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“Direct Connect”
Program: Education, Leadership and
Research Details: The purpose of this session is to provide to you information that we think will be useful as you begin your career at UMass. One of the most important aspects of this session will be for you to meet other new faculty who have similar interests, issues and concerns.
Topics that we will cover will include: Institutional Resources, Faculty Development , Faculty Events, The Mentoring Program, Promotions & Tenure, and more.
This session is for "New Faculty Members ONLY"
Program: Education, Leadership Details: The 360 Feedback session will introduce faculty to the theoretical and practical uses of the multi-rater system and how it can be used to enhance performance within the academic/research environment.
A Best Practice Approach to Reporting Scientific Research
Program: Research Details: By the end of this interactive workshop, participants will:
• learn ways to avoid conflict in deciding who is listed as an author, in what order, etc.
• understand the impact that PhotoShop and other image-manipulation software applications have had on publishing scientific research.
• review current plagiarism guidelines, including paraphrasing, summarizing, citation and "self-plagiarism."
• discuss a number of other practices that may qualify as "irresponsible" conduct in publishing research (e.g., the "Least Publishable Unit," "salami science," redundant publication).
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services. Adobe Acrobat PDF files can be used for more than just sharing cross-platform, visually accurate copies of documents. In this introductory class, learn how to
• produce PDF documents using text and graphics.
• collaborate with colleagues to comment on and modify documents.
• enable security features like digital signatures and password protected documents.
• package your documents.
Adobe Captivate: Software Simulations, Demonstrations, Online Training
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Captivate is a software application used to create
• flash presentations.
• interactive online training modules.
• software simulations.
In this class you will get to know key elements of the Captivate interface, practice recording mouse movements, and build clickable navigation buttons.
Adobe Connect and Wimba Live Classroom: Comparison of Synchronous Tools
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Adobe Connect and Wimba Live Classroom are web-based, synchronous collaboration tools that offer video conferencing capability, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and presentation functionality. This session will demonstrate the features and functionality of each application to assist you in making a decision as to which tool is best suited for your instructional/research needs.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Learn to use Connect Pro to interact with people anywhere in the world. With Connect Pro, you can
• Set up a meeting and send invitations. • Share documents, computer screen and a whiteboard. • Use audio and/or video. • Set up breakout rooms. • Take a poll. • Record your meeting.
Program: Education Details: This workshop will offer faculty members successful strategies for enhancing presentation skills and increasing their effectiveness. It will identify key elements of high-quality presentations, and provide specific effective techniques for preparing and delivering them.
An Introduction to Simulation in Medical Education:How to Integrate Simulation into Your Curriculum, What is Scenario Building and Why We Debrief
Program: Education Details: This hands-on workshop is designed for faculty who are seeking to better understand medical simulation and are considering integrating it into their curriculum. The workshop will present an overview of what simulation is, key considerations for integrating it into your teaching, what's involved in building simulation scenarios or converting cases to scenarios, and an opportunity to participate in a simulation debriefing. This workshop is applicable to both clinical and basic science faculty.
Author' Rights: Understanding and Controlling the Rights to Your Work
Program: Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library. Today more than ever, authors need a good understanding of the basic concepts of intellectual property, as well as the rights they have when it comes to publishing, sharing, and archiving their scholarly work. This workshop is designed to help faculty become aware of authors' rights issues that arise from agency funding policies, public and open access, data sharing, digital repositories, and the Internet. Attendees will learn how existing laws and policies apply in these areas so that they can both protect their own work and educate the next generation of scholars through their teaching.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: This course is designed for faculty who are thinking about enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. It will highlight how the curriculum design process and teaching practice must work in partnership with a chosen technology, and will address how the design process and teaching practice can advance by incorporating a technology already in place. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in enhancing their course design and teaching.
The focus of this course is how to teach effectively online. For example, with online technologies, synchronous tools, learning management system. This course is a collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This session will provide an overview of the functionality of quizzes, surveys and self tests in Vista. The session will cover the Instructor and Designer role--who can build a test and who can grade--and the different question types available in assessments.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn about the interactive Assignments tool. Topics will include creating assignments, administering them to students, and managing student assignment submissions via the Assignment DropBox.
BLS Vista Course Tool: Building Learning Modules and Organizer Pages
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this session, participants will learn the critical differences between Organizer Pages and Learning Modules in BLS Vista. We'll explore how course Instructor/Designers can create Organizer Pages to group related content in a logical way, and then use learning modules to create a detailed learning path for users.
BLS Vista Course Tool: Discussion Chat White Board
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This session will review best practice principles re: synchronous and asynchronous tools and review Discussion categories, topics and threads covered in the Vista Comprehensive Training course. The focus of the session will be the Chat and White Board. Participants will interact in the chat room as students and upload images to the Whiteboard as instructors to experience this course tool.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This session will cover all aspects of the File Manager functionality within Vista. Participants will upload different content to a course using file manager. Recommendations for effective directory structure will be reviewed.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this session, participants will become familiar with the Grade Book tool in Vista. Topics include navigating the Grade Book interface, strategies for using the Grade Book to record and track student work, and tailoring the Grade Book layout to suit specific information needs.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This session will review best practice principles re: group learning; participants will create groups and group activities within Vista and understand assignments, discussions and selective release and how they relate to the group manager course tool.
