Webinar Archives

Instructor Well-Being: Taking Care of Ourselves in Times of High Stress

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Finding the right life/work balance is important but difficult, and has become harder over the last year. The additional time we have spent learning new technologies and new ways of teaching, along with extra demands in clinics, classrooms, and other additional responsibilities has meant additional stress and in some cases burnout. This interactive webinar will… Read More

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

Creating Hotspot Questions in Poll Everywhere

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Dr. Kirk Hevener, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy demonstrates the hot spots feature of Poll Everywhere that allows respondents to select a portion of an image in order to answer a question.

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  • Dr. Kirk Hevener, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy
   

Cultural Responsiveness and Inclusivity in Healthcare Education

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Students in training to become healthcare professionals have a diverse set of learning needs and a range of cultural experiences and identities likely to impact their learning processes and to shape their educational experiences. This session centers on ways that a range of learning strategies can be used by educators to address multiple perspectives, values,… Read More

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  • Stephanie Lancaster, EdD, Assistant Professor, College of Health Professions
    

Effective Lectures and Engaging Presentations

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Do you want to ensure that your students and peers engage with your ideas in a meaningful way? In this interactive webinar, we will identify effective practices for lectures, including the concept of the flipped classroom. We will also discuss presentation practices that engage your audience and get your ideas across effectively. You will leave… Read More

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  • Devin Scott, Instructional Consultant, TLC
    

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle

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Which active learning strategies work best and how can you ensure that students will be engaged? Engaging students is challenging and isn’t a matter of simply finding the “right” activity or latest strategy. In this session, you will examine how Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle provides a template for designing each course session to engage students… Read More

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  • Connie Schroeder, PhD, Senior Consultant for Organizational and Instructional Development, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
   

Cultural Sensitivity and Competence in Experiential Learning

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As our students leave UTHSC, they find themselves in an increasingly diverse country. In order for them to be successful practitioners, they must not only be aware of the cultures in which they work, but need also to think about how their own backgrounds, experiences, and language affect the people around them. In this webinar.… Read More

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  • Mukta Panda, MD, Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Professor, College of Medicine
     

Collaboration with Office365

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Microsoft Office includes many tools that allows instructors and students to collaborate. This session will demonstrate how to work with each other within Word and PowerPoint, how to share files, and how to use Microsoft Whiteboard to work together in real time.

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  • Tonya Brown, IT Analyst, Information Technology Services
    

Team-Based Learning in the Virtual Environment

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Using active learning strategies to engage students has become even more important as our courses have moved online. Team-Based Learning (TBL) is one form of active learning that has been successful at UTHSC. However, there have been challenges with moving TBL into an online setting. Join Drs. Angela Cantrell and Pat Ryan from the College… Read More

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  • Angela Cantrell, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Medicine
  • Pat Ryan, PhD, Senior Assistant Dean, College of Medicine
     

Effective Feedback and Evaluation: Best Practices for Improvement

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Providing meaningful feedback to learners is essential for performance improvement. Feedback culture also plays a significant role in learner growth. In this session, we discussed best practices for improving feedback and feedback culture. Participants applied the ask-tell-ask model of feedback to relevant scenarios and shared their assessment and feedback top tips.

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  • Amy Hall, EdD, Instructional Consultant, TLC
  • Devin Scott, Instructional Consultant, TLC
     

Designing Scaffolds to Support Student Learning

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Dr. Jaime Sabel, Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Memphis, presents the FRAMER framework she developed for creating tools to support students in their courses. She provides examples in her own work of the types of tools she has created and results of studies to examine their effectiveness. Participants had the opportunity… Read More

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  • Jaime Sabel, PhD, Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Memphis