Introverts Can Thrive with Group Work
Cooperative group work helps students learn, but some question “what about the introverts?” This post describes 5 activities and 6 characteristics of group activities that help everyone learn.
Box: Collaboration at Duke Gets a Facelift
Collaboration across campus for students, courses, and staff just got easier thanks to cloud storage accounts in Duke’s Box. Users are able to upload up to 50 GB of data to access from any computer, however this new service is much more than a place to save files.
Checking in on the Flipped Classroom Fellows
The Center for Instructional Technology’s Flipped Classroom Fellowship kicked off on October 11th with twelve faculty from a wide range of disciplines, from Chemistry and Physics to Public Policy, Literature …
Join us for Teams for Learning @ Duke
Join other Duke faculty who are either interested in or actively implementing team-based learning at Duke, for this first, multidisciplinary Teams for Learning @ Duke workshop. Learn why educators at Duke …
Essays on teaching excellence
The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network, a national organization focused on faculty and TA development, recently made Volume 21 of their Teaching Excellence Essay series available online. Volume 21 consists of eight short and succinct scholarly essays that present innovative viewpoints on college and university instruction. Below are links to this year’s essays, […]
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.
Bb Tip: Give student groups private spaces to work in Blackboard
Blackboard’s Groups feature allows instructors to provide a group of students with their own set of communication tools that only the group members can access. A group of students collaborating …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Student website projects
Amaryllis Rodriguez Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies Blackboard wikis (websites which allow collaborative editing) are a convenient means for students to create websites as course projects. Amaryllis Rodriguez had students in …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Collaborative writing
Cary Moskovitz Director, Writing in the Disciplines, Thompson Writing Program An essential part of Cary Moskovitz’s Writing 20 courses is collaborative writing, encouraging students to work together to improve their …