Tips to Help You Smoothly Wrap Up the Fall Semester
While final examinations do not begin until November 20, preparing now to wrap up your courses will streamline the process for both you and your students. While the Fall semester …
Using Zoom to Teach Online
Learning to use a web conferencing tool is an essential skill for today’s instructor. Read recommendations for using Zoom to teach online.
TechBasics: Video Conferencing
Video conferencing offers some exciting possibilities for instructors who want to connect their classroom with the world beyond Duke’s campus. Perhaps you’d like to invite outside researchers or guests to speak to your students. Or you’d like to teach your own course from a conference hotel room. Video conferencing can help you go both. If you plan to use a video conferencing software, here are some best practices to consider.
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 …
Duke Teaching and Learning Slack Community
The Duke Teaching and Learning Slack community is the online gathering place for Duke University faculty and staff interested in sharing news, knowledge, challenges and ideas about teaching and learning …
How to Make Engaging PowerPoint Slides for Teaching
Most of us have heard that we should not use slides that contain long bullet points of text, but what does a good slide look like? Research on this topic has found …
Engage Your Learners with VoiceThread
VoiceThread offers students an effective way to create and share multimedia conversations, and has practical application in teaching writing and foreign languages.
MOOC Design Lessons From The Trenches
Duke University and its faculty have taken the initiative to explore the potential of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) across a wide range of course topics. While supporting the faculty …
“That’s Awesome!” – Engaging Audiences for Your Organization
What It’s About? Content Strategy for Professionals 1: Engaging Audiences for Your Organizations by Northwestern University is a MOOC course that is part of the Content Strategy for Professionals in …
Teaching Tips: Engaging Learners with Online Communication Tools
At Duke, faculty use online communication tools in their teaching to encourage group work online, hold class discussion, foster student-student interaction, and build online community. Below is a list of …