During the summer and fall of 2017, the Center for Instructional Technology led the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship. Thirteen faculty from a variety of disciplines shared experiences and learned about using active learning techniques in their classrooms. In this …
When Bob Barnes was teaching his medical device design course, he noticed that students waited until the end of the course to begin searching for the relevant patent information for their designs. This resulted in …
Professor Daniel Egger creates a new blended model for teaching and learning for his on-campus and distance education students and “flips” his class using the Coursera Groups feature.
What does a “flipped classroom” look like? If you peek into Physics 142, you see over 100 students seated at the ends of rows in an auditorium-style classroom; many are talking, some consult calculators or …
CIT congratulates all of the 2014 Trinity College and Alumni Teaching Award winners. Once again this year, CIT co-sponsored the Teaching with Technology Award. This year’s award winner, Denise Comer (Thompson Writing Program) showcases excellence …
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.
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.
In mid-March, “Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood With a Stop at the Hospital“, ended after nine weeks. This Duke Coursera MOOC, taught by Guillermo Sapiro, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at …
Students from around the world have just completed the second full week in Duke’s newest MOOC course, Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship, taught by Bob Barnes from Biomedical Engineering and Marilyn Lombardi from the School of …
Introduction to Astronomy (“IntroAstro”) was one of Duke’s first MOOCs delivered on the Coursera platform. Launched in November 2012, this eight week journey through the universe offered by Dr. Ronen Plesser was based on a semester-long Duke University course …
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