Introduction to Astronomy (“IntroAstro”) was one of Duke’s first MOOCs delivered on the Coursera platform. Launched in November 2012, this eight week journey through the universe offered by Dr. Ronen Plesser was based on a semester-long Duke University course . We’ve released a report which summarizes the development and delivery of this course and captures [...]
Four lecturers in Romance Studies release their findings on the use of machine translation tools by Duke students and examine user trends.
Orin Starn, Chair of Duke’s Department of Anthropology, is offering his MOOC (massive open online course) “Sports and Society” via Coursera beginning April 30. The course, like all MOOCs offered via Coursera, is free and open to everyone, and draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give students new [...]
On Monday, April 8, 2013, the MOOC Medical Neuroscience officially launched in Coursera. This intensive eight week course is taught by Professor Len E. White, based on his course for first-year medical students, requiring a background in cellular and molecular biology, systems physiology and human anatomy and a significant time commitment (16 or more hours each week).
On March 25th, Duke University launched “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior”, a course taught on Coursera by Dr. Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Over the course of six weeks, students explore a variety topics related to irrationality in the context of economics, including the psychology of [...]
