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

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

Backing Up With Backchannels

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

Professional Sessions

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

To register to attend this session go to: http://bit.ly/1Gq6bD0

Professional Sessions

Interprofessional Education Conference: Let’s Start Talking – The importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety

Date: April 29, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Freeman Auditorium – Hamilton Eye Institute

Overview:

The Interprofessional Education Conference organized by the HRSA Interprofessional Education Grant Team (UTHSC Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry) will examine the importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety. The goal of IPE of health care providers is to provide evidence-based and comprehensive health care for diverse patient populations. Healthcare needs of patients often transcend the individual health care provider and encompass various roles played by an interprofessional team of health professionals.

Conference Objectives:

• Describe the potential impact of interprofessional communication on patient outcomes and safety
• Articulate the benefit of the use of technology in improving the communication among healthcare providers, patients, and/or caregivers
• Examine the characteristics of an effective team communication scenario

To register to attend this conference go to: https://2015ipeconference.eventbrite.com  (space is limited)

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

Date: May 8, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A104

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.

To register to attend this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/ipe-champions

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

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

Dates: April 22nd – April 24th

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. UTHSC has a limited number of logins available for virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in Dallas, Texas. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location and will also provide access to the session recordings for one year.

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

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.

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

To register to attend this session go to: http://bit.ly/1Gq6bD0

Professional Sessions

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: April 24, 2015
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Presenter: Aman Patel, Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer for Computational Biology (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)

Topic: A Text mining talk: A Support Vector Machine-based Recommendation Classifier for Medical Content and Occupations

Overview:

With the rapid growth of online information, text classification has become a key technique for organizing and searching text data. A key part of the web is the recommendation engine, with which users browsing for content online are given recommendations based on their attributes and/or their past viewing history.

This talk serves as an introduction to textual data mining and the mathematical foundations behind various machine learning classifiers. We will use a real world data set of nearly 950 medical seminar documents to illustrate a method for building an automated content classifier for biomedical occupations. Performance results will also be shown with various experiments conducted to find the best combination of parameters that results in 90%+ accuracy among the trained automated classifier.

Mr. Patel currently works as Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer in Computational Biology department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Before this he was responsible for creating and managing Cure4Kids, and Pond4Kids projects at the Outreach department also at St. Jude. Cure4Kids is a web based collaboration platform for Pediatric Oncologists and other medical professionals, it hosts over 1400 medical seminars. Pond4kids is a free online EHR tool built for use by St. Jude partner hospitals around the world. It hosts over 200k medical records and is the central tool used by the IOP to gather patient data from partner hospitals. He currently hold a Masters and Bachelors of science degree in Computer Science.

Interprofessional Education Conference: Let’s Start Talking – The importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety

Date: April 29, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Freeman Auditorium – Hamilton Eye Institute

Overview:

The Interprofessional Education Conference organized by the HRSA Interprofessional Education Grant Team (UTHSC Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry) will examine the importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety. The goal of IPE of health care providers is to provide evidence-based and comprehensive health care for diverse patient populations. Healthcare needs of patients often transcend the individual health care provider and encompass various roles played by an interprofessional team of health professionals.

Conference Objectives:

• Describe the potential impact of interprofessional communication on patient outcomes and safety
• Articulate the benefit of the use of technology in improving the communication among healthcare providers, patients, and/or caregivers
• Examine the characteristics of an effective team communication scenario

To register to attend this conference go to: https://2015ipeconference.eventbrite.com  (space is limited)

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

Date: May 8, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A104

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.

To register to attend this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/ipe-champions

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

IAMSE Spring 2015 Webinar Series (Interprofessional Education and Practice – The Tide has Come In!)

