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewww.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Udacity\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUdacity is a Silicon Valley-based start-up that brings accessible, engaging and effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to develop their skills in order to advance their education and careers. Udacity has been at the forefront of developing new online pedagogy that bridges education and employable skills with courses in computer science, mathematics, programming, general sciences, and entrepreneurship at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.udacity.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewww.udacity.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout AT\u0026amp;T\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAT\u0026amp;T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.att.com\/corporateawards\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eone of the most honored companies in the world\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. 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It is the collective work of all of our outstanding faculty, staff, students, and alumni that makes Georgia Tech the outstanding institution it is today.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-05-09 23:07:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:12","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"212271":{"id":"212271","type":"image","title":"C21U Highlighted in President\u0027s Spring 2013 Update","body":null,"created":"1449180039","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:00:39","changed":"1475894874","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:54","alt":"C21U Highlighted in President\u0027s Spring 2013 Update","file":{"fid":"196951","name":"c21u.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/c21u_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/c21u_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2535501,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/c21u_0.jpg?itok=nvgs5k2i"}}},"media_ids":["212271"],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"28751","name":"C21U; Center for 21st Century Universities; Richard DeMillo; Higher Education;"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EC21U Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 828-0831\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:c21u@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EC21U@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"211781":{"#nid":"211781","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"DeMillo Applauds Technology in Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELectures are among the worst possible teaching formats, Georgia Institute of Technology professor Richard DeMillo said in a lecture on Tuesday. 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But a lot has changed since then.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are getting calls about what we\u2019re doing and how we\u2019re doing it,\u201d said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, during yesterday\u2019s town hall on online learning. \u201cWe\u2019ve made a significant impact in a short period of time, and this is a source of tremendous pride for Georgia Tech.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough Coursera, an online learning platform that has partnered with Tech and other premier institutions to offer free courses for the general public, Georgia Tech has created eight massive open online courses (MOOCs), which currently have a combined enrollment of 162,133 students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the Gates Foundation recently awarded funding to develop three general education courses \u2014 English Composition, Physics 101 and Introductory Psychology. Some 10 to 15 other courses are also under development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the town hall, members of the audience had an opportunity to share their comments, questions and concerns regarding MOOCs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMark Braunstein, a professor of the practice in the School of Interactive Computing, is currently developing a Coursera course titled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/healthinformatics\u0022\u003E\u201cHealth Informatics in the Cloud.\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E He shared that creating the course had required more work than he initially expected and that he\u2019d found himself putting a lot of thought into how to teach the material in a way that would be clear and compelling.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBras stressed that professors should embrace creativity when it comes to engaging students, even if it means incorporating technologies into lectures that they may not be familiar with.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, if someone wanted to use animations in his lessons but didn\u2019t have the subject matter knowledge to create them, he could ask the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) or the Division of Professional Education for help, Bras said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother member of the audience expressed concern about how faculty members would be compensated for the time they invested in creating and delivering MOOCs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is no question that at least initially the work required to create a quality course in this new format is significant,\u201d Bras said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose interested in developing a MOOC should first consult with their school chair or supervisor. C21U can evaluate each offering and determine the appropriate support to make it possible for the professor to participate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is clear, though, that these are experiments and educational research that require the individual\u2019s self-interest and commitment,\u201d Bras added. \u201cAs we learn, the development of this type of course will be easier. Furthermore, when MOOCs yield revenues from use outside of GT, the professor, his or her unit and the Institute will benefit. In addition, Georgia Tech\u2019s promotion and tenure processes value educational innovation and experimentation with impact. Educational efforts of faculty are always valued.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe audience was also curious about how Georgia Tech could use MOOCs to positively impact the on-campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBras explained that his office has provided a small grant, \u201cLearning from MOOCs,\u201d to the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) to facilitate five teams, or \u201cmini innovation hubs,\u201d that will examine questions such as this one.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the course of one to two years, each hub, which will be comprised of faculty members and students, will research a question or challenge related to MOOCs (or more generally, technology-enhanced education), which might include, for example, how to take a course designed for a small class and modify it for a MOOC or how to assess MOOCs using qualitative feedback. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring a November event, more than 80 participants brainstormed ideas that could be the basis of one of the questions or challenges that the hubs will examine. The event was organized by Donna Llewellyn of CETL, Michael McCracken of C21U and Wendy Newstetter of the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is really exciting to see the enthusiasm for exploring these types of issues related to learning and teaching,\u201d Llewellyn said. \u201cThe research mindset that we all expect to see in the technical arenas is being used to investigate how we can answer interesting questions related to higher education today.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy the close of the November event, a set of 10 potential research ideas had been established, each with a \u201cchampion\u201d charged with carrying it forward. 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Bras, provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named to Coursera\u2019s University Advisory Board. Bras is one of nine senior academic officials named to the panel, the company\u2019s first advisory board. Each member represents a university partnered with Coursera to offer free massive open online courses (MOOCs).