Using Podcasts in Your Classroom
Podcasts are a versatile medium that have become more and more a part of the higher education landscape. Your students may encounter podcasts alongside other materials in their reading and …
Save Time Setting Up Your Sakai Site with Templates
Take a lot of the guesswork out of having a well-organized, learner-centered Sakai site by using one of the new course templates. Whether you need a simple, streamlined site for …
Course Design Work Space for Faculty
Many faculty have told us they value working on their courses in a quiet but collegial atmosphere, with the ability to ask questions and get suggestions and consultation when necessary. To …
Copyright and Fair Use in Online Teaching
Duke Learning Innovation partnered with the Office of Copyright & Scholarly Communications and the Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (Duke AHEAD) to offer a Q&A session on …
Apply to the CIT Course Design Institute
Are you preparing to teach a class you have never taught before or redesigning a course and want to be sure your course plan promotes significant, long-term learning? Would you …
Educational Graphics: Five Considerations
Many instructors go beyond text and tables and use graphic elements to illustrate their educational materials. When chosen and applied carefully, graphics can add valuable context and information. When chosen poorly, …
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 …
Best Practices for Online Course Redesign
Planning to redesign your online or hybrid course? The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) recently completed two redesign projects for the Duke School of Nursing: N580: Nurse as Scholar I …
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
Help with Calculus
Students in Duke’s single variable calculus courses now have a site with additional, curated resources tied to the course content to help them learn. Emily Braley (Assistant Professor of the …