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Category: Teaching and Learning

Building Meaningful, Engaging Learning Experiences

Featuring visiting faculty Marisol Morales, EdD, MIPS Executive Director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications at the American Council on Education.Dr. Morales provides conceptual leadership and operational oversight to the elective classifications’ work in the United States, Australia, and Canada. This includes the collaborative development of and responsibility for all initiatives; oversight and facilitation of relevant national […]

Oct 23, 2024

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Data Visualization: Teaching, Presenting, and Leading Using Data

To much of the world, your work is complicated and advanced (read: boring, yawn, crickets…). Don’t let the *data* behind your discoveries bog down your audience. This session will help you craft memorable messages, incorporating the hard facts from your spreadsheets into meaningful, compelling (and, yes, pretty), visualizations to boost your effectiveness as a communicator and […]

Oct 22, 2024

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Syllabus Creation & Rubric Workshop

Teaching Launchpad equips educators with practical tools and insights to implement active learning strategies, align assessments effectively and incorporate diverse perspectives in teaching materials and activities.

Oct 21, 2024

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Power Presentations 2024

Presentations are a core function in academia — ensure yours are memorable.Communication is an important determinant of job retention, pay scale, and advancement. Presentations are a high stakes means of communicating ideas, science, knowledge, and change, and are a core function in academic life. Key Contributors: Faye Haggar, EdDMichael Smith, MDChad Branecki, MDMartina Clarke, PhDTJ […]

Oct 8, 2024

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InnovatED Symposium Presentations 2024: Keynote on Responsive Teaching

The InnovatED Symposium included presentations on AI usage in education, educational technology and health care simulation – even bringing the gaming experience into learning.

Oct 2, 2024

Keynote speaker Deepak Keshwani presents at the InnovatED Symposium

Services Available to Students

You have enough on your plate. You don’t need to take on more! Learn more about what services are available to your students from the UNMC Division of Student Success, and how best to make smooth referrals – help us help you help them! Featuring Expertise from UNMC Department of Student Success No ratings yet. […]

Sep 20, 2024

Student Success

Faculty Tech Bootcamp, 2024

Start the semester with a skills tune-up with IT Academic Technologies. Learn the latest hacks in Zoom, Yuja, PollEverywhere, PowerPoint, and other high-use educational platforms. Session co-sponsored by UNMC IT Academic Technologies, IT Workstation Support, and Video Technologies. No ratings yet. How helpful was this learning opportunity? Sample rating item

Aug 23, 2024

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Leveraging Strengths at Work

In this session, we will use the CliftonStrengths assessment as a resource for learning to leverage your strengths at work. The CliftonStrengths assessment measures the intensity of your natural talents – abilities which you use achieve excellence and satisfaction – in 34 distinct Themes. Using Gallup’s “Name it, Claim it, and Aim it” framework, Dr. […]

May 10, 2024

How to Handle Emotional Conversations with Students

“Actually I am not doing so well.” Supporting students is an essential component of educational leadership. In this training, you will learn how to use emotionally supportive language to validate and empower your students. Participants were also able to attend a follow-up in-depth coaching session: No ratings yet. How helpful was this learning opportunity? Sample […]

Apr 5, 2024

The Women who Built Omaha: Speaker Eileen Wirth

This event is cosponsored by Office of Faculty Development, UNMC Library, and Offices of Inclusion and Equity Eileen Wirth, professor emeritus of journalism at Creighton University and senior writer for Legacy Preservation in Omaha, recently released a new book. The Women who Built Omaha shares the history of groundbreaking women, especially in health care, who […]

Mar 15, 2024