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Building Better Breakout Sessions

Breakout room activities in Zoom can increase the depth of class discussion and create opportunities for students to create connections with their colleagues. We recommend defining the specific learning goal of a breakout room activity and choosing a final product that moves beyond the basic discussion question to creating original content and ideas.

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Shifting Perspectives: Learning Through Disorientation

As part of our mission to promote new approaches to student-centered teaching, Learning Innovation is publishing this series written by members of Duke’s Transformative Learning Intellectual Community. The TLIC is a …

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Shifting Perspectives: When Teachers Are Learners

As part of our mission to promote new approaches to student-centered teaching, Learning Innovation is publishing this series written by members of Duke’s Transformative Learning Intellectual Community. The TLIC is a …

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We Just Hit a Coursera Milestone

As of today, the members of our Coursera learning programs have collectively logged over 100,000 learning hours! This is an exciting milestone and we are thrilled to see Duke students, …

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Handling Increased Stress and Anxiety During COVID Times In the (Virtual & Physical) Classroom

By Tom Szigethy I often think of a certain level of stress and anxiety as a given and a constant, but the reality is that it can fluctuate up or …

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Shifting Perspectives: Introduction

As part of our mission to promote new approaches to student-centered teaching, Learning Innovation is publishing this series written by members of Duke’s Transformative Learning Intellectual Community. The TLIC is a …

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Duke Students Speak: Reflections on Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning

Anastasia Kārkliņa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Literature and currently enrolled in GS762: Digital Pedagogy, a course developed by the Learning Innovation team and offered as …

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Assessing Your Teaching: Feedback Methods Beyond the End-of-Semester Evaluation

Method 1: Observation and reflection Peer observation – Getting feedback from a colleague or other trained observer can often provide useful insight or new ideas for addressing instructional challenges. Self-observation …

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Using Student Teams Effectively in Your Course

Steps Design tasks that require students to work in teams. Promote interaction by assigning tasks that require consensus or concrete decisions based on analysis of a complex issue. Ideally, the …

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Active Learning Techniques for the Classroom

Active Learning Techniques to Try Try a Think-Pair-Share activity to encourage all students to interact with the material. In this activity, the instructor states an open-ended question. Ask students to …

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