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 …
Using a Throwable Mic in the Classroom
This post was written by Maria Tackett, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science in early 2020 before changes in the classroom experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It …
Duke Students Speak: Reflections on Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Literature and currently enrolled in GS762: Digital Pedagogy, a course developed by the Learning Innovation team and offered as …
What Students Don’t Know About Technology
“My students know more about technology than I do,” is a common statement made by educators. But is it really true? They may have more apps than their professors on …
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 …
PechaKucha: A Different Method for Student Presentation and Writing
Recently, I attended the Lilly Conference on Designing Effective Teaching in Asheville, NC. Dr. Richard Straw, Professor of History at Redford University, demonstrated a PechaKucha and discuss how he uses …
Teaching Strategies for the New Term
CIT has authored a number of quick-reference guides to provide Duke faculty with resources on a range of teaching strategies. As the spring term begins, we hope you will review these short …
Student-centered Learning in a Hybrid History Course
“I ask students to post a photograph of themselves and record their commentary over that image (a common practice in digital presentations of oral histories).” Ashley Rose Young, Ph.D. Candidate …
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
Innovative Teaching in Undergraduate Philosophy: A Bass Online Apprentice Project
“The goal of the project is to create a “one stop” Sakai site that allows students to both engage in self-paced research skills training, and to share the results of this training with others in their class in a media-rich way online.” – Adela Deanova