(Session Archives Now Available)

Date: Sessions took place February 26th – March 26th, 2015

Series Overview:

Waves of interest and excitement in Interprofessional Education (IPE) are sweeping across health science schools, accrediting bodies, and national health agencies. In just the past two years in the US, national objectives have been produced and several centers for IPE have been created to assist faculty and practitioners in designing curricular programs and extending the outcomes into interprofessional practice. The Spring IAMSE webcast seminar series brings together a collection of leaders and programs that have implemented successful IPE activities and/or have unique approaches to addressing challenges that IPE may be facing in healthcare delivery.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews and presenter bios please go to: http://tinyurl.com/iamse-spring2015

Information related to accessing the recording and materials for these sessions is located in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

To register to attend this session go to: http://bit.ly/1Gq6bD0

Professional Sessions

Interprofessional Education Conference: Let’s Start Talking – The importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety

Date: April 29, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Freeman Auditorium – Hamilton Eye Institute

Overview:

The Interprofessional Education Conference organized by the HRSA Interprofessional Education Grant Team (UTHSC Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry) will examine the importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety. The goal of IPE of health care providers is to provide evidence-based and comprehensive health care for diverse patient populations. Healthcare needs of patients often transcend the individual health care provider and encompass various roles played by an interprofessional team of health professionals.

Conference Objectives:

• Describe the potential impact of interprofessional communication on patient outcomes and safety
• Articulate the benefit of the use of technology in improving the communication among healthcare providers, patients, and/or caregivers
• Examine the characteristics of an effective team communication scenario

To register to attend this conference go to: https://2015ipeconference.eventbrite.com  (space is limited)

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

Date: May 8, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: GEB A104

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.

To register to attend this session go to: http://tinyurl.com/ipe-champions

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Professional Sessions

Interprofessional Education Conference: Let’s Start Talking – The importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety

Date: April 29, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Freeman Auditorium – Hamilton Eye Institute

Overview:

The Interprofessional Education Conference organized by the HRSA Interprofessional Education Grant Team (UTHSC Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry) will examine the importance of interprofessional communication in improving patient outcomes and safety. The goal of IPE of health care providers is to provide evidence-based and comprehensive health care for diverse patient populations. Healthcare needs of patients often transcend the individual health care provider and encompass various roles played by an interprofessional team of health professionals.

Conference Objectives:

• Describe the potential impact of interprofessional communication on patient outcomes and safety
• Articulate the benefit of the use of technology in improving the communication among healthcare providers, patients, and/or caregivers
• Examine the characteristics of an effective team communication scenario

To register to attend this conference go to: https://2015ipeconference.eventbrite.com  (space is limited)

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).

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

IAMSE Spring 2015 Webinar Series (Interprofessional Education and Practice – The Tide has Come In!)

(Session Archives Now Available)

Date: Sessions took place February 26th – March 26th, 2015

Series Overview:

Waves of interest and excitement in Interprofessional Education (IPE) are sweeping across health science schools, accrediting bodies, and national health agencies. In just the past two years in the US, national objectives have been produced and several centers for IPE have been created to assist faculty and practitioners in designing curricular programs and extending the outcomes into interprofessional practice. The Spring IAMSE webcast seminar series brings together a collection of leaders and programs that have implemented successful IPE activities and/or have unique approaches to addressing challenges that IPE may be facing in healthcare delivery.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews and presenter bios please go to: http://tinyurl.com/iamse-spring2015

Information related to accessing the recording and materials for these sessions is located in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

To register to attend this session go to: http://bit.ly/1Gq6bD0

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Professional Sessions

AIHC Leadership Webinar Series – Developing Faculty to Improve Quality of Care

Date: April 7, 2015
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenters: Les Hall, MD, FACP – University of South Carolina School of Medicine; Linda Headrick, MD, MS, FACP – University of Missouri

Overview:

Although quality improvement (QI) initiatives have helped to improve health care outcomes and safety in recent years, many faculty members feel ill-equipped to teach improvement skills to learners.

In this AIHC Leadership Series webinar, Dr. Linda Headrick and Dr. Les Hall will summarize a decade of experience in teaching QI to interprofessional health professions learners at the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo). They will highlight faculty development strategies that accompanied a gradually enlarging portfolio of QI learning opportunities for health professions students, leading to an expanded pool of faculty members engaged in this arena.

