Harvard University Club of Houston

HarvardX: From the Classroom to the Cloud

Meet Prof. Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Prof. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

COCKTAIL RECEPTION, Professionally Catered: Private home of Dylan & Jordan Seff

2340 Blue Bonnet

Please join us on February 9th for a professionally catered cocktail reception welcoming Harvard Professor Peter K. Bol, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization.  Professor Bol will talk about his own experiences in teaching ChinaX, a massive open online course that enrolls over 35,000 students from around the world.  He will also share recent innovations from HarvaardX, the University-wide initiative to expand access to knowledge, improve teaching and learning on campus, and advance the science of learning.  

Professor Bol is also the director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.  He has been named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his commitment to teaching.  He came to Harvard in 1985 after studying at the University of Leiden and Princeton.  His books include Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching (Princeton University Press; 1990), This culture of Ours: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China (Stanford University Press, 1994), Ways with Words (University of California Press, 2000), and Neo-Confucianism in History (Harvard University Asian Center, 2010).  He directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems Project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for China's history, with the goal of integrating geographical knowledge and analysis with historical research.  He is also the director of the China Biographical Database Project, a collaboration between Peking University, the Institute of History at Academia Sinica, and Harvard, which currently has 150,000 biographies and aims eventually to include all biographical records in China's history.

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