Handling Extended Student Absences
For the Fall 2021 semester, if any of your students need to miss several consecutive days of your class due to isolating with COVID-19 or any other reason, you are …
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 …
Carry the Innovation Forward Recipients Announced
In February we announced Carry the Innovation Forward, a program focused on sustaining and expanding the learning innovations that arose at Duke during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21. We invited Duke …
Using the Virtual Environment as a Public Policy Learning Experiment
In March of 2020, Duke University transitioned to emergency remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020-21 academic year at Duke required instructors to adapt their courses to be …
Read the Duke Learning Innovation 2020 Impact Report
Normally we release an annual report over the summer summarizing our accomplishments of the previous academic year. The past year has been anything but normal. After a spring dedicated to …
Faculty Share Their Best Ideas for Hybrid and Remote Teaching
To curate best practices for remote and hybrid instruction, Learning Innovation facilitated a discussion called Sharing What Works: One Good Idea from Fall 2020 Courses. During the discussion, we invited …
Survival Guide for Leading Discussions Online
Insights into how to teach discussion-based classes during a pandemic.
Lessons Learned From the 2020 Summer Student Survey
Earlier this Fall, the Trinity Office of Assessment conducted a survey with Summer 2020 students about their remote learning experience. Jennifer Hill, Director of Assessment, shared some of the data …
Six things I learned about face-to-face teaching in the time of Covid-19
Dr. Minna Ng is currently teaching 74 first-year students face-to-face across two classes. One class is co-taught with Dr. Karen Murphy (Introduction to Biological Bases of Behavior), and the other …
Lessons from Spring for a Successful Fall
By Blythe Tyrone, Communications Strategist, and Amy Kenyon, Associate Director of Teaching Innovation Feedback from students about how faculty and Duke supported their learning during emergency remote teaching in Spring …