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August 2021
Partner Webinar: New School Year, New You: Strategies for Managing Stress, Exhaustion, and Burnout for Pandemic Fatigued and Weary Online Instructors
This webinar is part of our OLC Innovate 2021 Best-in-Track (Leadership and Advocacy) summer webinar series! For some instructors, the pandemic events of 2020 and 2021 brought new challenges to teaching and learning, alongside an imbalance in routines, priorities, and self-care habits. Many Instructors found themselves buried under grading and content creation, all while managing multiple other personal and professional priorities. As we embark on a new school year, join us for an engaging and collaborative group conversation to identify…
Find out more »Facilitator 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 »Building Course Structure with the Bricks of Engagement
In this session, participants will learn how creating structured interactions within online and in-person courses can be beneficial to students and increase their engagement. In addition to this, this session will describe how structure can help reduce cognitive load for students and assist with inclusivity in the classroom. Session Objectives: Define structure and describe the ways it can be used to increase student engagement List and explain examples of using structure to navigate group work Explain how structure can help establish productive and inclusive remote interactions
Find out more »Myth of Multitasking
We’ve all heard it, and we all think we’re good at it, but multitasking is a LIE! Attend this presentation and learn about how the brain works and how multitasking is really not effective. We will participate in an exercise that proves multitasking is a lie and view several video snippets to help you explain to your students the myth of multitasking. Hopefully, this will steer them in the right direction! Instructional objectives: Describe the difference between multitasking and switchtasking…
Find out more »7 Things You Should Know About the HyFlex Course Model
The hybrid flexible, or HyFlex, course format is an instructional approach that combines face-to-face (F2F) and online learning. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online. Students can decide how to participate. This session is based on The 7 Things You Should Know About... series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) which provides a quick and concise overview of a single topic for time-pressed colleagues. Learning Objectives: - Define HyFlex - Explain how HyFlex…
Find out more »Mayer’s Multimedia Learning Theory
This session will cover Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning and how they related to creating engaging and effective presentations. These principles can also be used not just in PowerPoint presentations, but eLearning modules and online lessons. Learning Objectives: List and describe the 12 Principles Explain how the principles relate to online learning Explain how the principles can be used to create presentations
Find out more »Facilitator 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 »7 Things You Should Know About Adaptive Learning
Adaptive learning is one technique for providing personalized learning, which aims to provide efficient, effective, and customized learning paths to engage each student. This session is based on The 7 Things You Should Know About… series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) which provides a quick and concise overview of a single topic for time-pressed colleagues. Learning Objectives: – Define adaptive learning – Explain how adaptive learning works and who's doing it – Discuss the future of adaptive…
Find out more »September 2021
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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