Program: BLS Vista Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
The Media Library tool in Vista is a powerful way to catalogue and present visual, audio, and textual data. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create Media Library entries and collections to help organize their course content and make it easily accessible to students.
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will master the use of the Selective Release Map tool to control the availability of course content (such as lecture notes), as well as specific course components (such as exams and assignments).
BLS Vista Course: Integrating Adobe Captivate and Presenter Modules
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Adobe Captivate and/or Presenter. Details: Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter are powerful eLearning content authoring tools. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how you can use one or both tools to add interactivity to your BLS Vista course. Specific topics will include uploading existing Captivate and Presenter files into the BLS Vista system, integrating the files into your course content, and how to handle updates to the files as the course progresses. Prerequisite: A working knowledge of Adobe Captivate and/or Presenter.
Program: BLS Vista Details: In this session, we’ll review basic best practices for online course development, including options for presenting complex content, ideas for improving overall aesthetic “look and feel” of the course, and an overview of new and existing tools and technologies that you can easily incorporate into your new or existing BLS Vista course.
Program: BLS Vista Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Introductory course in using BLS Vista as part of an academic program. This is a hands-on session during which participants will have the opportunity to interact with the tool as both an instructor and a designer.
Program: BLS Vista Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Would you like to learn how to teach an online course, but don't need to learn how to build it first? Then this 1.5 hour hands-on workshop session is for you. Learn the basics of the "Teach" role in BLS Vista. Perfect for course administrators, clerkship directors, and other teaching faculty and residents teaching courses with an online component
Program: BLS Vista Prerequisite: BLS Vista Comprehensive or Instructor Training Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Participants in this course will have the opportunity to become re-oriented with the BLS Vista system as they prepare to begin working in their course section in a new semester. Working with the File Manager, building a Learning Module, and adding a Content File to a Learning Module are among the topics to be covered.
Program: BLS Vista Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Early in 2008, the entire UMass system upgraded to a new version of WebCT Vista. In this 1.5 hour OPTIONAL session for CURRENT users of WebCT Vista 3, participants will become familiar with the new and improved WebCT interface, explore new functionality, and become comfortable working with course materials in the new BLS Vista 4.
Program: Leadership, Research Details: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Understand the importance of teams in clinical research
• Identify characteristics of functional and dysfunctional teams
• Know how to build a team
• Recognize strategies for optimal team functioning
Program: Leadership Details: As a faculty member, you are called on to provide leadership. One dimension of effective leadership involves addressing conflict. This workshop will seek to facilitate a deeper understanding of conflict for the participants. There will also be a focus on approaches that facilitate respectful negotiation and constructive resolution of conflict.
Participants will learn:
• When conflict is more likely to be constructive, and more likely to become dysfunctional.
• Coaching and negotiation techniques to address conflict in a respectful constructive manner.
• The role of communication in managing conflict.
Conducting Research in the Community: Guidelines for Researchers and Views of Community Participants
Program: Research Details: The workshop provides an introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine as a collaborative approach to research that equitably involves community and academic partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. The second part of the workshop will review an ongoing research study between UMMS faculty and Worcester child care centers that has resulted in a new NIMH Intervention Development award. We will discuss the steps designed to make it possible for positive community collaboration. Staff from the community coalition will discuss their perspective on participating in research and what has helped them remain involved.
Creating Effective Learning Modules with Adobe Presenter
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
In this 2-hour hands-on workshop, learn how to leverage existing PowerPoint presentations and create engaging eLearning modules by adding audio, video, and interactivity in the form of quizzes and surveys. Once you''ve created your Presenter module, you can add it to your BLS Vista online course, embed it into your website, or use it as a stand-alone file.
Program: Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This workshop will simplify the process of creating academic and research posters from the planning phase to the design following best practice tenets. Participants will critique various poster samples based on these design tenets and view the top 10 common poster mistakes. The session will provide participants with handouts and online resources to aid in the poster process which will include how to get your posters printed at UMass.
Workshop Agenda
1. Planning your poster
2. Walk Through of a Poster Make Over and the Underlying Best Practice Design Tips
3. Top 10 Common Poster Design Mistakes
4. Poster Resources
5. Printing Your Poster at UMass
Program: Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: This workshop is designed for faculty who are seeking to develop their skills in debriefing a medical simulation experience they have developed, or are planning to develop. Though all faculty are welcome, this workshop will likely be most helpful to those who have some basic knowledge of medical simulation, or who have attended the October 1 simulation session.
Program: Research Details: The Grant Writing for Clinical Research Workshop is geared toward faculty members who are interested in developing a grant proposal for submission for funding.
Objectives:
This workshop is intended to do the following:
"Provide an overview of the content of a grant proposal
"Provide potential funding mechanisms
"Briefly review organizational resources available for the investigator
Developing a Focused and Fundable Clinical Research Question: From Brilliant Idea to Specific Aim
Program: Research Details: By the end of this session, participants will be familiar with:
• The characteristics of a focused and fundable clinical research question
• Methods for shaping an idea into a focused question
• Evaluating the feasibility of pursuing a research question
• Matching the question with an optimal and realistic study design
• Molding the question to the interests of potential funding sources.
Participants are expected to bring one or more research ideas or questions they can work on during the session.
