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.
Guest Post by Dr. David Beratan, R.J. Reynolds Professor of Chemistry, and recipient of a Jump Start Grant from Learning Innovation. Teaching Biophysical Chemistry I have been learning how to teach Biophysical Chemistry (Chem 302) …
Guest post by Duke faculty member Stacy Tantum, Associate Professor of the Practice, Electrical & Computer Engineering, one of Learning Innovation’s 2017 Active Learning Fellows. One of the biggest differences I’ve experienced in my Fundamentals of Electrical …
During the summer and fall of 2017, the Center for Instructional Technology led the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship. Thirteen faculty from a variety of disciplines shared experiences and learned about using active learning techniques in their classrooms. In this …
When Bob Barnes was teaching his medical device design course, he noticed that students waited until the end of the course to begin searching for the relevant patent information for their designs. This resulted in …
Professor Daniel Egger creates a new blended model for teaching and learning for his on-campus and distance education students and “flips” his class using the Coursera Groups feature.
What does a “flipped classroom” look like? If you peek into Physics 142, you see over 100 students seated at the ends of rows in an auditorium-style classroom; many are talking, some consult calculators or …
CIT congratulates all of the 2014 Trinity College and Alumni Teaching Award winners. Once again this year, CIT co-sponsored the Teaching with Technology Award. This year’s award winner, Denise Comer (Thompson Writing Program) showcases excellence …
Faculty in Duke’s Biomedical Engineering Department agreed that students needed to apply statistics to biomedical engineering problems throughout the curriculum. A faculty committee identified the relevant statistics topics and mapped them to BME courses. Teaching statistics in BME courses is supported by a BME online statistics source created by Steve Wallace and BME students.
Dr. David Beratan teaches a graduate-level Chemistry to 9 Duke students, plus about a dozen students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, via WebEx. Read a description of the course, and his impressions of the course and the technology.
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