As a part of CIT’s Team-Based Learning Course Design Fellows, seventeen faculty and graduate students have redesigned courses to use Team-Based Learning techniques. At the last meeting, enthusiastic participants discussed the benefits: students engaged in animated discussions of course content, faculty learned immediately when and where students were struggling and classes were energetic and fun.
Duke faculty, staff and grad students got together on Tuesday, November 6 to think about how to flip their classes and how to design great group assignments. Seventy people attended …
The Guardian, the British national daily newspaper, asks: Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? Carole Cadwalladr toured through a brief history of MOOCs, including Udacity, Khan …
Luis Von Ahn, one of the creators and founders of Duolingo, spoke at Duke University in November 2012 as part of the Provost’s Lecture Series. When I first saw Luis …
Mohamed Noor and his course assistant, Justin Johnsen met some of the students in their Introduction to Genetics and Evolution Coursera course in a Google Hangout. Find out from students, …
Steve Earp, Manager of the Student Shop for Pratt School of Engineering wanted to help students learn how to use the shop safely, and document that students had successfully completed …
The flipped classroom – everyone is talking about it, but what exactly does it mean? Derek Bruff, in his Flipped Classroom FAQ defines it as “a teaching approach in which students get a first exposure to course content before class through readings or videos, then spend class time deepening their understanding of that content through active learning exercises” Read more for examples and descriptions of Duke flipped courses.
Fellowship participants got together to begin to design their courses for team-based learning on Tuesday, May 29th, as part of CIT’s Team-Based Learning Course Design Fellows. Participants began by writing …
The 2012 CIT Instructional Technology Showcase was held on April 27, 2012 at the Bryan Center. Sessions held in the Griffith Theater during this year’s Showcase were recorded and are now …
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 …
