Moving the Needle

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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/

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.

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.