Visit a Classroom (VaC) is another signature program offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning adapted from the practices by Duke Learning Innovation, to provide faculty an opportunity to gain new insight into their teaching and students’ learning through a non-evaluative, formative process of reciprocal classroom visits and reflection. This is a program originated […]
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Fall 2021 term is fast approaching. We are here to help you prepare and make your fall courses more engaging in face-to-face, online, and hybrid classrooms. Here are five tools for your consideration. Sakai Roster Tool (Duke-supported） The Roster tool in a Sakai site turns a simple enrolled student name list into real people,
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Mid-term Student Small Group Instructional Feedback (abbreviated as SGIF) is one of the signature programs provided by the Center for Teaching and Learning. It is a formative mid-course check-in process requested by faculty individuals for gathering information from students on their learning experiences. This process is designed for faculty to foster dialogue between students and
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In the past couple of days, I have been in contact with some international students to see how they have been feeling throughout the fall semester. Many of them have shared a common sense of exhaustion from spending most of the time in front of a computer. They have shared that now their lives are
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In college classrooms, it is considered rather unusual to have in-class reading unless it’s part of an exam. Collective reading in class is time-consuming and instructors often assign readings as individual assignments. Dr. Katherine Robertson in her Global Health Ethics course, (for Duke Kunshan University’s Undergraduate Global Learning Semester Program) however, developed a creative way
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