Upcoming Events

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

Sharing Your Experiences with Inclusive and Equitable Teaching

Tuesday, August 23, 11 am - 12 pm

Learning Innovation invites the Duke community to discuss their approaches to inclusive and equitable teaching. How are you altering your syllabi, teaching, assessments to include all students? What has worked well for you in your classes? Join us for this one hour discussion with your Duke faculty colleagues. Bring your ideas, questions, or just be prepared to learn from others.

Book Talk Series: Academic Innovation for the Public Good
Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring

Wednesday, August 24, 7 - 8 pm

Marybeth Gasman's book Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring documents the institutional forces stymieing faculty diversification and explores how such deficiencies can be rectified.

Organized by Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College-Hartford and co-sponsored by Duke Learning Innovation.

Get Started with Ed Discussion

Friday, August 26, 10 am (Register) AND
Thursday, September 8, 10 am (Register)

Instructors are using Ed Discussion for class Q&A with great success. Users have found it saves considerable time for teaching staff and reduces emails while also increasing student engagement and peer learning. Ed Discussion is a quick and easy drop in for class Q&A with superior functionality and usability. The pros:

Less direct emails being sent to staff
Fewer duplicate questions being asked
Students often answer each other's questions
Questions can reach and benefit the whole class
Students like the modern user interface and excellent usability
Higher quality questions and less back and forth with thread templates
Easier to express ideas with equations, runnable code, annotations, and more

In this workshop, you will learn:

How to save time and reduce student emails by leveraging the class Q&A
How to post an icebreaker thread to encourage and engage students from week 1
How to set up course categories and subcategories to keep questions organized and searchable

Panel Discussion: Inclusive Assessment in Quantitative Courses

Monday, September 12, 2 - 3 pm (Register) AND
Monday, September 19, 10:30 - 11:30 am (Register)
IN-PERSON at The Edge Workshop Room (Bostock 127)

In these sessions, three faculty who participated in a faculty learning community focused on inclusive assessment will discuss their experiences in modifying their assessment practices and how their experiences last year are informing their assessment practices going forward. Each panel will have different faculty presenting, so you are welcome to register for both sessions.

Training Opportunities from Learning Technology Vendors

Many of the vendors of popular learning technologies used at Duke provide free, online workshops and webinars to help you either get started using their tool or learn more advanced techniques and applications.

Gradescope

Gradescope is a Duke-supported tool that helps you seamlessly administer, collect and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class. They have a series of Getting Started with Gradescope workshops that are designed for any course as well as discipline-specific options.

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is is a tool that lets you collaboratively annotate and discuss webpages and documents. The vendor is hosting 30-minute workshops on the following topics (all at 1 pm EDT):

Using multimedia & tags in annotations (Aug 30)
Using Hypothesis with small groups (Sept 6)
Creative ways to use social annotation in your course (Sept 13)
Show-and-tell (Oct 4)

PlayPosit

PlayPosit is an online learning environment that allows users to create and share interactive video lessons, including embedded questions, images, audio, and other media elements. They have a variety of upcoming webinars covering features including interactive bulbs, broadcast and branched learning.

Zoom

Upcoming live training opportunities from Zoom include Getting Started with Zoom Chat (Aug 18 & 25), Zoom Phone User Training (Aug 22), Zoom Whiteboard (Aug 25), and the chance to ask your own questions during their "Ask Us Anything!" session on Sept 1. Zoom also maintains a catalog of on-demand recordings (at the bottom of the live trainings page) if you are interested in a different topic.

We also feature teaching and learning events from other Duke units and external vendors on our full calendar.