Will Wilson (Duke Biology) wanted to engage his students and have them come to class prepared, having read the text. He wanted the class meetings to go beyond the text, and include more student discussion. He’s incorporated two new features in his course this year to achieve these goals: reading quizzes and minute papers […]
Joan Clifford, Assistant Director of the Spanish Language Program, teaches Spanish 106CS and wanted to design a final course project requiring students to synthesize the course material with their service experience, while reflecting on the course’s multiple curricular goals.
Lisa Merschel enhanced a project (Tarea Calificada) she has used in her in course for several semesters. For the project, students research a location where DukeEngage has programs, present information about that destination, and create a letter asking for funding from DukeEngage to embark on their travel to this place.
Karine Provot wanted to improve the outcomes of an audio journal project for her French 63 students, particularly by better establishing the connections between what students learned and talked about in class and this ongoing out-of-class assignment.
For Blackboard exam success: Tell your students what to expect. We’ve included an example below from Ann Mosher, MPH, FNP-BC, and a Senior Nurse Practitioner at Duke Consider using Blackboard’s …
In 2008-2009, a group of eight Duke faculty from a variety of disciplines participated in the CIT’s Student Video Fellows program. The participants explored new ways of engaging students with video assignments and, at the end of the program, assembled a guide on resources, ideas and best practices for use by other faculty.
You can read the report and see examples of student work in this post on the blog.
Duke’s Froshlife film festival features short films about campus life produced by teams of students from the first-year residence halls. Films could be viewed in person or via webcast, similar …
How can clickers (a.k.a. PRS a.k.a. Personal Response Systems) be used effectively in the classroom? Tips for clicker use drawn from faculty experience will help; for example, explain to students why …
We’ve been meeting monthly to discuss using mobile devices in teaching. Several faculty have been interested in trying Poll Everywhere, which uses the students’ phones or computers as clickers to …
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, a leading journal in its field has recently listed a featured article written by the CIT nursing fellows. The article published in 2008, “A …
