DDA 2019 Courses

Digital Modeling and Fabrication

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: CoLab 120

Learn to design and create with modern maker technologies. Topics include: Modeling with Fusion 360; Tool pathing with Fusion 360; 3D Printing & CNC Routing – basics of the most popular additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques; Vector files & laser cutting – Using vector based (illustrator) files for laser etching and cutting; Project day @ TEC – Apply what you’ve learned and make something start to finish.

Introduction to Mobile App Development

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Connally Room

Mobile devices go everywhere, making them useful tools for gathering data or building interactive ways to explore the results of your research. Topics include: Intro to Xcode IDE / App Store development environment; Intro to storyboards, UX design concepts; Intro to Swift language; App frameworks, templates & reference code; Project day – build, run & deploy to Colab App Store.

Research Computing

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Lilly Room

Computer resources to help you turn your data into useful science and scholarship. Topics include: Intro to RC & VM — How research computing is different from other computing; Linux 101; A little more on VMs – spark & containers. Improving computing speed and research reproducibility; Parallel computing – (Apache Spark, Big data); Machine Learning – Getting computers to recognize patterns that aren’t immediately apparent.

Web Development Basics

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Connally Room

Learn the skills necessary to build, launch, and maintain a basic website. Emphasize your research and lab with modern, interactive content. Topics include: Intro HTML/CSS –foundation of modern web development skills; intro GIT – version control; programming fundamentals; Javascript; Project day – apply what you’ve learned and build a site.

Project Management

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: TEC Conference Room #132

Explore the principles, methods, practices and skills required for successful project management. Topics include: Core concepts of project management; Defining expectations and project deliverables; Managing the project life cycle; Developing the foundation of the project plan; Communicating with the project team and stakeholders.

Developing Digital Projects in the Humanities

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business Sauer Room

This course is designed for Humanities scholars who would “like to do something digital” but do not know how to get started. It will introduce participants to the process of doing a digital project, from ideation and data collection to tool selection, data analysis, and distribution. Through group discussions and activities, participants will learn the basics of collecting and structuring humanities data for analysis and evaluating digital tools for various kinds of technical projects. In the course, participants will get hands-on experience creating timelines, maps, and graphs and exposure to popular tools, like Timeline JS, StoryMap JS, Omeka, Drupal, and Tableau.

Public Speaking and Presentations

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, 2008 MBA Room

This is a hands-on workshop for anyone who wants to become a more confident public speaker. In this class we’ll talk about how to organize information and hone your message to inform and engage an audience. We will explore different formats and styles – from speeches to slide presentations – and hear from experts on data visualization and image creation. Participants will have the opportunity to plan, prepare, and deliver a presentation, if they wish. No previous public speaking or design experience is necessary.

Check out this reflection from a PhD student in Cell Biology who took the course in 2018.

Science Communication

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Mosler Room

This course seeks to help scientists improve their ability to be effective communicators about science to a non-scientific audience. We will consider communications in written, oral, visual and social media channels. Topics covered include development of speaking, writing, and storytelling practices for diverse audiences; answering difficult, controversial, and critical questions; and tweeting, blogging, and presenting research to funders and policy makers.

EdTech

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Formica Room

The best education technology is built though collaborations of engineers, educators, and learners. This short course will explore what it takes to make such collaborations successful, and how Duke graduate students can get involved in this emerging ‘alt ac’ career space. Guest speakers will introduce the ed tech sector and hands-on activities will introduce the ed tech creative process.

Check out these two blog posts from the 2018 Ed Tech class, written by the instructors and students.

(Digital) Publishing 101

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Connally Room

Academic publishing today is multimodal, data-driven, and big business. While networked technologies allow researchers to readily share their work and engage with new audiences, high-impact journals and printed monographs from high-profile publishers still dominate how research is circulated and evaluated. For academics and practitioners alike, understanding and navigating 21st century publishing is a critical skill. What are the opportunities and implications for how you share your work? Why might you consider disseminating your work through less conventional means, and what are the trade-offs? This course will address the full scope of what modern publishing entails, from traditional publishing houses to DIY authors, and help participants plan for the lifecycle of published research. Topics we’ll cover include practical tips for authors such as assessing value and impact and ensuring discoverability, as well as broader considerations of the scholarly communication landscape, such as how dissemination and use of research intersects with publishing business models and copyright law.

Teaching with Archives

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Rubenstein Library, room 150

Faculty from across the humanistic and interpretive social science disciplines will demonstrate how they have incorporated archival materials into undergraduate teaching, providing students with the chance to hone research and critical thinking skills through close engagement with rich primary sources.  Seminar participants will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by these new pedagogical approaches, including best practices in using new technologies to present archivally-based research.

