Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Duke now subscribes to the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching! You can easily access full text of the journal from on campus or off — from the Duke Libraries …
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke discuss “Race Matters”
David Asai, Undergraduate Science Education Program Director at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will talk about “Race Matters” at Duke, as part of an HHMI funded project, COMPASS, which will provide both faculty and students with support to teach and learn in diverse ways that work for different groups of students, particularly in the early STEM classes. This talk is on January 16, 3:30 pm in Biological Sciences 111.
Team-Based Learning Update for 2015
Here are a few Team-Based Learning (TBL) resources and ideas for the New Year. This post links to a summary of TBL, a book about implementing TBL, the annual conference, and some ideas from the TBL listserv about simultaneous reporting and peer evaluation.
Students in Duke’s Data Analysis and Statistical Inference MOOC
The Data Analysis and Statistical Inference Coursera MOOC is huge! There are over 85,000 students in the class from all over the world. The majority of people are participating in the course because it teaches useful skills. Read more to learn why students take the course, how the course design and resources help students learn, and read many student reactions.
Using Online Discussions to Encourage Critical Thinking
How can online discussions be used as a springboard for high level conversations among students in your class? One key is providing good prompts for discussion. Drs. Christine Harrington and …
How Biomedical Engineering Students Learn Statistics
Faculty in Duke’s Biomedical Engineering Department agreed that students needed to apply statistics to biomedical engineering problems throughout the curriculum. A faculty committee identified the relevant statistics topics and mapped them to BME courses. Teaching statistics in BME courses is supported by a BME online statistics source created by Steve Wallace and BME students.
Dr. Beratan’s Special Topics in Chemistry at Duke, Pittsburgh and CMU
Dr. David Beratan teaches a graduate-level Chemistry to 9 Duke students, plus about a dozen students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, via WebEx. Read a description of the course, and his impressions of the course and the technology.
Teaching IDEAS: Effective Use of Clickers
The Duke Graduate School is sponsoring a workshop on the Effective Use of Clickers by Dr Stephanie V. Chasteen, Science Education Consultant and Outreach Director, Science Education Initiative at the …
September 28 Team-Based Learning Workshop in Atlanta
Improve your teaching or learn how to effectively use Team-Based Learning™ (TBL) on Saturday, September 28, 2013, at the Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel in Atlanta GA.
Experts in TBL will offer an all day session with 2 workshops.
Summer Statistics at Duke – Online, Flipped and Synchronous!
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel taught Statistics 104: Data Analysis and Statistical Inference as an online summer course for credit to seven Duke students. Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel and all of the students met daily for 90 minutes using WebEx, Duke’s online conferencing service. Read more to find out how it went.