Organizers
General Chairs
Maurice Matiz, CTL, Columbia University Peter B. Kaufman, CTL, Columbia University General Co-Chair George Schuessler, Teachers College, Columbia University |
Program Chairs
Ryan Baker, Learning Analytics, Teachers College Dragan Gasevic, University of Edinburgh Program Co-Chair Elle Yuan Wang, Teachers College, Columbia University |
The organizers wish to thank numerous people and organizations who have provided generous support, especially:
the staff of the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, Kathy Takayama, Executive Director, with special thanks to Nick Buonincontri (technology & logistics), Ted Limpert (communications), and Marc Raymond (art & design);
the staff of Teachers College Computing and Information Services (CIS) at Teachers College, Naveed Husain, Chief Information Officer, with special thanks to Bryan Chan and Stacy Thomas (administration); and
CulinArt Group at Teachers College for catering services, Charlene Durant, Catering Manager, Jo Ann Plympton, Executive Chef, Ryan Deutsch, Corporate Chef.
Speaker gifts generously provided by the Columbia Alumni Association.
Special appreciation is extended to:
Tom James, Provost, Teachers College; John Coatsworth, Provost, Soulaymane Kachani, Vice Provost, and Kris Kavanaugh, Associate Vice President, Columbia University.
the staff of the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, Kathy Takayama, Executive Director, with special thanks to Nick Buonincontri (technology & logistics), Ted Limpert (communications), and Marc Raymond (art & design);
the staff of Teachers College Computing and Information Services (CIS) at Teachers College, Naveed Husain, Chief Information Officer, with special thanks to Bryan Chan and Stacy Thomas (administration); and
CulinArt Group at Teachers College for catering services, Charlene Durant, Catering Manager, Jo Ann Plympton, Executive Chef, Ryan Deutsch, Corporate Chef.
Speaker gifts generously provided by the Columbia Alumni Association.
Special appreciation is extended to:
Tom James, Provost, Teachers College; John Coatsworth, Provost, Soulaymane Kachani, Vice Provost, and Kris Kavanaugh, Associate Vice President, Columbia University.
Program Committee (updated August 14, 2015)
Amy Bennett, University of Pennsylvania Chris Brooks, University of Michigan Marie Cini, University of Maryland, University College Denise Comer, Duke University Hal Daume III, U of Maryland Jennifer DeBoer, Purdue University Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Allison Dulin, Davidson College Fiona Hollands, Teachers College, Columbia University Pedro J. Muñoz Merino, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Maria Janelli, American Museum of Natural History Gregor Kennedy, University of Melbourne Marcia Linn, UC Berkeley |
Phil Long, University of Queensland
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT, University of Tokyo Peter Norvig, Google Rebecca Petersen, HarvardX TC Pong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jose Rafael Royano Caceres, Universidad Veracruzana Justin Reich, Harvard University Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University Mike Sharples, Open University George Siemens, University of Texas at Arlington Candace Thille, Stanford University Joseph Jay Williams, HarvardX |
Steering Committee
Anant Agarwal, EdX, MIT Saman Amarasinghe, MIT Barbara Chow, Hewlett Foundation Armando Fox, UC Berkeley |
Jeff Haywood, University of Edinburgh
Daphne Koller, Coursera Daniela Rus, MIT Sebastian Thrun, Udacity |