The day before the conference, you will be sent a Zoom link to use when joining the conference. The sessions will be live between 9 AM – 1 PM CST daily. We encourage all participants to attend as many live course sessions as possible to enrich their learning experience. Recognizing that conflicts will occur, all course sessions will be recorded and available in your Canvas account for 60 days.

Tuesday – January 18, 2022

9:00 – 10:00 AM CST          EIM Introductory Keynote Address – Lisa VanHoose

• Diversity in healthcare education and practice: current state and future directions
• Transforming the curriculum, instruction, and organizational structure toward multiculturalism and inclusivity

10:00 – 11:00 AM CST           Expectations for Diversity in Programmatic Accreditation – Lisa Finnegan

• Recruiting a diverse population
• Retaining a diverse population
• Data collection and reporting of efforts to recruit and retain a diverse population

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Tuesday – January 18, 2022

11:00 AM – 1:00  PM CST       Components of an Effective Lesson – Michelle VanSlate

The components of an effective lesson provide the framework for instructional objectives, the reasoning behind instructional content, and the instructional design principles that guide course content development. The goal is to create engaging lessons that absorb the learner into the material. Course design is the process and methodology of creating quality learning environments and experiences for students and includes these critical elements:

• Guiding Questions: What should the learner be thinking about as they read/write/complete an activity
• Student centered outcomes
• Components of an effective lesson
• Variety of effective instructional strategies and learning activities
• Appropriate use of learning technologies

In this course design process, we will be introducing a tool that will aid faculty in the development of hybrid courses within their learning management system (LMS).

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Wednesday – January 19, 2022

10:00 AM – 12:00  PM CST        Asynchronous Lectures, Activities and Assignments – Andrea Jones-Pierre and Brian Reynard

Many of today’s students have spent their lives exposed to the internet, so they have a sophisticated sense of what quality content delivery looks and sounds like. Creating a welcoming and thoughtful online presentation within a learning management system is similar to structuring an ideal physical classroom space. We want to create a structured digital environment to help learners focus on the task at hand: efficiently absorbing content.

In this session, we will present tips that will help make your asynchronous presentations polished and dynamic. Topics will include best practices for preparing and recording video lectures, knowledge checks, embedding media into Canvas, and the usage of Guiding Questions.

• Diversity and Culturally Responsive considerations
• Panopto / Voice Over video lecture recordings
  • Culturally sensitive and responsive approaches
  • Transcripts / Scriptwriting
  • Closed captioning
  • Best practices for video recording yourself
• Knowledge Checks
• Technology How To’s
• Brief reminder on the use of Guiding Questions

 

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Thursday – January 20, 2022

10 AM – 12 PM  CST        Synchronous/Virtual Class Sessions – Jasmine Alcoser

Synchronous teaching allows online students to interact with an instructor and peers in real time through a visual and interactive interface. To run a smooth and successful session, instructors and students need to come to the sync session prepared to advance in their teaching and learning. So how do we guide these virtual sessions? How can we ensure this valuable time spent with students is maximized while keeping them actively and cognitively engaged? In this session, we will build off our asynchronous session to develop a purposeful and well planned lesson. We will focus on encouraging students to become “experts” on a specific topic and opening the opportunity for a deeper whole class discussion. Additionally, we will look at how synchronous sessions allow for opportunities to check student comprehension in real time, giving instructors the ability to give their students direct guidance on their performance instantly.

In this session, you will:

• Identify the key components of planning a purposeful online synchronous session, to include:
  • What are your learning outcomes?
  • What skills or content will students need to have learned to be successful in the session?
• Model a synchronous session to identify how asynchronous work ties into synchronous work.
• Generate a list of best practices for student engagement, discussion, and collaboration during a synchronous session.

Identifying different tools to check for student comprehension and determining the best ways to address student misconceptions in real time.

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Friday – January 21, 2022

9 – 11 AM CST           Applying Technology To Achieve Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition (SAMR) & Share-out – Jessica Hendricks

To wrap up our mini conference, we will spend our time together gathering key takeaways to transform them into a live lesson from beginning to end:

• Purposeful planning
• Best practices in the hybrid education format
• Aiding student ability to efficiently comprehend asynchronous content
• Enriching student outcomes through a well-developed synchronous session.

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