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Nigel Lloyd, Rose Wolfe, John Snobelen, Peter Nicholson, and
John Chadam at the opening of the Fields Institute at the
University of Toronto, 1995.
In the summer of 2016, I co-organized a workshop on
open, online math education that was co-sponsored by
Maplesoft. We were pleased that members of the Institute’s
new Centre for Mathematics Education actively participated
in the workshop. It was reassuring to see that, through
this new outreach, the Fields Institute has initiated formal
plans to provide a focal point for Math teachers, the Ministry,
and corporate players to interact and cooperate in developing
new online opportunities in mathematics and to explore
how they might be integrated into instruction at all levels,
from university through grade school. Twenty-five years ago
when we launched the Fields Institute, very few of us could
have imagined the extent of these online opportunities and
how important it would be for the Fields Institute to be
actively involved with the mathematical sciences community
in structuring their most effective use.