Biology Education Group Seminar TODAY

Professor Chris Dede  from Harvard University will be giving a HHMI Education Group Seminar TODAY @ 2 pm. We hope to see you there.

Seminar Title: How Immersion in Virtual and Augmented Worlds Helps Students in the Real World
Date & Time: TODAY Sept 28  @ 2:00 pm    
Location: Koch Institute, 76-156

Professor Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His current research includes seven grants from NSF, Qualcomm, the Gates Foundation, and the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to explore immersive simulations and transformed social interactions as means of student engagement, learning, and assessment. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Chris has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment and a member of the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan Technical Working Group. His co-edited book, Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. A second volume, which he edited called Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods, was published by the Harvard Education Press in 2006. His latest co-edited book, Digital Teaching Platforms, was published by Teachers College Press in 2012.

Refreshments will be provided.