On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Candace Thille, founding director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University and at Stanford University, will give a talk, “The Science of Learning, Technology, and the Role of Elite Universities in the Transformation of Higher Education.” This event is free and open to the public.
Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, social psychological interventions, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, The Open Learning Initiative (OLI), first at Carnegie Mellon University and now at Stanford University, has been creating and evaluating open web-based learning environments for over fourteen years. The OLI environments also serve as a laboratory for fundamental research on human learning. In her talk, Dr. Thille will discuss how the OLI makes use of expertise from the science of learning to produce high-quality learning environments and how studies of student use inform both the next iteration of the environment and advance underlying learning theory. She hopes for a lively discussion about the role of places such as Brown and Stanford – elite independent research universities that have a strong commitment to exceptional undergraduate instruction – in the transformation of higher education.
Candace Thille is the founding director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University and at Stanford University. She is a senior research fellow in the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her focus is in applying the results from research in the science of learning to the design and evaluation of open web-based learning environments and in using those environments to conduct research in human learning. Dr. Thille serves on the board of directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities; as a fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education; on the Assessment 2020 Task Force of the American Board of Internal Medicine; on the advisory council for the Association of American Universities STEM initiative; on the advisory council for the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources. She served on the working group of the President¹s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) for the Obama Administration that produced the Engage to Excel report and on the U.S. Department of Education working group, co-authoring the 2010 and 2015 National Education Technology Plans.
Date: March 23, 2016
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence