Category: Teaching and Learning
HELP! Series: Teaching with Nearpod
Whether you’ve been teaching remotely for a while or you are just starting out, teaching with technology doesn’t need to be complicated! This session features tips for teaching with Nearpod, an award-winning K-12 software that is now a popular choice for classroom, distance, and hybrid learning environments in higher education. Nearpod allows educators to easily incorporate activities like […]
Feb 5, 2021
Making Anti-Racism an Institutional Priority
This session was offered as part of the 2020-2021 Breakthrough Thinking Virtual Series Academic medicine must take steps to dismantle structural racism and make anti-racism a core value. UNMC welcomes the challenge and has taken steps to create sustainable change and a more inclusive culture. Watch this session to learn more about structural racism and […]
Jan 20, 2021
Getting Past Discomfort: Mitigating Bias to Become Upstanders in Healthcare
Take a Stand Against Bias and Structural RacismBe an Upstander, Not a Bystander You’ve heard the age-old adage, “you can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” The central message is a basic quality of the human experience – empathy. Empathy is key to relating to the feelings or experiences of others. […]
Dec 11, 2020
New Video Series Helps Medical Students Understand Test Questions
Review a real, NBME-created test question Gain insights from NBME physicians who authored cases and questions Understand how other medical students review test questions when determining a response To help medical students and residents better understand how exam questions measure their clinical knowledge during their education and training, NBME launched a new video series titled, Unlocking Assessment: Keys […]
Aug 21, 2020
From Lemons to Lemonade: Successes in Teaching during a Pandemic
Watch this virtual event highlighting the best ideas that came from teaching during a global pandemic.
Aug 21, 2020
Watch this session to learn some of the best practices for teaching online. You’ll receive expert advice for creating engaging content for learners and specific instruction on how to create an educational video in PowerPoint.
Aug 14, 2020
Leveraging Zoom: Using Breakout Rooms and Other Features
Zoom Video Conferencing has become a solution for educators to continuing synchronous learning in a remote environment. A licensed Zoom account opens up many features and settings you may not be aware of. Watch this session to learn how to use the breakout room feature to enhance your classes and meetings. After this session, participants should be […]
Apr 2, 2020
Storytelling with Data: Principles and Best Practices of Data Visualization
Breaking down data, drawing out key points, making sense of what it really means — data visualization is an essential skill in today’s data-driven world. Visual representations harness the powerful processing abilities of the visual perceptual system to see trends and outliers in data. Watch this session to find out how you can put data visualization […]
Mar 23, 2020
Pop-Up: Navigating the Transition to Online Teaching
Being an educator during times of potential disruption requires creativity and flexibility in thinking about how the learning environment is presented. Online learning is a natural solution. However, a sudden shift to delivering course content online can be both challenging and frustrating. There are many tools and resources available at UNMC to help faculty members […]
Mar 16, 2020
Constructive Collaboration: Using Student Feedback and Peer Coaching to Improve Teaching
The rapid changes and advancements of today’s world continue to present new challenges in education. Success in 2020 is achieved, in part, by being skilled at adapting and evolving based on the demands of society. Health science education and academic medical centers are not exempt from this reality. Educators must continue to create processes that […]
Feb 14, 2020