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a board member, Bras will advise Coursera on strategic academic and business decisions that relate to Coursera\u2019s mission of offering top-quality academic content to students everywhere. The group will consult with Coursera leadership and advise the company on a variety of matters, including the selection of additional partner institutions, selection and provision of new content, legal and regulatory issues and other major questions of company policy that affect the partner institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Coursera is dedicated to creating better educational opportunities inside and outside the classroom, and we could not do it without the blessing and commitment of our university partners,\u0022 said Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBras said Georgia Tech is committed to continuing its leadership in higher education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022We relentlessly seek to improve our residential education and to share with others in the U.S. and the rest of the world some of the educational content and know-how that makes us unique and excellent,\u0022 said Bras. \u0022This commitment is aligned with Coursera\u0027s mission, and we are happy to be their partner. I personally look forward to helping Coursera and all our partner institutions charter the way to a successful revolution in the use of technology in higher education,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022We\u0027re fortunate to have the insight of these highly-respected academics in guiding Coursera\u2019s development toward our shared goal of providing a high-quality education to everyone around the world,\u0022 added co-founder, Andrew Ng.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech signed an agreement with Coursera last July to put its web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom. The first course, Computational Investing Part I, began in October with nearly 50,000 enrolled students. Enrollment is currently open for seven other Georgia Tech classes at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/gatech\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.coursera.org\/gatech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout Coursera: Coursera is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people by offering classes from top universities and professors online for free. Coursera\u0027s comprehensive education platform combines mastery-based learning principles with video lectures, interactive content and a global community of peers, offering students from around the world a unique online learning experience. Coursera has partnered with top-tier universities to provide courses across a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, literature, history and computer science, among others. Coursera is backed by leading venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield \u0026amp; Byers and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?release=875704\u0026amp;id=1497382\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.coursera.org%2f\u0022\u003ECoursera.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs, is one of nine senior academic officials named to the company\u2019s first advisory board. 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Unlike many existing MOOCs, which tend to feature advanced topics, the new courses will cover introductory topics in the subjects of English composition, physics and psychology. Each will be available free through Coursera and is scheduled to begin in January 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research Corporation received the grant, and will work with the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U), the College of Sciences and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts to develop the innovative online learning courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese Gates Foundation awards address one of higher education\u2019s most pressing problems: bending the cost curve and improving learning outcomes for introductory courses,\u201d said Rich DeMillo, director of C21U. \u201cThe Georgia Tech courses being funded by these grants all represent innovation in pedagogy, teaching and technology. If we are successful, courses like these will be a shift in both quality and cost for the vast majority of American college students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Rebecca Burnett and Assistant Professor Karen Head in the School of Literature, Media and Communication will lead First-Year Composition 2.0. School of Physics Professor Michael Schatz will offer Your World is Your Laboratory: College-Level Introductory Physics, and School of Psychology\u0026nbsp;Professor Emeritus Anderson Smith will lead Introduction to Psychology as a Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMOOCs are an exciting innovation.\u0026nbsp;They hold great promise but are not without challenges, and we are still discovering their full potential,\u201d said Dan Greenstein, director of Postsecondary Success at the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. \u201cWe believe having diverse options for faculty and students that meet a wide array of learning needs and styles can enhance student engagement, improve educational outcomes and increase college completion rates.\u0026nbsp;We are eager to learn from and share the data that will be generated from these\u0026nbsp;investments in MOOCs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Georgia Tech announced a partnership with Coursera to offer online courses. Currently, registration is open for eight courses led by Georgia Tech professors. The courses have a combined enrollment of more than 140,000 students. 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This is just one of the things that Tucker Balch has learned about the process of teaching a massive open online course (or MOOC) through Coursera.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the reasons I enjoy teaching in front of students is because I can see if they\u2019re getting the material, but lecturing online is like diagnosing an illness over the Internet. It\u2019s a challenge,\u201d said Balch, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cInstead of gauging reactions, I really have to pay attention to the online forums to see if people understand.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn late October, Balch began teaching Georgia Tech\u2019s first free class on Coursera to more than 40,000 students, ranging from retirees to high schoolers, around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course, Computational Investing Part I, runs eight weeks and focuses on how modern electronic financial markets work, why stock prices change and how computation can help people to better understand these issues. (Learn more about the course \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/compinvesting1\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBalch\u2019s interest in teaching a MOOC began last year after hearing that other institutions were offering them. 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The information taught in this class is based on a class that Balch teaches at Tech, which he has broken into two parts for Coursera. Each week, students view two modules, with each module being made up of four 5- to 12-minute lectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve learned is that lectures need to be broken up into short chunks of time, because it\u2019s easier for students to process the material,\u201d Balch said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo keep students engaged, he tries to use visuals, such as pictures, as much as possible. In the future, Balch also plans to integrate interviews with people who work in investing fields (such as hedge fund managers and stock traders) into the lectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents take weekly multiple-choice quizzes and complete optional code-writing projects throughout the course to assess their learning, and projects are peer graded by students in the class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to cheating, Balch isn\u2019t as concerned with the issue as he might be with a for-credit course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey have nothing to gain by cheating,\u201d he said. \u201cI suppose they could, but that would be like jumping to the end of a good book and skipping the good parts in the middle.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe estimated workload for students is about five to seven hours per week. At the end of the not-for-credit course, all students receive a certificate of completion from C21U.