Dr. Craig Roberts (Visiting Instructor, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) is always looking for new ways to enable students to express their ideas. He finds that students benefit from interacting with the world outside the classroom, and Wikipedia enables them to do both.
Denise Comer; Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing and Director, First Year Writing Program; Thompson Writing Program
Project description:
During Fall 2010, Denise Comer, Thompson Writing Program, will be working in collaboration with Kenneth Rogerson, Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy; and Rebecca Vidra, Mellon Lecturing Fellow, Thompson […]
Dr. Craig Roberts (Visiting Instructor, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) helped students learn to design experiments, communicate scientific ideas, and read scientific literature in his Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Spring 2010) course. He selected scientific papers to assign to students; the students then worked in teams to present the ideas to the class. In addition, Dr. Roberts arranged for the paper’s author to visit the class.
Both students and faculty use the first day of class to get a sense of what the semester will hold: will this be one of the best courses ever, or …
Because free and open access to knowledge is critical for a free and open society, educators should be contributors to and supporters of free and open access to educational materials. …
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Google has released a video and some information about a project they’re working on with Harold Abelson, an MIT computer scientist, to open the doors of creating apps for Google’s …
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 …
To demonstrate their ability to explain the HIV life cycle, Sherryl Broverman’s students described the life cycle (sometimes with their own graphics and images) and posted them on either Facebook …
Many faculty have heard about “open course” initiatives such as MIT’s Open Courseware, in which materials and recordings from courses are put online for open and free access. Other initiatives …
