Duke Sports and Society MOOC Wraps Up

Professor Orin Starn‘s Sports and Society MOOC, which examined a number of cultural, political, and social issues that surround sports, wrapped up on June 21.  The list of weekly topics offers an …

A Massive Online Writing Workshop

A Look Back at Duke University’s English Composition I: Achieving Expertise One of Professor Denise Comer’s primary goals for her Coursera course on academic writing was to create a seminar …

Day One: English Composition I

On Monday, March 18th Duke launched its seventh MOOC, English Composition I: Achieving Expertise on the Coursera platform. This twelve week course, taught by Denise Comer (Assistant Professor of the Practice in …

Think Again, Day One

Monday November 26 marked the launch of Duke’s third MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue.” Students in this course will learn how to understand …

iPads for ethnographic field research

Guest post by Jonathan Dueck, Thompson Writing Program Lecturing Fellow.  Dueck is the 2011 winner of the Writing 20 Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing. Ethnomusicologists produce a lot of …

iPads in Music 49S

Brenda S. Scott, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curator of the Duke University Musical Instrument Collection, Department of Music Project Description: During the Spring 2011 semester, Professor Brenda Scott used iPads …