January 2024

We are excited for another semester of teaching and learning with you. To help kickstart your Spring semester, we have collected some of our most popular and timely resources for your convenience:

*Some schools and programs, such as The Divinity School and select School of Nursing programs, have elected to wait to adopt Canvas until Summer 2024. Additionally, if you are teaching at the School of Medicine or Fuqua, you should continue to use their respective instances of Canvas for those courses.

The Emerging Pedagogies Seed Grants and Faculty Fellowships will support Duke faculty engaging in applied research and knowledge building around emerging pedagogies with seed grants and professional learning communities up to $10,000 each. Questions about the call or application process? E-mail us at [email protected], or drop into our online CFP open office hours on Friday, January 5 from 11 am to 12 pm EST on Zoom.

The Climate and Sustainability Teaching (CAST) Fellows Program, run in partnership with the Office of Climate and Sustainability, is open for applications. The CAST Fellows program provides support and a peer learning community dedicated to increasing the prevalence and quality of climate and sustainability concepts in academic courses across all departments.

The Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program provides support and a peer learning community for faculty who are interested in designing Collaborative Project Courses – courses in which student learning is driven by collaborative engagement with applied projects that extend across an entire semester.

For faculty who wish to reflect on successes and identify specific areas for improvement in their courses, Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF) is a formative, mid-course check-in used for gathering feedback from students on their learning experience.

The SGIF process is used to receive anonymous feedback about the students’ learning experience, which is particularly useful if the instructor is teaching a course for the first time, teaching a revised course, or implementing a new pedagogical practice or learning technology. We typically run SGIF sessions in March, and have limited availability so contact us today if you are interested in having one of our teaching consultants conduct the SGIF process for one of your courses.

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

Designing Your Canvas Site for Student Success

Thursday, January 4 | 12 - 1:30 pm

This workshop is strongly recommended for all instructors using Canvas this Spring. This session will focus on the core of Canvas – the Modules tool – and how to use it and several other key Canvas tools to best organize your site to support student success. Instruction is expected to last about 60 minutes, with the remaining time available for questions. Register Now >

Emerging Pedagogies Funding CFP - Open Office Hours

Friday, January 5 | 11 am - 12 pm

Drop in to get answers as you prepare your application for our current Call for Proposals for Emerging Pedagogies Seed Grants and Community Fellows program. No need to register; just visit this Zoom link during the posted time.

Assessing Student Learning in Canvas

Friday, January 5 | 12 - 1:30 pm

This session will cover assessing student learning in Canvas using quizzes, graded discussions, assignment submissions, and the gradebook. Instruction is expected to last 75-90 minutes; any remaining time will be available for questions. Register Now >

Accessibility in Canvas

Tuesday, January 9 | 12 - 1 pm

This workshop will cover the principles of accessibility and how to apply them when designing your course sites in Canvas. We will also review tools within Canvas you can use to improve the accessibility of your course. Instruction is expected to last 45 minutes and the remaining time will be available for questions. Register Now >

Create Your Own Custom Virtual Tours: STQRY Demo

Tuesday, January 16 | 11 am - 12 pm

Interested in a way to direct students on a custom tour of historical locations anywhere in the world? Stqry, Duke’s interactive geo-located tour application (formerly MyTours), is available at no cost to anyone with a Duke NetID and allows you to quickly and easily create custom virtual tours. Duke OIT is offering a vendor-led overview of the Stqry platform that will provide:

No registration is needed; simply click this Zoom link to join the session when it starts.

Free Virtual Conference: Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment

February 5 - 16

The 16th annual Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment virtual conference will be held February 5-16, 2024. Over the course of ten weekdays, 60 one-hour sessions will be delivered using Zoom; see the schedule of events here. Each one will be live and interactive, and topics will range from gamification to mobile learning to flipped classroom to emerging technologies and many more.

Learning Innovation has purchased institutional access so that all Duke faculty and staff may "attend" this virtual conference; contact us to receive information on how to access the event.

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