Bring the Nasher Museum of Art into Your Classes
In addition to being a world-class museum of art, the Nasher at Duke also provides excellent support for faculty and students in teaching and learning in any discipline. The museum’s …
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Save Time Grading with Gradescope
Learn how to save time grading with Gradescope, a free tool for Duke faculty, instructors and graduate student teaching assistants, at workshops on August 16 or August 21. Gradescope makes it …
Syllabus Design: Research and Practical Advice
In August, the Teaching Quantitative Sciences Faculty Journal Club read and discussed recently-published research on syllabus design. The authors looked at different syllabi and categorized them into four types: Syllabus …
Reviewing Two Years of Nudge: Does it Work?
Nudge is a tool Learning Innovation is piloting that sends short quiz questions to students to reinforce concepts covered in class. Over the past two years several instructors have tried …
Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program
Now Accepting Applications for the 2019-20 Collaborative Project Course Faculty Fellows Program! Submit your application by October 15, 2019 Program dates: December 2019 – December 2020 Deadline for Applications: Tuesday, October …
Duke Learning Innovation Contributes WALTer to the EEP
In May, Duke Learning Innovation’s Research and Development team had the opportunity to attend the Empirical Educator Project (EEP) 2019 Summit at Carnegie Mellon University. Led by Michael Feinstein, the …
Meet Kits: A Single Place for All Your Learning Apps and Resources
Are you using more than one app to teach your course? Maybe even three apps or more such as WordPress, Box, and Warpwire? This fall, a new learning platform, Kits, …
Using Qualtrics for Peer Evaluation
Students often find peer evaluations to be a valuable way to get feedback on early drafts of papers and presentations. However, the process of actually collecting and distributing peer feedback …
Making History Real: Role-Playing Games as Pedagogy*
Professor Zach Fredman, PhD used a role-playing game, “Reacting to the Past” to model the 1945 Yalta Conference. Students in the class found it an exciting and mind-opening way to learn international history.
Duke Faculty Participate in Course Design Institute
Duke Learning Innovation recently welcomed 19 faculty to the Course Design Institute (CDI), a three-day program consisting of interactive seminars, discussions, and presentations, where faculty learned and applied a best-practice …