Astronomy, Day One

On Tuesday November 27 we were pleased to see the launch of Duke’s fourth MOOC on Coursera, “Introduction to Astronomy” where students will study “quite literally, everything in the universe,” …

Think Again, Day One

Monday November 26 marked the launch of Duke’s third MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue.” Students in this course will learn how to understand …

Genetics and Evolution, Day One

Yesterday (Wednesday October 10) we were pleased to see the launch of Duke’s second Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution.” Led by Dr. Mohamed Noor, …

Evaluating the MITx experience

Was MITx a success? I’d like to add a few final thoughts about what MITx got right and missed to my earlier posts (see #1, #2, #3). In terms of the basic traditional metric …

Measuring student learning: good news and bad news

In the wake of last week’s buzz over the release of a controversial new book on undergraduate education, Academically Adrift (see “New Book Lays Failure to Learn on Colleges’ Doorsteps” ), today the Lumina Foundation released a beta version of their proposed framework for measuring student learning. Called “The Degree Qualifications Profile,” this framework is […]

Year In Progress

We support openness—both in sharing what we know and what we do. On this page, we share what our teams have done this year, what they’re working on now, and …