Planning a Course Calendar
Dr. Kristin Stephens-Martinez shares a course calendar she created in Google Spreadsheets to help her plan her course.
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TechBasics: Video Conferencing
Video conferencing offers some exciting possibilities for instructors who want to connect their classroom with the world beyond Duke’s campus. Perhaps you’d like to invite outside researchers or guests to speak to your students. Or you’d like to teach your own course from a conference hotel room. Video conferencing can help you go both. If you plan to use a video conferencing software, here are some best practices to consider.
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Make Your Classroom Inclusive from Day One
The first days of class present a great opportunity to set the tone for your class, your interactions with students, and students’ interactions with each other. Many of the best practices for inclusive classrooms are common …
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Teaching Tools You Should Know
Duke provides a wealth of teaching tools and resources to support you and your classes. Below is a sampling – if you’re wondering if another tool exists, would like to talk about best practices for …
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Teaching Tools Pilots Fall 2018
This Fall, Learning Innovation is piloting several teaching tools for Duke faculty. If you would like to learn more or be included in any of these pilots, please contact us. Nudge When learned information isn’t …
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Building Foundational Knowledge with an Online “Level-Up”
The Challenge: Prepare Students for U.S. Civics Major Courses Students come to Duke from a variety of educational backgrounds, and not all students have the same background coming in to their major courses. Duke Learning …
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BRITE Ideas Teaching and Research Series to Launch Sept 4th
Learning Innovation invites you to join us for BRITE Ideas, a monthly discussion group to share and develop research on teaching and learning. Invited guest speakers will include those who have either completed or are …
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Engage Your Learners with Gamification: Register Now
Join your colleagues on September 11 as the Duke Online Learning Collaborative explores gamification, a strategy to engage learners and enhance education and training activities in online, hybrid and face-to-face instruction. Enrique Cachafeiro, who recently …
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Modernizing a Photochemistry Course
I teach an advanced level course in photochemistry, primarily designed for students whose research involves physical chemistry. The concepts are abstract and difficult, despite the importance for understanding the many light-related phenomena in modern chemistry research and in technologies that impact society.
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TechBasics: Outlook Best Practices
Are you ready to give up your leather-bound calendar? Do you wonder how to book a room in Outlook? Have you wondered what bcc means? This post will look at a couple of tricks to use Outlook more effectively.
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