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough Balch has taught distance learning courses in the past, one of the things that was a surprise to him about teaching a MOOC is the amount of time he has needed to put into it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMultiply your estimate of time you\u2019ll put into it by two,\u201d he said. \u201cI have spent about 15 to 20 hours a week on this course, because it takes time to make my material online-friendly. But I also realize that when I offer the course next semester, it won\u2019t take up as much time, because I\u2019m not starting from scratch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Jan. 28, Balch will offer the course again, and several other Tech Coursera courses will also kick off. For more information about the Institute\u2019s offerings, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coursera.org\/gatech\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESitting in front of a camera and giving a lecture to students you can\u2019t see is intimidating. This is just one of the things that Tucker Balch has learned about the process of teaching a massive open online course (or MOOC) through Coursera.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sitting in front of a camera and giving a lecture to students you can\u2019t see is intimidating. This is just one of the things that Tucker Balch has learned about the process of teaching a massive open online course (or MOOC) through Coursera."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-11-09 14:24:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:10","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"169901":{"id":"169901","type":"image","title":"Tucker Balch","body":null,"created":"1449178978","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:58","changed":"1475894809","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:49","alt":"Tucker Balch","file":{"fid":"195692","name":"balch.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/balch_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/balch_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97999,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/balch_0.jpg?itok=XmVqJTEP"}}},"media_ids":["169901"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coursera.org\/gatech","title":"Georgia Tech on Coursera"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"14381","name":"center for 21st century universities"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"38281","name":"Coursera"},{"id":"14386","name":"massive open online course"},{"id":"49661","name":"online learning. MOOC"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1938","name":"Tucker Balch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"165421":{"#nid":"165421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"App Initiative to Guide Campus Developers on Their \u2018Journey\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFirst coined in a 2009 Apple iPhone commercial, \u201cThere\u2019s an app for that\u201d has become a ubiquitous phrase in a smartphone-fueled world. A new campus initiative, GT Journey, hopes to curate campus applications, content, student research and immersive experiences\u0026nbsp;for and by the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) launched the three-year initiative to develop a platform for creating and sharing apps, augmented reality experiences and other technological solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe view this as a living laboratory for inventing the future of the university,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Beth Mynatt, director of IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring its first year, GT Journey will launch a student activity center for location-based apps and data services. The GT Journey support team will provide development tools and data, such as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtmob.gatech.edu\/drupal\/node\u0022\u003EGTmob\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/argon.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EArgon\u003C\/a\u003E, and a physical App Lab where students of all majors and levels of expertise can work and collaborate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, GT Journey will recruit students and alumni to contribute ideas for applications and services. The eventual goal is to develop a thriving online ecosystem of applications, experiences and crowd-sourced content by drawing on the Tech community\u2019s ideas, data and talent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor now, developers can get started by building on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtmob.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGTmob\u003C\/a\u003E, and even nondevelopers can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\/mobile\/tour\u0022\u003Econtribute content to augmented reality campus tours\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\/?q=Campuspartners\/ideas\u0022\u003Esubmit ideas\u003C\/a\u003E to GT Journey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFurther opportunity exists for students to promote their creations in next month\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/drupal\/\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E (CIC). Participants will work with campus experts who provide data and domain knowledge, and winners will be able to put their apps or experiences into production for use by the campus community.\u0026nbsp;The deadline to submit to the fall competition is Thursday, Nov. 1.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT Journey will develop a platform for creating and sharing apps, augmented reality experiences and other technological solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT Journey will develop a platform for creating and sharing apps, augmented reality experiences and other technological solutions."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-10-26 10:38:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:02","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for People and Technology"},{"url":"http:\/\/oit.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Information Technology"},{"url":"http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT Journey"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14249","name":"campus tour"},{"id":"47801","name":"gt journey"},{"id":"11726","name":"Institute for People and Technology"},{"id":"12888","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"9299","name":"Office of Information Technology"},{"id":"4112","name":"oit"},{"id":"169515","name":"smart phone apps"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:renata@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERenata LeDantec\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msanders@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMatt Sanders\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Information Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"161741":{"#nid":"161741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Science About to Get More Hip","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s EarSketch, a project that teaches high school students how to write computer code to create musical remixes, is adding a true musical guru to its team. EarSketch is partnering with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.djyoungguru.com\/\u0022\u003EGimel \u201cYoung Guru\u201d Keaton\u003C\/a\u003E, who will work with faculty to create new audio content for the program. Keaton has engineered 10 albums for hip-hop superstar Jay-Z.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement was made in Atlanta at the eighth annual A3C Festival, the largest hip-hop festival in the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYoung Guru brings a new level of creativity and professional musical expertise to EarSketch,\u201d said Brian Magerko, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/a\u003E School of Literature, Media and Communication. \u201cAtlanta high school students will have a chance to learn about computer science with help from one of the biggest producers in hip-hop.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI knew early in my career that giving back and teaching young people were my passions,\u201d said Keaton. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here if it wasn\u2019t for professionals taking me under their wing and teaching me the craft. EarSketch is the program that will spark the next great computer or music mind. I\u2019m sure of it. This is why I wanted to be involved.