Week of September 28, 2015 – Professional Development Opportunities

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Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of September 28th)

Date: Available September 28th – October 4th
Session Title: How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?
Presenter: Kenneth Alford, Ph.D. (Associate Professor – Brigham Young University); Tyler Griffin, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

Overview:

Weaned on cell phones and laptops, nurtured on tablets, and finished on Fitbits and other gadgets, today’s students are true digital natives. In fact, much of what they experience originates and exists entirely online. It is where they go for connections, for ideas, for answers, and more. They are innately and inherently comfortable there.

Some of us, however, are not. While not entirely foreign, technology can be confusing and overwhelming.  The options seem endless and yet still manage to proliferate overnight. It is hard to know what to use and how or when to use it. Yet the best technologies make aspects of life simpler or better. That is true for higher education, too.  The challenge, of course, is discovering the tools that will resonate with students and engage them in course materials. While it might seem that identifying those technologies is like searching for a needle in a haystack, there are ways to cull the best options.

If you want to know how to identify the digital tools that will work best for your courses and your students, you’ll want to watch How Can I Use Technology to Improve Learning?, a Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Brigham Young University associate professor Kenneth L. Alford and assistant professor Tyler Griffin. Alford and Griffin explain how you can identify appropriate educational technologies without becoming a digital expert overnight.

The session link and login information to the September 28th 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor is available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate and Improve Your Teaching

Date: Session was held September 22, 2015

Archive Now Available – Links to the recording and handouts now available in the Announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. The recording link will remain active for 30 days after the date of the live session.

Overview:

Until recently, teachers and students faced each other in the same classroom at the same time. The increase of online courses has changed that model dramatically, affecting how teachers are evaluated in profound ways. It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. In this seminar you will learn the strategies for garnering constructive feedback, make significant changes in the way you teach based on that feedback, and take more control for the results of your evaluations.

It is essential that faculty understand the best practices that underlie evaluations of effective online teaching. To gain this awareness, participate in this 40-minute online seminar, Online Teaching Toolkit: Evaluate & Improve Your Teaching. You’ll compare summative and formative evaluation approaches and learn how to use feedback from diverse sources to improve your teaching. You’ll learn how to make changes in your teaching methods while you teach the course so you can respond quickly to student concerns. Evaluating your performance in online courses is becoming more important than ever. This dynamic seminar can give you the insights and practical tools for boosting evaluation results while improving your teaching.

Professional Sessions

IRB Insights

Date: September 30, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 930 Madison, Hamilton Eye Institute’s Freeman Auditorium (3rd Floor)

Overview:

Learn about the changes in the iMedRIS software upgrade from Version 9.03 to Version 10.03 occurring at the beginning of September. You may view the program remotely by clicking on the following site at the time of the session: http://mediaserver.uthsc.edu/uthscms/Play/61382e815f944cdf91148e014896c3241d

If you miss the session, the video and slides will be posted a few days after the training session to our website (http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_compliance/IRB/training.php ), under “See Previous IRB Insights materials”.

2015 Biomedical Research Symposium

Date: October 23, 2015
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: St. Jude – Marlo Thomas Center GEC Auditorium

Topic: “Stem Cells and Cancer” – The symposium will be hosted by Drs. Sorrentino, McKinney-Freeman and Roussel

Overview:

Speakers: The stellar group of internationally renowned scientists that will participate includes:
  • Peggy Goodell, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas
  • Emmanuelle Passeque, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco in San Francisco, California
  • Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York
  • Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD, of HSR-TIGET San Raffaele Telethon Institute in Milan, Italy
  • Luis Parada, PhD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
  • Roel Nusse, PhD, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford, California
  • Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Guy Sauvageau, MD, PhD, of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer in Montreal QC, Canada
  • Chad Cowan, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Attendance is limited, so please register today to reserve your spot – https://www.stjude.org/education-training/advanced-training/seminars-symposia/biomedical-research-symposium.html

Registration is open for the conference and post celebration until September 30, 2015.  Pre-registration is required to attend each event.  The post celebration will be held at River Hall @ River Inn-Harbor Town from 6:00pm – 10:00pm.

Did you know….

You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.

Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.

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