Making the Most of Assigned Readings
Assigned readings are an integral part of most any college class. But, it can be difficult to get students to do the assigned readings and use them in the course. …
Getting Started with Student Podcast Assignments
Podcasts are a series of audio only programs. Most are released on a regular basis – every day, every week or a couple of times each month – and can …
Explore Virtual Reality for Higher Education
You are invited to three events in January here at Duke that will explore the use of virtual reality in teaching. Be sure to register ahead of time if requested. …
Including Participation in Student Grades
How can student participation be given a numeric score fairly and accurately? Dr. Elizabeth Bucholz, Instructor in Biomedical Engineering, has asked students to self-assess their participation, three times during the semester. Read more about how it worked.
TEAMMATES: A Tool for Student Peer Evaluations
To facilitate effective teamwork, student peers can provide feedback to each other on their performance as team members. Managing the feedback from each student to the other students in the team can be extremely time-consuming for the instructor. The online system TEAMMATES is easy to use, and facilitates anonymous (or not) feedback between students working in teams.
Active Learning Fellows: Minna Ng on Her Student Teams
During the summer and fall of 2015, the CIT led the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship. Nine faculty from a variety of disciplines shared experiences and learned about using active learning …
Teaching from 32,000 feet
Dr. Craig Roberts is unstoppable. When a flight delay prevented him from reaching his class in person, he fired up his arsenal of technology and ran the class from his airline seat.
Calling on Students by Name in a Large Class
Dr. Canelas clearly enjoys her students and teaching. So how and why would she put her students on the spot by calling on them at random to answer questions in …
Flipped classrooms at Duke: Chemistry 201 Spring 2015
What does a flipped classroom look like? In Professors Amanda Hargrove and Dorian Canelas’s Organic Chemistry course, 143 students entered Gross Hall 107 and settled into small groups. They read …
Kahoot! as Formative Assessment
How could the colorful, goofy game that kept Duke TIP middle schoolers from rioting also be a useful tool in the undergraduate classroom? Beneath the asymmetrical font is immediate feedback …