Press Room

The USC Rossier Online Press Room provides a collection of program information, logos, and multimedia for journalists and bloggers.

For media-related inquires, please contact:
Barbara Goen
USC Rossier School of Education
barbara.goen@rossier.usc.edu

Andrea Bennet
USC Rossier School of Education
akbennet@usc.edu

In the News

Where’s the Real Learning?
June 11, 2013 | featured on Inside Higher Ed
Essay by Dean Karen Symms Gallagher on disappointing experience in a MOOC

Disrupting Teacher Education
April 10, 2013 | featured on Education Next
High costs for brick-and-mortar degrees create opportunities for online programs

2U Helps Master’s Degree Programs Go Online
March 19, 2013 | featured on Information Week
Unlike the new breed of massive open online course, online master’s degree programs stress value of small classes and personal connections. Dean Gallagher shares her thoughts.

High Quality Online Learning: A Discussion with USC’s Karen Gallagher
February 14, 2013 | featured on Inside Higher Ed
Dean Gallagher participates in an e-mail discussion to explore her ideas around how higher ed leaders can advance both our thinking and our models around online education.

Higher Ed Leaders Must Lead Online
January 8, 2013 | featured on The Huffington Post
We are witnessing a historic transformation of how students learn, teachers teach, and universities are organized.

Gallagher honored for improvements to public education
January 2, 2013 | USC News
Dean Karen Symms Gallagher has been named a Pahara-Aspen Education fellow, a highly selective honor designed to support entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to transforming public education.

Do Colleges Need to Get More Serious About Online Education?
December 13, 2012 | featured on Education News
Karen Symms Gallagher, the dean of the Rossier School of Education at the
University of Southern California, thinks that colleges and universities around the country are dragging their feet when it comes to deploying comprehensive online education programs.

Rethinking Higher Ed Open Online Learning
December 12, 2012 | featured on U.S. News & World Report
More universities should develop high-quality online degree programs

USC Rossier professor honored with Legacy Award
December 11, 2012 | featured on USC News
Sandra Kaplan, an expert in gifted education and professor at the USC Rossier School of Education, has received the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Legacy Award.

USC Rossier School of Education Launches Online Master’s of Education Program for Practicing Teachers
November 9, 2012 | featured on USC Rossier Online
Dynamic Virtual Campus Experience Brings the Best of On-Campus Learning Online

Beverly Hills looks to use iPads in classrooms
October 30, 2012 | featured on 89.3 KPCC
Professor Brandon Martinez talks about the research he has done on media literacy and his experience using technology in the classroom.

Online Learning: Crediting the Class
October 25, 2012 | featured on 94.9 KUOW
A leader in the field, Karen Symms Gallagher, Dean of the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, sits down with Ross Reynolds for a discussion about the future of online learning for credit.

USC Education Dean: How Seattle brought me up
October 11, 2012 | featured on CrossCut.com
Guest Opinion: Growing up fatherless in Greenlake, Karen Symms Gallagher, Dean of USC’s Rossier School of Education, had to learn to lean on her neighbors. Now that’s informing her work in education.

USC Schools of Education and Social Work Go Mobile
February 1, 2012 | featured on USC Rossier Online
New Android mobile application gives students access to lectures, coursework and other virtual classroom elements.

Teach.com Launches to Encourage, Promote Great Teaching in STEM and Other Areas
December 15, 2011| featured on USC Rossier Online

University challenge
December 10, 2011 | featured on The Economist
Slim down, focus and embrace technology: American universities need to be more businesslike.

USC allows students to earn a degree through the computer
September 14, 2011 | featured on ABC Eyewitness News

Dissolving Local Markets in Teacher Preparation
August 30, 2011 | featured on The Quick and the Ed

“SNSを活用、先進的な「iPad大学」（動画)”
July 26, 2011 | featured on Wired, Japanese Edition

An iPad University: Giving It the Old College Try
July 22, 2011 | featured on Wired Magazine

College? There’s an App for That: How USC Built a 21st Century Classroom
May 27, 2011 | featured on The Atlantic

MAT@USC Wins 2011 Innovation Award
March 7, 2011 | featured on USC News

Education Master’s Programs: Add Value or Shut Down
February 16, 2011 | featured on Education Week

Urban Education Meets the Digital Age
Winter 2010 | featured on Trojan Family Magazine
One hundred years young, the USC Rossier School of Education has reinvented itself as a dominant force for urban education in the new century.

Online Course Sees Growth
September 21, 2010| featured on USC News

USC Rossier Launches Radical New Campaign
September 8, 2010 | Featured on USC News

Online Classmates Meet in Real World
August 3, 2010 | featured on USC News

USC Doubles Down Online
April 22, 2010 | featured on Inside Higher Ed

USC Wins National Award for Use of Innovative Methods
February 24, 2010 | featured on The Daily Trojan

An Experiment Takes Off
October 7, 2009| featured on Inside Higher Ed

A Learner Centered Approach to Online Learning
June 2009 | featured on Online Cl@ssroom

USC Rossier and 2tor Inc Offer Online Degree
September 15, 2008 | featured on USC News