Tips to Help You Smoothly Wrap Up the Fall Semester
While final examinations do not begin until November 20, preparing now to wrap up your courses will streamline the process for both you and your students. While the Fall semester …
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Lessons from DKU’s Pivot to Digital Teaching
Dr. Noah Pickus, Dean of Undergraduate Curricula Affairs and Faculty Development at Duke Kunshan University, recently shared a few key lessons with Times Higher Education (THE) from DKU’s pivot to …
Lessons Learned From the 2020 Summer Student Survey
Earlier this Fall, the Trinity Office of Assessment conducted a survey with Summer 2020 students about their remote learning experience. Jennifer Hill, Director of Assessment, shared some of the data …
Inorganic Chemistry Reimagined and Pre-adapted for Online Learning
About the course redesign Inorganic chemistry is traditionally a lecture-based course, which revolves heavily around Group Theory: mathematical representations of molecular symmetry and the resultant electronic properties. For CHEM 410: …
Get Ahead of Spring Course Planning with Teaching and Learning Workshops
Learning Innovation’s upcoming programming will offer instructors the opportunity to jumpstart spring preparation. Focusing on the major components of student-centered course design, these workshops will offer you the opportunity to …
Bass Digital Education Fellowship – Apply By Nov 13
Attend an Information Session Friday, Nov. 6, 3:00 – 4:00 pm –Register here (Zoom link provided upon registration) Are you a Duke graduate student interested in the growing area of digital education, …
Upcoming Talks on Game-Based Learning
Game-based pedagogy has come into its own in the last decade. Instructors from many disciplines use games to introduce students to a wide variety of content, such as cultural differences, …
Collaborating with Your Graduate Student Teaching Assistants
During my time as an English PhD student at Duke, I served as a teaching assistant for experienced professors in both seminar and lecture-based courses. What I learned from my …
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 …
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 …