MOOCs and Opportunities for Educators
Since becoming a Coursera partner in July, 2012, Duke has offered several Massive Open Online Courses and is developing additional MOOCs that span humanities, science, social science, nursing, medicine and …
Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change
At the December 2012 Coalition for Networked Information meeting, I described some of the ways Duke’s experiments with Massive Open Online Courses are shaping conversations at Duke and in other …
Seeking Duke faculty teaching distance ed courses with civic component
Rebecca L. Odom-Bartel, a PhD Candidate from The University of Alabama, is asking Duke University for help in her dissertation research on distance learning courses which have a civic education …
Duke Courserians meet up in Tokyo
Tokyo was the meeting spot for a group of Duke Coursera students on Dec. 5, 2012, but the attendees came from many countries – Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, the US …
Students create videos to teach science
There’s an old adage that the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. MIT students are trying that out by creating short videos that teach …
Six Ways to Use Social Media in Education
Faculty and students routinely use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in their personal lives, so how might those same tools be put to academic use? Here are some uses …
Students shift to mobile devices
The 2012 Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets found that students’ purchases of iPads and other tablet devices is increasing rapidly, that students find those devices useful for education and …
iTunes U app newest of Duke’s e-texbooks experiments
With Apple’s announcement of its iTunes U app, educators now have access to over 100 free, online courses. Duke has contributed the Open Chemistry materials – created by Professor Stephen …
Every day is the first day of classes
Plan Your Free Online Education for Spring 2012, the headline at Life Hacker reads, followed by recommendations for open-access educational content in many disciplines from universities, Khan Academy, TED and …
Saylor Foundation offers faculty funding for open access textbooks
The Saylor Foundation, through its Open Textbook Challenge, is offering $20,000 to college textbook authors willing to allow free use of their publications by students and educators. The deadline for …