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that was created to encourage high school students to consider computer science careers. The program, now in its second year, is focused on minorities and girls, but with an approach that is intended to have broad appeal. EarSketch utilizes the Python programming language and Cockos\u2019 Reaper, a digital audio workstation program similar to those used in recording studios throughout the music industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch was developed and is overseen by Magerko and Jason Freeman, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Architecture\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E School of Music.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYoung people don\u2019t always realize that computer science and programming can be fun,\u201d said Freeman. \u201cStudents are using EarSketch to remix samples and loops to express their own creative musical ideas as they learn computer science principles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarSketch had its first \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;v=0dRQxIhEo6Q\u0022\u003Etest run\u003C\/a\u003E by Atlanta-area high schoolers during a Georgia Tech summer camp in July. The software and curriculum will be piloted this spring at Lanier High School in Gwinnett County as part of Lanier\u2019s music technology program.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"National music engineer and producer will work with Georgia Tech researchers on a project that teaches high school students how to write computer code to create musical remixes."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2012-10-13 19:59:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:58","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70812":{"id":"70812","type":"image","title":"Brian Magerko","body":null,"created":"1449177314","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:14","changed":"1475894602","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:22","alt":"Brian Magerko","file":{"fid":"192694","name":"brian_magerko.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian_magerko_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brian_magerko_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1420295,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brian_magerko_1.jpg?itok=6z6ekPAm"}},"72559":{"id":"72559","type":"image","title":"Jason Freeman","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21"}},"media_ids":["70812","72559"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded\u0026v=0dRQxIhEo6Q","title":"EarSketch Demo"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.djyoungguru.com\/","title":"Young Guru"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-and-events\/story?id=130201","title":"Richard Utz"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/video\/hip-hop-tracks-composed-with-computer-code\/1733703278001","title":"Source: USA Today"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14468","name":"EarSketch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"159721":{"#nid":"159721","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Ranked as One of the World\u2019s Top 25 Universities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology ranked 25th among the top 100 universities recognized in \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E 2012-2013 World University Rankings.\u0026nbsp;The Institute was the top-ranked public university from the southern United States and ranked No. 5 in the world among its U.S. public institution counterparts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Georgia Tech ranked ninth on the list of the world\u2019s top engineering and technology universities and third on the list of public U.S. engineering and technology universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E World University Rankings use 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university\u2019s strengths against all of its core missions \u2013 teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. All data are collected, analyzed and verified by global data provider Thomson Reuters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"World\u2019s No. 9 engineering and technology university"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology ranked 25th among the top 100 universities recognized in \u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E 2012-2013 World University Rankings.\u0026nbsp;The Institute was the top-ranked public university from the southern United States and ranked No. 5 in the world among its U.S. public institution counterparts.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology ranked 25th among the top 100 universities recognized in Times Higher Education\u2019s 2012-2013 World University Rankings."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2012-10-04 17:08:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"125291":{"id":"125291","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178604","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:44","changed":"1475894749","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:49","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"194497","name":"tech-tower.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":164905,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg?itok=RIvqAQtP"}}},"media_ids":["125291"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/","title":"World University Rankings 2012-13"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1958","name":"Times Higher Education"},{"id":"216","name":"world rankings"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matt.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"156891":{"#nid":"156891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Online Profiles Showcase Student Achievements","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor students looking for a new way to display their academic and extracurricular achievements, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/readabout.me\u0022\u003Ereadabout.me\u003C\/a\u003E may be the next frontier in online profiles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe online system allows students who have earned certain achievements to build a profile and add badges to represent various activities and work experience. When completed, the profile is similar to a visual resume or LinkedIn page and can be used to promote students\u2019 accomplishments throughout their time at the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute issues notifications, which are essentially invites to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/readabout.me\u0022\u003Ereadabout.me\u003C\/a\u003E, when students earn Faculty Honors, make the Dean\u2019s List, enroll as President\u2019s Scholars or graduate. A brief, personalized news article accompanies each achievement on a student\u2019s profile. This week, for the first time, Tech will issue a notice to all newly enrolled students, resulting in all freshmen having access to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/readabout.me\u0022\u003Ereadabout.me\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has long distributed announcements to hometown newspapers across the country, highlighting its students\u2019 achievements using readMedia, the parent company of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/readabout.me\u0022\u003Ereadabout.me\u003C\/a\u003E. 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In addition to his appointment in IAC, Bogost is also now on faculty in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAli Mazalek brings the best qualities for a position that demands dedication to excellence in graduate teaching and mentoring, highest standards in research, and a commitment to the multidisciplinary and collaborative atmosphere in our unit,\u201d said LMC chair Richard Utz. \u201cIan\u2019s leadership of the media studies center guarantees national and international attention to our unit\u2019s mission to provide humanistic perspectives on a technological world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMazalek is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab (M.S. \u0026amp; Ph.D.). Her research in computing and interaction design supports integration of the physical and digital worlds. 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For additonal information on submitting content for the Georgia Tech iTunes U site, please contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mike.mccracken@cc.gatech.edu?subject=Georgia%20Tech\u0026#039;s%20iTunesU\u0022\u003EMike McCracken\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2012-08-17 01:32:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:40","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.itunes.com\/","title":"iTunes"}],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"40831","name":"iTunes U"},{"id":"11807","name":"online education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EC21U Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josie@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"140591":{"#nid":"140591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Signs Agreement with Coursera","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is committed to using technology and advanced platforms to enrich and expand educational opportunities,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThrough Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Professional Education, we already offer courses to more than 25,000 students worldwide.