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  • Mock Trial Provides Foundational Learning Experience, High Point of Academic Experience at Ohio State

    January 26, 2023
    A mock trial is a dynamic learning exercise that utilizes interactive role play to engage students in collaborative, active learning.Experiential learning is a critical component of sport management education, which was lacking within KNSISM 4607: Legal Aspects of Sport - a core course within the Sport Industry major. In 2018, the KNSISM instructors received a University Institute for Teaching an...

  • Supporting Students in the Aftermath of Tragedies

    January 26, 2023
    Tragedies, such as the recent violence at Club Q in Colorado Springs and in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, can occur at any point in semester and can deeply affect students. Given that experiences outside the classroom can impact student learning and academic performance (Ambrose, 2010), how can instructors support their students while they process reactions to traumatic events? In the aftermat...

  • TIES Academy awards annual Scholarship Incentives

    January 12, 2023
    Five innovative approaches that address current issues in academic nursing education were recently selected for the 2022-23 Educational Innovation and Scholarship Incentive Program. "The most exciting result of TIES awards is the benefits to the education of the future healthcare workforce," says Drake Institute Affiliate and Co-Director of TIES Academy Joni Tornwall. "The work they do ...

  • What’s your biggest fear? A 15 to 30-minute classroom check-in for mental health

    January 12, 2023
    A few years before the pandemic, an undergraduate student mentioned the upcoming Halloween weekend and randomly mentioned that vampires were their biggest fear. Everyone laughed. But that comment rubbed up against so many other things I’d been hearing and reading: real fears and stresses that students were facing. In response, I developed a classroom mental health check-in that be...

  • Faculty from Colleges of Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, present at 2022 Original Lilly Conference

    December 14, 2022
    At the 2022 Original Lilly Conference, Drake Institute AffiliateNicholas Denton, Ph.D., and Amy Kulesza, Ph.D., demonstrated that lab courses encouraging inquiry-based student learning and team-based learning enhanced undergraduate students' motivations to persistent in STEM, including sense of science identity, STEM community, project ownership, and networking."In particular, students reported t...

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