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Events / Faculty Stories / learner engagement / Teaching Strategies

Encouraging Student Creativity

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, …

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Duke Faculty Participate in 2022 Active Learning Institute

Duke Learning Innovation welcomed 14 faculty last week to our five-day Active Learning Institute. The program looked at the use of active learning to improve student learning and success to …

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Blog / Faculty Success Stories / learner engagement / Teaching Strategies

Role-play Debate: Wear a Different Hat and Encounter New Challenges

Dr. Hyun Jeong Ha, Duke Kunshan professor designed a role-play debate activity to teach students sociological thinking skills in her Contemporary Social Problems class. The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at DKU interviewed her and her students to share what CTL has learned here.

Blog / Examples / learner engagement / Online Duke / Online Learning

Recipe for an Online Course Series: Drones in Environmental Science

For the past nine months, the Online Duke team has been working on a new course series on unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS or drones), UAS Applications and Operations in Environmental …

Blog / Faculty Stories / learner engagement / Teaching Strategies

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. 

Blog / Faculty Stories / learner engagement / Teaching Strategies

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.

Rex brings real experiments to the virtual classroom
Blog / Faculty Success Stories / Flex Teaching / learner engagement

Rex: Real EXperiments for the Virtual Classroom

Virtual lab experiments are an important component of science courses that are taught in hybrid or remote formats. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Learning Innovation has seen an …

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Blog / Flex Teaching / learner engagement

Survival Guide for Leading Discussions Online

Insights into how to teach discussion-based classes during a pandemic.

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Blog / Flex Teaching / learner engagement

Six things I learned about face-to-face teaching in the time of Covid-19

Dr. Minna Ng is currently teaching 74 first-year students face-to-face across two classes. One class is co-taught with Dr. Karen Murphy (Introduction to Biological Bases of Behavior), and the other …

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Blog / learner engagement / Library

Using Digital Rare Book and Archival Materials in the Virtual Classroom

By Katie L.B. HenningsenHead of Research Services, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library This summer Rubenstein Librarians worked with colleagues across the country to develop remote teaching skills …

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