Program: Research Details: A research budget directly reflects the work being done and a knowledge of what is required to accomplish a project. In an NIH research budget, the actual expenses of a project are listed in a categorical manner with each item justified. This session, for faculty members, will focus on clinical research budgets.
In this session we will:
• Review budget terminology.
• Identify differences between modular and non-modular budgets.
• Learn how to define the scope of a project.
• Review the categories of an NIH budget and justification.
• Identify UMMS institutional resources and requirements.
• Learn about the electronic submission of budget information.
Developing Pre/Post Assessments for Research/Grants
Program: Research Details: The focus of this workshop will be on developing a pre/post assessment for a research project or grant. Participants will identify how best to measure knowledge, skills, and/or attitude based on research question.
Program: Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: This workshop is designed for faculty who are seeking to construct simulation scenarios for their simulation center teaching and learning experiences. Though all faculty are welcome, this workshop will likely be most helpful to those who have some basic knowledge of medical simulation, or who have attended the October 1 simulation session.
Upcoming session:
Debriefing Simulations: October 28, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Program: Leadership Details: This session will describe what an academic portfolio is, how it is used in the promotion process, and the reasons it is an effective way for faculty to document their academic accomplishments, both teaching and administrative, in a way that meets their professional needs. The focus of the session will be on how an academic portfolio can benefit faculty, the specific steps involved in building the portfolio, and how to best document and present important information on the scope and quality of your work.
Effective Caregiving: Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities
Program: Education Details: This presentation is geared toward anyone who is currently caring for an elder relative or who anticipates caring for one in the future.
Handling work and the care of an aging family member can be very demanding. Nearly 60% of caregivers work full time, and two-thirds of those employees need to make adjustments to their work routines. As a working caregiver, you may face numerous uncertainties and stresses. Please join us for a seminar that will address the following questions and have time for more:
• What types of demands are you facing and how is UMMS responding?
• What types of resources are available for working caregivers and how can you best utilize these supports?
• How can you develop strategies to effectively cope with multiple and conflicting demands, while still finding time for yourself?
Program: Education, Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
Simplify the mechanics of citing references in your grants and articles. In this hands-on EndNote basics workshop, you'll create a "library" of references, select different journal styles, insert references into a sample document, and see a bibliography automatically generated. [Please note: EndNote software, installed on the library's lab computers for this class, can be ordered from the bookstore or online from software vendors.]
Evidence-Based Medicine: Learning How to Find Best Evidence in the Medical Literature
Program: Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This workshop will present an overview of Evidence-Based Medicine concepts and a detailed discussion of the EBM resources available through the Lamar Soutter Library and the types of literature that contain best evidence. You will become familiar enough with each of these so you will recognize them right away and will easily know how to appraise and apply what you have found.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: This class is designed for faculty who want to become more knowledgeable about best practices for organizing, tracking and presenting data.
By the end of this session, participants will be more knowledgeable with:
• creating/formatting tables using raw/imported data
• creating/formatting graphs and charts
• developing simple formulas
• sorting data
• adding finishing touches
Program: Education, Research Details: This class is designed for faculty who want to become more knowledgeable about best practices for tracking and presenting evaluation and exam data.
By the end of this session, participants will be more knowledgeable with: •creating/formatting tables using raw/imported data •creating/formatting graphs and charts
•developing simple formulas •sorting data •freezing and hiding columns •linking cells across spreadsheets •adding finishing touches
Framing a Research Question: From Brilliant Idea to Fundable Proposal
Program: Research Details: We will focus on clinical, health services, and epidemiologic research. We will discuss approaches to generating research ideas, assessing their significance, exploring the feasibility of studies related to the ideas, and seeking funding. Participants are urged to come with a research question to explore. The last part of the workshop will be devoted to group discussion of participants' research questions.
Program: Research Details: A panel of editors of scientific journals will address/discuss common questions asked by faculty interested in publishing their manuscripts.
The questions include: •What are the most common pitfalls in getting a paper published? •How does one go about choosing an appropriate journal for his/her article? •What is the best way to respond to critiques? Additional questions from workshop participants are encouraged. Please bring your questions to the workshop.
Program: Leadership Details: The purpose of this workshop is to help participants conduct meetings in the most effective manner possible. After this workshop, participants should be able to prepare effectively for meetings, write succinct and useful agendas, conduct meetings productively, and write concise minutes of meetings.
Program: Research Details: This workshop will provide participants with information on resources and mentorship needed for successful completion of a K award. We will also discuss strategies for transition from a K award to independent funding. This session is targeted for faculty members with K awards or are currently applying for or planning to apply for K awards.
Getting the Most Out of Your Questionnaire: Part I
Program: Education, Research and
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: The focus of this workshop will be on the first steps in questionnaire development: identifying what you want to measure, drafting items, formatting, and pre-testing. A second workshop will be offered in May (day and time to be determined); Part II, which can be taken with or without Part I, will focus on validity and reliability - what are reliability and validity, why you should care, and how you should think about them in the context of your questionnaire.
Google – When to Use It, When to Use Something Else
Program: Education, Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
Google is a wonderful tool. Many of us use it on a daily basis. A ten second search can find lyrics of a song or figure out what the whatzamagig in the attic is worth. But what about searching medical information? There are times when Google can be the right place to go but there are other times when a traditional MEDLINE search will give you much more specific and accurate results to your query. This class will show you when to use Google (plus some fun and interesting Google applications you might not know existed) and when it's time to leave Google behind and return to the other available powerful data resources.
