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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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  • 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

Using a Medical Humanities Framework to Support Inclusive Learning

This webinar considers how tools from the emergent field of Medical Humanities can supporting inclusive learning environments. Participants will engage in practices like narrative medicine, visual analysis, and historic contextualization. The webinar offers practical tools to implement inclusive pedagogies in a range of health science learning environments.

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  • Kelly Jo Fulkerson Dikuua, PhD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center

Teaching for Learning: Evidence-based Instructional Strategies

The research on teaching and learning in higher education is better than ever. Studies are being done in nearly every discipline and field imaginable and on many different instructional strategies and techniques. These studies have much to offer our understanding about how to improve student learning. Evidence-based teaching has finally arrived, and indeed it is… Read More

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  • Claire Major, PhD, Professor, Education, University of Alabama

Interpreting Student Ratings of Instruction (Student Course Evaluations)

This workshop discusses best practices for interpreting student ratings of instruction (SRI). Guided by the latest research on student ratings of instruction, participants contemplate the role of SRI among other indicators of teaching effectiveness. Following that, participants apply the Filter-Interpret-Plan model to sample SRI and will develop a plan to leverage their own SRI to… Read More

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  • Devin Scott, PhD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center

Turning Teaching Activities into Educational Scholarship

Have you ever wondered if the teaching activities you implement are effective in improving student performance? Are you interested in developing a research project to study these activities and disseminate the results to the world? This session focuses on the steps necessary to turn your teaching activities into educational scholarship. Participants will explore what makes… Read More

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  • Amy Hall, EdD, Instructional Consultant, Teaching and Learning Center

Are Your Tests Biased? A Guide for Implementing Inclusive Testing Guidelines in Your Assessments

We often mistakenly assume when writing assessments for our students that our learners are “just like us.” We use terminology, phrases, abbreviations, and pronouns that we prefer and know, that often leave our students confused and sometimes wounded. We review our tests by solely looking at statistics, but should we also be looking at linguistics?… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, Instructor, College of Nursing

Engaging Students in Active Learning

Our knowledge of how students learn has grown significantly over the last few decades. In keeping with this trend, the quality and sheer amount of research on instructional strategies has also grown, and active learning has emerged as an instructional method that can improve learning outcomes for all students. In this session, participants will learn… Read More

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  • Claire Major, PhD, University of Alabama

Recharging in Real Time

As we strive to take care of our students, our families, our colleagues, our residents, our patients, and others in our communities, how do we make sure we’re also taking care of ourselves? Join Dr. Mukta Panda, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Bindiya Bagga, Associate Professor of Pediatrics as they provide practical strategies and… Read More

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  • Mukta Panda, MD, College of Medicine
  • Bindiya Bagga, MD, College of Medicine