Year In Progress

A high level overview of CIT’s priorities and major initiatives for this academic year. For more detailed information, please visit our blog or follow the links below.

Areas of focus for 2012-13

1. Encouraging teaching and curriculum innovation - promoting innovative teaching methods such as team-based learning, flipping the classroom and other strategies for active learning; supporting distinctive University programs such as DukeEngage and DukeImmerse
2. Expanding Duke’s elearning infrastructure –Exploring and integrating academic tools to meet the full range of Duke’s teaching and learning needs including Sakai, WordPress, Voice Thread, Panopto and other emerging tools
3. Understanding the impact of mobile devices in education – testing uses of mobile devices for teaching and learning and designing learning materials and learning activities for use in distributed settings through the Duke Digital Initiative, iPad exploration and other initiatives
4. Supporting the shift from paper/text to digital/multimedia information – exploring the impact of new formats on education through the use and authoring of e-books, e-textbooks and app development projects
5. Promoting open access in education – promoting the development and use of open educational resources; understanding open education models
6. Assessing teaching innovation – assessing CIT initiatives as they connect to university goals, assessing the effectiveness of CIT-sponsored projects, and assessing the impact of programmatic changes such as team-based learning