COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE PEDAGOGY
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
3:00 pm -- Newell-Simon Hall 3305
ONLINE EDUCATION: Using the Computer Where it Helps
Guest Speaker:
RICHARD SCHEINES
Head, Department of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy, Machine Learning and Human-Computer
Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University
A number of faculty at CMU have developed and deployed online courses
through the Open Learning Initative. Professor Scheines and many others
have developed a course in Causal and Statistical Reasoning that involves a
virtual lab, and which has been used at over 40 institutions by several
thousand students. He will discuss where the computer is helpful in
teaching and where it is not. He will also discuss the OLI environment and
project.
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