edX Global Forum at Boston University
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Boston University is pleased to host this year’s edX Global Forum, an annual three-day international conference on emerging trends in education that will take place November 19 to 21, 2014. The keynote events will be webcast exclusively to the BU community using www.bu.edu/digital/livestream. The keynote sessions featured will be as follows:
Thursday, November 20
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Keynote
Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Boston University
Welcome to Boston University and the edX Global Forum
Ted Mitchell, US Under Secretary of Education
Future of Education and Technology Innovation
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Setting the Stage
Anant Agarwal, CEO, edX
Massive Strides, Accelerating Change, New Horizons
Claude Steele, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley, xConsortium Chair
xConsortium Vision
Friday, November 21
9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote
André Dua, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Paths to Sustainability
Moderator: Wendy Cebula, President & COO, edX
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Closing Keynote
Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of LaunchCode, and Co-Founder of Square, Inc.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Conference Wrap and Farewell
Chris Dellarocas, Professor of Information Systems, Digital Learning Initiative Director, Boston University
Wendy Cebula, President & COO, edX