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Category: Teaching Strategies

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Handling Extended Student Absences

For the Fall 2021 semester, if any of your students need to miss several consecutive days of your class due to isolating with COVID-19 or any other reason, you are …

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Using Online Tools to Increase Student Communication

There are a wide-range of asynchronous communication tools that can be used to engage students in face-to-face, online and hybrid courses. This blog will explore a selection of tools that …

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Blog / Teaching Strategies

Using Podcasts in Your Classroom

Podcasts are a versatile medium that have become more and more a part of the higher education landscape. Your students may encounter podcasts alongside other materials in their reading and …

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Using a Course Backchannel to Supplement Teaching and Learning

Backchannels — instances that provide course members with supplemental communication space to hold a background conversation during synchronous sessions  — have been used as a teaching and learning strategy in …

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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.

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Blog / Teaching Strategies

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.

Blog / Teaching Strategies / TLIC

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 …

Blog / learner engagement / Teaching Strategies / TLIC

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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Blog / Teaching Strategies

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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