Sessions and Schedule

This session will show attendees how social media channels add unique value to online learning. Len White from the Duke Institute for Brain Science, who teaches “Medical Neuroscience” as an open, online class, will share how he uses Twitter, Facebook, Google Hangout, and most recently, an ancillary website “LearnMedicalNeuroscience.nl”, which has its own social functionality. Co-presenting is Drs. Ellen Vos-Wisse, a senior course mentor, who created the website to support the user experience in the online course. Communications Manager Courtney Lockemer will be on hand to share best practices for social media in instruction.

This session is dedicated to understanding what it means to collaborate across institutions and beyond textbooks to teach. Jolie Tingen and Kim Duckett explain what Open Educational Resources (OERs) are and how they can be freely retained, reused, revised, remixed and redistributed. They will also reveal a new grant-funded opportunity at Duke encouraging faculty to explore OERs in their discipline. OSPRI (Open Source Pedagogy, Research + Innovation) is a new project at Duke that applies open source methodologies and principles to teaching and learning, communicating, and creating within and beyond educational institutions. Aria Chernik, Director of OSPRI, will highlight how open learning environments empower student agency and better prepare learners for a culture that is rapidly shifting towards collaboration, sharing, and open exchange of ideas and services.

Whether you are speaking in the classroom or at an academic conference, it can be a challenge to design slides that provide a visually appealing backdrop to what you are saying.  In this session, Kim Manturuk (CIT) will explain how to create slides that engage your audience and complement your content.  Attendees will learn tips for making lectures and presentations more interactive.

Not sure what the Center for Instructional Technology does beyond the Showcase? Did you know that we have programs and expertise that can help you integrate active learning, team-based learning, a “flipped” classroom, and other strategies into your teaching? Or that we help fund, design, and build online courses across a variety of platforms? This session will describe the breadth of CIT programs and resources that are available to faculty and highlight some past projects. We will also reveal upcoming opportunities and talk about how you can get involved.