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.
Generative-AI Assignments There are both academic and practical reasons you may choose to incorporate generative AI assignments into your course. For example, you may believe that AI will be a …
ChatGPT has been a topic of great discussion in academia, particularly about how to prevent its use. However, students can benefit from understanding how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to save time and improve performance on writing assignments.
There’s a great deal of discussion among faculty in higher education about ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Faculty are concerned about students using this technology to generate essays …
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, …
Ungrading seems to be growing in popularity: there are hundreds of Tweets with the #ungrading hashtag, dozens of articles about ungrading and other alternative assessment practices regularly published in major …
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 …
Renee Richer, Ph.D., the winner of Duke Kunshan 2021-22 Teaching Award nominated by students, has shared her teaching approaches, such as how she reaches out to students and establishes a learning community in online classes; engages students with extreme examples and relatable assignments; and guides students with personal experiences and trains students to be young scientists.
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.
On March 24, 2022, Dr. Rita Kumar and Dr. Brenda Refaei moderated a webinar focused on their new edited volume “Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Strategies for Teaching.” The …
