Authentic Assessment over Surveillance
COVID-19 forced many educators to move tests and quizzes online, sparking concerns among instructors that students would take shortcuts when being assessed remotely. In response, an arms race of EdTech …
CAST Fellows Bring Climate and Sustainability into Classrooms Across Duke
When the 2024–2025 cohort of Duke’s Climate and Sustainability Teaching (CAST) Fellows began their work last summer, they shared a common challenge: how to bring the urgency of climate change …
Duke Instructors are Changing the Narrative around Grading at Duke
“I just realized how many negative emotions students have attached to grades.” -Charlotte Asmuth, Participant in the 2025 Innovative Grading and Assessment Community of Practice Since the 1990s, there has been …
Teaching with AI, Grounded in Fundamentals: Lessons from Duke’s Jun Yang
This summer, Duke introduced its AI Suite, featuring new tools, prompting many instructors to experiment with fresh ways of bringing them into the classroom. One of those leading the change …
Behind the Design: Bringing Telehealth Training to Coursera
The Duke Learning Experience (LX) Design team recently launched a new series of seven Coursera courses on telehealth, designed to help healthcare professionals build timely and essential skills. These courses, …
Duke Honored with ‘Vision and Values Award’ by Coursera
Duke University has been awarded Coursera’s prestigious Vision and Values Award, recognizing the university’s leadership in principled innovation, thoughtful experimentation, and deep commitment to learners. Quentin Ruiz-Esparza, Director for Digital …
Building an AI Assistant With MyGPT Builder
By Sarah Wike, Ed.D. Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly reshaping how we work, teach, and learn. MyGPT Builder is a platform offered in the Duke AI Suite of tools, which enables …
Duke students report frequent AI use, call for instructor guidance in new research by CARADITE
By Remi Kalir and Aria Chernik A new research study finds frequent generative AI use among Duke students along with strong opinions about trustworthiness and calls for educational guidance. “If …
Announcing Duke’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit
By Hannah Rozear and Remi Kalir Duke University students and faculty now have access to a new AI Ethics Learning Toolkit, developed by Duke Libraries and the Center for Applied …
Where Mission Meets Management: Equipping Divinity Students for Nonprofit Impact
Clusters of Divinity graduate students stood together in animated discussion, their voices overlapping as they shared insights and connected course material to their work in churches and faith-based community organizations. …