Canvas Site Spotlight: Thomas Nechyba’s Econ 101 Course
At the end of Fall 2023, we asked students to share the names of any instructors they thought had used Canvas particularly well. We were thrilled to see dozens of …
Summit Reflection: Grading, Gamification, and the “Game” of School
In early October, LILE hosted the inaugural Emerging Pedagogies Summit for Duke faculty and staff invested in teaching and learning. The Summit’s goal was to promote ongoing conversations about the future of …
Caio Yurgel – Seven Weeks of Fiction, Global Mindedness, and Tarot – Exploring Emotion’s Role in Long-lasting Learning
A DKU student and CTL student partner, Sebastián Portilla (Class of 2025), took Professor Caio Yurgel’s 7-week ”The Art of Interpretation” course and wrote about his professor. This teaching story recognizes Prof. Yurgel’s cathartic and humanist instruction, evoking memorable personal experiences that translate into genuine education.
Include Small Group Instructional Feedback In Your Fall Course Plans
While end-of-semester student evaluations can help instructors determine what changes they might need to make for future iterations of a course, they do not do much to ensure the current …
Role-play Debate: Wear a Different Hat and Encounter New Challenges
Dr. Hyun Jeong Ha, Duke Kunshan professor designed a role-play debate activity to teach students sociological thinking skills in her Contemporary Social Problems class. The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at DKU interviewed her and her students to share what CTL has learned here.
Rex: Real EXperiments for the Virtual Classroom
Virtual lab experiments are an important component of science courses that are taught in hybrid or remote formats. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Learning Innovation has seen an …