Distance Education Interest Group Meetings
The Distance Education Special Interest Group at Duke (DE SIG @ Duke) initiated in 2011 is an open group which meets every other month to discuss a range of distance …
The Distance Education Special Interest Group at Duke (DE SIG @ Duke) initiated in 2011 is an open group which meets every other month to discuss a range of distance …
Faculty in Duke’s Biomedical Engineering Department agreed that students needed to apply statistics to biomedical engineering problems throughout the curriculum. A faculty committee identified the relevant statistics topics and mapped them to BME courses. Teaching statistics in BME courses is supported by a BME online statistics source created by Steve Wallace and BME students.
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.
In October, the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) held its thirteenth annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. This three day event drew faculty and participants …
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 …
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.
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 …
At least a dozen people this week sent me a link to a new web site which attempts to synthesize data about the “completion rate” of massive open online courses (MOOCs) …
On Tuesday November 27 we were pleased to see the launch of Duke’s fourth MOOC on Coursera, “Introduction to Astronomy” where students will study “quite literally, everything in the universe,” …