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Flipping Teaching Around: Duke professors flip ...
Nov 08, 2013

Flipping Teaching Around: Duke professors flip ...

Dr. Mohamed Noor uses videos from his MOOC Introduction to Genetics and Evolution to flip his class, having students in his on-campus Introduction to Biology class watch his video lectures prior to clas...

Summer Statistics at Duke – Online, Flipped and...
Nov 08, 2013

Summer Statistics at Duke – Online, Flipped and...

“Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel taught Statistics 104: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference as an online summer course for credit to seven Duke students. Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel and all of the students met daily...

MOOCs Lead Duke To Reinvent On-Campus Courses
Nov 08, 2013

MOOCs Lead Duke To Reinvent On-Campus Courses

MOOCs foster on-campus innovation by transforming course’s traditional in-class lecture format. Students watch videos and complete assessments online and experience fewer in-class lectures and tests. Th...

Dr. Beratan’s Special Topics in Chemistry at Du...
Nov 08, 2013

Dr. Beratan’s Special Topics in Chemistry at Du...

Dr. David Beratan teaches a graduate-level chemistry course online to students and faculty across six universities and researchers from the National Sciences Foundation. Learn more about how he does it!

Duke MOOCs: Recording demonstrations for Introd...
Nov 08, 2013

Duke MOOCs: Recording demonstrations for Introd...

Dr. Dorian Canelas, an instructor in the Department of Chemistry, recorded class experiments that would be inserted into her video lectures in her Introduction to Chemistry MOOC, demonstrating various c...

9/11 and Its Aftermath — Part I Begins Soon on ...
Nov 08, 2013

9/11 and Its Aftermath — Part I Begins Soon on ...

Professor David Schanzer had to consider how to effectively take a traditionally project-based, on-campus course deliver discussion and debates in a MOOC environment, as well as how to assess students i...