When end of semester feedback is not enough
Daniel Rittschof gets feedback on his course from his students weekly, so he can make adjustments throughout the course. How?
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Learn about the Internet of Things
You’ve probably seen ads for products that are “smart” and allow you to control functions in your home or dorm room with your cell phone or other Internet-connected device. Those …
CIT Welcomes Fall 2017 Bass Online Apprentices
As part of the Duke Graduate School’s Bass Online Apprentice Fellowship program, Ph.D candidates Lok Chan and Ashley Rose Young will participate in an online apprenticeship with the Center for …
Exchange teaching ideas with TeachX
Visiting the classrooms of other faculty, and observing their teaching styles and in-class activities, is a great way to get new ideas for one’s own teaching. But finding classrooms to …
Inaugural Course Design Institute a Success
The CIT Course Design Institute (CDI) provided Duke faculty the opportunity to learn and apply a best-practice approach to designing dynamic, learning-focused courses in any discipline, in a compact 3-day …
Teach So All of Your Students Learn
How do you teach your increasingly diverse students? This post contains links to many ideas and resources for inclusion at Duke.
PechaKucha: A Different Method for Student Presentation and Writing
Recently, I attended the Lilly Conference on Designing Effective Teaching in Asheville, NC. Dr. Richard Straw, Professor of History at Redford University, demonstrated a PechaKucha and discuss how he uses …
Fine tuning think-pair-share
Think-pair-share is one of my favorite active learning activities. It is easy, quick and can give you a good idea of what your students are thinking. As an instructor, you …
Considerations When Teaching Across Continents
Many Duke courses offered to global learners involve learners and instructors located both on-campus at Duke and around the world. However, simply putting learning materials online and having web/video conferencing …
Research on Active Learning at Duke
Our paper is out! “Cooperative learning in organic chemistry increases student assessment of learning gains in key transferable skills” by Dorian A. Canelas, Jennifer L. Hill and Andrea Novicki (me!) …