Month: May 2022

Redesigning Courses for Reading Comprehension

Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference online session “The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Reading Strategies in the College Classroom” by Jiyoung Kim from Fayetteville State University and Trela Anderson from the National Defense University. They assessed metacognitive reading strategies in the courses they teach. The data is from the reading across the curriculum program at Fayetteville […]
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Tips and Theory for Increasing Doctoral Student Motivation and Persistence

Dr. Justina Kwapy is a full-time online professor at Grand Canyon University and presented at Lilly Conference online a session entitled “Increasing Doctoral Students’ Motivation and Persistence.” Kwapy has a background in special education & educational/organizational leadership and serves on the committee of several students. The presentation goals were to explore the effects of internal […]
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The OT Jigsaw Study

Olivia West Hammond from Penn State presented “The Occupation of Learning: Re-imagining the OT Classroom Post-pandemic” as a recorded twenty-minute session at Lilly Conference online. West Hammond teaches at a smaller Penn State campus in the occupational therapy assistant program. This is a 2.5-year program with mostly commuter students. West Hammond also defined occupational therapy […]
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Connectivism in a Cohort Program

Tonight I watched a recorded session entitled “The Connectivist Approach to Interactive Dialogue” and presented asynchronously during the TLC Lilly Online 2022 conference. The presenters were Kristen Carlson, an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Learning, and Andrew Burklund, both at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Their session focused on the use of connectivism and interactive dialogue […]
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The Bad Test Takers

Brian C. Smith is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, and presented at the Lilly Conference online. The session was entitled ““I’m Just a Bad Test-Taker:” Consequences and Interventions.” This twenty-minute recorded session focused on student beliefs that they are bad test-takers and how this may interfere with performance in […]
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Designing Interprofessional Education Opportunities

Today I was back in the office after HITS. I watched the Lilly Conference recorded session entitled “Finding the Right Dose of Learner Collaboration through the Development and Implementation of a Medicine and Pharmacy Interprofessional Education Experience.” Diane H. Quinn, Dana C. Farabaugh, Rebecca E. Munger, and Cathy Y. Poon were the presenters. Their goals […]
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Fidelity of a Simulated Learning Experience

We finished our third and last day of HITS 2022! Woo hoo! Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference session entitled “From the Ground Up: Creating a Culture of Simulated Patient Experiences” with Pamela Pologruto and Jennifer Jewell from Penn State. I watched a session by Pologruto yesterday. Pologruto spoke about being a Physical Therapist and […]
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Interprofessional Education

Day 2 of HITS 2022 is over! We had a lot of fun and have some exciting ideas! Tonight, I watched the Lilly Conference session entitled “Breaking the Silos: Integrating Simulated Learning Activities in Interprofessional Education” presented by Melissa Miner, Pamela Pologruto, Valerie Vanderhoff, and Jo Ann Jankoski, from Penn State University, Fayette – The […]
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Crime News Analysis Assignment

HITS 2022 day one is over! It was a lot of fun to reconnect with the group and meet new people. Tonight, I watched the Lilly 2022 session “Effectiveness of Crime News Analysis in Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice Courses” by Ali Ozdogan. Ozdogan wanted to convey the power of crime news analysis as a […]
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The Immersive Reality Classroom Learning Experience

“Traveling to Inexperienced Realms: Immersive Reality for Classroom Learning” is the title of the Lilly Conference session I watched tonight. Amy Kuntz, an Instructional Designer at Penn State, along with Eileen Grodziak, another instructional designer at Penn State, worked with Kate Morgan, the Director of Virtual Education at Penn State Lehigh Valley. They defined Immersive […]
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