Moving the Needle

Episode 25 - Globalizing the Curriculum, At Home and Abroad: The Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute

Host Erin Hagar speaks with participants in UMB's Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute training about the importance of bringing a globalized perspective into classrooms.

Episode 24 Educational Research - Peeking Behind the Veil

Co-host Scott Riley speaks with Dr. Violet Kulo, Associate Professor and Program Director for the MS in Health Professions Education (HPE) program in UMB's Graduate School and Dr. Eric Belt, Senior Academic Innovation Specialist at UMB's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, about the ways teaching has evolved over time and about the factors that lead to those changes.

Episode 23 - Reaching the Next Generation of Social Innovators, Inside and Outside the Classroom

Cohost Scott Riley speaks with Jim Kutcher, Program Director of the M.S. in Social Entrepreneurship in the Graduate School discusses his  hybrid approach to teaching, using experiential learning and social innovation.

Episode 22 - Crossing the Same Finish Line: Designing Learning for Students With Varied Professional Backgrounds

Dr. Tiffany Buckley, faculty member of UMB's School of Pharmacy talks with host Erin Hagar about how she approached the challenge of having an exceptionally diverse set of learners  when launching the Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics program at UMB.

Episode 21 - Engaging Inquiring Minds: A novel approach to teaching labs

Dr. Stephen Mang, Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine and recipient of the Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching, discusses his approach to inquiry based labs with co-host Scott J Riley II. 

Episode 20 - Culture of Kindness in Academia

Host Erin Hagar speaks with Dr. Glenn Canares, a pediatric dentist at UMB's School of Dentistry, about the culture of academic departments. How do these cultures come to be? How are they formed and fostered and maintained over time? What impact does a culture have on individual faculty members and, how does the culture trickle down and impact the student experience?  

Episode 19 - The Health Professions Education Program: A Stepping Stone from Clinician to Clinician Educator

The question of how might expert clinicians also become expert educators to prepare the next generation of health care providers is explored. Host, Erin Hagar, is joined by faculty from UMB's HPE program, Dr. Christina Cestone, Dr. Violet Kulo, and Dr. Karen Gordes. 

Episode 18 - Rethinking Legal Education

Host Erin Hagar talks with Martha Ertman, the Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor at the University of Maryland Carey Law School.  They discuss law education, how it’s different from other disciplines, and how it’s evolving. Martha also talks about changes she's made to her teaching, based on new understandings and epiphanies she’s had about today’s generation of learners.

Episode 17 - The Mentorship Toolbox: Concrete Ways to Support Graduate Student Development

Host, Scott Riley, speaks with Dr. Tracy Irish, Clinical Assistant Professor in the STEM Master of Arts in Education program at UMBC and Jennifer Aumiller, Director of the Career and Professional Development Office of Postdoctoral Scholars in the School of Medicine at UMB about the benefits and effects of developing graduate students’ ability to teach in and outside of the classroom.

Episode 16 - Making Learning Accessible to Those of ALL Abilities

Erin speaks with Deborah Levi, Director of Educational Support and Disabilities Services (ESDS) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore about making courses as accessible as possible to the entire student body.