ESSC coordinates a variety of events featuring topics relating to faculty members in any stage of their career. We welcome every faculty member to participate in events of interest to them. Faculty may volunteer to present on topics of interest to their colleagues, and suggestions are always welcome.
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Tentative Schedule Spring 2024
# | Event | When | Format |
1 | “AI in Healthcare Education Instructional Design” by David White, Scott Wright, Assistant Professors in Instructional Design, OED & Helen Hu, Associate Professor in Academic Affairs, ESSC | Thursday, February 15, 2024, 12-1pm | Zoom |
2 | “Make It Stick” Book Club (Chapter 5+6), facilitated by Helen Hu, Associate Professor in ESSC, Academic Affairs & David White, Assistant Professor in Instructional Design, OED | Thursday, Feb 22, 2024, 12-1pm | Zoom |
3 | “Managing Through the Myths: A Realistic Look at Time Management” by Marybeth Norcross, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Assistant Professor in ESSC, Academic Affairs | Thursday, March 14, 2024, 12-1pm | Zoom |
4 | “Make It Stick” Book Club (Chapter 7+8), facilitated by Helen Hu, Associate Professor in ESSC, Academic Affairs & David White, Assistant Professor in Instructional Design, OED | Thursday, Mar 28, 2024,12-1pm | Zoom |
5 | “Blackboard Ultra: Tips, Tricks, & Frequently Asked Questions” by Jake Martar, Assistant Professor in eLearning & the eLearning group, OED | Friday, April 5, 12-1pm | Zoom |
Teaching Workshops:
“AI in Healthcare Education Instructional Design” (Thursday, February 15, 2024, 12-1pm, via Zoom, presented by David White, Scott Wright & Helen Hu)
Introduction:
Do you want to save time from designing your courses? Would you like ideas for how to make your classes more active and engaging for students? This session will explore the potential of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare education instructional design. The concepts and characteristics of Artificial Intelligence will be defined using appropriate terminology. Benefits of using AI in active learning, AI applications, including Blackboard tools, and best practices for implementing AI in active learning will be discussed.
“Managing Through the Myths: A Realistic Look at Time Management” (Thursday, March 14, 2024, 12-1 p.m., Zoom, presented by: Marybeth Norcross)
Introduction:
Do you constantly feel like you have too many tasks and not enough time? Does the advice that you just need “better time management” make you feel frustrated? Join us for Managing Through the Myths: A Realistic Look at Time Management. In this presentation we will examine four common myths about time management that cause people to struggle and what you can do to more realistically manage both yourself and your workload. Participants will be encouraged to examine their workload in light of their personal lives and professional growth as we offer practical advice on how they can rethink their approach to time and find healthy ways to find work/life balance.
“Blackboard Ultra: Tips, Tricks, & Frequently Asked Questions” (Friday, April 5, 12-1pm, via Zoom, presented by Jake Martar & the eLearning group)
Introduction:
Join the eLearning team for a faculty-focused presentation: gain strategies, tips, and answers to frequently asked questions. Optimize your use of Blackboard Ultra and enhance your teaching experience.
Please click on this link to sign up for the Workshops.
Learning Communities:
“Make It Stick” Book Club
(Thursdays, Feb 22, Mar 28, 2024, 12-1 p.m., via Zoom, facilitated by: Helen Hu & David White)
Less formally structured than traditional professional development, learning network activities offer opportunities to learn and grow as professionals with support from a diverse network of people and resources.
“To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners” — (from the Amazon description).
Join us for a study of “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” (2014), by Peter Brown.
Faculty are experts in their fields, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn but most academics don’t have the time nor the resources to learn about learning or how to help students learn successfully. “Make it Stick” takes you through the fundamentals of cognitive psychology, and readers will find practical ideas and tips on cognitive psychology, course design, and student engagement they can use to help students succeed.
This book club will have consecutive monthly meetings to read and discuss one to two chapters of the book each time until March 2024. You are welcome to join us for the meetings even if you have not signed up for those sessions.
In fall 2023, we studied Chapter 1- 4 of the “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” book and had discussions on various portions during each meeting, and in spring 2024, we will continue with our reading and discussions:
- “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” Book Club, Chapter 5,6, Feb 22, 2024, 12-1pm
- “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning” Book Club, Chapter 7,8, Mar 28, 2024, 12-1pm
Finally, to make this book club more accessible, we will use a Zoom only format. All participants will receive a reminder with a Zoom link before the start of the book club meetings. We are looking forward to seeing you at our book club meetings on Thursdays, from noon to 1:00!
Please click on this link to sign up for the Book Club.
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