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How to Engage Your Students’ Minds Without Losing Yours

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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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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, College of Nursing
  • Christie Manasco, PhD, College of Nursing
    

Using Gamification to Engage Students

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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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  • Chelsea Renfro, PharmD, College of Pharmacy
    

Using a Medical Humanities Framework to Support Inclusive Learning

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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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  • Kelly Jo Fulkerson Dikuua, PhD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center
    

Teaching for Learning: Evidence-based Instructional Strategies

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The research on teaching and learning in higher education is better than ever. Studies are being done in nearly every discipline and field imaginable and on many different instructional strategies and techniques. These studies have much to offer our understanding about how to improve student learning. Evidence-based teaching has finally arrived, and indeed it is… Read More

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  • Claire Major, PhD, Professor, Education, University of Alabama
   

Interpreting Student Ratings of Instruction (Student Course Evaluations)

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This workshop discusses best practices for interpreting student ratings of instruction (SRI). Guided by the latest research on student ratings of instruction, participants contemplate the role of SRI among other indicators of teaching effectiveness. Following that, participants apply the Filter-Interpret-Plan model to sample SRI and will develop a plan to leverage their own SRI to… Read More

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  • Devin Scott, PhD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center
   

Turning Teaching Activities into Educational Scholarship

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Have you ever wondered if the teaching activities you implement are effective in improving student performance? Are you interested in developing a research project to study these activities and disseminate the results to the world? This session focuses on the steps necessary to turn your teaching activities into educational scholarship. Participants will explore what makes… Read More

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  • Amy Hall, EdD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center
    

Are Your Tests Biased? A Guide for Implementing Inclusive Testing Guidelines in Your Assessments

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We often mistakenly assume when writing assessments for our students that our learners are “just like us.” We use terminology, phrases, abbreviations, and pronouns that we prefer and know, that often leave our students confused and sometimes wounded. We review our tests by solely looking at statistics, but should we also be looking at linguistics?… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, Instructor, College of Nursing
    

Engaging Students in Active Learning

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Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students. In this session, participants will learn… Read More

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  • Claire Major, PhD, University of Alabama
   

Recharging in Real Time

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As we strive to take care of our students, our families, our colleagues, our residents, our patients, and others in our communities, how do we make sure we’re also taking care of ourselves? Join Dr. Mukta Panda, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Bindiya Bagga, Associate Professor of Pediatrics as they provide practical strategies and… Read More

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  • Mukta Panda, MD, College of Medicine
  • Bindiya Bagga, MD, College of Medicine
    

I Miss My Chalk! Intentional Tech Integration to Enhance Teaching in the Health Sciences

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Do you feel overwhelmed when navigating among the many digital tools available to enhance your teaching? Health science education is rapidly changing under the influence of external, as well as internal factors including ever evolving health care environments and an abundance of instructional technologies alongside curricular revisions. It can be challenging for the educators of… Read More

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  • Nicole House, PhD, Educause