Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of October 26th)

Date: Available October 26th – November 1st
Session Title: How Can I Reduce Student Apathy and Increase Motivation?
Presenter: Kenneth Alford, Ph.D. (Associate Professor Chemistry – Brigham Young University); Tyler Griffin, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor – Brigham Young University)

Overview:

“Is this going to be on the test?”

It’s a question that probably makes you cringe. The only reason your students are paying attention is because something might show up on an exam. It’s not because they care about what you’re saying.  And if whatever you are talking about is not going to be on the test? You can probably cue the texting, the daydreaming, and the dozing.

Student apathy. It’s just a fact of life in higher education. Or is it?

Certainly different students have different motivation levels, and some students won’t care no matter what you do. But they might just be the exceptions and not the rule. In fact, you have more control than you might realize, and there are things you can do to improve student focus and connection to the course. 

If you want to learn proven strategies that get your students more engaged, you’ll want to watch How Can I Reduce Student Apathy and Increase Motivation?, a Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Brigham Young University associate professor Kenneth L. Alford and assistant professor Tyler Griffin.

Dr. Alford and Dr. Griffin will help you recognize that part of your job is getting students to recognize why they should care. When you increase the relevance of your course content so your students understand why it matters—to their degrees and to their lives—they naturally grow more engaged in what you are teaching. You can’t make every student care no matter what you do, but there is a lot you can do to improve overall student engagement and motivation.

Learning Goals

When you are finished with this program, you will:

• Understand the difference between the process and the products of learning in order to help students achieve both
• Recognize that some causes of student apathy are beyond your control
• Be able to identify the causes of apathy that are within your control
• Be able to identify, implement, and adapt techniques that can increase relevance in your course design, your syllabus, your classroom, your assignments, and your exams
• Have the courage to try new things—and even have a little fun while you’re at it

The session link and login information to the October 26th 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.

Who Am I When I Teach? Understanding Teaching Persona

Date: November 3, 2015 
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM 
Location: GEB A302

Overview:

The learning environment we seek to spark begins with who we are when we teach. Our teaching persona can ignite or impede our engagement at the same time it can ignite or impede students’ engagement as they pursue new ideas.

The teaching persona we bring to our work can set a tone for a productive dynamic, lead us to communicate with clarity, and invite a joy for learning. Too often educators are told, “be natural, be yourself,” without being given any real guidance as to how to develop an authentic teaching identity that can serve to embolden our teaching and spark student commitment to learning.

Through case studies, questions for self-reflection, options for follow-up activities, and resources for continuing understanding and application, this online seminar will provide you with the tools to gain insights into your teaching persona’s role as a catalyst in the development of an engaging teaching and learning environment.

During this seminar, you will:

• Discover key features of your own teaching identity
• Develop an awareness of the choices and influences those features generate in the learning environment
• Expand your repertoire of teaching capabilities through critical reflection on the relationships among teaching identity, learning environment, expectations, and engagement
• Activate catalysts for the continuing growth of your teaching identity to bring ongoing meaning and accomplishment to your work

The presenter, Linda Shadiow, Ph.D., brings 27 years of teaching at Northern Arizona University, including nearly a decade directing their faculty professional development program. Tap in to the understanding she brings to explore the choices inherent in honing and communicating a teaching persona that can become a conduit for purposeful and energized teaching and learning. 

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-teachingpersona-nov2015

Plagiarism: What You Need to Know (A discussion with the Office of General Counsel)

Date: November 5, 2015 (Please note the change in date. This session was originally scheduled October 22nd)
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM)
Location: GEB A204

Overview:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of October 19th)

Date: Available October 19th – October 25th
Session Title: What Can I Learn from Student Ratings?
Presenter: Ike Shibley, Ph.D. (Associate Professor Chemistry – Penn State Berks)

Overview:

While student ratings are dismissed by some educators for having little to offer, these ratings can in fact be highly beneficial to teachers who want to improve their skills. Students can provide helpful and legitimate feedback on what they feel they learned, workload levels, and observable behaviors that include the teacher’s pace, volume, clarity and organization.

