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 …
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 …
Design Your Course
Part I: Analysis Before you start designing your course, think about the pre-existing conditions of your course, including student characteristics, departmental requirements and available resources. This analysis will help you …
Conducting Research on Teaching and Learning
Steps Clarify Your Research Hypothesis: What do you want to do in your class and how will you know whether it works? Start by thinking about the goals of your …
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 …
Duke’s Hindi Students use 3D Printing to Connect with Culture and Language
In this faculty guest post, Kusum Knapczyk, PhD, Lecturer of Hindi Language of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, shares how students in her Hindi 101 and 203 classes use 3D …
Three Midterm Assessments to Improve Your Course Right Now
This post looks at three ways for instructors and students to reflect on your current course, with change in mind.
It’s All Fun and Games (and Teaching)!
Fall 2019 will bring another round of events around educational gaming to the Games Lab.
Gain New Teaching Perspectives with Visit a Classroom
Would you like to get new ideas for teaching? Want to meet other Duke faculty, see them teach, and discover what works in their classroom? Duke Learning Innovation offers our Visit a Classroom program …
Duke Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Announces Fall Training Sessions
Duke faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in Fall training sessions at Duke’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (CSGD). P.R.I.D.E. training sessions P.R.I.D.E. (Pursuing Respect, Inclusion, Diversity, …