The Provost and the Academic Committee on Online Education seek proposals for online courses or online curriculum projects that are highly innovative and will contribute to Duke’s goals for online …
Dr. David Beratan teaches a graduate-level Chemistry to 9 Duke students, plus about a dozen students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, via WebEx. Read a description of the course, and his impressions of the course and the technology.
Join us Wednesday, October 9 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in Perkins 217 for a presentation by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Statistical Sciences. Çetinkaya-Rundel teaches using active …
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 …
David Schanzer, a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, has been working throughout the summer to adapt his Duke University course into an online course. The Coursera version …
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 …
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel taught Statistics 104: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference as an online summer course for credit to seven Duke students. Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel and all of the students met daily for 90 minutes using WebEx, Duke’s online conferencing service. Read more to find out how it went.
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 …
