While members of the Duke community demonstrated adaptability and empathy during 2020, the challenges and stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively affected the well-being of instructors, students and staff at …
During the first two weeks of December, Learning Innovation hosted the first three workshops of our Winter Course Design series. Focusing on crafting good learning objectives, developing student-centered assessment and …
The Computational Methods modules (Sakai site shown here) help students get up to speed on programming skills needed for their engineering coursework. This is a guest blog post by Jonathan …
Program dates: May 18 – 20, 2020; Application deadline: Friday, March 6, 2020; Applicants notified: Monday, March 16, 2020. Applications are now open for the Duke Learning Innovation Course Design …
Duke Learning Innovation recently welcomed 19 faculty to the Course Design Institute (CDI), a three-day program consisting of interactive seminars, discussions, and presentations, where faculty learned and applied a best-practice …
This spring, Duke Learning Innovation has two great opportunities for Duke faculty to create a course that inspires students to learn and engage with a subject: the Course Design Institute …
Duke Learning Innovation’s mission is to help Duke students learn more, and enable more people to learn from Duke. We invite anyone at Duke—faculty, staff, students, researchers— to join us …
Program dates: May 20-22, 2019 Application deadline: Friday, March 8, 2019 Applicants notified: Monday, March 18, 2019 Applications are now open for Duke’s 2019 Course Design Institute (CDI). The purpose of …
When redesigning a course or putting together a new course, faculty often struggle with how much homework and readings to assign. Too little homework and students might not be prepared …
I teach an advanced level course in photochemistry, primarily designed for students whose research involves physical chemistry. The concepts are abstract and difficult, despite the importance for understanding the many light-related phenomena in modern chemistry research and in technologies that impact society.
