Concurrent Session One (10:15 – 10:45 a.m.)
Interactive Sessions
Encouraging Student Engagement in the Flipped Classroom: Cross-disciplinary Teaching Practices - Room 305
Andi Strackeljahn, Curriculum Specialist, School of Optometry, IU Bloomington;
Brandi Keith, Adjunct Professor, Sociology, IU Kokomo;
Misty Bohnert, Assistant Professor and Department Chair, Physical Education, Vincennes University;
Steven Mohler, Assistant Professor of Management, Division of Business, IUPUC;
Shamima Mithun, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI
Flipped learning can provide powerful learning experiences for students, but is predicated on students’ comprehension of pre-class readings and videos. In this session, instructors from a variety of disciplines and Indiana institutions will share the advantages and challenges of their approaches to student accountability and facilitation of in-class activities. Attendees will discuss applications to their own courses.
Accommodations Matter: Understanding the IEP, 504, Neurodiversity, and Audio Processing - Room 405
Katherine Pine, Senior Instructor, Communication, Indiana State University
The presentation provides an educator's perspective on how to provide best teaching practices for meeting accommodations. The goal will be to define the terms IEP, 504, neurodiversity, and audio processing in simple contexts and show strategies for meeting general accommodations that would be in place as part of curriculum and course design.
Creating a Significant Circle to Discuss the Links Between Identity and Practice in the College Classroom - Room 409
Dr. Julia Smith, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education, Purdue University Fort Wayne
For hands-on experience and active learning, participants will be invited to create a significant circle and engage by discussing their insights related to cultural and social identity in their teaching practice. They will additionally be supported to apply ways in which the significant circle can be implemented in the college classroom across disciplines
Show and Tell
FazBoard: an AI-enhanced Teaching & Learning System for Student Engagement, Connectedness, and Learning Equity - Room 307
Fawzi Benmessaoud, Lecturer;
Davide Bolchini, Professor and Department Chair; and
Louie Zhu, Senior Lecturer, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, IUPUI
FazBoard is a solution that integrates a digital canvas with an AI Assistant as an AI hybrid system for Teaching/Learning and addressing students’ engagement, connectedness, and learning equity given the diversity of learners and teachers. The AI Assistant provides 24/7 instant responses to students’ inquiries and automates the learning analytics so results can be used to improve the curriculum in terms of substance, difficulty levels, instructional resources, delivery methods, and teaching styles.
Statewide HIPPA-compliant Zoom-based Image Interpretation Authentic Experiential Learning Activity - Room 307
Atul Agarwal, MD, Assistant Professor, IU School of Medicine, IUPUI
The required Radiology Clerkship clinical experience is predominately observational with disproportionally less faculty interaction for regional campus students. We implemented an authentic learning activity across all campuses where students viewed imaging studies of real patients and generated written reports. This facilitated a high degree of engagement, understanding of radiology, and confidence in image interpretation, and translated to noninferior performance.
Embedding a Koru Mindfulness program into existing First-Year Seminars - Room 405
Nancy Barton, MS, ACSM/EP-C-E, CWHC, Certified Koru Mindfulness Instructor and Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Human Sciences;
Heather Bowman, Director, First-Year Experience Institute for Engaged Learning, Division of Undergraduate Education, IUPUI;
Lisa Angermeier, PhD, MCHES®, FASHA, Clinical Associate Professor, Senior Faculty Fellow in First-Year Experience (FYE), and Interim Director for Gateway to Graduation in the Institute for Engaged Learning School of Health and Human Sciences, IUPUI
In fall 2022, 274 students from First-Year Seminars participated in a 4-week program of Koru Mindfulness. This evidenced-based program encouraged students to build the habit of using mindfulness practices on a regular basis to manage stressors and to develop practical skills that they can use to focus their minds and gain perspective on issues and challenges that may occur.
Concurrent Session Two (12:15 – 12:45 a.m.)
Interactive Sessions
Leveling the Playing Field with Open Educational Resources - Room 307
Jennifer Price Mahoney, Senior Lecturer, Associate Director, Writing Program, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Tired of students who never buy the textbook? Tired of publishers constantly reissuing new, ever-more-expensive editions? Tired of feeling stuck with a book that isn't quite what your students need for your course? Interested in improving retention, equity, inclusion, and accessibility with a free online textbook? Let's talk about Open Educational Resources.
Facilitating Dialogue Across Social Differences: The Inside-Out Program as a Pedagogical Model - Room 405
Meghan Meadows, Graduate Student Research Assistant and Dr. Susan Hyatt, PhD, Professor, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Based on the transformative pedagogy of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, we will engage in group activities encouraging participants to rethink labels like "addict, " "offender, " and "felon, " language that stigmatizes justice-involved people. We will engage in group activities to strategize ways to find alternative language that humanizes marginalized groups, an exercise that can be adapted to a conventional classroom setting.
Real-Play Versus Role-Play in the Classroom: Student Vulnerability and Risk-Taking - Room 409
Susan L. Glassburn, PhD, LCSW, Assistant Professor and Rand Warden, LCSW, Lecturer, IU School of Social Work, IUPUI
Many professions use some type of role play in the classroom to teach interactional skills to students. Both role-play and real-play are high stakes for students. This session seeks to understand the experience of both real/role play for students as well as to explore educators' roles and responsibilities in cultivating a sense of safety for students in the process.
TED-like Talks
Pedagogy of Care - Room 305
Kathi Badertscher, Director of Graduate Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI
What do instructors do about the disappearing student? Students often experience crises that can hinder academic success and faculty can develop a pedagogical approach to interventions that may assist students to stay in school. I have built a network and "pedagogy of care" that others may learn from to reach students.
Let’s get Students Talking to Other Students Around the World! - Room 305
Heaven Hollender, Clinical Assistant Professor and Kathy Berlin, Associate Professor and Program Director, School of Health and Human Sciences, IUPUI
Global exchanges are not solely for those who travel; Students want—and enjoy—virtual engagements with students in other countries. But why wait? Let’s start these experiences in their first years of college!
Show and Tell
Medical Student as Playwright: Dramatizing Imelda - Room 309
Emily Beckman, DMH, Assistant Professor, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI and
Angeline Larimer, MFA, MA, Lead Dramaturg and Teaching Artist, PlayPenn, and Affiliate Faculty, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI
Playwriting can challenge students with the responsibility of creating characters, bringing to light common misperceptions of societal intersections, and highlighting awareness of societal complexities. We examine the benefits of incorporating an applied theatre playwriting workshop into medical education, specifically within a narrative medicine curriculum, and include samples of text from student scripts, analysis of the exercise, and recommendations for future iterations.
Achieving Inclusivity in Medicine – Experiences of Learners and Faculty Facilitators - Room 309
Matthew Holley, PhD, Vice Chair of Faculty & Staff Affairs and Professional Development, Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, IU School of Medicine, IUPUI
IUSM developed the Achieving Inclusivity in Medicine (AIM) program for all incoming medical students. The curriculum uses a relationship-centered communication model with a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens with the goal of developing skills that could be used with peers and patients. The one-day program includes a mix of small and large group activities led by trained IUSM faculty/staff.