How Can Students Use Coursera for Duke?
Duke students, staff and instructors have access to thousands of Coursera courses for free. These courses can be used, wholesale or in part, to supplement official Duke courses or as …
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Formatting accessible Sakai site content with the updated rich text editor
Last week we updated Sakai’s rich text editor and after listening to the Duke Community, we’re deploying a smaller update this Thursday. This update includes: Add Duke color palette options for …
Sakai Conversations: Frequently Asked Questions
This Fall, Duke Learning Innovation and our partners at Duke’s Creative & User eXperience team, and Longsight (the hosting provider for Duke’s Sakai platform) launched the new Sakai discussion tool, …
More Structured Classrooms and Supportive Instructors Lead to Better Student Experiences
Duke professors Minna Ng and Thomas Newpher conduct research on team-based learning (TBL). Throughout the 2020–2021 academic year, they were challenged to find ways to do TBL in online and …
Fall 2021 Learning Technology Update
Our teams and vendors have been working hard over the summer to update and improve the learning experience for the Duke Community. Below are some highlights from the past several …
Considerations for teaching with a mask
Worried about how masks might interfere with communication this Fall? Here are a few ideas to overcome that barrier between you and your students.
Update to Sakai’s text editing experience
This post was updated on 08/13/2021. Please clear your cache if you don’t see the updated rich text editor. As part of the Sakai Conversations tool project, we’ve also streamlined …
Using Online Tools to Increase Student Communication
There are a wide-range of asynchronous communication tools that can be used to engage students in face-to-face, online and hybrid courses. This blog will explore a selection of tools that …
Symposium Spotlights: How Teaching and Learning Programs Shifted Focus During the Pandemic
Duke Learning Innovation co-hosted the 2021 Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium on May 5, alongside institutional partners: the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan, Penn’s Online Learning Initiative, the McGraw Center …
Using Podcasts in Your Classroom
Podcasts are a versatile medium that have become more and more a part of the higher education landscape. Your students may encounter podcasts alongside other materials in their reading and …