Duke has chosen Sakai, an open-source collaboration and learning environment, as the successor to Blackboard for course and organizational site management. Between August 2009 and October 2010, Duke’s eLearning Roadmap …
Recently, you may have seen an article about Duke’s pilot project with Sakai hosted at UNC-CH. Sakai is expected to replace Blackboard as Duke’s centrally managed learning management system over the next several years. Duke’s Sakai Pilot website will be updated as the pilot progresses. You are invited to leave feedback and comments using a link […]
You’ve been distributing files to your students for the entire semester via Blackboard, and there’s just one that does not seem to be working correctly. Either it won’t upload, or …
Kristen Stephens, Associate Professor of the Practice, Program in Education
Project Description
Kristen Stephens’s Education 168 course for Summer 2010 was planned specifically as an online course from the start (one of the first online undergraduate courses offered in the summer at Duke), one of only two undergraduate courses at Duke offered in this mode. The course […]
If you’ve been gone for the summer, welcome back and don’t worry! Blackboard is the same as when you left with a few enhancements: Configure your Discussion Board to allow …
As an experiment in online courses for undergraduates at Duke, Cathy Shuman taught Writing the Experience: Civic Engagement and Creative Nonfiction during the Summer of 2010. The course, targeting students in the Duke Engage program, provided an opportunity for students in the program to take a for-credit Duke course integrated with their on-site experience.
Duke faculty and students who own an iPad can now access Blackboard with Blackboard’s new Mobile Learn iPad app. To try it out, download the free app from the iTunes …
For Blackboard exam success: Tell your students what to expect. We’ve included an example below from Ann Mosher, MPH, FNP-BC, and a Senior Nurse Practitioner at Duke Consider using Blackboard’s …
The eLearning Roadmap Group was convened last summer to develop policies and services around the various computer-based tools faculty use in teaching. Although not the sole focus of the group, …
Blackboard’s Groups feature allows instructors to provide a group of students with their own set of communication tools that only the group members can access. A group of students collaborating …