\u0026nbsp; Steps such as this agreement will enable even more students throughout the world to have access to Georgia Tech\u2019s expertise, and help to meet the needs for lifelong learning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It seems clear that higher education is currently experiencing the first ripples of a wave that could drastically alter the method, scope and scale of educational access and delivery, \u0022 said Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs for Georgia Tech. \u0022Georgia Tech has been in the business of offering online courses and education for some time. By joining Coursera we seek to expand our presence in that space, provide increased global access to our excellent educational products, experiment with new methods and ideas in the delivery of education and, most importantly, enhance the learning options and convenience for our own students.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s initial courses include Computational Photography, Computational Investing, Energy 101, Control of Mobile Robots and Fundamentals of Online Education. The Institute plans to add online courses across a range of disciplines to the online platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The technological sophistication and expectations of today\u0027s college students drastically outpace their institutions,\u0022 said Rich DeMillo, director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for 21st Century Universities. \u0022By embracing innovators such as Coursera, who are the vanguard for the oncoming technological revolution, universities can not only improve student access to course content, but also fundamentally change core value structures such as student recruitment and retention, degree customization, and overall productivity and efficiency.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Dean of Professional Education Nelson Baker also noted, \u201cWe are empowering people to learn, and are connecting and expanding our global learning community to meet the evolving needs of students worldwide. By adding courses via Coursera, we are further supporting an individual\u2019s quest for wanting to be more competitive and competent whether that is in their studies at a university, in their place of employment or just to be members of an educated society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther institutions partnering with Coursera are the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Princeton University, Rice University, Stanford University, UC San Francisco, University of Edinburgh, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Virginia and the University of Washington.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCoursera is dedicated to creating better educational opportunities inside and outside the classroom, and we could not do it without the blessing and commitment of universities,\u201d said Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller. \u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to have the support of these highly respected academic institutions as we move toward our shared goal of providing a high-quality education to everyone around the world.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, Coursera has seen more than 680,000 students from 190 countries and more than 1.55 million course enrollments across its 43 courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Coursera\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECoursera is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people by offering classes from top universities and professors online for free. Coursera\u0027s comprehensive education platform combines mastery-based learning principles with video lectures, interactive content and a global community of peers, offering students from around the world a unique online learning experience. Coursera has partnered with top-tier universities to provide courses across a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, literature, history and computer science, among others. Coursera is backed by leading venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield \u0026amp; Byers and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ctt.marketwire.com\/?release=875704\u0026amp;id=1497382\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.coursera.org%2f\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECoursera.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities for hands-on learning in the classroom."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2012-07-17 07:39:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coursera.org\/","title":"Coursera"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\/","title":"C21U"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Professional Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"28751","name":"C21U; Center for 21st Century Universities; Richard DeMillo; Higher Education;"},{"id":"38281","name":"Coursera"},{"id":"9038","name":"G.P."},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13997","name":"nelson baker"},{"id":"2662","name":"professional education"},{"id":"10243","name":"rafael bras"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@hotmail.com"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"132981":{"#nid":"132981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty Use Video Projects to Engage Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to gauging a student\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s going on in class, a video can be much more revealing than the average homework assignment.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents tend to stretch the limits of the collaborative nature of your average homework assignment and often arrive at the correct answer without understanding the material,\u201d said Ed Greco, an instructor who coordinates half of the introductory courses in the School of Physics. \u201cBut when the assignment requires them to problem solve in a short video, it becomes very difficult to hide the gaps in their understanding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreco began using the videos as a learning tool after attending a workshop sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. At the workshop, Greco met Jarrad Reddick, academic support manager for OMED: Educational Services, who was already using video as a way to urge calculus students to demonstrate their knowledge.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI became interested in championing video use in class because my master\u2019s thesis focuses on the integration of multimedia technologies into science, technology, engineering and math courses at Georgia Tech,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cIn addition to providing Ed with support, I\u2019m currently working with faculty from the schools of Mathematics and Biology to help them integrate video use into classes. And I\u2019ve partnered with the Center for 21st Century Universities to work on other ways to employ video use in the classroom.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis academic year, Greco gave students the option to submit a short video response to a physics-based problem for extra credit. Last\u0026nbsp; semester, for example, he provided a viral video of people swinging on the world\u2019s largest rope swing (visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7lhcdf7\u0022\u003Etinyurl.com\/7lhcdf7\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 20 percent of his students participated and created five-minute videos that modeled the physics of the swing. Students were asked to respond to questions including, \u201cWhere along the trajectory is the tension of the stretchy rope the greatest?