January 2020 - Welcome Back!
Learning Innovation helps Duke faculty and instructors develop their teaching and pedagogy skills by providing consulting, workshops and other teaching-related events, faculty learning communities, help with online teaching, educational research and development support, and grant funding. Check out some of our Spring 2020 opportunities!
 
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

Explore Duke's Unique Teaching Spaces

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. Register for one or more of the upcoming sessions:


January 23: Rubenstein Library
February 13: Nasher Museum of Art
March 5: The TEC 3D Printer Lab
March 19: The Rubenstein Arts Center
March 26: The Game Lab
April 23: Duke Gardens

More Events

Update your Kit: Moving from Toolkits to Kits
Monday, January 13

5 Active Learning Techniques in 50 Minutes
Thursday, January 16

Grade Faster and Easier with Gradescope
Thursday, January 30



BRITE Ideas Teaching and Research Series
Wednesday, February 5

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

Learning Innovation Office Hours
Wednesdays and Thursdays

Highlights from the Blog and Around Duke

Meet the Inaugural Cohort of Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows

 
Launched this fall, the Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program supports faculty interested in designing courses in which student learning is driven by collaborative research on applied projects that extend across an entire semester.

Register by January 12 for Duke's Global Game Jam!

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


Join the Teaching Collaborative This Spring

  The Teaching Collaborative is a new weekly workshop and discussion series at Duke focused on pedagogy topics frequently requested by faculty. The sessions are intended to build a community of practitioners at Duke, who learn together and learn from each other, to spread knowledge of teaching best practices.
 

Sign Up for Spring 2020 Teaching Tools Pilots

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

Fun With Formative Assessment Technology

Want to find out what during class what your students know and can do instead of waiting until the next exam?  Using online tools allows you to get immediate results.

Insights on Developing a “Level-Up” on Computational Methods for Duke Undergraduates

In this post, Jon Holt, Bass Digital Education Fellow, and Heather Hans, the Learning Experience Designer who is overseeing the project, share project goals and future plans.

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.”

New Testing Center to Help Students Needing Accommodations

The Duke Testing Center, which will open officially in January, is located at 041 Trent Hall.

What We're Reading

Implementing Active Learning and Student-Centered Pedagogy in Large Classes
(Faculty Focus)

As More Colleges Experiment with Online Remediation, Some Students Flourish While Many Others Fall Behind
(Chalkbeat)

A Decade of Transformative Teaching
(Duke Today)

Combating the Forgetting Curve
(Faculty Focus)

Making the First Day Matter
(Cate Denial)

The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
(Harvard Business Review)

Professors from Low-Income First-Generation Backgrounds are Ready to Help Duke Students
(Duke Chronicle)

Course Design: Aligning Learning Expectations, Instruction, and Assessment
(Faculty Focus)
 
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