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

本次研讨会将学术界、工业界和政府的领导人与研究人员聚集在一起，为快速发展的大规模在线开放课程（MOOCs）环境下的研究型大学规划未来可能的课程。参与者将考察通过传统途径和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、发现和知识发展的承诺。他们还将考虑新的机会将如何促进或阻碍国家实现更广泛、更多样化受众的目标，以及如何通过与学术界、工业界和政府的新伙伴关系来满足终身学习的需要。参加这一重要对话的有各种各样的人。讲习班的结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，并广泛分发给高等教育的各种利益攸关方：大学、联邦机构、州政府以及专业和学术协会。该研讨会还将为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的WIDER项目（扩大循证改革的实施和示范）提供信息，该项目旨在显著扩大在本科和研究生阶段使用循证教学。发展经济学所注重的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.