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A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior: Enroll Now for Dan Ariely’s MOOC

POSTED BY · March 19, 2013 ·

I have had a blast this semester teaching with my friend and colleague Dan Ariely. He’s everything you want a teacher to be–smart, engaged, funny, attentive, candid, direct. He and I are teaching in a wonderful experimental course where the students work in teams, setting the syllabus and the assignments, ensuring that they’ve filled their contract, blogging in public, and in other ways not just flipping our classroom but making it do cartwheels. All this is part of the preparation for the fabulous Coursera online course he is about to offer. You can enroll now! Don’t miss it. Find out more about “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” here: Dan Ariely’s Course on “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” Open for Enrollment!

Cathy N. Davidson served from 1998 until 2006 as the first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, where she worked with faculty to help create many programs, including the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS). She is the co-founder of Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, HASTAC ("haystack"), a network of innovators dedicated to new forms of learning for the digital age. She is also co-director of the $2 million annual HASTAC/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.

Duke Today: Teaching 2.0

BY · February 18, 2013 ·

Duke Today featured “Surprise Endings” the undergraduate class that Cathy is co-teaching with Dan Ariely on its website. You can read the full text of their article below, or view the original story here. February 11, 2013 | By Eric Ferreri DURHAM, NC - For Cathy Davidson, flipping the classroom isn’t enough. She’d prefer, as she likes to [...]