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreco encouraged students to use whatever video camera was available, whether it was a camcorder or a cell phone. (The Library offers a variety of digital camcorders if students are in need of one: visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/gadgets\u0022\u003Ewww.library.gatech.edu\/gadgets\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReddick was available to help Greco\u2019s students with the projects and encourages any student who has a question about creating a video to contact OMED for assistance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think one of the greatest misconceptions about OMED is that we only serve minority students. In reality, we support all students,\u201d Reddick added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to making a video to earn the extra credit, each participant also had to rank eight student videos, which Greco randomly assigned, from favorite to least favorite. The amount of extra credit earned was dependent on the student\u2019s average ranking received from their peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important to emphasize to students that the videos will be judged on the quality of the physics, not the production quality of the video,\u201d Greco said. \u201cThis prevents students from inflating their rankings with comedy or satire.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreco didn\u2019t provide a specific rubric or solutions, just questions for students to keep in mind as they viewed each video. The problem itself was open in nature, so there was no correct answer, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach time Greco offers these assignments, he is able to improve the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor example, last semester when I first tried this, I didn\u2019t realize that most students will wait until the last second to submit their assignment, and this was problematic when it came time for students to upload their videos to T-Square,\u201d Greco said. \u201cT-Square couldn\u2019t handle hundreds of students uploading and converting large videos all at the same time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo remedy the problem, this semester students were allowed to upload their videos anywhere on the web (e.g., to YouTube or Vimeo). The only requirement was that they had to provide a URL where the video could be accessed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother change that Greco will make next semester is to require the videos rather than make them extra credit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents have been receptive to the videos being mandatory, with the understanding that I would need to dial back some other tasks related to the class, given creating the videos takes more time and effort,\u201d Greco said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m willing to do this, because the videos are much more useful to me when it comes to ensuring that students are learning the material.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ed.greco@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGreco\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jreddick@omed.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EReddick\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to gauging a student\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s going on in class, a video can be much more revealing than the average homework assignment.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When it comes to gauging a student\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s going on in class, a video can be much more revealing than the average homework assignment."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-05-29 09:50:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:18","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"34551","name":"Ed Greco"},{"id":"34561","name":"Jarrad Reddick"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"14302","name":"Teaching and Learning"},{"id":"197","name":"video"},{"id":"34571","name":"video projects"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"131351":{"#nid":"131351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Institute Announces Video Contest \u0022You on the Tube\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Parker H. 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However, instead of ignoring the inevitability of change, how can institutions incorporate these disruptive technologies within the traditional university?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat is the question that Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Universities (C21U) sought to answer with its first annual TechBurst Competition, where students were invited to create short, sharable videos that explain a single concept in an entertaining and compelling way while competing for $5,000 in cash prizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs a living laboratory, C21U\u2019s goal is to experiment with cutting-edge ideas in higher education by taking change that is occurring at the periphery, like Khan Academy, and incorporating it within an established university,\u201d said Richard DeMillo, director of C21U. \u201cTechBurst fits into that scheme because it takes your conventional lecture and breaks it apart so that it can be reformed and reused in new ways.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EC21U announced the winners of the competition during the TechBurst Awards Ceremony yesterday.\u0026nbsp; First place went to the video \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch%3Fv=SwjsbLrdpkw%26feature=plcp%26context=C475dd0dVDvjVQa1PpcFNIePCbCiMqBf7THVUkkh-3iZHR5g6m1Bk%3D\u0022\u003EConstructing the \u2018Perfect Cube\u2019 in Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d created by Aaron Morris, Rachel Cornelius, Matt Duane, and Clair Matthews; second place to \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rvfb8IyW2VU\u0026amp;feature=plcp\u0026amp;context=C479c872VDvjVQa1PpcFNIePCbCiMqBctCB1zZXJG0Dm0xBWJLW2A%3D\u0022\u003EThe Physics of Gravitational Pull in Space\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d submitted by Sarah Lashinksy; third place to \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=06akxR14d1M\u0026amp;feature=plcp\u0026amp;context=C41949caVDvjVQa1PpcFNIePCbCiMqBe9ugJTP6iwixbwwGhV-Nx4%3D\u0022\u003EIntroduction to Circuits: Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d submitted by Hunter Scott; and the crowd-sourced winner was \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mQVieoj8jjE\u0026amp;feature=plcp\u0026amp;context=C4a875edVDvjVQa1PpcFNIePCbCiMqBToQ3FFhrz3dKCqjwgO3gO4%3D\u0022\u003EChemical Combustion\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d submitted by Erin Lightfoot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn its inaugural year, TechBurst\u2019s pioneering approach to learning has provided C21U with some valuable lessons regarding technological innovation within the classroom.\u0026nbsp; After introducing the concept of TechBurst, many Georgia Tech students and faculty were excited by the idea of a crowd-sourced learning tool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were surprised at the number of professors who were interested in contributing to the project and incorporating TechBurst into their classrooms,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cStudents also expressed a desire to teach what they know to their peers, as well as to be educated by students who have struggled with the same concepts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, TechBurst also faced interesting challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince TechBurst videos are student generated, they\u2019re not always correct, and that makes some traditionalists nervous,\u201d DeMillo said. \u201cHowever, that it is nature of experimentation. This is meant to be a start of a thread of conversations among students, where other students annotate videos and correct errors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo also said that as TechBurst evolves, it will be important to generate entire courses of material, particularly for upper-level STEM classes. While there is proliferation of instructional videos for lower-level courses online, hardly any videos exist for upper-level courses. TechBurst videos will be used to populate an online library, which will eventually house videos that explain every topic covered in undergraduate courses offered at Georgia Tech. In the mean time, C21U will continue to hold the TechBurst competition annually and hopes to involve more faculty and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cTesting new methods of learning and teaching is not always going to be a smooth process, but that\u2019s inevitable when you\u2019re one of the first universities to adopt a new model,\u201d said DeMillo. \u201cWe need to shift the frame of reference from universities as preserves of tradition to drivers of innovation, and TechBurst is one of the ways we are attempting to accomplish that goal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"C21U Announces the Winners of its First Annual TechBurst Competition."