Program: Research Details: The Grant Writing for Clinical Research Workshop is geared toward faculty members who are interested in developing a grant proposal for submission for funding.
Objectives:
This workshop is intended to do the following: • Provide an overview of the content of a grant proposal • Provide potential funding mechanisms • Briefly review organizational resources available for the investigator
How to Effectively Navigate and Interpret Promotion Policies
Program: Leadership Details: Take the perplexity out of the process for promotion by participating in this informational workshop. The workshop is designed for faculty who are considering a promotion. Presenters will discuss UMMS policy, preparing your teaching portfolio, career trajectory and promotion process.
How to Effectively Navigate and Interpret Tenure Policies
Program: Leadership Details: Take the perplexity out of the tenure process by participating in this informational workshop. The workshop is designed for faculty who are on the tenure-track. Presenters will discuss UMMS tenure policies, preparing and maintaining your teaching portfolio, the role of the “mini review”, followed by Q&A.
Program: Leadership Details: This practical session examines key features for professional development and advancement. Among these features are career goal-setting, communicating with key individuals for input and advice regarding strategies, making decisions about where to focus professional efforts, saying no effectively when necessary, seizing opportunities, strategies for monitoring one’s progress up the career ladder and how to make mid-course adjustments when needed.
IAMSE Webcast: Classroom Assessment Techniques - Finding Out How Well They Are Learning What We Are Teaching
Program: Education Details: Learner-Centered Strategies for the Lecture Hall By attending this session you will find out what Classroom Assessment (CA) is, how it works, and how it can help your students become more independent, effective learners. Second, you'll will see examples of simple, practical CA techniques they can adapt to assess your students' learning in face-to-face or online settings. Third, you'll review practical guidelines for success - dos and don'ts - based on nearly two decades of field-testing. And fourth, you'll be prepared to try at least one new idea for assessing and improving your students' learning.
Program: Leadership Details: Organizing and managing meetings is an often overlooked skill of effective leaders. It is valuable to select participants who are empowered to contribute the most quality. Furthermore, leaders need to design a purposeful agenda with specific, achievable goals, initiate meetings with established ground rules or expectations, manage time to stay on track and keep the momentum, and close the meeting by reflecting on what worked and clarity for further actions. Keeping participants actively involved in meeting activities builds consensus and group cohesion.
IAMSE Webcast: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Distance Learning
Program: Education Details: What do students do as they study? What do faculty do as they teach? The answers to those questions help determine what students learn, and what theyre able to do after the courses are over. The importance of their setting (campus, online, etc) is indirect: it makes some things easier, others harder. The starting point of any useful evaluation of a distance learning program needs to be on what people are doing, and why. Of the teaching/learning activities most important for the outcomes youd like to see, which are happening? Do the facilities make that activity easy or hard?
IAMSE Webcast: How competent do you want them to be? Evaluation and feedback in a competency-based curriculum.
Program: Education Details: How competent do you want them to be? Evaluation and feedback in a competency-based curriculum. Competency-based curricula are grounded in measurement; without evaluation and feedback, we cannot know if our learners are where we want them to be. This session will address the role of methods such as portfolios, examinations, projects, peer evaluation, OSCE’s and coaching in the competency-based curricula that you are designing through the Course Objectives Project.
Objectives:
• describe elements of effective feedback
• identify or create assessment tools to address competence
• discuss ways to improve mechanisms for competency-based feedback within their course or clerkship.
IAMSE Webcast: How to Effectively Facilitate Meetings in the Face of Challenging People and Topics
Program: Leadership Details: This workshop will provide an understanding of common problems encountered in facilitating meetings and strategies for successfully managing such problems in order to make your meetings productive. Information on how to identify, prepare for and successfully handle challenging people and topics in meetings will be discussed. This session is for faculty members who chair or facilitate meetings.
IAMSE Webcast: Leadership and the Complexity of Change
Program: Leadership Details: Innovation and change are ever-present in academic health sciences educational environments (e.g., curriculum re-organization, teaching/learning methods, technology, accreditation expectations, etc.). Various models of leadership for change are available and considerable evidence is in the literature regarding specific strategies and practical approaches to facilitating an organizational context that is conducive to change and long-lasting success. This session focuses on common characteristics of facilitative and proactive-strategic leaders, models of change, and examples of correspondingly practical application and strategies. This session focuses specifically on impetus, issues, and challenges for curriculum change. In addition, effective strategies will be offered in how to effectively initiate curriculum change, engage stakeholders, and facilitate positive stages of curriculum change.
IAMSE Webcast: Learning Styles and Teaching Approaches in the Physical and Virtual Lecture Hall
Program: Education Details: Learner-Centered Strategies for the Lecture Hall
For those able to stay, each webcast will be followed by a brief discussion regarding application of the information to teaching and learning at UMMS. The seminars are interesting and informative, and are particularly pertinent to our work here at UMMS.
Program: Leadership Details: Considerable interest and attention has been given to mission-based budgeting in the recent years. There are a wide variety of models and corresponding experiences, some positive and some not so positive. This session presents an overview of the conceptual approach and several examples of specific applications, including use of the data to determine the cost of medical education during various years of the medical curriculum and to determine the reimbursement rates to units/departments in the medical school.
