Discussions

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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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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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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Action Research and Soliciting Student Voices

Tonight I watched a twenty-minute Lilly Conference recorded session entitled “Using Action Research To Recapture Student Voices Lost During The COVID 19 Pandemic.” Paul D. Knowles is an Assistant Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Maine at Farmington. The objective of the session was to classroom research can allow student voices to help […]
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Two-Mode Network Analysis

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference session by Dr. Eric Hogan from Georgia Southern University. The title of the session is “Using Two-Mode Networks to Better Understand Resource Attainment.” Hogan studies learning, motivation, and development and used network analysis to study classrooms. Hogan’s research aims to understand how adolescents perceive their own resources. Are people […]
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Positive Psychology in the Classroom

Tonights’s Lilly Conference session was entitled “Positive Psychology Best Practices for Self-Determined Learning to Promote Motivation and Engagement” and presented by Edwina Helton. They shared thoughts on positive psychology and student perspectives on engagement and motivation. They defined positive psychology as an area that emerged in the 1990s and focuses on what makes life worth […]
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Unclenching and Reenergizing Teaching

Heidi Echols and Mary Estrada from NC State University spoke about “The Courage to Unclench: Thriving in ANY Classroom. Estrada is a Language Professor and Echols is an instructional designer. Estrada spoke about the Pratfall Effect: “the tendency for interpersonal appeal is to increase after someone makes a mistake.” Estrada explained that “we are credible… […]
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