The Ohio State University College of Medicine is now accepting abstracts for the 2023 Annual Education Symposium-- a free, annual, daylong, and hybrid event that focuses on health professions education and educational research. We want to hear about your innovative education research and teaching strategies for preparing tomorrow’s health professionals. This year's theme is Post-Pandemic Pedagogy for Health Sciences Education with such key topics as Teaching Future Health Sciences Students Virtually, Evolving as Teachers and Learners During Public Health Crises, Addressing Mis- and Disinformation in Scientific and Educational Environments, and Redefining Equity in Education with Digital Pedagogies. Proposals that...
We know that instructors are often negotiating time and various responsibilities throughout the semester. This three hour a week commitment over four sessions--divided between asynchronous individual work, a 1 hour synchronous collaboration with the WAC team and fellow participants, and an optional half hour of workshop time--affords you several opportunities to:
· (Re)design an inclusive writing assignment and assessment plan;
· Engage with instructors of writing from across the disciplines
· Explore pedagogical approaches concerning transparency, inclusivity, and access;
The Drake Institute Graduate Consultants offered a second GTA Toolkit this semester on September 20, 2022, from 11am – 12:30pm in the Ohio Union Barbie Tootle room, with a catered lunch generously provided by OUAB! This workshop’s topic was on Inclusive Teaching, where we had the opportunity to introduce GTAs from different departments across campus to the principles and strategies that undergird creating an inclusive learning environment. Joined by over 25 participants, we were all able to engage in meaningful conversations around inclusive teaching over a delicious lunch generously provided by OUAB.
According to research by teaching and learning scholar Lisa Lenze (2012), students are often “surprised and motivated” by instructor efforts to give them an opportunity to provide their instructor with feedback. SETs (Student Evaluation of Teaching, called SEIs, or Student Evaluation of Instruction at Ohio State) can be helpful, but provide feedback too late to implement any benefit to students currently taking your courses. Instead, give your students an opportunity to provide feedback during the semester: studies show that encouraging students to discuss their learning process improves their learning both through developing metacognition and improving the quality of their...
One of the longest-running programs offered by the Drake Institute, the Graduate Teaching (GTA) Toolkit, is designed for graduate students by graduate students. The first workshop this semester will be focused on Inclusive Teaching. Participants will learn concrete strategies to build an inclusive classroom by focusing on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. We hope to see you there!
In August, newly hired faculty of all ranks and tracks were invited to a multi-day hybrid New Faculty Orientation (NFO). Hosted by the Office of Academic Affairs in partnership with the Drake Institute, NFO strives to equip Ohio State’s newest faculty with the requisite tools for an effective first year in the classroom.
Faculty attended concurrent sessions offered by Drake Institute staff and affiliates that equipped them with evidence-based strategies to be implemented into their own courses. A drop-in campus resource fair also connected new faculty to campus-wide support offices and facilities. The Drake...
Findings from a recent Drake Institute Research and Implementation (R&I) Grant-supported study led by Ohio State’s Molly Downing, Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacy Education and Innovation, will be shared at the upcoming 2022 Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference. Along with colleagues Cynthia Canan and Tessa Miracle, Downing applied Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning to investigate student learning and intrinsic motivation to engage in positive health behaviors following their experience in an online course that explored America’s drug-taking culture.
In speaking to the impact of this project on enhancing instruction and supporting...
As you finalize plans for your fall courses, are you looking for ways to integrate resources from the University Libraries? Would you like guidance on incorporating open educational resources into your courses? Do you need readings or videos to help students learn research concepts, such as developing a research question or evaluating sources? University Libraries has developed an online guide, Instructor Resources at University Libraries . On this guide, you will find teaching-related guidance on a range of topics, including affordable educational resources, integrating library resources, and information literacy concepts. Instructors can also find “ready-to-share” resources...
Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning staff and Graduate Consultants are preparing to welcome new and returning Graduate Teaching Associates to the fall semester during Graduate Teaching Orientation (GTO). GTO is scheduled for the week of Aug. 15.
During GTO, participants explore what it means to be a Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), how to prepare for the first days of classes, and resources available to GTAs through the Drake Institute and university partners. Workshops are led by experienced and award-winning GTAs and are designed to equip new GTAs with useful tools and suggestions that can...
Writing Across the Curriculum organizers know that instructors are often negotiating time and various responsibilities throughout the semester. For that reason, this summer a three-hour a week commitment over four sessions helps them sculpt out the time to work on writing assignments specifically. Divided between asynchronous individual work, a one-hour synchronous collaboration with the WAC team and fellow participants, and an optional half hour of workshop time, this seminar allows for the following:
(Re)design an inclusive writing assignment and assessment plan; Engage with instructors of writing from across the disciplines Explore pedagogical approaches concerning transparency, inclusivity, and...
