Apply to the Active Learning Institute + PPRS Keynote announced
| | Apply for the Active Learning Institute by March 18The Active Learning Institute is designed to help faculty deepen learning and increase student motivation using active learning techniques proven successful at Duke and elsewhere. The Institute is a compact, one week experience that will be offered twice in Summer 2022, and sessions will run for one week from 11 am to 2 pm each day. Participants who complete the program are eligible for a $500 stipend to be paid to a faculty research account. The Institute’s week of activities and examples are tailored to the interests and subject areas of the applicants and are taught using interactive active learning methods. Each day, faculty will engage and exchange ideas with fellow faculty members in the Institute from a range of different departments. Read this blog post for more information and the application link.
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Dr. Sharon Lauricella to Keynote the 2022 Pandemic Pedagogy Research SymposiumDr. Sharon Lauricella is the inaugural Teaching Scholar in Residence at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, and an expert on alternative assessments. Her keynote, “Ungrading 101: Five (Feasible) Ways to Buck the Grading Grind,” will be an interactive session to learn practical strategies for ditching grades, changing assessment parameters, and embracing equity, diversity and inclusion. Learn more about Dr. Lauricella and her session. The Symposium will be held virtually on Wednesday, May 11 from 10 am to 3 pm EDT.
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Learning Technology Updates |
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| GitLab is now an app in Kits. When you add GitLab to your course kit, it automatically creates a group for your students in GitLab. Once the group is created, you can add GitLab projects to the group as needed. Any changes to the roster in DukeHub will automatically update your course group. |
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| Reminder: When posting grades from Gradescope to Sakai, in order to later transfer to DukeHub, there is a new process in place starting this Spring detailed on this help page. |
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| If you find you are missing the text editor box in Sakai, follow these instructions to clear your cache (saved data and images in your browser) to update Sakai. |
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Upcoming EventsAll events are virtual and in Eastern time unless otherwise noted.
The Spring 2022 Center for Computational Thinking Symposium
Celebrating Computational Thinking at Duke
Thursday, March 3, 1 - 5 pm
The Spring 2022 CCT Symposium will be an opportunity to celebrate and learn from the various work of Duke faculty to advance computation-based research and education across Duke, including integrating computation in academic fields and programs across the university. Quentin Ruiz-Esparza, Learning Innovation's Associate Director of Online Duke, is a panel member for the 4 pm event "Innovating Computational Education."
Register Now BRITE Ideas: Investigating the Effect of Webcams on Student Attention and Learning in Virtual Classrooms
Monday, March 14, 12 - 1 pm
Learning Innovation and BRITE Lab invite you to join us for BRITE Ideas, a monthly discussion group to share and develop research on teaching and learning. This session will feature Noah Forrin, a Postdoctoral Researcher at McMaster University. Please join us and contribute to an engaged discussion to advance teaching excellence at Duke.
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Book Talk Series: Academic Innovation for the Public Good
Lean Semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity
Wednesday, March 23, 7 - 8 pm
A conversation with author Sekile M. Nzinga, Chief Equity Officer for the State of Illinois. Organized by Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College-Hartford and co-sponsored by Duke Learning Innovation.
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Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
Thursday, March 24, 10 - 11:30 am
How can instructors create more inclusive learning environments in their classes? The new book "Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Strategies for Teaching" presents a four-phase approach beginning with critical self-reflection, followed by designing an inclusive curriculum, implementing inclusive pedagogy and creating inclusive assessment. Join the book's editors, Rita Kumar and Brenda Refaei, for an interactive session which will provide some time for faculty and instructors to begin the process of reflection needed to develop inclusive pedagogical approaches that use active learning strategies. This session is open to Duke and non-Duke faculty, other instructors, and academic staff.
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| Our events calendar also includes teaching and learning events from our partners. |
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A monthly series highlighting simple steps you can take to improve accessibility in your class.
Use meaningful link text
Your syllabus and course website are probably full of links to course materials and assignments. One way you can make your course more accessible is to use meaningful link text. Good link text makes sense independent of context. Consider this example: Click hereLearn more about meaningful link text in the classroomWhich one gave you an idea of where you were headed upon clicking? Additionally, avoid using the full web link (URL), as screen readers will simply read out the entire link which doesn’t provide enough information about the topic or purpose of the link.
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