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Summit on Online Education is Oct. 14

The campus will host its fifth annual Summit on Online Education on Oct. 14 with Johns Hopkins University professor, author and New York Times higher education columnist Kevin Carey as the keynote speaker.

This year’s summit theme is “Answering Your Burning Questions.” The event will be held in Illini Rooms A, B and C at the Illini Union from 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m.

Two interactive roundtable discussions will focus on online education. The first will address policy and economics, and the second will discuss teaching and pedagogy. During these roundtables, experts will answer “burning” questions submitted prior to the event by faculty and staff members. Questions may be emailed to onlinesummit@illinois.edu.

Registration is free. For more information and to register, visit the summit website.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Provost. It is jointly organized by the College of Education, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

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