IT Training and Outreach
Continuing education and skill development are essential for staying competitive, engaging employees, and retaining top talent. Duke offers IT training designed to meet a wide range of needs.
Whether you're looking to build advanced skills like programming or sharpen your everyday use of tools like Microsoft Office, there’s a training option for you.
Innovation Co-Lab's Roots Program
The Innovation Co-Lab's Roots Program is a series of technology learning experiences, including both live and self-paced workshops. The program is free, non-credit, open to anyone at Duke (student, staff, faculty). With a focus on technology and hands-on experiences, we offer a wide variety of workshops.
Coursera FOR DUKE
Coursera offers free courses and professional certificates in programming, data science, business, and more. You can enroll in courses for free with your Duke NetID. Topics include Arts and Humanities, Business, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Health, Math and Logic, Personal Development, Physical Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, and Language Learning.
Duke Learning & Organizational Development
Learning & Organization Development (L&OD) provides strategic learning opportunities to strengthen individual, team, and organizational performance in support of Duke’s mission in education, research, and patient care. The unit offers a range of services including professional development classes and workshops, customized program development, and organizational consulting. Programs are designed to build leadership capacity, improve workplace effectiveness, and foster continuous learning across the Duke community.
Duke Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education (LILE)
LILE is Duke University’s central source for teaching and learning innovation on campus and through Duke’s professional, continuing, and online education offerings.
Office Productivity (Microsoft Tools)
Microsoft offers a wide range of self-paced training resources to improve your skills in Office 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and OneDrive.
OpenAI Academy
OpenAI Academy is a free, publicly accessible learning platform designed to help individuals at all levels build confidence and competence with artificial intelligence. Whether you're new to AI or looking to deepen your skills, the Academy offers a range of training opportunities to meet you where you are.
Explore interactive courses, hands-on workshops, and expert-led sessions that cover everything from the basics of generative AI to advanced techniques for integrating AI into your work, research, or community initiatives.
What you'll find:
- Self-paced learning modules
- Live and virtual workshops
- Real-world use cases and tools
- Resources for educators, developers, and everyday users
Start learning how to use AI responsibly, creatively, and effectively—at no cost.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics create surveys, polls, questionnaires and forms using advanced and easy-to-use survey software. It is used to gather, analyze, and act on feedback across a wide range of business functions—especially in customer experience, employee engagement, product development, and brand management.
Box
Box is your cloud-based storage and collaboration service at Duke. It serves all Duke University and Duke Medicine faculty, staff and students. With Box, you can access, store and share content securely with Duke and non-Duke users — anywhere, anytime, on any device.
BoxAI
Box AI is an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform designed to supercharge how organizations manage, understand, and create content. It’s built into the Box Content Cloud and integrates seamlessly with your files, workflows, and apps.