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

本次研讨会将学术、行业和政府领导人与研究人员聚集在一起，在大规模开放在线课程(MOOC)迅速增长的环境中，为研究型大学规划未来可能的课程。与会者将研究通过传统途径和MOOC平台进行外展的相对优势，同时继续支持传统大学对研究、发现和知识开发的承诺。他们还将考虑新的机会将如何服务于或阻碍国家覆盖更广泛和更多样化的受众的目标，以及如何通过与学术界、工业界和政府建立新的伙伴关系来满足终身学习需求。参加这一重要对话的人种类繁多。研讨会的结果将启发州和国家两级的政策讨论。研讨会的结果将被记录在一份报告中，并广泛传播给高等教育中的不同利益相关者：大学、联邦机构、州政府以及专业和学术协会。研讨会还将为NSF更广泛的计划(扩大循证改革的实施和示范)提供信息，该计划旨在显著扩大本科生和研究生水平对循证教学的使用。Wide的重点是循证方法，包括在线方法和传统的教学方法。

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.