February 2020
In this Spring 2020 event series, find out about spaces outside the traditional classroom that you can reserve for class meetings, and which can offer your students opportunities for deep research and engagement.
 
Calls for Applications

This Fellowship will help faculty deepen learning and increase student motivation for all students in their classrooms by using active learning techniques proven successful at Duke and elsewhere. Participants will share teaching experiences within a small faculty cohort and practice with ideas from the pedagogical literature.  Application Deadline: March 6th.
 

New to teaching? Teaching a new course? Want to rethink how you're teaching an existing course? This 3-day intensive program will help you design dynamic, learning-focused courses in any discipline.  Application Deadline: March 6th.
 
Upcoming Events

Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching


Join Learning Innovation and Dr. Derek Bruff for a discussion of better approaches to guide the use of educational technology in teaching.

Thursday, February 27
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Perkins Library, Room 217

 

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More Events

BRITE Ideas Teaching and Research Series: "Is Example Generation an Effective Learning Technique?"
Wednesday, February 5

Introduction to Qualtrics for Teaching: Creating Student Surveys and Collecting Feedback
Thursday, February 6

Update Your Kit: Moving from Toolkits to Kits
Wednesday, February 12

 



Duke's Unique Teaching Spaces: Nasher Museum of Art
Thursday, February 13

Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions
Thursday, February 20

Learning Innovation Office Hours
Wednesdays and Thursdays

Highlights from the Blog and Around Duke

Register for the Spring BRITE Ideas Series

 
Learning Innovation invites the Duke community to join us for BRITE Ideas, a discussion group to share and develop research on teaching and learning. 

Free Access to Virtual Conference: Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment

Duke Learning Innovation has purchased an institutional registration for the 11th annual virtual conference “Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment,” held from from Monday, February 3 through Friday, February 14, 2020. 

Duke's Writing in the Disciplines Workshops for Spring 2020

The Thompson Writing Program‘s Writing in the Disciplines program has announced their schedule of Spring 2020 workshops for Duke faculty.

Trying Out Team Based Learning In My Class

Guest blog post by Kateri Salk, Visiting Assistant Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, and Duke Learning Innovation Active Learning Fellow.

Duke Faculty: Try out New Teaching Tools

During the Spring 2020 semester, Learning Innovation is piloting several teaching tools for Duke faculty.

Successful Launch for Duke's First-Ever Global Game Jam 

The event is a 48-hour game development challenge where teams create a digital or analog game based on a shared secret theme release.

Edgar Virguez Receives Prestigious Future Leaders Award

The Learning Innovation Bass Digital Education Fellow was recently honored with the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

What We're Reading

Using Interviews to Assess and Mentor Students
(Faculty Focus)

A Crystal Ball for the Decade Ahead
(Duke Today)

Drop the Chalk
(Science)

Duke Students: Talk to your Professors
(Duke Chronicle)

Organic Online Discussions: Saving Time and Increasing Engagement
(Faculty Focus)

Reading Textbooks: The College Plague
(Faculty Focus)
 
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