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Engaging Lectures

In this session by Dr. Abbey Fingeret, you’ll learn how to use your content to create engaging lectures that grab — and keep — you viewer’s attention.

Oct 22, 2021

Innovations in Education: Lessons Learned from a Lecture-less Curriculum

While research shows that lectures can be an ineffective way to learn, they remain a significant part of instructional hours at most health sciences schools, largely supported by tradition and nostalgia. Faculty often feel little motivation to change this since “Our board scores are fine, why take a risk?” and there is the general sense […]

Oct 25, 2018

Active Learning

“We are teaching adults, not children.” Adults learn how they want to learn. There are many factors that go into adult learning that are very different from how a child learns. This seminar gives details on the facets that make up the adult styles of learning and how you, as an educator, need to be […]

Dec 12, 2016

Premier Education 2016: Your Connection to Navigating Change

Discover a variety of examples on how to integrate change into your teaching style.

Aug 24, 2016

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The Art & Style of Interpersonal Communication: Graceful Self-Promotion

Few like a braggart, but there are times you’ll need to get yourself out there and make ideas, discoveries, and accomplishments known. How do you do this if you’re uncomfortable with standing out? Dr. Thorndyke has the solutions to your worries, revealed in her informative session about self-promotion. During the session, you’ll see how to […]

Oct 11, 2013

Eric Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

“I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material?“ As Eric Mazur describes, it was neither. The problem was in his own teaching method. See how he came to this conclusion and how […]

Nov 11, 2009