Program: Education, Leadership Details: This session provides a general overview of the team development process (forming, storming, norming and performing); characteristics of effective teams, common challenges at each development stage, and practical applications (e.g., when are teams needed, how to sustain teams when people move on, how to reduce conflict in oral and written communications, etc.). Increasingly, multi-disciplinary teams often possess diverse skills that cross lines of specialization requiring leadership that enhances equity, gains trust and sustains shared authority when achieving specific goals or tasks.
IAMSE Webcast: Negotiations and Conflict Management
Program: Education, Leadership Details: This session offers key concepts for listening to and providing opportunities to meet individual needs and interests in a mutually satisfying manner. Often it is important to recognize that disagreements or disputes exist, explore functional options or agreeable courses of action to achieve consensus (“win-win”) outcomes. Specific negotiation skills will be considered in meeting organizational and individual goals.
IAMSE Webcast: Say No to Boring Lectures, Whether Live or Online
Program: Education Details: By participating actively in this very brief session, you can expect to accomplish four learning objectives. First, you'll find out what Classroom Assessment(CA)is,how it works, and how it can help your students become more independent, effective learners. Second, you'll see examples of simple, practical CA techniques you can adapt to assess your students' learning in face-to-face or online settings. Third, you'll review practical guidelines for success dos and don'ts based on nearly two decades of field-testing. And fourth, you'll be prepared to try at least one new idea for assessing and improving your students'learning.
Information Overload: Learning How to Keep Your Head Above Water
Program: Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library How many journal articles are piled on your desk (or floor) that you will “read someday”? What about e-mails – is your inbox sagging with the weight of unread messages that you don’t want to delete but you haven’t read yet? Learn how technology can help you out with. This class will concentrate on alert services, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Social Bookmarking and Google Desktop tools – all as a means to help you better organize and get a handle on the flow of information in your life.
Innovations in Teaching with Technology: A Technology Users Group
Program: BLS Vista, Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
A series of brown bag colloquiums. What began in AY 2006/2007 as a WebCT User Group has expanded to include a spectrum of instructional technology - from using the Audience Response System to Synchronous Tools to PodCasting. It is a natural extension of the WebCT Best Practices sessions, tool trainings, and desk side training initiatives. Proposed topics will include timely issues pertinent to teaching, course design, and course administration. Drop in as you have time and pick up and/or share an idea.
Instructional Technology: Advanced Audience Response System
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This workshop provides a hands-on demonstration of the UMass Turning Point audience response system (ARS), which we have used in resident seminars and student lectures. The workshop will include: technology and implementation overview; student attitudes to ARS; participation in a brief interactive seminar sample using ARS; and an opportunity to design slides as a group for ARS use by constructing a survey of workshop participants and carrying out the survey in real time. Basic and advanced software functions will be demonstrated; do’s and don’ts for ARS and tips on ARS presentations will be offered. Faculty will provide use cases from teaching experience, how the ARS has been used in classes; what curriculum worked best and some expected and unexpected outcomes.
Integrating Teaching and Curriculum Design with Effective Classroom Technology
Program: Teaching Technology Details: This course is designed for faculty who are thinking about enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. It will highlight how the curriculum design process and teaching practice must work in partnership with a chosen technology, and will address how the design process and teaching practice can advance by incorporating a technology already in place. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in enhancing their course design and teaching.
The focus of this course is how to use the everyday classroom technology (Apreso, Polling, PowerPoint) to teach effectively. For example, curriculum design around a polling exercise or effective presentation. This course is a collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Introduction to Wimba Live Classroom and Voice Tools
Program: BLS Vista Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Wimba Live Classroom is a real-time meeting environment that allows instructors to personalize their BLS Vista online courses with interactive technologies such as voice, video, application sharing, polling, and whiteboard. Wimba's web-based Voice Tools allow instructors to embed vocal interactions, including podcasts and audio presentations, can facilitate collaboration, coaching, and assessment. This session will introduce participants to the Wimba suite of interactive tools, and explore ideas for incorporating them into your BLS Vista course.
Keeping Up With Your Research: Setting Up and Using PubMed Literature Alerts
Program: Education, Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
Staying current with your area of specialization can be difficult. This hands-on course will introduce you to the National Library of Medicine’s MyNCBI Alert Service. Learn how you can save your best searches and receive automatic updates. This class will also cover MyNCBI collections and other personalized enhancements that MyNCBI can add to your PubMed sessions.
Maintaining Academic Vitality Throughout Faculty Career Stages: A Lifecycle Model for Faculty
Program: Leadership Details: Moderated by: Anne Larkin,MD, Michele Pugnaire,MD and Susan Pasquale,PhD,
This panel of seasoned faculty, who remain very active in their respective fields, will offer a wealth of valuable information and perspectives to session participants. Following a brief presentation by each member of the panel, the panelists will entertain questions from the audience and panel moderator. This session presents a wonderful opportunity for early and mid-career faculty to gain insight into perspectives of how our more seasoned faculty have successfully maintained academic vitality throughout their career. Lunch will be provided.
Medical Education & Research Seminar Series: Introduction to Using Excel for Data Management
Program: Education, Research Details: No Registration Required. Open to UMMS community.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Office of Educational Affairs.
