What Working From Home Looks Like For Us
The Learning Innovation team has been working remotely since March 13 to comply with the COVID-19 social distancing response, and – like many of you – we are not sure …
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‘Kits’ Is Replacing ‘Toolkits’
You may recall that we announced the creation of Kits last July (if not, you may want to read this post). Kits gives you one place to go where you …
Finite and Infinite Pedagogies: Reflections on the Transition to Online Learning
James Miller, Ph.D. reflects on the transition to online learning and has shared his insights regarding open-ended creativity in an article published on Inside Higher Ed.
You Kept Teaching
Duke faculty, you have done something remarkable: in a matter of days, amidst a public health crisis and with so much going on in your lives, you transitioned your courses …
An end-of-semester reflection
As we approach the last day of classes of this semester that we will always remember, I am aware of some new and conflicting feelings about this time of year. Usually, the end of classes is a time of some relief for faculty. The intensity of teaching and grading can be a lot, and the end can often signal a welcome return to having some time to work on research, read that pile of books in the corner of our office, or generally put energy into long delayed projects.
How do you give a laboratory practical while teaching remotely?
Dr. Lindsay Saunders, Laboratory Administrator in Biology, is currently directing the laboratory for the course General Microbiology (Bio 212) with 34 students in two lab sections. When courses moved to …
Remote Teaching a Large Course and Lab in Evolutionary Anthropology
Meet Dr. Elaine Gomez Guevara, Assistant Research Professor, who is relatively new to Duke and is teaching two courses: EVANTH 101 Introduction to Evolutionary Anthropology with a laboratory (74 students) …
Duke Students Speak: Reflections on Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Literature and currently enrolled in GS762: Digital Pedagogy, a course developed by the Learning Innovation team and offered as …
First Impressions: Week 1 of Remote Teaching and Learning
By Rebecca VidraSenior Lecturer & Director of Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) Program Classes resumed for our university last week, after two weeks of frantically working with faculty to transition their …
Four Weeks In: 10 Lessons from Teaching Online at Duke Kunshan University
March 2020 At the end of January 2020, Duke Kunshan University became one of the first universities to make the decision to transition all classes to remote teaching and learning …