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Richard
Larson is Principal Investigator
of the MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative. He is
Mitsui Professor of Engineering
Systems and Director of the Center
for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
at MIT. He is also the Founder and Director
of MIT
LINC (Learning International Networks
Consortium), an MIT-based international
project that has held four international
symposia and sponsored a number of initiatives
in Africa, China and the Middle East.
Professor Larson first became interested
in technology-enabled education when in
the early 1990’s he saw what a valuable
addition it was to the education of his
own children. From 1995 to 2002, he served
as director of MIT’s Center for
Advanced Educational Services (CAES) where
he focused on bringing technology-enabled
learning to students living on the traditional
campus and to those living and working
far from the university, often on different
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Dan
Frey is Co-principal Investigator
of the MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative and an
Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Engineering
Systems at MIT. He was also an MIT
faculty advisor to Design
Squad, a new children's TV show featuring
children engaged in designing and building
machines. The goal of Design Squad is
to give children a stronger understanding
of the connection between engineering
and the things we all use in everyday
life. |
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Elizabeth
Murray is Project Manager of the
MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative and Co-Director
of MIT
LINC. She has been involved with LINC
since its inception in 2002 and is editor
of the proceedings of all four LINC
conferences. She has traveled extensively
in her LINC-related work and has co-authored
with Professor Larson the following two
papers on technology-enabled education:
Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty
Reduction: A Focus on Two Countries, China
and Mexico and Open Educational Resources
for Blended Learning in High Schools:
Overcoming Impediments in Developing Countries. |
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Rana
Abu Zeid Qubain is Project Manager
of the MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative in Jordan
and General Manager of Investment
World for Development and Technology,
a company that uses local expertise to
deliver comprehensive solutions to the
educational market of Jordan. She was
a co-planner of the 2007 LINC conference
that took place at the Dead Sea in Jordan
and devoted tremendous energy to making
that conference a success. |
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Naveed
Malik
is Project Manager of the MIT BLOSSOMS
Initiative in Pakistan and Rector of the
Pakistan
Virtual University. Dr. Malik is also
Coordinator of the PANdora
Project that conducted a major series
of studies in nine Asian countries with
the goal of developing practices and policies
to enhance the use of distance learning
technologies in Asia. Dr. Malik has been
involved with MIT LINC since its founding
and has been a plenary speaker at all
four LINC conferences. |