The session will conclude with a brief description of two national initiatives, supported by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Association of American Medical Colleges, that seek to escalate the number of faculty leading education programs in quality improvement and patient safety.

Session Objectives:

• Identify strategies to engage faculty members in the practice and teaching of quality improvement.
• Articulate successful educational strategies to engage learners from multiple health professions in quality improvement initiatives.
• Recognize how faculty members can use quality improvement as a means to simultaneously improve educational programs, improve systems of care and teach interprofessional teamwork.

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

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).

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

(Archive Now Available) Best Practices in Flipped Class Design (Magna Online 40-Minute Seminar)

Date: Session took place March 26, 2015

Presenter: Robert Talbert, Ph.D. – Associate Professor Mathematics at Grand Valley State University

Overview:

A long-standing model for teaching consisted of two separate but mutually complementary parts. First, teachers would expose students to new course material in the classroom through lectures, audiovisual presentations, and other in-class demonstrations. Then, students would study and assimilate the lessons on their own—outside of class. But a different teaching paradigm is disrupting this traditional approach in dramatic ways. The shift has students introducing themselves to the material first and using class time to process what they’ve studied. In short, the plan for learning has flipped.

In this Magna 40-Minute Seminar, you’ll explore the different variations of flipped learning, see examples of each, and walk away with a model for flipped course design based on learning theory and backwards design. Register today to see how the flipped class design could mean the next significant step in the way you teach your courses and in how your students learn.

Information related to accessing the recording and materials for this session is located in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

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

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

IAMSE Spring Webinar Series (Interprofessional Education and Practice – The Tide has Come In!)

Series Overview:

Waves of interest and excitement in Interprofessional Education (IPE) are sweeping across health science schools, accrediting bodies, and national health agencies. In just the past two years in the US, national objectives have been produced and several centers for IPE have been created to assist faculty and practitioners in designing curricular programs and extending the outcomes into interprofessional practice. The Spring IAMSE webcast seminar series brings together a collection of leaders and programs that have implemented successful IPE activities and/or have unique approaches to addressing challenges that IPE may be facing in healthcare delivery.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews and presenter bios please go to: http://tinyurl.com/iamse-spring2015

To register to attend these sessions go to: http://tinyurl.com/uthsccalendar

IAMSE Webinar Series Schedule:

March 26th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)
Topic: Transforming Health Disparities Through Interprofessional Education, Research and Service
Presented by: Memoona Hasnain (MD, MHPE, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development & Research in the Department of Family Medicine – College of Medicine at the University of Illinois)

Best Practices in Flipped Class Design (Magna Online 40-Minute Seminar)

Date: March 26, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Robert Talbert, Ph.D. – Associate Professor Mathematics at Grand Valley State University

Overview:

A long-standing model for teaching consisted of two separate but mutually complementary parts. First, teachers would expose students to new course material in the classroom through lectures, audiovisual presentations, and other in-class demonstrations. Then, students would study and assimilate the lessons on their own—outside of class. But a different teaching paradigm is disrupting this traditional approach in dramatic ways. The shift has students introducing themselves to the material first and using class time to process what they’ve studied. In short, the plan for learning has flipped.

In this Magna 40-Minute Seminar, you’ll explore the different variations of flipped learning, see examples of each, and walk away with a model for flipped course design based on learning theory and backwards design. Register today to see how the flipped class design could mean the next significant step in the way you teach your courses and in how your students learn.

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

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

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

Professional Sessions

IRB Insights- Information Security Presents Research Data Security

Date: March 26, 2015
Time: 12:o0 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: GEB A204

Overview:

Join the IRB on Thursday, March 26, 2015, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in the GEB, Rm. A204.  Information Security will discuss the acceptable, secure ways to store and transfer confidential subject data and subject PHI with identifiers.  Storing your data on a password-protected computer is not enough!  Come learn what the requirements are.  (Note that the IRB meeting is not in the usual Insights location; we will be in A204 this time.)

