New Models for Teaching Using Coursera Groups
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.
Flipped classrooms at Duke: Physics 142 Spring 2015
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 …
Congratulations 2014 Trinity Teaching Award winners
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 …
How Biomedical Engineering Students Learn Statistics
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. Beratan’s Special Topics in Chemistry at Duke, Pittsburgh and CMU
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.
Duke MOOCs: Looking back on “Image and Video Processing”
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 …
Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship MOOC
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 …
IntroAstro: an intense experience
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 …
Saying goodbye to IntroAstro
Last week marked the conclusion of Duke’s third Coursera MOOC, Introduction to Astronomy, or “IntroAstro” as it was nicknamed by Dr. Ronen Plesser. Over 60,000 students registered for this eight …
Bioelectricity MOOC Report and Relaunch
It seems like only yesterday that Duke launched its first Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in September 2012, “Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach.” We invite you to read our newly released …