Student shop safety training in Sakai
Steve Earp, Manager of the Student Shop for Pratt School of Engineering wanted to help students learn how to use the shop safely, and document that students had successfully completed …
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Recording student videos within Sakai
How do you create a warm-up activity in your online learning course or a flipping the classroom course to establish a learning community to engage students? Would you like students to …
What Is “Flipping the Classroom” and Who Is Doing It?
The flipped classroom – everyone is talking about it, but what exactly does it mean? Derek Bruff, in his Flipped Classroom FAQ defines it as “a teaching approach in which students get a first exposure to course content before class through readings or videos, then spend class time deepening their understanding of that content through active learning exercises” Read more for examples and descriptions of Duke flipped courses.
DukeEngage Students Use iPads to Provide Instruction to Middle School Students in Zhuhai, China
During Summer 2012, a number of Duke students travelled to Zhuhai, China as part of the DukeEngage program. Duke students in the program teach English at Zhuhai No. 9 Middle School …
Provost’s Lecture Series 2012-13
Provost Peter Lange announces the seventh series of related lectures on a topic of major campus and broader societal importance. This year’s theme for the series Information Futures – …
Bioelectricity, Day One
This has been an exciting week for the Center for Instructional Technology. Duke’s first Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach” launched yesterday! All of us are …
Duke University Graduate School – Fall 2012 Teaching IDEAS Workshops
21st Century College Teaching: Faculty from Duke and beyond discuss the skills, tools and factors that are shaping teaching, learning and faculty life in higher education This annual series is open …
Workshops and other learning opportunities for fall semester 2012
Projects for the semester? Get help with data, statistics, software, visualizations and a variety of multimedia techniques at Duke.
MOOCs: What role do they have in higher education?
After working in the field of Instructional Technology for almost twenty years, I’ve seen many technologies that might impact higher education come and go. In the initial stages, universities often …
Computer Science Students Use Duke iPads to Experience App Development Process
This Fall, Robert Duvall and Richard Lucic in the Computer Science department are offering a course, Apps: From Concept to Client, which focuses on giving students an opportunity to experience …