Duke Learning Innovation recently returned from Coursera’s annual Partners’ Conference, held at Arizona State University March 6–8, 2018. At the conference, Coursera announced several bold new initiatives. Below, we summarize …
When Duke student Sinclair Toffa (TC ‘18) first heard about Coursera for Duke his reaction was, “This is fantastic.” So he was not surprised when he heard that Duke’s unique …
Online course platform Coursera recently held their fifth annual Partners Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder. Over three days, staff from Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology joined representatives from many …
“The biggest thing I’ve learned is that there are a lot of steps in the process of launching an online course, and there are a lot of parties involved in …
Professor Daniel Egger creates a new blended model for teaching and learning for his on-campus and distance education students and “flips” his class using the Coursera Groups feature.
Research on online education has benefitted greatly from MOOCs. Because MOOCs are very large classes, often with global reach, research teams are able to take advantage of the data they …
A common conundrum for educators in computer science or electrical and computer engineering is how to assess students’ mastery of programming concepts. Assignments are often project-based—after all, a student has …
Art of the MOOC is a six week Coursera-hosted course on social art created by Pedro Lasch from Duke and Nato Thompson, the chief curator from Creative Time. The course explores a range of socially engaged art through many examples and more than two dozen great guest interviews. The creators invite students to participate in creating their own art projects every week.
I miss Tropical Coastal Ecosystems MOOC, because of the diverse learning material including course video lectures both above and underwater, interviews, other sources of high quality video, actual real world research and conservation projects, a wide variety of ways to check and extend your knowledge, and a virtual ecology project (worth half of the course score), with multiple steps and checkpoints.
Duke University and its faculty have taken the initiative to explore the potential of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) across a wide range of course topics. While supporting the faculty …
