A DKU student and CTL student partner, Sebastián Portilla (Class of 2025), took Professor Caio Yurgel’s 7-week ”The Art of Interpretation” course and wrote about his professor. This teaching story recognizes Prof. Yurgel’s cathartic and humanist instruction, evoking memorable personal experiences that translate into genuine education.
On November 7, 2022, the Duke Office of Assessment hosted a panel discussion on Nurturing Creativity in Undergraduate Education. Hosted by the Director of the Office of Assessment, Jennifer Hill, …
During Spring 2021 Duke Learning Innovation opened up applications for its Carry the Innovation Forward program. The idea behind this program was to invest in strong teaching innovations that had …
Dr. Kristin Stephens-Martinez teaches Computer Science 216, Everything Data; this large course introduces over 200 students to working with data – both fundamental concepts and computational tools – and finishes with a capstone …
While end-of-semester student evaluations can help instructors determine what changes they might need to make for future iterations of a course, they do not do much to ensure the current …
The last two years of pandemic teaching, and in some cases experiences even before that, have resulted in many Duke faculty reconsidering their assessment practices and policies with an intent …
The last two years of pandemic teaching, and in some cases experiences even before that, have resulted in many Duke faculty reconsidering their assessment practices and policies with the intent …
This post was written in collaboration with the featured professor, Rebecca Ewing. For many instructors, teaching online during the pandemic upended the traditional ways they approached student learning. Changes had …
A DKU undergraduate student wrote a story about how Prof. Thaler has inspired and guided her and others to think deeply about career preparation. Specifically she has shared two learning activities: small presentation and Moot Court that the professor implemented in the course to help students contextualize and apply course content to the real word.
This post was written by Maria Tackett, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science in early 2020 before changes in the classroom experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It …
