Duke MOOCs earn ACE credit recommendations
The American Council on Education has announced that five Coursera MOOC courses have earned credit recommendations. Two of the courses – Mohamed Noor’s “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution” and Roger …
Duke’s Gates Foundation funded English Composition course opens for enrollment
As previously reported in Duke Today, Duke’s Denise Comer (Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing and Director of First-Year Writing in the Thompson Writing Program) was awarded a grant …
Coursera: Teaching to the masses
What is it like to prepare a course for Coursera? Read and see a video interview with Walter Sinnott Armstrong as he takes you behind the scenes preparing materials for …
What does it take to prepare a Duke Coursera course?
In the past few weeks, the first courses from Duke’s Coursera experiment have been getting underway. What’s been involved behind the scenes to get the courses off the ground? Planning …
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 …
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 …
Duke joins 11 other universities in online education experiment
Today Duke announced its plans to partner with Coursera, an educational company started by two Stanford professors last year, in offering online courses free and open to the world. During …
On the home stretch – reflecting on the MITx pilot
As our regular readers know by now, I have been a participant in the MITx pilot course “Circuits and Electronics” since it launched in March. The course is now moving …
Halfway through MITx: how’s it going?
As promised, I’m reporting back on my experience as a student in MITx’s pilot course, 6.002x, Circuits and Electronics. Officially this is Week 7 of the course, meaning that the first …
MITx: A view from the inside
Since it was first announced in December 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s foray into the world of massive online open courses known as MITx has been a hot topic in …