The session link and login information to this 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor will be available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard on April 11th. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)

UTHSC has purchased an institutional membership to Innovative Educators. Our membership provides all UTHSC faculty and staff access to on-demand events available through the Innovative Educator’s digital library (Go2Knowledge).

The Go2Knowledge library contains over a hundred sessions that fall within six of the following categories:

• At-risk populations
• Campus safety
• Organizational development
• Student success
• Teaching and learning
• Technology

Printable certificates of completion are available for each session. For information related to accessing sessions available through Innovative Educators/Go2Knowledge please visit the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

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Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

OLC Innovate 2016 – Innovations in Blended and Online Learning

Dates: April 20th – April 22nd

Conference Overview:

SIX REASONS TO VIRTUALLY JOIN US AT OLC INNOVATE

To ensure learning remains at the forefront while we witness the confluence of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, OLC Innovate will aim to address these six concerns (and many more!):

• How do we develop learning environments that support interconnectedness between educators and students, and are equipped to quickly change processes and strategies, while simultaneously fostering and celebrating creativity and ingenuity?

• What new methods and technologies are most scalable in teaching and learning? Which are most prevalent and why?

• How has technology changed teaching and knowledge acquisition and how will we adjust current paradigms to ensure sound pedagogy as we innovate?

• How does technology in the classroom increase student engagement?

• What is the best balance between analog and digitally enhanced teaching?

• What are common obstacles that educators face regarding technology? How can we avoid being technocentric while improving pedagogical practice with technology?

UTHSC has purchased an institutional virtual attendee OLC Innovate package that will allow any faculty or staff member virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in New Orleans, LA. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location. Can’t make time during these three days to participate? Go ahead and register for virtual attendee and have access to the session recordings for one year.

A complete list of  sessions available to virtual attendees can be found at: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/program/all_sessions/#streamed

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request virtual attendee access for an individual or a college/program/department. This is a great professional development opportunity for those who teach online or support online faculty.

TLC’s Showcase in Teaching and Learning 

Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:3o PM
Location: Student Alumni Center (SAC)

Overview:

The UTHSC Teaching and Learning Center Showcase will highlight successful teaching strategies used by faculty at UTHSC! Two keynote speakers will address instructional ideas that can be used by all teaching faculty. Faculty will also have the opportunity to participate in concurrent sessions packed with useful ideas.Time will be set aside for faculty to mix, mingle, discuss, and share ideas and successful (as well as not so successful) strategies. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/tlc-showcase-4-28-2016

Going for gold at the intersection of education and technology: Making Quality Matter

Date: May 23, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Deb Adair (Executive Director – Quality Matters)

Overview:

QM is an organization that takes a hard look at the quality of online and blended learning courses and programs and seeks to support faculty and institutions in continually improving student learning outcomes. We look back in reliance on the research literature to help us understand what has been working and why.  We look ahead at the innovations in the field to understand what quality might look like as we build towards the future.  In the middle, in the boundary spanning role we play, we see the heart of higher education, our educators, ready to move forward but wary of the process.  Is the benefit of change worth the cost to achieve it?  What is the urgency, anyway?   How do we move forward in teaching with technology, in all formats, in a way that maximizes the affordances of technology while respecting the gold standard of faculty-student engagement?

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-MakingQualityMatter

The Truth About Flipped Classrooms

Date: June 1, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Dr. Julie Schell (Director of OnRamps and Strategic Initiatives & Clinical Assistant Professor  in the College of Education at the University of Texas Austin)

Overview:

Instructors all over the globe are turning their students’ worlds around by flipping their classrooms. In a flipped class, teachers move information coverage out of the lecture hall so that they can better leverage in-­‐class time to address student difficulties and misconceptions. In this interactive session, Dr. Julie Schell will flip the webinar by providing brief introductory, pre-­‐workshop activities to participants. She will use responses from these activities in the workshop and discuss the three basic steps for effectively flipping any classroom. Throughout the presentation, participants will confront and resolve a series of common myths about flipped teaching.

Note: This is not a session on how to create lecture videos.

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-FlippedClassrooms

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 Professional Sessions

Dealing with Recent Changes in NIH Proposals

Date: April 13, 2016 
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Light refreshments will be served)
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium (930 Madison, 3rd Floor)

Presenter: Dr. Israel Goldberg

Overview: 

This session is open to all UTHSC faculty, postdocs, administrators, students, and staff. 

For more information regarding Dr. Goldberg please visit: http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_resources/consulting.php

TLC Reception and Networking Event 

Date: April 14, 2016 
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 
Location: Madison Plaza – East Dining Area

Overview: 

Join Colleagues and the Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Directorship, and Staff for tea and coffee in the Madison Plaza Dining area. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-reception-04-14-2016

Contemporary Issues in Comorbid Conditions of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Date: May 13, 2016 
Time: 7:00 aM – 4:00 PM 
Location: University of Memphis – Holiday Inn Memphis

Overview: 

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Division of Rheumatology is hosting a daylong symposium on comorbid conditions seen in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The symposium will focus on key clinical topics in the diagnosis and management of comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease, infections and malignancies etc. This is primarily designed for primary care providers, rheumatologists and other subspecialists involved in the care of RA patients. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for clinicians to learn from and interact with leading national faculties in order to increase clinical knowledge and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Objectives:

• Enhance their knowledge about pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Recognize comorbidities e.g: cardiovascular disease, malignancies, serious infections, pulmonary disease, osteoporosis seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients

• Understand the impact of the comorbid conditions in the management, course and outcome of Rheumatoid arthritis

• Review the management of these comorbid conditions

• Understand how collaborative management between primary care providers, other medicine subspecialists and rheumatologists is necessary and crucial for optimal outcome

Registration:

Registration fee is $25 per attendee. Fellows, residents and students are Free! 

The preferred method for registration is via the online registration link located at www.utconferences.com/rheumatoidarthritis2016. Online registration is available until May 13, 2016.

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. 

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Did you know….

You can also visit the Professional Development Calendar to access a list of upcoming sessions sponsored by Academic/Faculty Affairs or other groups on campus at: https://academic.uthsc.edu/cii/calendar.php

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.