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| Distance Learning: Past, Present and Futures |
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讲者：
Richard C. Larson
Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering
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关于本次演讲：
Learning at a distance from the teacher became ubiquitous with the invention of the printing press about 500 year ago. But currently there is much talk and action in technology-enabled distance learning, leveraging the Internet, multimedia and new pedagogical forms. MIT is right in the center of this activity, with programs SDM/LFM, SMA, OCW, OKI, CMI, PBSBTN, PIVoT, MIT World and Knowledge Updates. (We'll translate the alphabet soup during the talk.) Our focus will be on Distance Learning as it has evolved since about 1970, through to the present and then into the future. We will try to place MIT's efforts into a larger framework. Issues to be discussed: characterization of the learners into different segments, including those who cannot live on a residential campus; new pedagogical models made feasible by the technologies; challenging EECS-type technical problems in distance learning -- from AI to many-variable optimization; rise of e-learning universities in developing countries and how MIT might respond to that growing need.
关于讲者：
Larson is author, co-author or editor of six books and author of over 75 scientific articles, primarily in the fields of technology-enabled education, urban service systems (esp. emergency response systems), queueing, logistics and workforce planning. His first book, Urban Police Patrol Analysis (MIT Press, 1972) was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA).
Larson is currently President-elect of INFORMS, INstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He has served as consultant to the World Bank, Coca-Cola, Johnson Controls, EDS, United Artists Cinemas, Union Carbide Corp., and the Rand Corporation and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
From 1995 to mid 2003, Larson served as Director of MIT's CAES, Center for Advanced Educational Services, which created the Singapore MIT Alliance. He was also the creator of PIVoT -- the web-based the Physics Interactive Video Tutor; and MIT World.
Larson's Civil and Environmental Engineering site
以上资料为本影片上传至 MITWORLD 网站上当时所获知的资讯。此影片上传日为： 2001-10-22.
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