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Exploring Second Life for language learning

Giuliana Perco, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies – Italian Project Description: Giuliana Perco is using Second Life to explore new ways for her Intermediate Italian students to engage with Italian …

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Back to the future: Using former students to help develop new curricula

Robert Duvall, Lecturer, Computer Science Project Description: Professor Duvall is redesigning his computer science course (CompSci 108 Software Design and Implementation) with the help of course alumni who are now …

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Camtasia and Blackboard: Distributing library instruction to multiple general chemistry lab sections

Melinda Box, Instructor, Chemistry Project Description: Melinda Box and Anne Langley (Chemistry Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry) are working together to instruct chemistry students how to effectively find chemistry …

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The Virtual Duke Oil Field: Using GPS to Teach Introductory Earth Science Students about Oil Exploration

Alex Glass, Instructor, Nicholas School of the Environment Project Description: Alex Glass teaches Dynamic Earth, a large lecture course with more than 120 students.  He wanted his students to experience …

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Interactive Nursing Education Using Second Life as the 3-D Environment

Constance Johnson, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing Project description The purpose of this project is to establish and pilot a Second Life (SL) learning environment for faculty and students in …

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Smartphones for Service-Learning

Lucy Haagen, Lecturer, Program in Education Project Background In Spring 2008, Lucy Haagen, Visiting Lecturer in the Program in Education, used mobile phones to develop learning communities connecting Duke students with …

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The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects

Alexandra Cooper, Associate Director, Education and Training, Social Science Research Institute Lorna Hicks, Associate Director, Office of Research Support Project Description: As Duke works to ensure that its students develop …

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Mobile technologies to build evidence and knowledge for health care information systems’ contributions to patient care

Linda Goodwin, Associate Professor, School of Nursing Project description This project will provide geographically dispersed online Duke nursing informatics graduate students with collaborative tools that will help them acquire, critique, …

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Increasing science literacy through participation in scientific research: Using citizen scientists to monitor the spread of invasive plant species

Julie A. Reynolds, Mellon Instructor in Writing and Biology Project summary Julie has found that students with very little prior knowledge of science can participate in authentic scientific research, can …

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Learning Science with Team-Based Learning and a Tablet PC

Alyssa Perz-Edwards, Lecturing Fellow, Department of Biology Project Description: Alyssa Perz-Edwards uses her class time in Cell Biology to work with students on critical thinking and problem solving skills, while …

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