WORKSHOP: Envisioning the Future of Online Graduate Education in the 21st Century Research University

本次研讨会将学术界、行业和政府领导人与研究人员聚集在一起，为研究型大学在快速增长的大规模开放式在线课程（MOOC）环境中规划未来可能的课程。 与会者将研究通过传统途径和MOOC平台进行推广的相对优势，同时继续支持传统的大学对研究，发现和知识发展的承诺。他们还将考虑新的机会将如何服务或阻碍国家的目标，达到更广泛和更多样化的观众，以及如何终身学习的需求可以通过与学术界，工业界和政府的新伙伴关系得到满足。 这一重要对话的参与者多种多样。讲习班的成果将启发州和国家一级的政策讨论。讲习班的成果将载入一份报告，并广泛传播给高等教育的各种利益攸关方：研讨会还将为美国国家科学基金会的WIDER计划提供信息（扩大循证改革的实施和示范），该计划旨在显著扩大本科生和研究生阶段循证教学的使用。 发展经济学所注重循证方法，包括在线和传统教学方法。

This workshop is bringing together academic, industry, and government leaders with researchers to chart possible future courses for research universities in an environment of rapidly growing Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Participants will examine the relative advantages of outreach through traditional avenues and MOOC platforms while continuing to support traditional university commitments to research, discovery, and knowledge development. They will also consider how the new opportunities will serve or hinder the nation's goals of reaching a broader and more diverse audience, and how lifelong learning needs can be met through new partnerships with academia, industry and government. A broad diversity of participants is included in this important dialogue. The results of the workshop will enlighten policy discussions at the state and national levels. The results of the workshop will be captured in a report and widely disseminated to a diversity of stakeholders in higher education: universities, federal agencies, state governments, and professional and academic associations.The workshop will also serve to inform the NSF WIDER program (Widening Implementation and Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms), which seeks to significantly scale up the use of evidence-based instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. WIDER's focus on evidence-based approaches includes online as well as traditional pedagogical approaches.