Leading Teams

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Rand Room

Increasingly research is conducted as a team effort in which people with diverse expertise try to work toward a shared goal.   Often these teams combine people with different positions in a hierarchy (e.g., professor and graduate student).  This course examines the basic principles for leading a team:  Who’s at the table, what process do you use to make decisions, how do you earn trust and respect from others, how do you “lead upward”?  The course will help you recognize the skills you need both in the short term as you work in research teams at Duke and in the long term as you rise into positions of leadership.

Negotiation

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Mosler Room

Negotiation is an art and a science. In this course, you’ll learn a number of techniques to influence negotiations. You’ll also gain practice using strategies that capitalize on each party’s strengths while leveraging different perspectives around the table.

Technology Commercialization

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Rand Room

The course is organized around the basic elements of taking technology from conception to development and commercialization, including identifying great ideas, designing products, scaling a venture, marketing, and understanding legal frameworks.

Entrepreneurial Strategy

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
May 28-June 1, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Lilly Room

Graduate students often have expertise in particular domains, but little business experience. Attaining business experience can be a process that takes years and often requires taking career steps which are hard to navigate. Using entrepreneurship as a backdrop, this graduate business skills course is meant to provide a broad overview of business, including practical business fundamentals and theoretical frameworks for critical thinking.  The course achieves this through a combination of teaching theoretical frameworks, providing experiential education, and completing an analysis of competing companies.

Science Policy

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Leaman Room

Our goal is to help students understand both the process of policy making as well as the skills needed to communicate scientific knowledge to inform that process. Topic include: communicating science in an approachable and understandable manner; how to write policy briefs and memorandums, editorials, and commentaries; and understanding mechanisms of science policy governance, including regulations, statutes, executive actions and judicial decisions, how they interact, the roles of the federal and state governments in science policy and how to read and analyze such policies.

Check out this reflection from a PhD student in Cell Biology who took the course.

Program Evaluation

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Connally Room

This short course focuses on understanding program impact and informing program decision-making through evaluation, which represents an area of increasing relevance in academic careers and in public/non-profit sectors. Topics include: differences and similarities between evaluation and academic research; when and why to conduct evaluation; types of evaluations; foundational aspects of an evaluation process, including partnership and Theory of Change development; empirical processes, including study design considerations, data sources, data collection, and analysis; and real-world recommendations for feasibly and effectively implementing evaluation.  Attention will be paid to the applications of academic training for evaluation, the alignment of evaluation research with doctoral training, and the uses of evaluation in numerous career paths, including academic paths and other career trajectories. This course will involve ample discussion and group engagement in a simulated evaluation partnership/project.

Intro to Health Care Policy

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Formica Room

This course will introduce students to the rudiments of the economics of healthcare and to health policy.  Students will be introduced to the core policy instruments and political debates that both underlie the US health sector and have occupied many recent political debates.

Mixed Methods Research

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Rand Room

Nationally and internationally there is a growing demand and increased funding availability for mixed methods research in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Mixed methods research is the collection, analysis, and integration of both quantitative and qualitative data within a single study or program of inquiry to provide a more comprehensive understanding of a research problem.Through this integration, the complementary strengths of each approach yield greater insight into complex phenomena than is possible with either approach alone. This course seeks to familiarize students with the logics of mixed methods inquiry and their practical applications in research through a combination of formal theory, illustrative exemplars, and learning-by-doing excercises. Topics inlcude 1) an overview of various approaches to mixed methods research, 2) effective research design, 3) integrating different types of data and analysis, 4) synthesizing and communicating results, and 5) tips for writing grant proposals.

The Art of the Interview: EPA@50

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 1:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Connally Room

As the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020, the Duke University Energy Initiative is launching a project to collect oral histories from the people who shepherded this singularly influential and controversial institution through its first half-century. Students in this course will find themselves on the front lines of this project’s early stages, where they will gain practical experience planning and executing a largescale oral history project. After a brief introduction featuring readings and discussions related to topics such as interview techniques, research ethics, and archival challenges, they will conduct interviews with the high-ranking administrators, staffers, and other decision-makers who have lived the EPA’s history from the inside. In the process, participants in this course will gain not only widely-applicable skills and intimate knowledge of a crucial regulatory agency, but also a tangible product that demonstrates those skills and that knowledge to potential employers.

Digital Humanities: Working with Text

Dates & Times: May 28-June 1, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, 2008 MBA Room

The digital humanities are broad and diverse, but many of their foundational skills, technologies, and methods are centered on textual data. This course is about some of those methods for analyzing text. Topics will include preparing a corpus of texts (acquisition, OCR, organization), stylometry and authorship studies, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and document classification, text analysis with Python, and topic modeling with MALLET. No programming or digital scholarship experience is necessary.

The Art of the Survey

Dates & Times: May 20 – May 24, 8:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Fuqua School of Business, Lilly Room

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and tools needed to design original data collections, focusing on the art and science of survey methods. We will discuss the source of survey errors and designs decisions to help reduce those errors while balancing cost and time constraints.