During AY0809, the Office of Educational Affairs (OEA) sponsored a series of brown bag sessions. This is the third in that series entitled OEA’s Medical Education & Research Seminar Series: Introduction to using Excel for data management. All UMMS staff, professionals, and faculty are welcome to attend. Each session provides participants with the opportunity to develop, strengthen, and advance competencies in medical education and research. This session will cover best practices using Excel in medical education/research data management. Future topics for next AY include: Developing Pre/Post Assessments for Research/Grants and Effectively Assessing What You What You Teach
Program: Education Details: This interactive workshop will present specific models of clinical teaching, with examples, demonstration and application of the models to specific clinical teaching situations. It will present key components of the methods and considerations for integrating them into teaching. It is designed for faculty who are seeking to explore and integrate new aspects of teaching in the clinical setting.
New Protections Required for Sensitive/Research Data: How They Apply to You
Program: Education Details: Legislative changes at both the State and Federal levels have strengthened controls regarding sensitive data. These laws require encryption for new classes of sensitive data on portable devices; and stronger controls over data in all forms (digital, written, spoken, etc.). Join us to hear how these regulations apply to you, and to hear how UMMS and UMMHC are responding to the new requirements.
Optimizing Your Potential Through Time Planning: Reducing Stress
Program: Leadership Details: The workshop description/objectives are:
This session is limited to faculty members and is geared to a general audience who seeks to increase productivity through application of time & stress management principles. The five keys for "optimizing potential" are examined and strategies for practical application provided. Barriers to managing time, stress busters and the role of professional and personal motivation are overviewed.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Podcasting is a way to distribute downloadable digital audio and video files via the Internet using a subscription-based model. Podcasts can be played back on a computer desktop, an iPod, or another mobile device and can enhance teaching and learning by freeing educational materials from the constraints of the physical classroom. Listeners can automatically have new episodes or chapters of content downloaded to their system and play them back at any time.
In this class, participants will learn the tools needed for finding, downloading and managing podcasts, as well as how to integrate this technology into their teaching.
Class Agenda:
1. Podcast Definition and Overview
2. Common Methods Creation, Delivery and Viewing
3. Samples re: Medicine and/or Education
4. Hands On
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Prerequisite: Familiarity with PowerPoint
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to use PowerPoint for teaching presentations. Avoid cookie-cutter slides by creating customized templates and understanding the master slide. Design a PowerPoint presentation using advanced techniques such as animation and layering, hyper linking and importing and embedding media.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Prerequisite: PowerPoint: The Basics
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to use PowerPoint for teaching presentations.
Avoid cookie-cutter slides by creating customized templates and understanding the master slide. Design a PowerPoint presentation using advanced techniques such as animation and layering, hyper linking and importing and embedding media.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
Animation can help your audience focus on certain points in your PowerPoint presentation. Learn how to add special effects and sounds to your text and graphics to demonstrate movement, processes and highlight key information. Timing animation sequences and looping animation will also be covered. A working knowledge of the basics of PowerPoint is required for this hands-on workshop.
PowerPoint 2007: Creating Master Slides and Templates
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This workshop will be a lab session for faculty members that will focus on the use of templates and master slides. By the end of the lab, participants will practice and have an understanding of the following PowerPoint concepts:
• The Difference Between a Design Template and a Slide Master
• How to Create Your Own Design Templates
• How to Add Multiple Design Templates/Master Slides
• How to Make Global Changes to Presentations Using the Slide Master
PowerPoint 2007: Polling using the Audience Response System
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This session will orient faculty to the audience response system and demonstrate how easy it is to transform a standard PowerPoint® presentation into an interactive polling event. Participants will experience the student perspective by responding to a survey, opinion polls and educational testing during the session via their wireless ResponseCard® keypads ("clickers"). The hands on component of the workshop will guide participants through the creation of interactive polling slides in PowerPoint 2007.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This hands-on workshop will cover creating a PowerPoint presentation with a variety of slide layouts, use of design and graphics, simple animation, effective presentation tips, and more. Bring your questions!
PowerPoint 2007: Using Multimedia in Presentations
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
By the end of this session, participants will be familiar with:
• the basics of image resolution
• how to strategize embedded images to control presentation file size
• why media; image, sound, and video; what are they suited for?
• to embed video or not to embed video platform, playback, and pitfalls
• turning your presentation into a movie
Program: Education Details: This session will describe what an academic portfolio is, how it is used in the promotion process, and the reasons it is an effective way for faculty to document their academic accomplishments, both teaching and administrative, in a way that meets their professional needs. The focus of the session will be on how an academic portfolio can benefit faculty, the specific steps involved in building the portfolio, and how to best document and present important information on the scope and quality of your work.
Publicly Available Datasets for Population Health Research
Program: Research Details: This workshop will provide an overview of publicly available national datasets that are available for research purposes. The workshop will include an overview of datasets available, the types of research questions that can be answered, how to access them, and strengths and limitations.
