Leaving Flexibility for Adult Learners
Shang Li, a DKU student had a conversation with her professor, Dr. Kisha N. Daniels about the professor’s philosophy and pedagogical strategies for teaching adult learners.
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 Philosophy Through Computer Science
This post was written by Jiaxin Wu (Educational Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Duke Kunshan University) based on her collaborative work and interview with the professor and selected students. …
Bridging Biology and Humanity
Duke Kunshan Biology Professor Katherine Robertson and literature Professor Yitzhak Lewis joined forces to teach an interdisciplinary course, Molecular, Behavioral and Social Evolution: Evolution of Genomes, Traits, Behaviors, and Societies. They emphasize the importance of cross-disciplinarity that allows the collision of ideas between students and instructors.
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 …
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.
Teams for Restoration Ecology
Dr. Rebecca Vidra, Nicholas School of the Environment, is teaching Restoration Ecology: Theory and Applications during Fall 2012. She has designed this course for undergraduates with the help of a …