{"id":8487,"date":"2016-05-09T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:35:01","slug":"sanjay-sarma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/sanjay-sarma\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Online Learning and the MIT Approach with Sanjay Sarma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library,<\/strong> Dr. Sanjay Sarma, Dean of Digital Learning at MIT, will give a talk entitled, “Online Learning and the MIT Approach.” This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.<\/p>\n

MIT launched OpenCourseWare (OCW) <\/a><\/strong>15 years ago, and since then it has reached over 200 million users. Five years ago, it\u00a0launched MITx, and then edX with Harvard, and it has\u00a0reached nearly 10 million users with MOOC\u2019s. Dr. Sarma will talk about these advances in digital learning and explain what MIT\u2019s approach is. In particular, he will discuss MIT\u2019s interests in the science of learning and the new initiatives MIT has\u00a0launched in primary, secondary, tertiary, and professional learning.<\/p>\n

Sanjay Sarma<\/strong> is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the first Dean of Digital Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. He serves on the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies including Senaya and ESSESS. Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Sarma also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. \u00a0He has authored over 75 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz Award and Informationweek’s Innovators and Influencers Award. He advises several national governments and global companies.<\/p>\n

This event\u00a0is part of the Teaching and Learning in the Digital Environment<\/em> lecture series.<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: Monday, May 9, 2016
\nTime<\/strong>: 12\u00a0p.m.
\nLocation<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Sanjay Sarma, Dean of Digital Learning at MIT, will give a talk entitled, “Online Learning and the MIT Approach.” This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. MIT launched OpenCourseWare (OCW) 15 … Event | Online Learning and the MIT Approach with Sanjay Sarma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}