During this Magna 20-Minute Mentor (What Can I Learn from Student Ratings?), Ike Shibley, Ph.D., a veteran of teaching face-to-face, shows you how to read student ratings so you can use students’ comments to help you, or another teacher, improve and grow.

You will learn how to

• Understand how to prepare yourself for student ratings.
• Reflect on what you thought went well and where improvements could be made.
• Create a list of areas in which you performed well and a list of areas where you can improve.
• Take advantage of existing campus resources to improve your teaching skills.

Learning outcomes

At the conclusion of this faculty development program, you will know how to:

• More realistically assess students’ comments to help you improve your teaching
• Engage a trusted colleague in a dialogue about student ratings
• Distinguish among areas that students are qualified to comment on vs. areas they are not

The session link and login information to the October 19th 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.

Plagiarism: What You Need to Know (A discussion with the Office of General Counsel)

Date: November 5, 2015 (Please note the change in date. This session was originally scheduled October 22nd)
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM)
Location: GEB A204

Overview:

Professional Sessions

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of October 12th)

Date: Available October 12th – October 18th
Session Title: Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?
Presenter: Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D. (Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community Service-Learning – University of Maryland)

Overview:

Many educators believe that service-learning can be a valuable practice … for other educators. But they’re sometimes at a loss to understand how it can be incorporated into their own disciplines. You can have service-learning work well in every discipline.

In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor program (Can Service-Learning Work in My Discipline?), you’ll learn how to think creatively about service-learning, and how you can make it a part of your students’ educational experience.

Led by Barbara Jacoby, Ph.D., Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community Service-Learning, University of Maryland, College Park., we show you what service-learning can add to your courses and provide concrete implementation strategies.

You’ll learn:

• The key principles of service-learning—reflection and reciprocity.
• The benefits of service-learning for both students and communities.
• How to link activities to outcomes.
• The different types of service-learning.
• How to assess outcomes and grade service-learning.

You’ll learn through case studies of disciplines as varied as college writing and engineering,  Dr. Jacoby helps you appreciate the ample opportunities you have to introduce service-learning to your own courses.

Learning outcomes

When you’ve completed this professional education program, you’ll be able to:

• Determine the opportunities for service-learning in your discipline.
• Select appropriate projects for your students.
• Grade activities and assess outcomes.

The session link and login information to the October 12th 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.

Multimedia Tools Spotlight: Engaging the Instructor and the Learner (OLC Annual Conference – Live Virtual Session)

Date: October 14, 2015
Time: 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304

Overview:

This session will stream live from the Online Learning Consortium’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Web 2.0 multimedia tools can make considerable impacts on learning when applied effectively in online environments. Hybrid, blended, and fully online courses and training can benefit from the implementation of such tools by the designer, instructor, and/or facilitator. Changing flat text to an engaging and memorable multimedia component can make the difference in connection between the learning content and the learner. During this session, participants will be introduced to various Web 2.0 multimedia tools for course/training design and delivery to further engage learners and apply effective practices.

To learn more about the session and presenters go to: http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/aln/multimedia-tools-spotlight-engaging-instructor-and-learner

To register to participate in this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/olc-multimediatools

Taming the Wild West? AKA Online Discussion Forums  (OLC Annual Conference – Live Virtual Session)

Date: October 15, 2015
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM
Location: GEB A304

Overview:

This session will stream live from the Online Learning Consortium’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Online discussion forums are the “wild west,” where anything goes! During this session, the presenters will present tools gleaned from a study of 600+ online university instructors for immediate use in making forums an engaging and civilized community of learning.

To learn more about the session and the presenters go to: http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/aln/taming-wild-west-aka-online-discussion-forums

To register to participate in this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/olc-tamingdiscussionforums

Plagiarism: What You Need to Know (A discussion with the Office of General Counsel)

Date: October 22, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM)
Location: GEB A104

Overview:

Professional Sessions

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of October 5th)

Date: Available October 5th – October 11th
Session Title: How Do I Create a Climate for Learning in My Classroom?
Presenter: Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D. (Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning – Penn State Berks)

Overview:

We’ve all encountered “toxic” learning environments–apathetic students, disillusioned faculty, an entire roomful of people waiting for class to just end, already. But of course, that’s far from what you (or your students) really want. You want a robust, positive learning environment, in which everyone understands and appreciates why they’re spending time together.

