Think Again, Day One
Monday November 26 marked the launch of Duke’s third MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue.” Students in this course will learn how to understand …
Genetics and Evolution, Day One
Yesterday (Wednesday October 10) we were pleased to see the launch of Duke’s second Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution.” Led by Dr. Mohamed Noor, …
Bioelectricity, Day One
This has been an exciting week for the Center for Instructional Technology. Duke’s first Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach” launched yesterday! All of us are …
Evaluating the MITx experience
Was MITx a success? I’d like to add a few final thoughts about what MITx got right and missed to my earlier posts (see #1, #2, #3). In terms of the basic traditional metric …
On the home stretch – reflecting on the MITx pilot
As our regular readers know by now, I have been a participant in the MITx pilot course “Circuits and Electronics” since it launched in March. The course is now moving …
Halfway through MITx: how’s it going?
As promised, I’m reporting back on my experience as a student in MITx’s pilot course, 6.002x, Circuits and Electronics. Officially this is Week 7 of the course, meaning that the first …
MITx: A view from the inside
Since it was first announced in December 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s foray into the world of massive online open courses known as MITx has been a hot topic in …
Measuring student learning: good news and bad news
In the wake of last week’s buzz over the release of a controversial new book on undergraduate education, Academically Adrift (see “New Book Lays Failure to Learn on Colleges’ Doorsteps” ), today the Lumina Foundation released a beta version of their proposed framework for measuring student learning. Called “The Degree Qualifications Profile,” this framework is […]
Higher education assessment: the year in review
A guide to noteworthy happenings in assessment in 2010, along with links to interesting articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.
Help Duke develop its roadmap for elearning
In 2009-10, Duke’s elearning Roadmap Committee is actively gathering input from Duke instructors and students about tools they use for teaching and learning. The Committee will assess the needs of …