MOOC Design Lessons From The Trenches
Duke University and its faculty have taken the initiative to explore the potential of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) across a wide range of course topics. While supporting the faculty …
Flipped classrooms at Duke: Chemistry 201 Spring 2015
What does a flipped classroom look like? In Professors Amanda Hargrove and Dorian Canelas’s Organic Chemistry course, 143 students entered Gross Hall 107 and settled into small groups. They read …
When is a Selfie More than a Selfie?
Have you ever had a fascinating conversation with someone and wished you could share it with your students and colleagues? How about sharing the experience of a unique environment that …
“That’s Awesome!” – Keeping Attention in Online Videos
The on-demand Coursera course How Things Work includes six modules, which are named for everyday objects or activities: skating, falling balls, ramps, seesaws, wheels, and bumper cars. One challenge that …
“That’s Awesome!” – Competitive Strategy
What It’s About The Competitive Strategy course from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on Coursera presents content in a lot of awesome ways. The course is on-demand and has six modules. Each module …
Duke Launches New MOOC: Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action
Duke University is offering a Coursera MOOC, Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action, an exciting new course that is also a part of Duke’s online neuroscience curriculum specialization, Perception, Action …
Quick Tips – Using WordPress in Your Course
What is WordPress? WordPress is a blogging website platform. It allows you to easily create a website using templates and forms without knowing HTML. WordPress is focused on blogging – …
Teaching Tips: Engaging Learners with Online Communication Tools
At Duke, faculty use online communication tools in their teaching to encourage group work online, hold class discussion, foster student-student interaction, and build online community. Below is a list of …
There and back again: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference MOOC comes back to Duke
Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel’s course began at Duke, spread throughout the world via Coursera (a provider of Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs) and is now finding more ways to reach students at Duke and through Duke.
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Duke now subscribes to the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching! You can easily access full text of the journal from on campus or off — from the Duke Libraries …