If you have twenty minutes, you can learn how to promote exactly that sort of environment. This session will help you transform a classroom from hum-drum to humming in no time flat. In this idea-filled presentation, you’ll learn from Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., consultant, editor of The Teaching Professor and professor emerita at Penn State-Berks. She shares valuable concepts you can put to work right away in every class.

In just 20 minutes, you’ll discover:

• How positive classroom climates are created
• Who creates them
• How they’re maintained
• Specific ways you can contribute
• How you can help your students contribute
• The “pet peeves” of both faculty and students, and how to overcome them
• What constitutes a memorable, positive experience for students and faculty alike

A small investment of your time will show you how to create a collaborative, engaged classroom experience that everyone will appreciate. It’s a complete, well-rounded “quick course” that will provide you with a wealth of practical strategies to apply in your classroom.

The session link and login information to the October 5th 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.

Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law

Date: Session was held September 25, 2015

Recording Now Available – http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-copyright-sept2015

Overview:

Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, presented a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session provided an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.

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

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:

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.

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of September 21st)

Date: Available September 21st – September 27th
Session Title: What is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
Presenter: Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D. (Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning – Penn State Berks)

Overview:

You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? Find out in this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation? Running just 20 minutes, it is the easiest way to improve your course and fit into a busy schedule.

While emphasizing there is no single way to assess student participation, presenter Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., delivers a concise and comprehensive overview of what not to do, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process. Too often instructors base participation grades on very vague standards or use these assessments to give grades they somehow think students deserve. In this compelling and practical session, you’ll learn that effective assessment of participation starts with understanding why you’re evaluating participation in the first place and having a clear description of the behavior you’ll be monitoring.

You’ll explore:

• Making feedback part of the way you grade participation
• Providing accommodations for students with special needs, including shyness
• Getting students involved in assessment

Drawing on her extensive experience as an educator, published author, and editor of The Teaching Professor, Weimer supplements this video seminar with handouts such as tracking sheets and assessment instruments to help you implement what you learn.

Learning goals:

After completing this grading and feedback focused program, you’ll be able to:

• Describe and avoid common pitfalls associated with grading student participation
• Identify positive and negative criteria you will use to evaluate student participation
• Develop strategies for implementing your assessment plan
• Use appropriate techniques to keep all students involved with and aware of your participation assessment plan
• Develop and implement feedback strategies to help students improve their participation

The session link and login information to the September 21st 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: September 22, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

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.

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/onlineteachingtoolkit

Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, will present a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session will provide an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.

A light lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM to those who register to attend by September 16th. To register to attend use this link: http://bit.ly/UTHSC-092515

Copyright and fair use are topics that generate questions. If you have questions about this topic, send them to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) so that Frank can address some of them during his presentation.

Frank delivered a similar session for UT Chattanooga’s Instructional Excellence Conference. You can view that session here: http://tinyurl.com/utc-copyright (actual speaker audio begins at the 1-minute mark)

Professional Sessions

New Faculty Orientation

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.

This orientation is for ALL faculty hired as of January 2015 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM and lunch will be provided at 12:00 PM.

To register to attend please go to: http://bit.do/NFO-Fall15

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Speaker:  Oguz Akbilgic, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Center for Biomedical Informatics)

Topic: Clustering of Sequential EMR Data via Symbolic Pattern Recognition

Overview:

Our goal is to develop a Symbolic Pattern Recognition Method relating sequential data to different outcomes.

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of September 14th)

Date: Available September 14th – September 20th
Session Title: How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?
Presenter: Bruce Kelley, Ph.D. (Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning – University of South Dakota)

Overview:

Faculty development centers are generally not cash cows. Our work does not always slide easily into line items or factor clearly into financial decisions. Just because faculty development centers do not typically operate under financial models that make it easy to demonstrate their worth does not mean you cannot prove that your center is essential to institutional success. In fact, you can communicate the value of your work in ways that matter to the people behind the budgets.