To register: http://uthsc.edu/research/research_compliance/IRB/insight_reg.php
Remote sites:  http://mediasitevm1.uthsc.edu/uthscms/Play/bee95f595d7d47b69f68944cae0e667e1d

BIG Meeting

Date: March 27, 2015
Time: 12:o0 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Presenters: Dr. Helmut Steinberg, MD (Professor Medicine-Endocrinology, Department of Medicine) and Dr. Emanuel Villa (Data Architect – UTHSC ORNL Center for Biomedical Informatics)

Topic: The Methodist Diabetes, Chronic Condition, and Wellness Registry – Creating Opportunities for Improving Population Health

Overview:

Mr. Villa and Dr. Steinberg will present the results of their work to develop the Diabetes Wellness and Prevention Registry. This data mart collects patient data from the Methodist South hospital and combines it with PCP and lab data from linked providers in the community. Data are presented to the user through a visual analytic interface.

New Faculty Orientation

Date: March 27, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: SAC (Student Alumni Center) – OD Larry Dining Hall

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 September 2014 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM. Orientation will begin at 8:00 AM.

This orientation will also include a lunch where faculty will have the opportunity to get into groups specific to their college to engage in discussion topics that are unique to that college. Along with the new faculty, this lunch will be open for all faculty hired as of July 2014 and in the months following (even if they’ve attended previous New Faculty Orientations). Lunch will be from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

If you did not register to attend New Faculty Orientation or the New Faculty Orientation lunch by the deadline of 12:00 PM March 20th, please contact Lisa Zeigler (lzeigler@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2226) or Nathalie Occean (noccean@uthsc.edu / 901-448-4930) to check on available space.

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

IAMSE Spring Webinar Series (Interprofessional Education and Practice – The Tide has Come In!)

Series Overview:

Waves of interest and excitement in Interprofessional Education (IPE) are sweeping across health science schools, accrediting bodies, and national health agencies. In just the past two years in the US, national objectives have been produced and several centers for IPE have been created to assist faculty and practitioners in designing curricular programs and extending the outcomes into interprofessional practice. The Spring IAMSE webcast seminar series brings together a collection of leaders and programs that have implemented successful IPE activities and/or have unique approaches to addressing challenges that IPE may be facing in healthcare delivery.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews and presenter bios please go to: http://tinyurl.com/iamse-spring2015

To register to attend these sessions go to: http://tinyurl.com/uthsccalendar

IAMSE Webinar Series Schedule:

March 19th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)

Topic: Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Continuing Interprofessional Education (CIPE) Activities Using a Systematic Planning Process
Presented by: John Owen (MD, MSc, Associate Director of Center for Academic Strategic Partnerships for Interprofessional Research and Education – University of Virginia)

March 26th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)
Topic: Transforming Health Disparities Through Interprofessional Education, Research and Service
Presented by: Memoona Hasnain (MD, MHPE, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development & Research in the Department of Family Medicine – College of Medicine at the University of Illinois)

Best Practices in Flipped Class Design (Magna Online 40-Minute Seminar)

Date: March 26, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Robert Talbert, Ph.D. – Associate Professor Mathematics at Grand Valley State University

Overview:

A long-standing model for teaching consisted of two separate but mutually complementary parts. First, teachers would expose students to new course material in the classroom through lectures, audiovisual presentations, and other in-class demonstrations. Then, students would study and assimilate the lessons on their own—outside of class. But a different teaching paradigm is disrupting this traditional approach in dramatic ways. The shift has students introducing themselves to the material first and using class time to process what they’ve studied. In short, the plan for learning has flipped.

In this Magna 40-Minute Seminar, you’ll explore the different variations of flipped learning, see examples of each, and walk away with a model for flipped course design based on learning theory and backwards design. Register today to see how the flipped class design could mean the next significant step in the way you teach your courses and in how your students learn.

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

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

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

Professional Sessions

New Faculty Orientation

Date: March 27, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: SAC (Student Alumni Center) – OD Larry Dining Hall

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 September 2014 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM. Orientation will begin at 8:00 AM.

