Emerging instructional technologies and innovative approaches to online teaching are an important part of the higher education landscape. The Sloan Consortium’s report: “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education …
Medical Neuroscience is a fascinating and in-depth exploration of the brain and the structure and function of the human central nervous system. This highly successful Coursera MOOC, which launched for …
Professor Cathy Davidson’s upcoming Coursera MOOC will be part of a larger network of courses and events taking place at 30+ campuses. The focus is the future of higher education and what learning should look like in the 21st Century.
Before his course about the origins of 9/11 started, David Schanzer was concerned there would be conspiracy theorists making trouble in the forums. They were there. But the more important story of the course is not about controversy, rather how it opened students’ eyes in ways they did not expect.
The popular MOOC Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, co-taught by Walter Sinott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in Duke’s Department of Philosophy, and Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy …
Given enthusiastic student interest and support for the first run of Introductory Human Physiology, it was re-launched for a second run on August 5th, 2013. This 12 week course was …
A recent issue of the prestigious and widely read scientific journal Nature (subscription required) has multiple thoughtful pieces on the role of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in higher education. Listen to a podcast with comments from Duke’s Len White on his Medical Neuroscience course, and see summaries of thought-provoking articles in this post.
This post was written by Willie Williamson, Online Course Associate in CIT who worked closely with the Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coursera course in Spring 2013, with input from Dr. …
Professor Orin Starn‘s Sports and Society MOOC, which examined a number of cultural, political, and social issues that surround sports, wrapped up on June 21. The list of weekly topics offers an …
Medical Neuroscience, taught in Coursera by Duke’s Dr. Len White, has finished. This intense course was designed to include the core concepts in neurophysiology and clinical neuroanatomy in most first-year neuroscience courses in schools of medicine, with an estimated time commitment of at least 16 hours/week. Now that the course is over, how did it go?