If you’re ready to show how instrumental and invaluable your center’s work is, you’ll want to watch How Can I Measure My Faculty Development Center’s Impact?—a Magna 20-Minute Mentor video with Bruce Kelley, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and professor of music at the University of South Dakota.

Dr. Kelley understands that your priority is supporting and developing your faculty with accessible and desirable programming that leads to better teaching and improved student outcomes. He also recognizes that increasing calls for accountability demand that you be able to demonstrate your value in fiscal terms. In just 20 minutes he describes how to evaluate the impact of your faculty development center with simple and accessible data-driven tools and then use those results to communicate your center’s value to relevant campus constituents.

The session link and login information to the September 14th 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: September 22, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

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.

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/onlineteachingtoolkit

Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, will present a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session will provide an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.

A light lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM to those who register to attend by September 16th. To register to attend use this link: http://bit.ly/UTHSC-092515

Copyright and fair use are topics that generate questions. If you have questions about this topic, send them to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) so that Frank can address some of them during his presentation.

Frank delivered a similar session for UT Chattanooga’s Instructional Excellence Conference. You can view that session here: http://tinyurl.com/utc-copyright (actual speaker audio begins at the 1-minute mark)

Professional Sessions

New Faculty Orientation

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.

This orientation is for ALL faculty hired as of January 2015 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM and lunch will be provided at 12:00 PM.

To register to attend please go to: http://bit.do/NFO-Fall15

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Speaker:  Oguz Akbilgic, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Center for Biomedical Informatics)

Topic: Clustering of Sequential EMR Data via Symbolic Pattern Recognition

Overview:

Our goal is to develop a Symbolic Pattern Recognition Method relating sequential data to different outcomes.

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of September 7th)

Date: Available September 7th – September 13th
Session Title: What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?
Presenter: James Lang, Ph.D. (Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence – Assumption College)

Overview:

Cheating and plagiarism are serious problems in higher education today, but the rate of academic dishonesty hasn’t changed much in 50 years. Severe punishment doesn’t have much of an effect on the incidence of cheating, and there is a great deal faculty and student leaders can do to promote academic integrity.

Find out the most effective ways to confront cheating in What Should I Do When a Student Cheats?, a Magna 20-Minute Mentor with James M. Lang, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and an English professor at Assumption College. Instead of myths and misconceptions, Lang will share a research-based approach to the challenge of academic dishonesty—in your classroom and across your campus.

You’ll explore:

• The key to ensuring a fair process for handling violations of academic integrity
• The message you don’t want to send to students
• The steps involved in determining an appropriate level of punishment

There’s a reason unethical behavior in higher education is called “cheating,” since students who practice plagiarism and other violations are really robbing themselves of their ability to learn. Make sure you’re doing all you can to help your students do the right thing by themselves, their peers, and your campus policies

The session link and login information to the September 7th 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: September 22, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

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.

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/onlineteachingtoolkit

Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, will present a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session will provide an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.

A light lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM to those who register to attend by September 16th. To register to attend use this link: http://bit.ly/UTHSC-092515

Copyright and fair use are topics that generate questions. If you have questions about this topic, send them to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) so that Frank can address some of them during his presentation.

Frank delivered a similar session for UT Chattanooga’s Instructional Excellence Conference. You can view that session here: http://tinyurl.com/utc-copyright (actual speaker audio begins at the 1-minute mark)

Professional Sessions

UTRF Seminar: Panel Discussion with UTHSC Faculty Entrepreneurs

Date: September 10, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute, Freeman Auditorium 930 Madison, Suite 300

Overview:

Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and would like to launch a start-up company?  Please join us for a panel discussion with UTHSC faculty entrepreneurs who followed their entrepreneurial passion and founded their own companies.  They will share their experiences and provide insight on important topics and issues such as raising money, mistakes, and lessons learned in the process.  For more information, please go here.

Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Tinieka Thrailkill at ttriple2@uthsc.edu or 901-448-7827.

New Faculty Orientation

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.

This orientation is for ALL faculty hired as of January 2015 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM and lunch will be provided at 12:00 PM.

