A Learner-Centered Approach to Design an Online Food History Course
As a Bass Online Apprentice (Bass OA) this fall Ashley Rose Young has the opportunity to design an engaging online course that aligns with her research on American food history. …
Reflections On Teaching Shared with New Duke Faculty
Learning Innovation invited instructors new to teaching at Duke to hear from experienced faculty as they shared their teaching tips, ideas and lessons learned. “What I Wish I Had Known …
Active-Learning Fellows: Revamping a Graduate-level Dendrology Course
During the summer and fall of 2017, the Center for Instructional Technology led the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship. Thirteen faculty from a variety of disciplines shared experiences and learned about using active learning …
Engage Students with Online Collaboration Tools
Are you an instructor looking for teaching strategies to create an engaging learning experience for your students? Lok Chan, Bass online apprentice with the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) explored …
Videoconferencing One’s Way to Better Spanish
Professor Lisa Merschel received a CIT Jump-Start grant to purchase 15 Boomalang licenses for her intermediate Spanish class (Spanish 203) in Spring 2017. Merschel is a Senior Lecturer in the …
Apply for the CIT Active Learning Faculty Fellowship – Summer-Fall 2017
Dates: May 2017 – December 2017 Deadline for Applications: Friday, April 21, 2017 Applicants notified: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Applications are now being accepted for the CIT’s Active Learning Faculty Fellowship, running from …
How to Make Engaging PowerPoint Slides for Teaching
Most of us have heard that we should not use slides that contain long bullet points of text, but what does a good slide look like? Research on this topic has found …
Globalizing an Online Nursing Course at Duke
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) partnered with the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) to redesign and implement a cross-cultural perspective to N502: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, a …
Best Practices for Online Course Redesign
Planning to redesign your online or hybrid course? The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) recently completed two redesign projects for the Duke School of Nursing: N580: Nurse as Scholar I …
Teaching with VoiceThread in the Hindi Classroom
“For intermediate Hindi students, I use VoiceThread to tell a story. I show students a picture and one person starts the story and then they take turns adding events to create a full story. This is a very good way to practice speaking.” Kusum Knapczyk, Ph.D