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Acceptance Speech:
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Thomas
Ward
Cognitive Science Society
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Objective:
The Cognitive Science Society started an online seminar
series for members, faculty, graduate students, and
practitioners in 2002. The seminars are typically
attended by 100-200 people around the world, and
are used for education and professional development.
Nominator's
Comments:
The archived session of the Cognitive Science
Society online seminar series is an example of the seminar,
offered for free, to over 100 people around the world.
The seminar encourages participation through audio question
and answer sessions, and through a lively text chat throughout
the seminar, which is moderated by the presenter's graduate
student. The seminar series has been successful at disseminating
research results to a broad live international audience,
as well as being available as an archive. The seminar
speakers are among the best known researchers in the
field. The seminars have brought in new members to the
Cognitive Science Society and have dramatically increased
recognition and awareness of the society and its goals.
The seminars are managed by Tom Ward, the Cognitive Science
Society's executive director. The sessions are moderated
by Lisa Neal, who coaches speakers in advance, helps
them design the session and their materials, wrote the
post-session survey, and provides post-session feedback
to presenters. The technology is managed by Gilbert Mizrahi,
Aptima, Inc. The seminar series is sponsored by the Office
of Naval Research (ONR).
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