To register to attend please go to: http://bit.do/NFO-Fall15

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of August 31st)

Date: Available August 31st – September 6th
Session Title: What if a Student Asks a Question I Can’t Answer?
Presenter: Therese Huston, Ph.D. (Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University)

Overview:

Students view professors as experts and authority figures. Because of this, when a student asks a difficult question in class and you don’t know the answer, it’s easy to feel flustered, embarrassed and anxious.

• Should you stumble through your response?
• Ramble off on a tangent?
• Make something up on the spot?

There’s no need for any of that. Develop a reliable teaching technique strategy for fielding students’ questions without losing your cool or undermining your credibility. In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Therese Huston, Ph.D., outlines an effective method for managing these difficult moments.

You will learn how to:

• Employ an effective three-step method for handling difficult questions
• Identify responses that work well for you…and others that miss the mark
• Modify strategies for the “research it yourself” approach
• Use clarification and acknowledgement in dealing with tough questions
  • Increase your confidence and credibility in the classroom
  • Make class preparation more manageable
  • Recognize the pros and cons of your current response repertoire

The session link and login information to the August 31st 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: September 22, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

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.

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/onlineteachingtoolkit

Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

Frank Lancaster, Associate General Counsel at UT, will present a session entitled ‘Contemporary Fair Use Guidelines and Copyright Law.’ The session will provide an overview of case history surrounding contemporary copyright law, key things to remember in the classroom and online environment, and resources for faculty.

A light lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 AM to those who register to attend by September 16th. To register to attend use this link: http://bit.ly/UTHSC-092515

Copyright and fair use are topics that generate questions. If you have questions about this topic, send them to Dr. Cindy Russell (crussell@uthsc.edu) so that Frank can address some of them during his presentation.

Frank delivered a similar session for UT Chattanooga’s Instructional Excellence Conference. You can view that session here: http://tinyurl.com/utc-copyright (actual speaker audio begins at the 1-minute mark)

Professional Sessions

UTRF Seminar: Panel Discussion with UTHSC Faculty Entrepreneurs

Date: September 10, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute, Freeman Auditorium 930 Madison, Suite 300

Overview:

Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and would like to launch a start-up company?  Please join us for a panel discussion with UTHSC faculty entrepreneurs who followed their entrepreneurial passion and founded their own companies.  They will share their experiences and provide insight on important topics and issues such as raising money, mistakes, and lessons learned in the process.  For more information, please go here.

Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Tinieka Thrailkill at ttriple2@uthsc.edu or 901-448-7827.

New Faculty Orientation

Date: September 25, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A102

Overview:

The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.

This orientation is for ALL faculty hired as of January 2015 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM and lunch will be provided at 12:00 PM.

To register to attend please go to: http://bit.do/NFO-Fall15

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:

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.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

Backing Up With Backchannels (Online Learning Consortium Webinar)

Date: May 27, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Julia VanderMolen (Assistant Professor in College of Health Professions at Grand Valley State University)

Overview:

Students need instructor guidance to use virtual platforms for academic purposes. Faculty cannot rely on their students’  “so called” digital native status to know how and what to do with technology. Just a few years ago, no one had heard of “backchanneling”, nowadays, it has become mainstream.

Students’ desire to participate in the backchannel is increased if they have a sense of community within the channel, which is most easily built through social interactions and shared experiences. Learn the role of the backchannel in a collaborative learning environment.

This topic will be of interest to online and blended learning faculty and educators. Participants will learn about student and faculty benefits from backchannels, ways to use backchannels in the classroom and what tools to use for backchanneling in online and blended classroom.

To register to attend this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/olc-backchannels

Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement (Magna Online 40-Minute Seminar)

Session Archive Available

Date: Session took place April 28, 2015

Presenter: Lolita Paff, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Business & Economics at Penn State Berks)

Overview:

Online discussion is a great way for students to connect and learn. But you can’t just set up a board and leave it there. Students need responses to their work to keep growing and learning. An unmonitored discussion board can lead to huge headaches and not much learning. This means you need effective strategies to keep students on task and promote truly educational online interaction.

