Fareed zakaria anant agarwal biography

  • Anant is a pioneer in computer architecture and a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He's also the founding CEO of edX.
  • A few weeks ago you had the chance to ask the President of edX, Anant Agarwal, about the future of education and the growth of MOOCs.
  • I'm Fareed Zakaria.

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    Is the college of the future online? With the popularity of MOOCs (massive open online courses) and the availability of online degree programs at a fraction of their on-campus price, we are experiencing an exciting experiment in higher education. Does the traditional classroom stand a chance? Will online education be the great equalizer, or is a campus-based college experience still necessary?

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      Fareed Zakaria GPS

      The World's Most Important Relationship; The Reality Behind "Rosewater"; Russia Signed Deal with China; Changing in Business of Education

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      FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE.

      Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria.

      We'll uppstart with the two presidents, Obama and Xi, side by side announcing major matters they agreed on from climate change to trade, military cooperation to Iranian nukes.

      Is this the big breakthrough in relations between the world's number one and two economic powers?

      I'm not so sure.

      Then Jon Stewart and Iranian born journalist Maziar Bahari on the Iranian regime, the ayatollah, the nation's nuclear ambitions, the Arab spring and their new movie "Rosewater."

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      List of Indian Americans

      Not to be confused with List of Native Americans of the United States or List of indigenous people of the Americas.

      Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India.[1][2] Notable Indian Americans include:

      This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

      Academics

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      Nobel Prize recipients

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      • Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968
      • Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983
      • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; Former President of the Royal Society, (2015–2020)
      • Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[3]

      Deans and presidents

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