This orientation will also include a lunch where faculty will have the opportunity to get into groups specific to their college to engage in discussion topics that are unique to that college. Along with the new faculty, this lunch will be open for all faculty hired as of July 2014 and in the months following (even if they’ve attended previous New Faculty Orientations). Lunch will be from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Deadline to register for New Faculty Orientation is 12:00 PM March 20th (Friday).

Please use the following link to RSVP your attendance for New Faculty Orientation: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-nfo-spring2015

If you plan to attend only the NFO Orientation lunch please register at: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-nfo-spring2015-lunch

Questions regarding New Faculty Orientation? Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253).

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/

Professional Sessions

New Faculty Orientation

Date: March 27, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: SAC (Student Alumni Center) – OD Larry Dining Hall

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 September 2014 and in the months following. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM. Orientation will begin at 8:00 AM.

This orientation will also include a lunch where faculty will have the opportunity to get into groups specific to their college to engage in discussion topics that are unique to that college. Along with the new faculty, this lunch will be open for all faculty hired as of July 2014 and in the months following (even if they’ve attended previous New Faculty Orientations). Lunch will be from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Deadline to register for New Faculty Orientation is 12:00 PM March 20th (Friday).

Please use the following link to RSVP your attendance for New Faculty Orientation: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-nfo-spring2015

If you plan to attend only the NFO Orientation lunch please register at: http://tinyurl.com/uthsc-nfo-spring2015-lunch

Questions regarding New Faculty Orientation? Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253).

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).

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

IAMSE Spring Webinar Series (Interprofessional Education and Practice – The Tide has Come In!)

Series Overview:

Waves of interest and excitement in Interprofessional Education (IPE) are sweeping across health science schools, accrediting bodies, and national health agencies. In just the past two years in the US, national objectives have been produced and several centers for IPE have been created to assist faculty and practitioners in designing curricular programs and extending the outcomes into interprofessional practice. The Spring IAMSE webcast seminar series brings together a collection of leaders and programs that have implemented successful IPE activities and/or have unique approaches to addressing challenges that IPE may be facing in healthcare delivery.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews and presenter bios please go to: http://tinyurl.com/iamse-spring2015

To register to attend these sessions go to: http://tinyurl.com/uthsccalendar

IAMSE Webinar Series Schedule:

March 12th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)
Topic: Going Big: Integrating IPE Across a Large Health Sciences Campus
Presented by: Alan Dow (MD, MSHA, Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care – Virginia Commonwealth University)

March 19th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)

Topic: Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Continuing Interprofessional Education (CIPE) Activities Using a Systematic Planning Process
Presented by: John Owen (MD, MSc, Associate Director of Center for Academic Strategic Partnerships for Interprofessional Research and Education – University of Virginia)

March 26th (11:00 AM in GEB A304)
Topic: Transforming Health Disparities Through Interprofessional Education, Research and Service
Presented by: Memoona Hasnain (MD, MHPE, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development & Research in the Department of Family Medicine – College of Medicine at the University of Illinois)

Best Practices in Flipped Class Design (Magna Online 40-Minute Seminar)

Date: March 26, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Robert Talbert, Ph.D. – Associate Professor Mathematics at Grand Valley State University

Overview:

A long-standing model for teaching consisted of two separate but mutually complementary parts. First, teachers would expose students to new course material in the classroom through lectures, audiovisual presentations, and other in-class demonstrations. Then, students would study and assimilate the lessons on their own—outside of class. But a different teaching paradigm is disrupting this traditional approach in dramatic ways. The shift has students introducing themselves to the material first and using class time to process what they’ve studied. In short, the plan for learning has flipped.

In this Magna 40-Minute Seminar, you’ll explore the different variations of flipped learning, see examples of each, and walk away with a model for flipped course design based on learning theory and backwards design. Register today to see how the flipped class design could mean the next significant step in the way you teach your courses and in how your students learn.

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

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

Date: April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Location: GEB A304

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

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

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
View schedule of professional development opportunities and read out latest blog post at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/