Timeless Teaching Tips: Our Top Blog Posts Still Shaping Learning Today
As we begin a new term, our office is reflecting on the history and impact of our blog. This blog has been in operation since 2009, when it was started …
Virtual Conference Open to Duke Community on Transformative Teaching
Duke Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education has purchased an institutional registration for the 17th annual virtual conference “Transforming the Teaching and Learning Environment.” The conference is hosted and organized by …
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.
Artificial Intelligence and Assignment Design
Generative AI Assignments There are both academic and practical reasons you may choose to incorporate generative AI assignments into your course. For example, you may believe that AI will be …
Embracing ChatGPT in the Financial Technology Classroom
ChatGPT has been a topic of great discussion in academia, particularly about how to prevent its use. However, students can benefit from understanding how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to save time and improve performance on writing assignments.
Some Thoughts on AI, Plagiarism and Student Assessment
There’s a great deal of discussion among faculty in higher education about ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Faculty are concerned about students using this technology to generate essays …
Encouraging Student Creativity
On November 7, 2022, the Duke Office of Assessment hosted a panel discussion on Nurturing Creativity in Undergraduate Education. Hosted by the Director of the Office of Assessment, Jennifer Hill, …
What is Ungrading?
Ungrading seems to be growing in popularity: there are hundreds of Tweets with the #ungrading hashtag, dozens of articles about ungrading and other alternative assessment practices regularly published in major …
Considering Equity in Grading in Computer Science
Dr. Kristin Stephens-Martinez teaches Computer Science 216, Everything Data; this large course introduces over 200 students to working with data – both fundamental concepts and computational tools – and finishes with a capstone …