How to Make Engaging PowerPoint Slides for Teaching
Most of us have heard that we should not use slides that contain long bullet points of text, but what does a good slide look like? Research on this topic has found …
Online Course Development Tips from the Trenches: An Evaluation Report on Duke’s Coursera Specializations
What does it take to produce 10 online courses in a few short months? A new report from Duke takes a careful look at the process of simultaneously developing two …
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 …
New Research on MOOCs
Research on online education has benefitted greatly from MOOCs. Because MOOCs are very large classes, often with global reach, research teams are able to take advantage of the data they …
MOOC Data Available to Duke Faculty
Are you a Duke faculty member who wants to do research using data from millions of people around the world? We have survey data available from over 50,000 people worldwide who …
Using Sankey Diagrams to tell a story with data
A Sankey Diagram is a way to show how things move from one state or value to another. They can be really great ways to show how something changes over …
MOOCs Are Reaching the Underserved
Massive Open Online Courses are helping to democratize learning by supplementing traditional forms of higher education, according to a new Duke University study. A study of 13 free, open-access digital …
Catching Up with English Composition MOOC Students: A Follow-Up Study
In Spring 2013 and Spring 2014, Duke offered a MOOC called “English Composition I: Achieving Excellence” taught by Professor Denise Comer. One of Professor Comer’s goals in teaching the course …
New Report: Analysis of Student Backgrounds in Medical Neuroscience MOOC
In the Spring 2014 semester, Duke University offered the second session of Medical Neuroscience, a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) available on the Coursera platform. The class is taught by …
Learning Objectives in MOOCs
We are learning more and more about who enrolls in Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) and how those students behave. For example, Harvard and MIT recently released de-identified data from …