}],"uid":"27552","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 21:11:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"Emily Ivey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:emily.ivey@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEmily Ivey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"118671":{"#nid":"118671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leading Thinkers Convene to Hack the Future of Higher Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, the Institute for the Future had the opportunity to partner with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/students.autodesk.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAutodesk\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for an energetic day-long session exploring the new thinking that is emerging in the rapidly shifting higher education space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA rich spectrum of viewpoints was explored by participants, from Will Wright on the future of games and education, to Howard Rheingold on new tools for self-directed learning and Jason Rosoff of Khan Academy on the implications of the explosion in online content. One of the best things about these kinds of events is the sparks that are created when the ideas of sharp, passionate people are put together in one place. For sessions like these, IFTF often relies on a graphic recorder, an artist who listens and creates a larger-than-life real-time visual record of the conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven for those not originally in attendance, these records can bring ideas together in powerful new ways, often reviving reviving some of those original sparks of the session at a glance. At the same time, they also can reward more in depth exploration. In the notes attached here, it is possible to follow the course of the discussion as participants first offered a few words to describe themselves and then immersed into a series of presentations from those looking at educational innovation in many different ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs we move into a period of massive disruption in higher education, it is encouraging to see the level of innovative thinking that is taking shape in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For more information or to view the infographic generated by this event, please visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iftf.org\/ReDesigningEd2\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.iftf.org\/ReDesigningEd2\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"C21U and Institute for the Future are partering on the \u0022Redesigning Education: An Innovation Leaders Exchange on March 24th"}],"uid":"27552","created_gmt":"2012-03-22 12:01:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:52","author":"Emily Ivey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jkordus@iftf.org\u0022\u003EJillian Kordus\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"111621":{"#nid":"111621","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTRI\u0027s Jessica Pater Joins C21U Staff","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC21U officially welcomes Jessica Pater as a Research Associate with C21U. Aside from her role at C21U, Ms. Pater\u0026nbsp;is the Associate Director of the Foundations for the Future (F3) program within the Georgia Tech Research Institute where she holds the rank of Research Associate. \u0026nbsp;She is the Project Director for several educational programs including the Direct to Discovery (D2D) and Georgia CyberSafety Initiative (GaCSI). \u0026nbsp;She has taught courses in the areas of digital citizenship, cyber-safety and cyberethics, technology applications in the classroom, and virtual worlds in education.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27552","created_gmt":"2012-02-22 16:26:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Emily Ivey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jessica.pater@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJessica Pater\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"108301":{"#nid":"108301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"C21U Student Affiliate Connie Chen wins GT\u0027s Campus Movie Fest","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn September 8th, C21U Student affiliate Connie Chen and her assosicates won Best Picture at Georgia Tech\u0027s annual\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.campusmoviefest.com\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Campus Movie Fest\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Competition with her short film\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zd0gnebZzks\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Therapist\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003EAs a result of this win,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Therapist\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewill be screened in Hollywood as well as the prestegious Cannes Film Festival.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMs. Chen\u0027s previous works include the TechBurst announcement video which can be found\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TOOlFhu9wAo\u0026amp;feature=plcp\u0026amp;context=C3baeccbUDOEgsToPDskJSrJlZCbdZqWRUB5J7fIbT\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations, Connie!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27552","created_gmt":"2012-02-09 16:18:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:02","author":"Emily Ivey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"73285":{"#nid":"73285","#data":{"type":"news","title":"C21U Names Dr. Paul M.A. Baker as New Associate Director","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Paul M.A. Baker has been named as the new Associate Director for the Center for 21st Century Universities. Paul joins the C21U team from the Center for Advanced Communication Policy where he spent 10 years as Director of Research. 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Richard DeMillo has a warning for these colleges and universities in the Middle: If you do not change, you are heading for irrelevance and marginalization. In Abelard to Apple, DeMillo argues that these institutions, clinging precariously to a centuries-old model of higher education, are ignoring the social, historical, and economic forces at work in today\u0027s world. In the age of iTunes, open source software, and for-profit online universities, there are new rules for higher education. DeMillo, who has spent years in both academia andin industry, explains how higher education arrived at its current parlous state and offers a road map for the twenty-first century. He describes the evolving model for higher education, from European universities based on a medieval model to American land-grant colleges to Apple\u0027s iTunes U and MIT\u0027s OpenCourseWare. He offers ten rules to help colleges reinvent themselves (including \u0022Don\u0027t romanticize your weaknesses\u0022) and argues for a focus on teaching undergraduates. DeMillo\u0027s message--for colleges and universities, students, alumni, parents, employers, and politicians--is that any college or university can change course if it defines a compelling value proposition (one not based in \u0022institutional envy\u0022 of Harvard and Berkeley) and imagines an institution that delivers it.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHear Rich discuss his book in his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/4JyvKkLrSEM\u0022\u003EAuthors@Google\u003C\/a\u003E talk.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELinks to purchase the book:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abelard-Apple-American-Colleges-Universities\/dp\/0262015803\u0022\u003EAmazon Online Bookstore\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/abelard-to-apple-richard-a-demillo\/1100739299\u0022\u003EBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27504","created_gmt":"2011-10-03 15:45:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Himani Manglani","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:thompson2@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMary Claire Thompson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"70149":{"#nid":"70149","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Opens Classroom Doors to the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThanks to Rich DeMillo (\u003Cem\u003EComputer Science\u003C\/em\u003E) and the Center for 21st\n Century Universities, Georgia Tech is shaking up traditional education \nby offering its first massive open online course (MOOC), which allowins \nstudents to encounter leaders and classmates from around the world via \nblogs, twitter, emails and through a global study group. