“Reacting to the Past” Winter Conference
Are you looking for a way to increase classroom interaction and student engagement? Do you hope to implement high impact practices into your course or program curriculum? Do you want to …
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Student Project: The Cacao Tree and the Nasher Museum
A guest blog post from Professor Elvira Vilches in Romance Studies Cacao is the purest form of chocolate you can consume. Cacao comes from Maya, but the cacao fruit tree, …
Spark a Discussion: What’s Going on in This Picture?
In a day-to-day class, it can be difficult to think of new ways to get students out of their “comfort zone” to look at course topics or a discipline with …
See James DeVaney’s Remarks and Presentation from His Talk at Duke NextEd Festival
On October 2, James DeVaney, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan, kicked off Duke NextEd Festival with a talk entitled “Academic Innovation and the Compassionate …
Active-Learning Fellows: Revamping a Graduate-level Dendrology Course
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 …
Q&A with Matthew Rascoff
Matthew Rascoff is Duke’s Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation. Rascoff began in his role at Duke in January 2017. He was previously Vice President and founder of …
New campus resource for faculty
CIT has recently purchased a campus subscription to the “The Teaching Professor Newsletter,” a monthly electronic publication for faculty and other instructors. The newsletter is long-running and well-received, and includes …
DE SIG @Duke: Idea Exchange on Online and Academic Innovations
DE SIG @Duke will host a lunch discussion and idea exchange on Oct. 24, 2017 to discuss topics ranging from new online program development to innovations at Duke Law. Join …
Engage Students with Online Collaboration Tools
Are you an instructor looking for teaching strategies to create an engaging learning experience for your students? Lok Chan, Bass online apprentice with the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) explored …
Applications being accepted for student Global Engagement Program
The Global Engagement Program is a student opportunity offered by the International House. In collaboration with the Career Center, the International House developed the program to provide Duke’s U.S. students …