Duke Professors Practice Assessment for Learning
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 …
Flexible Assessment Practices in Duke STEM Courses
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 …
Embracing Universal Design for Learning
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 …
Guided Learning Towards a Future Career
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.
Using a Throwable Mic in the Classroom
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 …
Students Generating Questions as a Way of Active Learning
Chuanhui Gu Ph.D. considers himself primarily an educator. In this story, his student Alberto Najarro, Class of 2022, recommended his unique way to foster student engagement in the classroom by including student-generated questions in tests.
Teaching Growth Mindset in the Classroom
This post is contributed by Professor Zhang-Negrerie, DKU. Embracing the growth mindset, she turns from a goal-oriented into a process-oriented person, and has completely flipped her priority in teaching. She cultivates in the students the growth mindset. It has become the ultimate learning objective across all her courses.
Using the Virtual Environment as a Public Policy Learning Experiment
In March of 2020, Duke University transitioned to emergency remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020-21 academic year at Duke required instructors to adapt their courses to be …
A One-Stop-Shop: Using Kits to Organize Digital Tools for Graduate Student Writing Courses
This post is part of a series that profiles Kits users at Duke. In an effort to streamline the setup and sharing of learning apps, Kits (developed by the Kits …