Best Practices for Online Course Redesign
Planning to redesign your online or hybrid course? The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) recently completed two redesign projects for the Duke School of Nursing: N580: Nurse as Scholar I …
Student-centered Learning in a Hybrid History Course
“I ask students to post a photograph of themselves and record their commentary over that image (a common practice in digital presentations of oral histories).” Ashley Rose Young, Ph.D. Candidate …
Virtual Conference: “Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment”
Attend the 8th annual “Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment” virtual (online) conference hosted by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to learn more about mobile learning, emerging technologies, …
Teaching with VoiceThread in the Hindi Classroom
“For intermediate Hindi students, I use VoiceThread to tell a story. I show students a picture and one person starts the story and then they take turns adding events to create a full story. This is a very good way to practice speaking.” Kusum Knapczyk, Ph.D
Innovative Teaching in Undergraduate Philosophy: A Bass Online Apprentice Project
“The goal of the project is to create a “one stop” Sakai site that allows students to both engage in self-paced research skills training, and to share the results of this training with others in their class in a media-rich way online.” – Adela Deanova
Teaching Insights for New Duke Faculty
“What I Wish I Had Known About Teaching (at Duke),” a faculty event hosted by the Center for Instructional Technology, offered new instructors an opportunity to learn from expert Duke …
DE SIG@Duke: Arizona State University’s Innovation and Online Unit: EdPlus at ASU
Join your distance education colleagues on Dec. 6, 2016 for an engaging discussion with panelists from EdPlus at Arizona State University (ASU).
New Models for Teaching Using Coursera Groups
Professor Daniel Egger creates a new blended model for teaching and learning for his on-campus and distance education students and “flips” his class using the Coursera Groups feature.
Using Digital Case Studies in Teaching
I recently attended the third annual Learning with MOOCs conference and heard an interesting presentation by William Eimicke, Adam Stepan and Sandesh Tuladhar from Columbia University. They worked with a team …
Tropical Parasitology MOOC Offers Real-World Learning with Global Impact
Tropical Parasitology: Protozoans, Worms, Vectors and Human Diseases, Duke’s first open online course developed in collaboration with an international partner medical school (Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College – KCMU College) …