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When it comes to education these days, there’s a lot to think about: flipped classrooms, instructional technology, accreditation, authentic assessment, copyright, asynchronous learning, multimedia tools, hybrid learning. Moving the Needle delivers frank conversations with instructors, learners, leaders, and creators about all things teaching and learning. Listen to their stories, learn from hard-won experience, and let these ideas help you move the needle in your own teaching.
Episodes

Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Episode 47 - Building Bridges in SoTL: The Ed Crafters Community Connection
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Host Scott Riley chats with Sol Roberts-Lieb and Eric Belt about the new Ed Crafters Community Connection (EC3)—a virtual learning community created by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) to encourage faculty to learn, collaborate, and grow in the SoTL space.

Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Host Scott Riley speaks with Dr. Allison Duffy, PharmD, BCOP, about her "Mentor of the Year" award - her thoughts on what defines mentoring, what it means to be a good mentor, and her suggestions for how to become a better mentor.

Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Episode 45 - From Theory to Practice: Cognitive Insights into Multimedia Learning
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Host Scott Riley chats with Eric Belt, EdD, Sr. Academic Innovation Specialist and researcher at the FCTL. They take a deep dive into Richard Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and talk about what they've learned and how they plan to change their teaching as a result of their new learning.

Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Episode 44 - Rethinking Classroom Boundaries: UMB's New HyFlex Teaching Space
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Host, Erin Hagar, speaks with Kevin Engler and Tony Delane, members of the FCTL team about the new hyflex classroom recently completed at UMB. They explore the possibilities in teaching that the classroom, which is designed to virtually eliminate the difference in experience for remote and in-person students, presents.

Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Episode 43 - A Conversation with Dr. Adam Puche, UMB’s 2024 Educator of the Year
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
In this episode, host Erin Hagar speaks with Dr. Adam Puche, UMB's 2024 Educator of the Year. Their conversation explores the values that guide his teaching, strategies he uses in the classroom and innovations that he has helped to implement in the Anatomy curriculum at the School of Medicine.

Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Episode 42 - Empowering Educators through Collaborative Course Design
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Scott Riley chats with his co-host, Erin Hagar, about the Summer Course Design Institute at UMB that she established and ran. Erin discusses the Institute's approach to helping faculty develop or significantly revise a course in a small cross-discipline cohort with one-on-one support.

Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Episode 41 - Award Winning Pedagogy: Neuro-Simulation with Dr. Nicholas Morris
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Host Scott Riley speaks with Dr. Nicholas Morris, Associate Fellowship Director of the Neurocritical Care Fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine about his work in using simulation to help teach and assess competency in emergency neurology.

Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Ep 40 - A Faculty Coaching Mock Session
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Have you wondered what a coaching session sounds like? Well, in this episode, you can listen in! Two professional development coaches perform a mock session that includes all the elements of coaching—agenda setting, powerful questions, and accountability-- while exploring the tricky topic of faculty teaching evaluations. For more information on the UMB Coaching program visit: https://www.umaryland.edu/fctl/services/professional-development-coaching/

Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Episode 39 - Developing Your Course's Parallel Skill: A Workshop
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Host Erin Hagar diverges from her traditional format and walks listeners through a short workshop created to help instructors design parallel skills into their course. Parallel skills being defined as skills, knowledge or attitudes that you hope to foster in your students that are connected and related to your course but not the topic itself.

Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Episode 38 - Celebrating End-of-Year Success Stories
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Co-hosts Erin Hagar and Scott Riley wrap up the academic year by inviting faculty to share their successes from the past year, what worked and why.