Tag: Student Engagement


One Minute Preceptor

The One Minute Preceptor is an effective, efficient, and easy teaching strategy for faculty to engage learners in case presentations. In this session, explore the five steps in the One Minute Preceptor including the role of both faculty and learner within the process. Participants will practice implementing the One Minute Preceptor through small group case-based… Read More

ChatGPT: Optimizing Artificial Intelligence for Education

A panel of faculty, staff, and students will discuss ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool that can automatically write a paper on any topic. The group will discuss the tool and how it is used, the implications for UTHSC’s honor code and academic integrity, and strategies and ideas for how to incorporate the tool into your… Read More

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  • Kelly Jo Fulkerson Dikuua, PhD, Teaching and Learning Center
  • Amy Hall, EdD, Teaching and Learning Center
  • Tom Laughner, PhD, Teaching and Learning Center
  • Ted Cory, PhD, College of Pharmacy
  • Chance Arnold, College of Health Professions
  • Bailey Floyd, College of Health Professions
  • Elizabeth Tobener, College of Graduate Health Sciences

Reimagining Engaging Learners

Dr. Krishnaiah will discuss his findings on generational differences and the uniqueness of the current generation, the defining characteristics and learning preferences of the current generation of students and residents in the health professions (Generation Z), and finally some of the ways he has effectively used learning strategies to better engage his students.

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  • Balaji Krishnaiah, MD, College of Medicine

Marketing Good Teaching or: How to Convince Students to Love Effective Teaching

Are you ready to adopt the latest research on effective teaching in your classes? Great! Are your students ready to make the move from passive to active learning? Students are often resistant to changes to teaching because they do not understand the compelling reasons to engage in active learning. They got here with traditional lectures… Read More

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  • Devin Scott, PhD

Reframing the Lecture as a Pedagogy of Engagement

To lecture or not to lecture? This is a common question in higher education today, as critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, often are leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. There are, however, other forms of lecture. So perhaps the question we should… Read More

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Presenter:

  • Claire Major, PhD, University of Alabama

Leveraging Case-Based Learning to Increase Learner Engagement with Materials

Dr. Jackson will discuss his strategies to engage students through the use of case-based learning. During this session, participants will: Define case-based learning  Distinguish case-based learning from problem-based learning Identify features of effective case-based learning sessions Review strategies to enhance case-based learning sessions

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  • Chris Jackson, MD, College of Medicine

How to Engage Your Students’ Minds Without Losing Yours

Faculty are so busy with didactic, lab, clinical, meetings, research, curriculum changes and their own personal lives that integrating active learning within a class seems like an insurmountable task. Don’t fret! There is hope! During our time together, we will discover how active learning differs from passive learning and just how easy it is to… Read More

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Presenters:

  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, College of Nursing
  • Christie Manasco, PhD, College of Nursing

Using Gamification to Engage Students

One way to engage healthcare professional students is through the use of gamification and games. Gamification and games can be used to help encourage learners to motivate actions, progress through content, and reinforce behavior and knowledge. While games and gamification are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. The use of gamification for learning is… Read More

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  • Chelsea Renfro, PharmD, College of Pharmacy