CIT worked closely with over 34 faculty from varied disciplines in the past 3 years through our Faculty Fellowships. Focused on active learning and flipped classrooms, CIT helped faculty re-design their courses to include flipped classroom components and active learning, facilitated discussions of teaching across disciplinary boundaries, and forged connections with and between faculty devoted to good educational practices. We also organized classroom visits between faculty to observe active learning in different disciplines in actual classroom settings.
This year, we decided to evaluate the effectiveness of our most recent Fellowships to gain a better understanding of the actual impacts on teaching and learning at Duke. The report below uses data collected from three recent CIT Faculty Fellowships to answer two questions:
- Do fellowship participants change how they teach?
- Does the fellowship program have an impact on teaching and learning at Duke beyond the individuals who participate in the Fellowships?
We find that the answer to both of these questions is “yes.” People who participate in CIT Fellowships significantly change how they teach their classes, positively impacting thousands of students at Duke. We also find that the Fellowships create positive impacts on how other people at Duke teach. This happens because fellowship participants mentor other faculty members and become advocates for promoting teaching excellence across the university.
View or download the full report below