For a calendar view of events please go to: http://bit.ly/UTHSCal

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

Engaging, Connecting, and Communicating with Your Online Students

Date: February 26, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

Presenter: Kristy Conger (Education Specialist – UTHSC Office of Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs)

Session Overview:
In an online or hybrid class setting, connecting with our students is especially critical. Web-based and mobile resources offer new opportunities in engaging and communicating with students. Tools such as AudioBoo, Jing, Screencast, Skitch, and Educreations allow instructors to connect and communicate with students in ways which extend past the physical classroom. In this session, we will discuss these resources and how they can help to enhance teaching and learning in an online or hybrid course setting. Please feel free to bring your laptop or mobile device and try the tools out during our session.

Register for this session at http://tinyurl.com/feb26session

BEGINS THIS WEEK – IAMSE Spring Webinar Series (Innovations in Assessment)

Series Overview:
Innovations in health care education require the simultaneous development of creative new approaches to student assessment.  This IAMSE webcast seminar series will explore these issues and provide several examples of how schools are evolving with assessment approaches.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews please go to: http://iamse.org/development/2014/was_2014_spring.htm

Login Information:
Log in to the webinar from wherever you are! Login information (posted the day before each session) can be found in the Professional Development course located in Blackboard.

Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

IAMSE Webinar Series Schedule:

February 27th (11:00 AM)

Topic: To Protect the Public by Providing the Means to Assess Competencies for Osteopathic Medicine and Related health Care Professions
Presented by: Bruce P. Bates and Melanie V. Nelson

March 6th (11:00 AM)
Topic: Individual Learning Assessment Approaches
Presented by: Daniel M. Clinchot

March 13th (11:00 AM)

Topic: Pivio: A New Records Management and Life-Long Learning Tool for the Medical Community
Presented by: Mary Drescher Halicki and Angelique Johnson

March 20th (11:00 AM)
Topic: Assessment Review: Learning From Mistakes
Presented by: Bobbe Baggio

March 27th (11:00 AM)

Topic: ACGME “Milestones”
Presented by: William Iobst

Designing Assignments for More Active Classrooms – Free webinar available from Wiley Learning Institute

Date: February 27, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Presenter: Jose Bowen

Session Overview:
Flipping your classroom, a trending course design pedagogy, involves rethinking the way you use your class time and the activities your students complete outside and within your class.  As a follow-up to Jose Bowen’s Teaching Naked workshop on e-communication and finding web content, join Jose again to design in-class activities for your flipped classroom.  Come prepared to review your own short assignments that students can do before coming to class.  Gather best practices and collaborate with your colleagues to create an example for your own course by:

A. improving your out-of-class assignment
B. creating a classroom application activity
C. aligning the assignment and activities, and
D. creating a cognitive wrapper for the assignment/module.

This workshop will model the method. Come prepared with one learning outcome from a course you have and one concept/content area.  To get the most out of your time, you’ll want to prepare an assignment in order to work with colleagues in the workshop to improve it.

Take this workshop to the next level:
Consider finding a group of colleagues, participate from your respective computers, and use a Google doc to share your assignment and collaborate!

To register for this free workshop go to: http://wileylearninginstitute.com/community/groups/teaching-naked-designing-assignments-for-more-active-classrooms/

This workshop will be recorded and available from Wiley Learning Institute for one week after the live event.

Six Practical Strategies to Improve Your Online Course – Webinar archive provided by Magna Publications

Date: March 3, 2014
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

Session Overview: Spend an hour with Dr. Oliver Dreon, director of Millersville University’s Center for Academic Excellence, as he presents Six Practical Strategies to Improve Your Online Courses. You’ll come away with a tremendous “toolkit” of ideas for making your online classes even better than they are now.  You’ll learn how you can use a half-dozen research-based, easy-to-implement practices to help you create truly student-centered instruction.

Using a blend of lecture and case studies, Dr. Dreon shows how you can:

• Create rich opportunities for students to interact with the course material, with you, and with one another
• Provide learning resources that leverage the strengths of the online space
• Apply innovative feedback and assessment strategies to deepen the learning experience for students
• Align your instructional methods with course learning objectives and goals

Join us in GEB A204 to watch the archive of this webinar (originally held February 18, 2014) and discuss strategies to improve your online courses.

Register to attend at http://tinyurl.com/uthsccalendar

Professional Sessions

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: February 28, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Presenter: Grady Wade, Ph.D. (Clinical Research Informaticist – Children’s Foundation Research Institute and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital)
Topic: Pediatric Research Database, a clinically rich, de-identified database for hypothesis generation and cohort discovery

Session Overview:
 Secondary use of large, open datasets provides researchers with an opportunity to address high impact questions and evaluate rare diseases. Utilization of local electronic medical records (EMR) to populate these research datasets is both an efficient use of available information and can also help researchers to assess effectiveness of local standards of care. To assist researchers in gaining access to large amounts of high quality clinical data for the purposes of research, our unit developed the Pediatric Research Database (PRD), a de-identified database designed around secondary use of a data-rich source, our EMR.

Questions? email Teresa Waters: twaters@uthsc.edu

FERPA Regulations for the Online Environment: A Toolkit for Faculty & Staff

Date: March 6, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: GEB A104

Session Overview:
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), all college employees are legally and ethically obliged to safeguard the confidentiality of student information. Many times this presents unique challenges for faculty and staff who work with students online. Issues that online program employees encounter when following FERPA guidelines while using technology tools in the learning environment are specific and must be explored and understood.

Through real-life scenarios, this webinar will help online staff better understand and apply FERPA to the online environment. Upon completion of the webinar, online staff and faculty will be able to identify online classroom applications of FERPA including implications for grading, student counseling, letters of reference, and student communication.

For additional information about this webinar and the speaker go to: http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/2099.htm

To attend please RSVP Terri Fought at 448-8014 or tfought@uthsc.edu

Conferences

International Association of Medical Science Educators (Annual Conference)

Dates: June 7-10, 2014
Location: Nashville, TN

Conference Overview:
The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education. Plenary topics for the 2014 meeting will include the use of simulation in medical education, giving effective and meaningful feedback, interprofessional education and the promotion of active learning in the classroom.

For additional details or to register please visit: www.iamseconference.org

Additional Resources

2014: The Year of Active Learning at UTHSC
To access a a variety of active learning resources visit https://academic.uthsc.edu/faculty/2014.php

UTHSC’s Faculty Resource Center
View schedule of upcoming professional development opportunities and read our latest blog posts at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/