Using Online Discussions to Encourage Critical Thinking
How can online discussions be used as a springboard for high level conversations among students in your class? One key is providing good prompts for discussion. Drs. Christine Harrington and …
Lessons from the Great Recession (the Class)
Guest post by Nicholas Carnes, Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy and 2011-2012 CIT-TWP Research with Writing Faculty Fellow. This post is part of a series by the CIT-TWP …
Blogging in the undergraduate science classroom
At ScienceOnline2012 a roundtable discussion of “best practices” for incorporating blogs into undergraduate course traded ideas for scaffolding student blog contributions, helping students with technology, addressing privacy and “trolls” and grading.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the objectives
Justin Wright participated in the CIT Biology Faculty Fellowship over this past year to design and prepare to teach Bio 112, Ecology for a Small Planet. He described what he learned from other faculty in the fellowship, and how this will inform his teaching.
How technology is changing learning at Duke
A recent Cisco-produced video includes several short interviews with Duke administrators, faculty and students as they discuss how learning is changing at Duke.
Using Flip Cameras to Create Video Diaries in Italian 1
Emily Sposeto, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies
Emily Sposeto was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in exploring with colleagues the most effective and most efficient ways to increase students’ oral production […]
Closing the gender gap in science in 1 easy step
Two 15-minute writing exercises close the typical gender gap in university-level physics. Read about the carefully-designed study published in Science.
Planning student video assignments
As we approach the end of the semester, you’re probably thinking about your spring courses. If you’re planning on having students complete a video based assignment in your course, or if you’re wondering if a student video assignment would help you reach some of your course learning goals, there are many resources at Duke for […]
iPads as a tool for media comparison
Satendra Khanna, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Project description:
Satendra (Satti) Khanna is teaching a small Hindi course in Fall 2010 that is using a contemporary Hindi version of the Mahabharata epic as the principal course text. Khanna is interested in students comparing three versions of the […]
Learning and Memory in Wikipedia by Duke students
Dr. Craig Roberts (Visiting Instructor, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) is always looking for new ways to enable students to express their ideas. He finds that students benefit from interacting with the world outside the classroom, and Wikipedia enables them to do both.