CIT blog recognized
The CIT blog made the “2016 Dean’s List: EdTech’s 50 Must-Read Higher Ed IT Blogs.”
CIT Fellows program highlighted
Gennifer Weisenfeld Discusses Use of Active Learning Techniques in Seminars
Duke Today piece focusing on Weisenfeld’s participation in a recent CIT Fellows program:
“The three instructors we had—Andrea Novicki, Seth Anderson and Randy Riddle—offer so many things and are so flexible. They really want to know what they can do to make us better teachers. One brilliant thing they did: they taught us the teaching method using the teaching method. So if you’re learning about team-based learning exercises, you’re learning how to do it through a team-based learning exercise. If you’re learning the gallery walk method, you’re doing that through a gallery walk. It demonstrates the strategy by showing you exactly how it works.”
Articles on Duke Online Courses
New Duke MOOC Sets out to Inspire and Train Global Innovators
- Duke’s DGHI takes a look at Innovation and Design for Global Grand Challenges, a Duke Coursera course featuring Alex Dehgan, the Chanler Innovator in Resident at Duke.
Duke to Offer Free Online Data-Analysis Courses Through Coursera
- Pratt story on the four-course “Specialization in Data Analytics for Business” developed and led by Daniel Egger, Executive in Residence and Director of the Center for Quantitative Modeling, and postdoctoral research associate Jana Schaich Borg.
Medical MOOCs: Lessons Learned from the Trenches of Medical Education
- Duke’s Leonard White writes about his experiences developing and teaching the Coursera MOOC Medical Neuroscience.
Pedro Lasch and the Art of the Internet
- Duke Today story featuring Pedro Lasch’s Art of the MOOC Coursera course
Evaluation and Research
CIT’s Program Evaluator Kim Manturuk, working with the Duke Social Science Research Institute’s Laurie Schmidt and Molly Goldwasser, Ian Simpkin and Keith Whitfield (Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs), published a study looking at motivations for learners signing up for Duke MOOCs.
- Link to the full study: Fulfilling the promise: do MOOCs reach the educationally underserved?
- Campus Technology write up about the study
- Inside Higher Ed write up
Duke’s Denise Comer published Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, Results, and Possibilities, an article focusing on her research looking into the effectiveness of writing assignments in the massive online course English Composition I: Achieving Expertise.