Tips to Successfully Wrap Up the Spring Semester
While final examinations do not begin until April 27, preparing now to wrap up your courses will streamline the process for both you and your students. While it has been …
Preparing Your Summer 2021 Course
If you are teaching this summer, there’s a lot to plan for! Adapting to the pandemic, teaching part or all of your course online and shorter summer sessions all conspire …
Five Podcasts to Develop Your Teaching Practices
Podcasts have become a commonplace medium that we integrate into our entertainment and learning — perhaps they have even made their way onto your syllabus. But did you know there …
Join Us for the Bass Digital Education Fellowship Showcase on April 15, 2021
Join Learning Innovation and the Duke Graduate School for a showcase event highlighting the digital projects of this year’s cohort of Bass Digital Education Fellows. Through a series of lightning …
Academic Innovation at the Foot of the Cathedral
Matthew Rascoff, our outgoing Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation, reflects on four years at Learning Innovation and Duke. The pandemic year clouds my memories of “before times” …
Announcing Continued Expanded Access to 2,000+ Courses via Coursera Partner Consortium
In 2020, we partnered with Coursera to expand access to their catalog for the Duke community with the Coursera for DKU and the Duke 2020 Access programs. Those opportunities were …
Read the Duke Learning Innovation 2020 Impact Report
Normally we release an annual report over the summer summarizing our accomplishments of the previous academic year. The past year has been anything but normal. After a spring dedicated to …
Classroom Observations for Evaluating Teaching
Accurate and fair evaluations of teaching effectiveness should include multiple means of measurement. Student ratings are one way to assess teaching, but may be biased by the gender and race …
Using Social Annotation Tool Hypothes.is in a Humanities Graduate Student Seminar
Beginning in Fall 2020, Duke began supporting the social annotation tool Hypothes.is through a pilot program. Now integrated in Sakai, Hypothes.is can be used by instructors and students to read …
Three Active Learning Techniques to Try in Zoom (and How)
Integrating active learning techniques into your Spring course can infuse your synchronous Zoom session with energy. These activities help break up lectures, give students the opportunity to practice skills before …