Program: Education, Research and
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Prerequisite: Qualitative Research Design and Data Collection (Presented March 27, 2008) Details: This workshop is geared to faculty seeking to understand how to systematically analyze/report on qualitative data. Content will include: •Conceptual tools •Procedural tools •Content analysis procedure •Thematic analysis procedure •Theme codebook development •Validity checking of coding •Data reduction and presentation •Reporting on methodology and findings •Validity, reliability and generalizability •Qualitative analysis software tools and functions •Estimating the time needed for data analysis •Distinguishing grounded theory analysis from descriptive thematic analysis
Program: Education, Research and
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: This workshop is geared to faculty seeking to be able to justify their choice of methods and know how to collect good qualitative data. Content will include:
• When to use qualitative methods
• Designing qualitative research questions/deliverables
• Qualitative Methodologies as a set of interpretive practices
• Use of the literature review
• Sampling considerations
• Data collection and “capture” options
• Choosing an appropriate data collection technique
• How qualitative interviewing questions differ from quantitative survey questions
• The qualitative interview script
• Focus group costing and moderator considerations
• Data validity considerations.
Program: Research, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This class will introduce the RefWorks bibliographic citation management program. RefWorks is a free, online bibliographic software tool available to all UMMS and UMMHC faculty, staff and students. You can import references from MEDLINE and other bibliographic resources and format bibliographies based on many pre-set styles. RefWorks works well as a departmental reference manager as many can share one Internet-based account without having to download or install special software.
Program: Education, Research Details: Examples of Scientific Misconduct
By the end of this interactive workshop, participants will:
• understand the difficulties involved in defining scientific misconduct. • be able to apply current definitions of scientific misconduct to research conducted by well-known scientists of the past. • understand the procedures for lodging a charge of scientific misconduct as well as the penalties involved if the charge is substantiated. • discuss the prevalence of scientific misconduct in the US today.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Respondus is a software tool for creating exams from within Microsoft Word and publishing them directly to our Learning Management System, BLS Vista. The tool's strategic effect on the exam creation work flow will be discussed. This session will introduce learners to the exam management possibilities--printing, publishing, and retrieval--between Word, Respondus and Vista. Learners will format sample exams within Word and publish to a course sandbox within Vista.
Program: Education, Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
RSS, feeds, Atom - they all refer to the same basic function. Feeds let you keep up with new research on your topics of interest without filling your email. In this hands-on session you'll learn about how they work. Then you'll set up an online account with at least one feed that will provide updates of new references for you to read at your leisure.
Program: Research Details: Successful faculty members in academic medicine have the ability to write clearly and persuasively. This workshop is designed to help increase your skills and confidence in scientific writing. Students will learn essential writing strategies, what distinguishes excellent writing, how to avoid common mistakes of poor writing, and how to critique others' writing. This workshop is capped at 15 participants and requires preparatory reading.
SoTL Special Topics: Authors'' Rights: Understanding and Controlling the Rights to Your Work
Program: Research, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: Today more than ever, authors need a good understanding of the basic concepts of intellectual property, as well as the rights they have when it comes to publishing, sharing, and archiving their scholarly work. This workshop is designed to help faculty become aware of authors’ rights issues that arise from agency funding policies, public and open access, data sharing, digital repositories, and the Internet. Attendees will learn how existing laws and policies apply in these areas so that they can both protect their own work and educate the next generation of scholars through their teaching.
SoTL Special Topics: Getting the Most out of Your Questionnaire Part I
Program: Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: The focus of this workshop will be on the first steps in questionnaire development: identifying what you want to measure, drafting items, formatting, and pre-testing.
A second workshop will be offered in May (day and time to be determined); Part II, which can be taken with or without Part I, will focus on validity and reliability - what are reliability and validity, why you should care, and how you should think about them in the context of your questionnaire.
SoTL Special Topics: Smoother Sailing with your IRB Submission
Program: Research Details: The process of approval from the UMass Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (commonly known as the IRB) can seem a daunting task. Dr. Brian O''Sullivan, IRB Chair and a clinical investigator himself, will review some of the current challenges to the IRB, and address some of the common problems with investigator submissions. This interactive session will focus on the critical steps for a successful IRB submission.
Program: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: These drop-in sessions, scheduled from 4:00-5:00PM on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, are part of the SoTL Program. Faculty are welcome to drop in for any amount of time to discuss/receive consultation on their educational research with members of the SoTL team. The goal of the consultations is to facilitate peer-reviewed publications and presentations related to teaching.
Stability, Resilience, and Stress-Hardy Coping: Integrating Mindfulness into Your Life
Program: Leadership Details: Through experiential exercises and group inquiry and dialogue, we'll explore our capacity to cultivate stability, resilience and stress hardiness in our everyday lives.
Two attributes seem to be critically important for buffering or reducing the negative effects of psychological and emotional stress:stability & resilience.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn & practice mindfulness meditation.
• Examine factors associated with the development of stability, resilience & stress hardiness.
• Experientially explore practical approaches for intergrating mindfulness skills into your life as a means of cultivating stress hardiness.
Staying Current with Best Research Practices: the Art & Science of a Good Literature Search
Program: Education, Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This class is designed for faculty members engaged in a laboratory or clinical research-oriented literature review. Participants will learn how to conduct focused, strategy-based searches utilizing multiple resources. A portion of the class will be dedicated to individual searching with one-on-one assistance from the instructors.
Staying Current: Tools to Manage Your Searches and Research Results
Program: Research Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Lamar Soutter Library.
This hands-on course will focus on creating and using PubMed’s MyNCBI tool to save and generate email alerts from your best searches, and to save “collections” of best articles for future use. Students will also subscribe to an RSS feed reader/aggregator, create several feeds, and learn how feeds are different from alerts. The class includes a demo of MEDLINE searching in the Ovid interface and time to ask the librarians questions pertinent to your own practice and research.
