Great Examples from Online Courses What It’s About Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the ‘Knowledge Economy’ is a jointly created course offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the …
Great Examples from Online Courses What It’s About Child Nutrition and Cooking from Stanford University has some awesome video content. The lessons are presented from a cozy kitchen setting by instructor Maya …
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.
Julie Noor, Instructor in Biology, reports what she learned at a workshop about using Google’s GeoTools in Education.
Professor Henry Greenside discusses how to create screencasts easily and inexpensively, and discusses lessons he learned along the way.
Faculty in Duke’s Biomedical Engineering Department agreed that students needed to apply statistics to biomedical engineering problems throughout the curriculum. A faculty committee identified the relevant statistics topics and mapped them to BME courses. Teaching statistics in BME courses is supported by a BME online statistics source created by Steve Wallace and BME students.
Language Teaching and Technology is a new blog I’ve started to communicate with language instructors here at Duke (and beyond). Please bookmark it now and visit often.
Four lecturers in Romance Studies release their findings on the use of machine translation tools by Duke students and examine user trends.
Mobile devices, such as the iPad, iPhone and Android, have created new opportunities for faculty to rethink how they approach course materials. Tools are now available that allow you to …
During the Fall 2011 semester, Dr. Cheryl Lin used iPads in conjunction with her Marketing Management course, encouraging students to use the digital version of the textbook. She also offered …
