Panel Discussion on Online Education

The Committee on Teaching, in collaboration with the Committee on Educational Policy, hosted the third in a series of forums on online education. The spring forum, “Online Education & UCSC: What’s next?” focused on the big questions surrounding online education: How will online education change the role of the professor? What are the risks to faculty in respect to intellectual property in offering online courses? How will online courses be assessed, and who will determine the measures for success? Panelist discussed these and many more questions.

The event was held on Friday, April 26, 2013 in the Stevenson Event Center.

Panelists included the following:
Daphne Koller, Co-founder of Cousera, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Robert Meister, Professor of History of Consciousness, UCSC
Rodney Ogawa, Professor of Education, UCSC
Alison Galloway, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Student Representative from the UCSC Student Organization “New School”

Moderated by Lois Kazakoff, Deputy Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and UCSC alumna (Cowell 1976)

Click here to watch the event.