May 2023

Senior Director for Marketing and Communications

The Senior Director of Marketing and Communications will develop the strategy to grow Duke’s lifetime learning programs, products and brand while supervising and developing a growing staff of marketing and communications pros. The successful candidate will be an inclusive leader and creative strategist with a keen awareness of digital-first marketing trends and technologies, a reputation for delivering results, and a passion for learner success. 

Assistant Director of Learning Experience Design

The Assistant Director for Learning Experience (LX) Design will manage our team of designers and course producers, oversee a portfolio of program and course design projects, and advise Duke schools and academic units on their digital learning strategy from a pedagogy and learning design perspective. This portfolio of learning design projects will advance the university’s mission to develop digital learning offerings across the spectrum of Duke’s learners, including pre-college, matriculated students, professional and lifelong learners, alumni and their networks, working adult learners and post-career learners globally.

On April 24, we were thrilled to host Ashok Goel, Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, along with Matt Hirschey, Director of the Center for Computational Thinking at Duke, for a discussion of the impacts, opportunities and challenges of AI in the realm of teaching, learning and educational research. If you were unable to join us, the Duke Chronicle published a summary of Dr. Goel's keynote, and the recordings of both the keynote and the fireside chat with both Dr. Goel and Dr. Hirschey are now available:

Over the last four months, Duke instructors and staff engaged with Learning Innovation’s events centered on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning, considering the role AI will play in classrooms and everyday work. Generally, opinions have shifted throughout the semester from worry to optimism about the potentials of AI. Our latest blog post summarizes the highlights of each event held this Spring, including links to recordings.

Five departments have been awarded 2023 Summer Course Development Grants from Duke’s offices of Undergraduate Education and Interdisciplinary Studies in partnership with Duke Learning Innovation.

Faculty members and Ph.D. students will collaborate on the development or redesign of five summer session courses that will be offered regularly to undergraduates beginning next year. 

Duke Learning Innovation will provide formal guidance in course design through intensive kick-off workshops with faculty and student grant recipients, and ongoing consultation throughout the summer. Read the full story >>>

Continuing Studies has collaborated with Duke in DC to develop the Climate & Sustainability Summer Institute for early to mid-career professionals who are interested in building their knowledge in climate and sustainability this July.

Through interaction with trusted faculty, researchers and leaders in climate science and policy solutions, participants will develop a robust professional toolkit and build a deeper understanding of climate and sustainability issues across industries and issue areas. The program will also offer participants a valuable cohort experience through peer-to-peer learning and a long-term professional network with opportunities to collaborate and convene post-program completion.

Duke Interdisciplinary Studies invites proposals from faculty members that engage topics related to issues of social justice, voting rights and/or the public histories of Duke’s and Johnson C. Smith’s campuses and their urban partners. Oral histories, digital storytelling and archival research will be encouraged, with a focus on digital preservation of the projects and stories collected. Digital projects can take the form of digital interactive maps, community storytelling walks and the collection of oral histories in various formats. Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded.