Overview
- Dates: May 2015 – December 2015
The purpose of this Fellowship was to help faculty achieve greater student learning and deeper engagement with course material by using active learning and flipped classroom techniques proven successful at Duke and elsewhere. Participants shared teaching experiences with other faculty and practice with ideas from the pedagogical literature to help them redesign activities in a Fall 2015 or Spring 2016 course.
Participants
CIT consultants Andrea Novicki, Randy A. Riddle and Seth Anderson supported the Fellowship. Faculty Fellows participating in the program were:
- Elizabeth Bucholz, Biomedical Engineering
- Tanya Duncan, Biology
- Jeffrey Forbes, Computer Science
- Eric Green, Duke Global Health Institute
- Mahmoud Kaddoura, School of Nursing
- Minna Ng, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
- Chelsea Salinas, Biomedical Engineering
- Julie Tuttle, Thompson Writing Program
- Gennifer Weisenfeld, Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Fellows Activities
The Fellowship consisted of four parts.
- Fellows Kick-Off Week
The Kick-Off Week consisted of five meetings from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm daily, Monday-Friday, May 4 – 8, 2015. During the week, faculty exchanged ideas with colleagues and learn about methods and techniques used successfully here at Duke.
- Summer Roundtable
Participants developed their syllabus and teaching materials throughout the summer. Summer roundtable meetings were planned by participants to investigate topics from the Kick-Off Week in more depth, try out teaching techniques, and get feedback from other faculty on their plans for the fall.
- Visit a Classroom
During the Fall, faculty in the program visited two classes taught by other participants in the program to reflect on their own teaching and share ideas.
- Blog Post
Fellows were expected to produce a short post for the CIT blog that looked at one or more changes made to their Fall 2015 course to incorporate active learning.
Outcomes
Blog posts from the participants will be posted at the CIT’s website after the Fellowship.