by Shawn Miller and Andrea Novicki Imagine assigning students a multimedia project, asking them to perhaps create a five minute digital video or a simple website, only to have the …
This Fall, Thompson Writing Program faculty member Jonathan Dueck is teaching a Writing 20 course, “Sounds of the Field”, where students will write ethnographically about sound and sport. For one section of the course, Dueck will be testing the iPad for various activities related to the assignments.
CIT recently co-hosted (along with Duke’s Office of News and Communications) a ‘social media’ workshop for Duke faculty. Here’s a link to the PDF version of the handout from the …
The Duke-hosted version of WordPress is now available for faculty to use for their courses this fall. WordPress is a popular blogging and flexible website creation tool that faculty can …
Because free and open access to knowledge is critical for a free and open society, educators should be contributors to and supporters of free and open access to educational materials. …
How can you motivate your students? Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia (Psychology and Neuroscience and Education) studies how student motivation relates to academic engagement and achievement and how classroom contexts can promote effective motivation. How does she motivate her students?
Scientific Teaching is a framework for teaching science incorporating the nature of science: experimental, rigorous, and based on evidence about how people learn. It incorporates active learning, assessment and diversity. …
For people at Duke, there are several ways to find help learning software, whether you want help with your research, a place to refer your students for help with their …
To demonstrate their ability to explain the HIV life cycle, Sherryl Broverman’s students described the life cycle (sometimes with their own graphics and images) and posted them on either Facebook …
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.
