Are you ready to adopt the latest research on effective teaching in your classes? Great! Are your students ready to make the move from passive to active learning? Students are often resistant to changes to teaching because they do not understand the compelling reasons to engage in active learning. They got here with traditional lectures… Read More
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Volume 5, Issue 3 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: Interview with Dr. Joe Swanson: Teaching Strategies for Didactic and Experiential Courses Teacher’s Toolbox: Using Educational Videos in Your Classes Did You Know?: Using ExamSoft Longitudinal Analysis for Tracking Student Performance Pedagogy Podcast: ‘Demystifying Group Projects’ Research Bytes: Text Messages as Nudges
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payouts, and staying laser-focused on your course goals. technology needs to earn its place in your classroom by providing tangible benefits, and it has the best chance of doing that when it targets… Read More
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To lecture or not to lecture? This is a common question in higher education today, as critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, often are leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. There are, however, other forms of lecture. So perhaps the question we should… Read More
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Anne Laverty, MD College of Medicine, discusses the educational tool of scaffolding including what it is and how to use it. She reviews various types of scaffolding and provides examples as to how scaffolding can be implemented in both didactic sessions as well as clinical learning environments. She also briefly reviews effective questioning and checking… Read More
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Volume 5, Issue 2 In this issue: The Teaching Scope: Using ePortfolios to support student learning Teacher’s Toolbox: Digital Whiteboards Did You Know?: Evaluating Course Workloads Pedagogy Podcast: How to Engage on Social Media Research Bytes: Benefits to Beginning Class with a Visible Agenda
Dr. Jackson will discuss his strategies to engage students through the use of case-based learning. During this session, participants will: Define case-based learning Distinguish case-based learning from problem-based learning Identify features of effective case-based learning sessions Review strategies to enhance case-based learning sessions
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Faculty are so busy with didactic, lab, clinical, meetings, research, curriculum changes and their own personal lives that integrating active learning within a class seems like an insurmountable task. Don’t fret! There is hope! During our time together, we will discover how active learning differs from passive learning and just how easy it is to… Read More
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One way to engage healthcare professional students is through the use of gamification and games. Gamification and games can be used to help encourage learners to motivate actions, progress through content, and reinforce behavior and knowledge. While games and gamification are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. The use of gamification for learning is… Read More
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This webinar considers how tools from the emergent field of Medical Humanities can supporting inclusive learning environments. Participants will engage in practices like narrative medicine, visual analysis, and historic contextualization. The webinar offers practical tools to implement inclusive pedagogies in a range of health science learning environments.
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