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Innovating Education\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-09-21 12:49:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:14","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/preetharam.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/15\/gt-opens-the-classroom-doors-to-the-world\/","title":"http:\/\/preetharam.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/15\/gt-opens-the-classroom-doors-to-..."}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"},{"id":"14381","name":"center for 21st century universities"},{"id":"14386","name":"massive open online course"},{"id":"14385","name":"mooc"},{"id":"13482","name":"Rich DeMillo"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"69248":{"#nid":"69248","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Host its First Annual Tech Burst Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for 21st Century Universities is proud to announce the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFirst Annual Tech Burst Competition\u003C\/strong\u003E. In this contest students will compete to win a substantial prize by creating a 10-15 minute \u0026nbsp;video or other multimedia\u0026nbsp;presentation of a specific academic topic. Each presentation should use compelling story telling, innovative media and inspired mentoring to explain their chosen subject matter.\u0026nbsp;Look for more details and information about this competition on our website \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\/techburst\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\/techburst\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.c21u.gatech.edu\/techburst\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for 21st Century Universities is proud to announce the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFirst Annual Tech Burst Competition\u003C\/strong\u003E. 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This course is open to anyone in the world, but only a select few\u2014including students at Georgia Tech\u2014are given credit for it.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is a MOOC?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re still reading, you\u2019re probably asking, \u201cThat\u2019s great. So what\u2019s a MOOC?\u201d A MOOC is a form of computer-mediated learning with each week\u2019s lecturer providing course materials and discussion topics (streamed online) on that week\u2019s theme. After each lecture, students are required to engage in the discussion; this can be in the form of a blog post, a vlog, a forum discussion or other interactions. Students will be evaluated based on their level of engagement within the community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA MOOC differs from traditional distance-learning classrooms in a few key ways. In addition to allowing any interested parties to participate, all of the content produced from the course is shared by everyone involved. A MOOC is participatory\u2014learners contribute to the class by building on the topics discussed, researching those topics further and then creating their own relevant content, which other students then comment on, critique, connect and share, creating a community of content shared by all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat will the MOOC cover, and how will students be evaluated?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe direction this MOOC will take depends on who participates and how they interact. However, all discussion surrounding this MOOC will focus on the role of instructional technology in forming a student\u2019s digital identity, the role of open learning communities (OLCs), and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho is teaching the course?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterested students can find a list of course facilitators plus many other details (course outline, discussion threads, blog posts, etc.) at the MOOC\u2019s website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/change.mooc.ca\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/GTMOOC.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow much does it cost?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENothing! There is no cost to enroll.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho is eligible to enroll?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEveryone. Like many Georgia Tech seminars, this MOOC promises to be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students alike, and all are welcome. And there is no class size limit\u2014in fact, we invite all interested Georgia Tech students to participate. The MOOC is a 4-credit course divided over two semesters (2 and 2); the course numbers are CS 4802 ELT (CRN92449) and CS 8802 ELT (CRN92450). To register, visit the MOOC website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/change.mooc.ca\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/GTMOOC.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIf you have not already registered, here is what you should do:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESubscribe to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtmooc.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethis blog\u003C\/a\u003E, so that you can follow posts, comment on discussions and register your presence.\u0026nbsp; There is a button in the side bar of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtmooc.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for your convenience. If you do not want to be identified, then subscription is not required to participate in the MOOC.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVisit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022MOOC Home Page\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/change.mooc.ca\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to register for the MOOC\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf you are registered at Georgia Tech, visit your\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca title=\u0022T-Square\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/t-square.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ET-Square page\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for additional information.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf you are part of the Georgia Tech community and would like to be added to T-Square, send an email message containing your preferred Georgia Tech email address to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rad@gatech.edu?subject=ADDME\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eme\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the subject line ADDME.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWatch your email for updates and announcements\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho do I contact for more information?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, contact Emily Ivey at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:emily.ivey@cc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eemily.ivey@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or visit the MOOC website at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/change.mooc.ca\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/GTMOOC.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27504","created_gmt":"2011-07-05 15:04:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Himani Manglani","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69375":{"id":"69375","type":"image","title":"MOOC","body":null,"created":"1449177252","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:12","changed":"1475894609","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:29","alt":"MOOC","file":{"fid":"192753","name":"mooc_slide3.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mooc_slide3_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mooc_slide3_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76941,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mooc_slide3_0.jpeg?itok=DiO3nf8C"}}},"media_ids":["69375"],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Emily.ivey@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEmily Ivey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"68581":{"#nid":"68581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"OpenStudy Named One of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/openstudy.com\/\u0022\u003EOpenStudy\u003C\/a\u003E is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. 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