October 2023

Sanjay Sarma’s opening keynote is open to all and will inspire attendees about the exciting possibilities emerging in teaching and learning right now. Sanjay is the CEO, President and Dean of the Asia School of Business, as well as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Learn more about Sanjay.

To capture a full picture of an instructor’s teaching abilities, it takes more than end-of-semester student evaluations. Peer observations can shed light on the quality of interactions between the students and the instructor. Peers can provide formative feedback with an eye toward improving instruction. Self-reflection through journaling, a teaching statement and the development of a teaching portfolio is the third pillar of teaching evaluation. Learn more about best practices for teaching observations >>>

Wooclap Pilot

Wooclap is a polling platform that helps instructors boost engagement in class and to measure student understanding through interactive questionnaires, multimedia, whiteboards, and other collaborative activities. It is integrated with Canvas. Learn more >>>

UDOIT Advantage

UDOIT Advantage scans your Canvas courses, identifies issues, and provides guidance to improve accessibility with ease – and Duke provides this service for free to all faculty staff. Learn more >>>

All events are virtual and in Eastern time unless otherwise noted.

From the Sanford School of Public Policy

At work, the demands of email and Slack are constant, while at home the many appealing apps on our phones continue their diversionary onslaught. In this talk, Georgetown computer science professor and bestselling author Cal Newport will examine the critical collisions of technology and society that led us into this current Age of Distraction. He will then leverage this nuanced understanding of how new tools upended our relationship with our own attention to explore the types of solutions that work. 

This workshop is for faculty interested in strengthening and developing skills teaching computation, data analysis, visualization, modeling, and programming using the MATLAB platform. Hosted by Evan Cosgrove, Ph.D., Education Application Engineer for MATLAB.

During this training, we will give a general demo of the platform while sharing concrete use cases of our interactive questions. In this training, you will discover different types of interactive questions to engage your audience and tips and settings to fit your pedagogical needs.

Are you interested in making your course more accessible and easy to use - particularly to accommodate students with disabilities? UDOIT Advantage scans your Canvas courses, identifies issues, and provides guidance to improve accessibility with ease – and Duke provides this service for free to all faculty staff. Join Cidi Labs and Duke Learning Innovation to learn how to use UDOIT to fix accessibility issues in your Canvas Content and Files.

This series of workshops will be offered multiple times throughout the semester.

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The Office of Climate and Sustainability will be hosting breakfast to encourage networking and sharing ideas between faculty and staff who are engaged with climate and sustainability work and teaching across campus. 

Learning Innovation is experiencing an exciting period of growth - join us as we gear up to make Duke a powerhouse for lifelong learning! Additional information about all roles is available at learninginnovation.duke.edu/hiring

The Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Applied Research oversees the organization’s faculty development, research, evaluation, and learning analytics work and plays a critical role in efforts to continuously improve teaching and learning practices, understand impact, and inform systems change. 

The Lifetime Learning Technology Analyst is part of our team supporting the technology infrastructure to operate and grow Duke’s digital education initiatives. The analyst assists program leadership and staff find innovative and effective ways to achieve their goals by providing technology consulting and advice, training, and support.

Bass Connections is now seeking proposals for year-long, team-based research projects that engage faculty, undergraduates, and graduate/professional students in the interdisciplinary exploration of complex societal challenges. Please see the project proposal guidelines. 

Postdocs, graduate/professional students, and trainees/fellows may also propose projects, but all projects must have at least one faculty leader. Teams may also apply to link a Data+ project for summer 2024 with a Bass Connections project through the same submission process.

For questions, or to discuss project ideas, please contact director Laura Howes, a theme leader, or drop into one of the upcoming Bass Connections RFP office hours (duke.zoom.us/j/6666010362) on Monday, October 16 from 1 - 2 pm or Wednesday, November 1 from 1 - 2 pm.

In the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education's latest newsletter, IACEE Pulse, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications Hilary Culbertson and former Associate Vice Provost Shawn Miller drafted a Concise Overview of the Changing Learning Innovation and Lifelong Learning Landscape since the Pandemic >>>