 | Congratulations Duke friends and colleagues, we have arrived at the end of the semester. We commend the Duke community for accomplishing many incredible feats this Fall, but especially our faculty and instructors for practicing empathy, grace and flexibility throughout this challenging semester. This time of year is for celebration, rest and reflection, so in that spirit we highlight updated sections of our new website. If you haven’t visited lately, be sure to check out the redesigned site at learninginnovation.duke.edu.
Some of the updates include:
- We re-envisioned our service areas into five categories to better represent our work: What We Do.
- Our new Resources page elevates teaching guides and other websites we manage.
- Our Learning Technologies list is now organized by purpose, making it easier for you to see the current available options for accomplishing a goal, such as assessment or video editing.
- We have updated our Year-in-Progress page, where we share what our teams have done this year, what they’re working on now and what they have planned next.
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This is phase one; we have some exciting plans to make our site even more useful. Drop us a line at learninginnovation@duke.edu and let us know what you think.
In recognition of the winter holidays and to provide our staff time to rest before returning for the Spring semester, we will not be hosting office hours or answering emails from Saturday, December 19 through Sunday, January 3. We will return January 4, 2021.
We hope you all have a restful winter break, and we look forward to working with you in the new year.
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| LEARNING TECHNOLOGY UPDATES |
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On December 21st, we will update Sakai to give you access to more features to improve the teaching and learning experience. If you plan to work on your course site over the winter break, please note that Sakai will be temporarily unavailable on December 21 from 11 am - 5 pm EST as we update the platform. Read this blog post to learn more about the new features that will be available after the update. |
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Duke faculty and students will soon have access to Labster virtual lab simulations, bringing sophisticated experiments to the digital classroom. Labster will be fully integrated into Sakai. Sign up to receive Labster updates from Duke Learning Innovation. In the meantime, browse the Labster Faculty Resource site to see what will be available. |
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Next semester, Kits will replace Toolkits. With Kits, you can easily set up and share all the apps you need for your course such as WordPress, Box or Warpwire. In the Kits App Store you can learn about integrated tech tools available for teaching, with guidance on how you might use them. Learn more about Kits. |
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Faculty, students and staff who are sharing content in the classroom or collaborating with others outside of Duke (i.e. with local, out-of-state or international partners) are invited to join the current trial of Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) for Duke. If you are interested, please send a brief description of how you might use Google Workspace and your NetID to gsuiteteam@duke.edu. (Trial Terms & Conditions) |
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ONLINE
TEACHING & LEARNING Did you know that Learning Innovation runs Online Duke, the catalog of Duke’s online courses, programs and learning experiences? We recently updated the search function on our site, so if there is a topic you’d like to explore through online learning, go to Online Duke now to see what’s there for you. In February, we partnered with Coursera to pilot their Coursera Coronavirus Response Initiative at Duke Kunshan University. The success of that pilot led to the Duke 2020 Access program, which provides access to the full Coursera catalog (over 3,800 courses) to all Duke students, faculty and staff. While originally set to expire October 31, Coursera has extended the program. The new deadline for Duke community members to enroll in Coursera courses through the Duke 2020 Access program is now February 28, 2021. Anyone enrolled before February 28 will have access to their enrolled courses through April 30, 2021. Coursera also launched the Teaching Center, a free and open collection of informational resources about online teaching and blended learning developed by both Coursera and their university partners (they included our Flexible Teaching Guide to Course Design, for example). |
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CAREER SERVICE AWARDSSeveral Learning Innovation staff were recognized for their enduring service of five or more years to Duke University at the Duke Libraries’ Career Service Awards. Congratulations to Michael Greene II, Nicholas Janes, Tara Kramling, Heather Valli, and Randy Riddle! We are so lucky to have these dedicated individuals on our team. |
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| TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING BLOG SERIES |
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As part of our mission to promote new approaches to student-centered teaching, we are publishing a series of blog posts written by members of Duke’s Transformative Learning Intellectual Community (TLIC). The TLIC is a group of faculty in the humanities and social sciences whose primary goal is to identify transformative learning moments among Duke students. Through this blog series, they will share what they learn about this approach so that more Duke students can benefit from it. |
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LEARNING INNOVATION IN ACTION Learning Innovation was highlighted as one of Duke’s Dedicated Devils for our work supporting Duke instructors’ transition to emergency remote and flexible teaching since February. Read the story here.The Bass Connections’ annual report details how they partnered with Learning Innovation to launch a Faculty Fellows program to help meet student demand for project-based learning experiences. |
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