MOOC Design Lessons From The Trenches
Duke University and its faculty have taken the initiative to explore the potential of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) across a wide range of course topics. While supporting the faculty …
When is a Selfie More than a Selfie?
Have you ever had a fascinating conversation with someone and wished you could share it with your students and colleagues? How about sharing the experience of a unique environment that …
“That’s Awesome!” – Keeping Attention in Online Videos
The on-demand Coursera course How Things Work includes six modules, which are named for everyday objects or activities: skating, falling balls, ramps, seesaws, wheels, and bumper cars. One challenge that …
“That’s Awesome!” – Competitive Strategy
What It’s About The Competitive Strategy course from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on Coursera presents content in a lot of awesome ways. The course is on-demand and has six modules. Each module …
Duke Launches New MOOC: Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action
Duke University is offering a Coursera MOOC, Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action, an exciting new course that is also a part of Duke’s online neuroscience curriculum specialization, Perception, Action …
There and back again: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference MOOC comes back to Duke
Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel’s course began at Duke, spread throughout the world via Coursera (a provider of Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs) and is now finding more ways to reach students at Duke and through Duke.
Bass Online Apprentice Collaborates to Create Global Online Learning Experience
The Graduate School’s Bass Online Apprentice Fellowship offered in partnership with the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) provides Ph.D. students hands-on experience in online college teaching by collaborating with Duke …
Catching Up with English Composition MOOC Students: A Follow-Up Study
In Spring 2013 and Spring 2014, Duke offered a MOOC called “English Composition I: Achieving Excellence” taught by Professor Denise Comer. One of Professor Comer’s goals in teaching the course …
Community Teaching Assistants: Coursera’s Student Warriors
In preparation for a second run of a Coursera class, Duke staff went on the hunt for students who would be good candidates for the volunteer position of Community Teaching Assistant (CTA). We invited 25 students for the original course who had a high number of forum posts and a top GPA. Thirteen students volunteered to monitor the discussion forums and provide technical and content support for the 89,000 students who signed up. Their efforts were no less than extraordinary
Flipping the Duke Political Science Graduate “Math Camp”
One of the problems faced by many Ph.D. and M.A. programs in the social sciences is how to prepare graduate students for the advanced mathematical and statistical concepts they will …