DKU Faculty Team Win Teaching and Learning Award
The DKU first year common core course, China in the World (CITW), has won the 2020 Apereo Teaching and Learning Award (ATLAS), an international award for teaching innovation. The course is taught …
Finite and Infinite Pedagogies: Reflections on the Transition to Online Learning
James Miller, Ph.D. reflects on the transition to online learning and has shared his insights regarding open-ended creativity in an article published on Inside Higher Ed.
Frequent Quizzing: Dr. Ming Li’s Pedagogy
Dr. Ming Li employed “frequent quizzing” as one of his pedagogies when he taught Fall 2018 STATS 102 Introduction to Data Science. Frequent quizzing is an effective way achieve “learning by doing” and knowledge automatization.
Making History Real: Role-Playing Games as Pedagogy*
Professor Zach Fredman, PhD used a role-playing game, “Reacting to the Past” to model the 1945 Yalta Conference. Students in the class found it an exciting and mind-opening way to learn international history.
Active In-Class Reading
Active Reading: The reading itself matters, but what comes before also does.* In college classrooms, it is considered rather unusual to have in-class reading unless it’s part of an exam. …
Considerations When Teaching Across Continents
Many Duke courses offered to global learners involve learners and instructors located both on-campus at Duke and around the world. However, simply putting learning materials online and having web/video conferencing …
Take the Pulse of Student Learning
After evaluating two semesters of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Global Settings with initial and enhanced course re/design, we have learned a great deal from our experience and student feedback. I …
Why Does Writing Good Learning Objectives Matter?
As a former adjunct instructor, later a training coordinator, instructional designer, and now a teaching and learning consultant, I have worked with many faculty on course design and how to …
Innovative Teaching Award Now Accepting Applications!
Are you using Sakai in innovative ways to improve student learning? If so, you could receive an award! The Apereo Foundation, an open source software organization of which Duke is …
Creating Interactive Video in Your Course
Duke University is piloting an interactive video tool, PlayPosit. We have faculty from Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, and Nicholas School of Environment currently piloting …