Top Hat is an active learning app, which helps professors engage and motivate students in online, blended and face-to-face courses. In this micro-learning session, Dr. Spors will give an overview of Top Hat essential functions. He will demonstrate and discuss how he organized his courses in Top Hat and how he uses the application in…
Did you know that the Instructional Design Team at WesternU TRIPLED since March 2020?! Have you met your college's designated Instructional Designer? We're having a low-key chat about instructional design topics, and answering any questions you might have of our team. So bring your lunch and come hang out at our virtual lunch tables!…
This workshop will introduce faculty to VisualDx. This resource is another tool that can be used to locate disease states, find differential diagnoses and pitfalls, what tests are best to run, and view high resolution imagery. What makes VisualDx unique is its availability on a desktop and a mobile device. By the end of…
December 31, 2020 marks the end of a year and the end of Adobe’s support of Flash. As we enter 2021, Flash will become a software of the past and HTML5 will take its place. This session will provide you with some information about the transition from Flash to HTML5 and how it affects certain tools and products that have been utilizing this software. Session…
Higher Education and topics related to the future of teaching and learning have been forever changed post-2020. As the clouds begin to clear and a new dawn shines on 2021, let's reflect on the past and begin to look toward the future. Multiple outlets have published their projections for the new future of teaching and…
Let’s take a look into this book written by Dr. Eric Topol, a renowned cardiologist, executive vice president of Scripps Research, founder of a new medical school, and one of the top ten most-cited medical researchers. The author show us how the awesome power of AI can make medicine better, and reveals the paradox that…
You've probably heard quite a bit about AI recently, but how does it actually work? In this session, we will demystify one of this century's most revolutionary technologies by teaching you how it works under the hood. You will learn how AI does tasks like image processing and natural language processing, as well as some…
Virtual Case Scenario (Acute Liver Failure and Chronic Liver Failure) The virtual case scenario was a team effort between Dr. Hyma Gogineni, her team of students and the Instructional Design team at CETL. The cases were used by students in the classroom to help deliver the content and complexities of Acute Liver Failure and Chronic…
Dr. Gretchen Jackson leads the Chief Health Office, overseeing the Health Officers Pursuing Evidence and Excellence (HOPE) and Center for AI, Research, and Evaluation (CARE) at IBM Watson Health. She is also an Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Jackson is an internationally recognized biomedical…
Have you been looking for a few new educational tools that can be used in the classroom? Look no further because this session will show you three, fun tools that can be easily included in your lessons. This session will introduce you to Padlet and Jamboard—two educational tools that can be used for student collaboration and engagement. You will also learn about ThingLink—a software that provides ways to augment images…