Teaching Innovation

• Summer Doctoral Academy – Matthew Rascoff co-taught a course on Ed Tech with Aria Chernik May 21-25, 2018
• Participated in interviews for second round of hiring Duke Kunshan faculty
• PebblePad Showcase You events (Spring 2018)
• Duke Kunshan Learning Innovation Fellows – hosted two design residencies in March and February 2018
• Co-sponsored several events with the Thompson Writing Center: “Crafting Effective Writing Assignments II: The Writing Process”; “Creating Effective Video for Teaching and Learning”; and “Designing a Writing Intensive Course”
• Event – “Integrating research and teaching: How do research faculty begin studying their teaching?”
• Event – “Teaching for Equity: Lessons Learned and Creating Classroom Change”
• Sponsored Duke NextEd Festival, a series of over 30 events in October and November 2017
• Launched a new faculty development program, the Course Design Institute, for faculty and academic staff
• Active Learning Faculty Fellows 2017 concluded; the 2018 fellowships cohort began in May 2018

Learning Technologies

• Sakai upgraded on May 12, 2018 ( Release notes)
• Partnered with Duke’s Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies to rework the process for Duke’s TeachX program
• Sakai SISS gradebook integration
• New Attendance tool added to Sakai
• Partnered with Duke University School of Nursing to explore a Designed Learning Experience approach/alternative to traditional online course platforms
• OpenEdx pilot (branded Duke Extend) wrapped and service announced

 

• Online Duke

• Completely redesigned online.duke.edu with a focus on new learner acquisition
• Launched Coursera for Duke, a new way for Duke students, faculty and staff to gain free access all of Duke’s Coursera courses and specializations
• Hired a Market Research Analyst to complement our ability to consult on best uses of online to meet Duke school and department targets and goals
• Launched our second MOOC on Duke Extend (a second session of Introduction to Astronomy)
• Developed a math refresher for Duke Sanford’s Master of International Development Policy and Master of Public Policy students
• Redesigned several modules/courses in Fuqua’s Global Executive MBA program (partnered with Fuqua team)
• Launched Nanotechnology: A Maker’s Course on Coursera. Our first MOOC collaboration between Duke, NC State and UNC.
• Revisions to “Excel to MySQL” and “Java Programming” Coursera Specializations wrapping up. Published our evaluation of the Specialization development.
• New Object Oriented Programming Specialization (launched September 2017)  – collaboration with the University of California San Diego
• Produced modules with the Duke Center for Health Informatics for AMIA 10×10 on Data Standards for Learning Health Systems
• Researched different institutions’ approaches to faculty incentives for online course development and teaching for Duke’s Advisory Committee on Online Education