Program: Leadership Details: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Discuss general factors of negotiations.
• Define and examine strategies used in: Yielding, Stonewalling, Positional/Distributed Bargaining, Interest based/Joint gain negotiation.
• Consider the effect of issues which modify negotiations such as: Gender, Culture, Differential power between the parties.
Successful Initiation of Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trials:Process Flow from Feasibility to Recruitment Session II
Program: Research Details: Meeting success in your clinical trials is no accident. They require attention to detail at every step of the process: from protocol/feasibility review through initiation, conduct and close-out. Included in this session will be strategies for budget assessment, revision, and working with the Office of Clinical Research to smooth the contract/budget negotiation process and study start-up. This session may be especially helpful for newer clinical investigators or those unfamiliar with industry-sponsored clinical trials as we discuss choosing the right studies at the right time.
Program: Education, Leadership Details: In this workshop we will explore how team members behave, what they are concerned about in each stage, and what the team leader can do to build and motivate effective teams. Come learn an easy and effective approach for teaching about, and leading, teams.
Teaching to Publication: The UMMScholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Program
Program: Education, Research and
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: This program is for faculty who are interested in developing scholarly publications related to their teaching. The aim of this program is to assist faculty in moving their teaching to publication.
It is intended for faculty interested in exploring:
• The activities and products of their teaching
• The extent to which they publishable
• The review criteria that would apply
• Where they would publish
You are invited you to come learn more about the program, and discuss and begin to develop publications related to teaching with SoTL faculty, faculty colleagues and potential collaborators.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Information Services.
This workshop provides a hands-on demonstration of the UMass Turning Point audience response system (ARS), which we have used in resident seminars and student lectures. The workshop will include: technology and implementation overview; student attitudes to ARS; participation in a brief interactive seminar sample using ARS; and an opportunity to design slides as a group for ARS use by constructing a survey of workshop participants and carrying out the survey in real time. Basic and advanced software functions will be demonstrated; do’s and don’ts for ARS and tips on ARS presentations will be offered. Faculty will provide use cases from teaching experience, how the ARS has been used in classes; what curriculum worked best and some expected and unexpected outcomes.
Program: Teaching Technology Details: Drop in at your convenience to this informal session and ask application experts questions about:
• Adobe Captivate • Adobe Connect Pro • Adobe Presenter • BLS Vista
• Content Manager
• Polling (Clickers)
• PowerPoint
• Wimba
The ADA and Accommodations in the Learning Environment: What Every Faculty Member Needs To Know
Program: Education Details: This session is an opportunity for faculty to learn about the ADA, to know and understand their responsibility in accommodating students who self-declare as individuals with disabilities in the learning environment. It is also an opportunity for faculty to become knowledgeable about the UMMS academic accommodation process.
Program: Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Details: This workshop is designed for faculty who are seeking to better understand medical simulation and are considering integrating it into their curriculum. The workshop will present an overview of what simulation is, key considerations for integrating it into your teaching, as well provide information on the UMMS Simulation Center’s programs and service. An October 1 session will focus on Developing simulation scenarios and an October 28 session will focus on Debriefing Simulations. This workshop is applicable to both clinical and basic science faculty.
Upcoming sessions:
Developing Simulation Scenarios: October 8, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Debriefing Simulations: October 28, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
Understanding the Massachusetts Recipe for Health Reform Soup
Program: No Named Program Details: Learning objectives:
• Attendees will understand the objectives and basic components of the state health care reform law
• the major funding structures under the law
• the key factors making its passage possible the major challenges to its successful implementation, and the role of the federal government in the authorization and funding of the new system.
Program: Education, Research Details: At the end of the workshop participants will:
•Understand how qualitative methods can benefit health research & skills required to undertake a qualitative study
•Recognize the diversity of qualitative approaches
•Be able to describe how sampling works in qualitative approaches
•Understand decision criteria for individual vs. focus group interview data collection
•Be able to describe the difference between qualitative and quantitative interview questions
•Know what conceptual, procedural, and software tools are available to aid analysis
•Be familiar with basic process steps in thematic analysis and grounded theory
What’s the end-point? Building competency-based objectives into your curricula.
Program: Education Details: Many of us within UMMS are working on re-writing course objectives through the OME’s “Course Objectives Project”. In this workshop, we will help you to rethink your course objectives within the framework of the UMass Medical School’s 6-Competency rubric. Whether you are just starting your rewrite or are stuck on the language of clinical competency, we will help you to link your course to the overarching vision of UMass medicine. Objectives: describe the competencies relevant to their learners create competency-based objectives for their teaching demonstrate ability to link their own curricula to competencies by building competency-based exercises or experience
Program: Research Details: The Grant Writing for Clinical Research Workshop is geared toward faculty members who are interested in developing a grant proposal for submission for funding. Objectives:
This workshop is intended to do the following: •Provide an overview of the content of a grant proposal •Provide potential funding mechanisms •Briefly review organizational resources available for the investigator
Program: Research Details: This workshop will provide information on planning and writing a K award proposal. Information on what study sections are looking for, and key ingredients for success will be discussed. This session is for faculty members considering writing a K award grant.
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