Online course platform Coursera recently held their fifth annual Partners Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder. Over three days, staff from Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology joined representatives from many …
How could the colorful, goofy game that kept Duke TIP middle schoolers from rioting also be a useful tool in the undergraduate classroom? Beneath the asymmetrical font is immediate feedback …
What It’s about Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action by Duke University, is a MOOC course that is part of the Neuroscience: Perception, Action and the Brain specialization offered through …
Learn more about mobile learning, emerging technologies, best practices for teaching online, and more by attending the 5th annual “Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment” virtual (online) conference hosted by …
Each year, the New Media Consortium (NMC), in cooperation with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, produces a report summarizing the latest findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project …
Faculty and students routinely use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in their personal lives, so how might those same tools be put to academic use? Here are some uses …
The CIT encourages Duke faculty to try new technologies and explore new ideas for their teaching. To support this, at the CIT Showcase, we’ll be raffling a new iPad and …
The 2012 Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets found that students’ purchases of iPads and other tablet devices is increasing rapidly, that students find those devices useful for education and …
Dave Johnston, Research Scientist at the Nicholas School of the Environment, has developed an open access digital textbook/iPad app for the course Marine Megafauna (Bio 127), integrating photographs, video, audio …
As the holiday shopping catalogs and ads roll in, you may notice QR codes included to provide additional information about products.
A QR (Quick Response) code is graphic image which can be read quickly by a mobile phone through its camera. The app then takes the user directly to a website, video, text message, phone number or other information.