Online Discussion: Practices to Boost Learning & Engagement will show you how to coach students toward meaningful discussion. By the end of the seminar, you’ll have the insights and tools you need to:

•    Employ alternative strategies to promote interaction and develop students’ online discussion skills
•    Compare and apply different discussion board formats to increase student interest and engagement
•    Identify and manage techniques to empower students as facilitators of online discussion

Links to the session recording and materials are available within the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll

OLC: 8th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium 2015

Session Archives Available

Conference Dates: Took place April 22nd – April 24th, 2015 in Dallas, TX

Conference Overview:

As emerging technologies continue to be embraced and are changing the way people socialize and learn, we are presented with new opportunities for leveraging emerging technology and pedagogy to shape the next generation of teaching and learning. But emerging technologies are reshaping more than pedagogy. Wearable technologies, analytics, an increased appreciation for openness, connected learning, global collaboration, social technologies and the increasing need to encourage experimentation in order to innovate are also impacting how we train, support, and incentivize faculty; design learning environments; and lead within a higher education organization.

The all-star line up of speakers for the Online Learning Consortium’s ET4Online 2015 will provide you with provocative and meaningful insight about how emerging technologies are impacting higher education and recontextualize our academic experiences within an agile, fluid world.

A complete list of  recorded sessions can be found at: http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/conference/2015/et4online/streamed_sessions

Information related to accessing session archives from this conference are located in the Professional Development within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) if you need assistance accessing the session archives.

Professional Sessions

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: May 29, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Speaker:  Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, MLS (Assistant Professor Dept. of Health Informatics and Information Management at University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

Topic: A Framework for Emerging Topic Detection in Biomedicine

Session Overview:

Policy makers, funding agencies and researchers need tools for emerging trend analysis of scientific research. Emerging topic detection algorithms have the potential to assist researchers in maintaining awareness of current trends in biomedical fields – a feat not easily achieved with existing methods. Though topic detection algorithms for news cycles exist, several aspects of this particular area make applying them directly to scientific literature problematic.

This work presents a framework for emerging topic detection. It builds upon the probabilistic burst detection algorithm developed by Kleinberg. Characterization of bursts over an extended planning horizon by discipline was performed to understand what a typical burst trend looks like in this space to better understand how to identify important or emerging trends.

AIHC Leadership Webinar Series – Developing Interprofessional Champions in the Clinical Environment: Opportunites for Preceptors

Session Archive Available

Date: Session took place May 8, 2015

Overview:

Interprofessional education is becoming increasingly common in health professions’ pre-licensure curriculum.  As part of this education, students need “real” opportunities to see interprofessional collaborative practice role modeled and to practice “real” interprofessional team-based care.

This webinar responds to the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s recent call for aligning interprofessional education and clinical practice redesign to achieve the Triple Aim.  We need preceptors (aka clinical educators) and clinical sites developed where students experience both interprofessional practice and education in live patient care environments.

This webinar will feature two university approaches for developing preceptors to be interprofessional champions in the clinical environment.  Each case study will provide information on their approaches and materials, lessons learned and strategies for success.

Objectives:

1.    Identify the need for developing preceptors to align interprofessional education and clinical practice redesign.
2.    Compare and contrast two cases studies that feature a variety of approaches and materials for preceptor development.
3.    Discuss common barriers, lessons learned and strategies for success regarding development of preceptors that are interprofessional champions.

The recording and materials for this session are available at: https://nexusipe.org/resource-exchange/developing-interprofessional-champions-clinical-environment-opportunities

Toastmasters Brain Builders UTHSC Chapter

Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: The Urban Child Institute, 600 Jefferson Avenue, 1st Floor, Conference Room 4

If you would like to become an engaging public speaker, improve your skills as a teacher, seminar speaker or when presenting professionally to your colleagues, joining a Toastmasters club will allow you to reach your goals fast in a professional environment. A Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere. Free parking is available and everyone is welcome!

For more information about Toastmasters contact Detlef Heck (dheck@uthsc.edu) or Bill Howell (atenra@comcast.net).

Additional Resources

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

UTHSC’s Faculty Resource Center
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