Strategic Themes 2017-2020

Prioritize support and programs for Duke entities promoting high impact educational practices
Support faculty in their ownership of faculty development and teaching improvement.
Promote faculty self-reflection on teaching and encourage faculty peer-observation through programs like Visit a Classroom
Ensure faculty excellence in teaching and learning by promoting innovative and pedagogically sound teaching practices for new and incoming Duke faculty
Help faculty identify student marginalization and exclusion in the classroom and implement inclusive practices in their courses to recognize and support Duke’s changing student body demographics
Provide more support for efforts that assist or prepare non-traditional, international, or minority students to be successful in gateway and foundational courses.
Support courses and programs that explore new portfolio-based and project-based pedagogies that encourage self-reflection, high-level analysis, and practical disciplinary and cross-disciplinary experiences

Provide faculty with a streamlined experience for online, ed tech, classroom and teaching support
Develop new events that promote and support Duke as a leader in teaching innovation
Partner with other Duke services and programs to offer events; leverage partnerships with prominent speakers and thought leaders beyond Duke to contribute to scholarly conversations and exchanges about innovations in education
Collaborate with Duke services and partners to advocate for classroom and informal learning space design that promotes instructional innovation and support active learning and other evidence-based instructional practices
Collaborate with faculty, departments, schools and Duke administration to develop new strategies to incentivize faculty experiments in innovative teaching
Capitalize on the Duke – Duke Kunshan University partnership to develop, design and share potential innovations in teaching and technology
Develop better connections and partnerships with Duke researchers that focus on student learning including researchers in Psychology and Neuroscience, the Program in Education, and school assessment staff.

Support schools, departments, and academic programs in experimenting with new educational models for their curricular and strategic goals
Advance curricular and program goals with easy ways to reuse digital content both created by Duke faculty and via Open Education Resources
Extend the ‘arc of learning’ to include new audiences such as prospective students and alumni
Use online innovations to create new opportunities and increase flexibility, access and collaboration for Duke students
Leverage current partnerships and pursue new partnerships to enhance Duke’s reputation build Duke’s capacity to develop and support online projects and courses

Improve the Duke learning technology environment to better support teaching and learning with a priority given to technologies that support student-centered learning
Explore and experiment with technologies that support and connect experiential learning in and outside of the classroom
Explore technologies and teaching approaches that leverage personalized learning to better support individual students needs and student success
Help build capacity for Duke to collect, analyze and share learning data to improve student learning and better inform successful teaching practices
Explore and/or collaborate on technologies that enrich the student and faculty experience through connected/virtual learning communities – both at Duke in Durham and across the globe
Incorporate undergraduate and graduate students in the design, development and assessment of our learning technology ecosystem