Fellowship participants got together to begin to design their courses for team-based learning on Tuesday, May 29th, as part of CIT’s Team-Based Learning Course Design Fellows. Participants began by writing …
If you are interested in incorporating sustainability principles into your courses, consider attending the 3rd annual Duke Trillium Workshop on Sustainability Across the Curriculum, May 9, 2012, and/or becoming a Trillium …
Join other Duke faculty who are either interested in or actively implementing team-based learning at Duke, for this first, multidisciplinary Teams for Learning @ Duke workshop. Learn why educators at Duke …
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Assistant Professor of the Practice, taught 70 students Statistics using clickers and Peer Instruction, an open source text, online quizzing and Sakai.
As you approach the end of this semester and begin to anticipate the next, your attention may turn to making preparations; refining courses in order to improve upon curriculum delivery …
Dr. Stephen Craig is teaching Honors Chemistry (Chem 43) using team-based learning (TBL) instead of lectures and online resources instead of a textbook. TBL is a specific type of collaborative learning using a sequence of individual work, group work, immediate feedback and peer evaluation. Dr. Craig and his colleagues created units based on learning objectives, supported by online resources.
As we start a new semester, you might want to keep in mind the many resources here at Duke to help with different aspects of your course – from training to Library resources to loaner equipment, there are many services provided by different units on campus to help with your course activities.
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Emily Bernhardt and Bill Morris taught a new course, Biology 112: Ecology for a Crowded Planet as part of the Biology curriculum revision in Spring 2011. Dr. Bernhardt explained the …
Chantal Reid participated in the CIT Biology Faculty Fellowship over this past year to design and prepare to teach Bio 112, Ecology for a Small Planet. She is planning to use several of the techniques that the other fellowship faculty piloted and found successful during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Justin Wright participated in the CIT Biology Faculty Fellowship over this past year to design and prepare to teach Bio 112, Ecology for a Small Planet. He described what he learned from other faculty in the fellowship, and how this will inform his teaching.
