Graduate students talk about their MOOC experiences
Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) blog recently featured two PhD students in a post in which they talk about their experience taking a massive, open online course (MOOC) as part of their Bass Instructional Fellowship. Over the coming 14-15 academic year, they’ll be applying some of this experience as online apprentices in CIT.
Read more: Keri & Giuseppe tell all!
Dr. Hugh Crumley (http://www.hughcrumley.com) directs the Certificate in College Teaching and teaches courses in teaching, technology and design in The Graduate School.
Starting to teach online
There was an interesting post recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog ProfHacker. This post, Adventures in Synchronous Online Teaching, details one faculty member’s first foray into developing and teaching an all online seminar, including some of the initial quirks and struggles she faced. You may find this a reassuring read if you are also looking at making the leap to teaching an online or hybrid course and find this a daunting prospect. By the way, if you are looking at a faculty career path and are not reading ProfHacker already, you really should be.
If you happen to be here at Duke and are interested in online teaching, you might find the Bass Online Apprenticeship a great opportunity to get started.
