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October 2021
Let’s Toast to Toastmasters!
Interested in enhancing your public speaking skills? Join Toastmasters! Toastmasters is an internationally recognized nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills to individuals worldwide. The organization's membership exceeds 300,000 in more than 15,800 clubs in 149 countries. WesternU once had a thriving Toastmasters Club; we would like to reignite that spark once again! Join us for this Toastmasters Demo Meeting. Learn about the organization, membership, recognition, and leadership opportunities. During this meeting we hope to identify the…
Find out more »The emerging science of citations: What authors should know
Citations in peer-reviewed manuscripts have a legacy that conveys the writer gave proper attribution to owners of ideas or concepts. Advances in technology has brought forth additional dimensions on the importance of citations. Through this presentation, participants will learn about the emergence of citation errors and the impact citations errors have on authors and journals. Participants will explore a framework on how to classify citation errors and will learn techniques to avoid the most common errors.
Find out more »Facilitator Development Series
As competency-based education expands across the health professions the methods we use in the classroom also expand in order to promote active learning both inside and outside of the classroom. While we develop new learner skills through a competency-based approach we must also develop new faculty skills to meet the expanding needs for our students to attain competence. Both small group and large classroom teaching must adapt and expand how we teach and how we engage with learners. In…
Find out more »Addressing the Gap, Advancing the Knowledge: Guidance for the Abstract Reviewer
Although guidance exists for writing abstracts, much less information is available on reviewing abstracts and what constitutes an appropriate review. This presentation provides an overview of the role of an abstract reviewer and information potential reviewers can use to improve the quality of their reviews
Find out more »Creating Visual Content Designs Customized to Your Needs Using Canva
“Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.” The course will discuss how to use Canva and will show examples of visual content that can be created using the platform and in addition interactions and discussions on creating customs content.
Find out more »Connecting Educational Concepts with Mind Mapping Techniques
Mind mapping is a technique used to visually outline information. By using words, pictures and diagrams, mind mapping can help professors teach connections in course material, as well as help students study. The main concept, or idea, is at the center of the mind map. From the nucleus-center, themes associated with the main concept branch out; and from each of these themes, additional branches or twigs begin to grow as attributing information begins to unveil itself as a subset…
Find out more »November 2021
Getting Started with Quality Matters
Quality Matters began with a small group of Maryland colleagues who were trying to solve a common problem among institutions: how do we measure and guarantee the quality of a course? This question became important because many institutions were trying to create a system where they could share available seats in their online courses with other institutions. Because of this, they worked to create courses of quality for their students, regardless of where the course originated. In 2003, the colleagues created the Quality Matters program, which would create a scalable…
Find out more »Facilitator Development Series
As competency-based education expands across the health professions the methods we use in the classroom also expand in order to promote active learning both inside and outside of the classroom. While we develop new learner skills through a competency-based approach we must also develop new faculty skills to meet the expanding needs for our students to attain competence. Both small group and large classroom teaching must adapt and expand how we teach and how we engage with learners. In…
Find out more »Facilitator Development Series
As competency-based education expands across the health professions the methods we use in the classroom also expand in order to promote active learning both inside and outside of the classroom. While we develop new learner skills through a competency-based approach we must also develop new faculty skills to meet the expanding needs for our students to attain competence. Both small group and large classroom teaching must adapt and expand how we teach and how we engage with learners. In…
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