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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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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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Students Teaching Students

Tonight we watched the Lilly Conference session entitled “Students-Teaching-Students: How social sciences students leading classes can create greater engagement and enjoyment in the course.” Ethan Engelhardt and Andrew Reynolds were the presenters. Engelhardt is from Asbury University and Reynolds is from Malone University. They began by describing the “dead” classroom with students not engaged, fatigued… […]
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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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