Pedagogical Research and Practice

Overview

Building on the IGHE Capabilities Report, this project aims to make best practices of teaching and learning available and accessible to the DKU community. The core group of this project, consisting of faculty, staff, and students with expertise or interest in learning, teaching, assessment, and curricular design, will identify what can be classified as reliable, effective, and efficient teaching and learning approaches. It will facilitate research into innovative teaching and learning approaches, taking into account the DKU context. Funds are available to support research or pedagogical projects on approaches like meta-cognition, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, learning from errors, and authentic assessment. Faculty members engaged with the lab will have opportunities to collaborate with Duke colleagues, especially the LILE CARADITE and the Teaching Excellence and Innovation Committee on projects related to applied research and teaching excellence initiatives. 

Timeline

Fall 2024 – Spring 2026

Faculty Fellow: 

Kristinn Már Ársælsson, ka248@duke.edu 

Staff Leads: 

Jiaxin Wu (CTL), Victoria Yang (Assessment)

Levels of Faculty Engagement 

• Core Lab Members: Review literature, conduct needs assessment, produce guidance documents, facilitate workshops, contribute to reports, and collaborate with Duke. Engagement starts in Fall 2024. Compensation will be provided. 
• Lab-Sponsored Research Leads: Conduct educational research/experiments and produce reports. CFPs will be available in Spring 2025. Funding will be provided.  
• Project Contributors: Provide feedback and consultations to the project through occasional meetings or email exchanges to help the lab set priorities and agenda for programming. 
• Event participants: attend workshops and conferences, starting from Spring 2025.