CIT At A Glance
Founded in 1999
Part of the Academic Technology and Instructional Services unit within Perkins Library
Located on Lower Level One of the Bostock Building of Perkins Library
CIT Plans for Fall 2007 - By the Numbers
For more information on CIT, see our Reports section.
CIT supports Duke faculty and instructors in innovative pedagogical development. CIT helps them achieve teaching goals such as increasing student engagement with course materials, supporting active learning strategies, fostering communication and collaboration, and streamlining course administration. The CIT offers a wide range of faculty support programs and in the past two years has interacted with over 500 faculty and awarded over $75,000 in direct project funding in the form of individual and group grants. CIT also supports the Blackboard course management system used by over 60% of courses each term. We also systematically monitor and evaluate the impact and effectiveness of instructional technologies on the teaching and learning experiences of faculty and students and share our findings with the campus community through reports, staff presentations and publications, and our annual Instructional Technology Showcase.
Over the last two years, CIT and its partners have:
- Supported Blackboard course management software, used by 1,600+ courses a semester, including 80% of Arts and Sciences faculty as well as many instructors in the other schools
- Integrated course-related services with Blackboard, including Library e-reserves, Library reference services, classroom Personal Response Systems, Wimba voice tools, Lectopia classroom recording system and a tool for moving grades into PeopleSoft
- Introduced multimedia tools now widely used for teaching and for course assignments, including iPods, Tablet PC presentation tools, digital audio and digital video creation tools, and streaming media tools
- Worked with campus partners to ensure that the hardware and software in public computing facilities enables students to complete new types of course assignments
- Supported distance learning projects in the School of the Environment, School of Nursing and School of Medicine, in addition to assisting faculty across all schools with online teaching and learning
- Consulted on 1500+ inquiries, information requests, and faculty instructional technology projects
- Sponsored events for staff and faculty from all Duke schools on a wide range of topics including visualization tools for teaching, copyright and intellectual property, effective use of technology-enhanced classrooms, media-enhanced student research, creating digital course materials and improving lectures
- Made office visits to faculty to help them use Blackboard, iPods, Tablet PCs and other technology tools
- Explored educational uses of new technologies including Google Earth, Second Life, Elluminate, MDID, iPhoto, Picassa
- Mailed monthly e-mail newsletters to Duke faculty and staff, as well as to individuals from 64 institutions of higher education in the US and 12 other countries.
- Helped faculty acquire external funding for technology projects from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and others
- Organized the annual Instructional Technology Showcase, with 50 Duke presenters and over 250 people attending from Duke and surrounding schools each year
- In collaboration with OIT and other campus groups, planned and implemented the Duke Digital Initiative, a campus-wide effort to promote exploration of new technologies in education
- Shared expertise and information about Duke's academic technology developments through presentations at local, national and international conferences
