Duke’s first MOOC: a very preliminary report
Duke’s first Coursera MOOC, Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach which launched on September 24 wrapped up last week. Congratulations to Dr. Barr and his students from all of us at Duke …
Duke’s first Coursera MOOC, Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach which launched on September 24 wrapped up last week. Congratulations to Dr. Barr and his students from all of us at Duke …
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,” …
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 …
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, …
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 …
During Fall 2011, Dr. Stephen Craig taught Honors Chemistry (Chem 43) to twenty-nine students using team-based learning instead of lectures and online resources instead of a textbook. This project also explored mobile …
If your department’s or program’s assessment plans include surveys, learn more about Qualtrics and ask questions specific to your goals at an information session hosted by the Office of Assessment, …
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 […]
A guide to noteworthy happenings in assessment in 2010, along with links to interesting articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.
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 …