Duke Digital Initiative
Official DDI Web site
For more information about current programs, overall goals, and project history.
Interest Form for 2008-2009 programs
Sign up here to receive information in mid-July 2008 about specific opportunities to receive DDI support in Fall 2008.
The Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) is a multi-year program of experimentation, development, and implementation of new and emerging technologies to explore their effective use in support of the university's mission.
The goals of DDI are to promote innovative and effective teaching, to use technology in support of curriculum enhancement, to develop our technology infrastructure, and to share knowledge about effective instructional technology strategies.
CIT staff have provided project management, consulting, training and technical assistance to faculty participating in DDI programs.
Programs for 2008-09
To sign up for information about any of the programs listed below as it becomes available, use the form in the yellow box above.
Video-enhanced Web collaboration
This program will provide access to equipment (such as Web cameras), software and loaner equipment to enable Web-based video collaboration.
Enhanced loaner pool for digital video production
This program will provide short-term loans of flip Video devices, miniDV cameras and hard drive-based digital video equipment for course video projects and individual academic video projects.
Individual video editing and content creation tools
This program will provide access to easy-to-use software to edit existing digital video and to record movies from your computer screen.
Easy to use, self-service video recording and streaming kits
Check out easy to use kits to videorecord and/or stream live lectures and other academic events.
Exploring high-definition (HD) video
This program will provide access to a small number of loaner HD video production kits as well as to professional HD video recording for a small number of proof-of-concept academic projects.
Enhancing interaction with digital video content
This exploratory aspect of the DDI will focus on methods and tools to describe, share, annotate and mark up online digital video content. Our efforts will focus on finding ways to make this functionality available for academic use.
