Medical education assumes a teacher-centered stance in its approach to pedagogy. Many medical educators/instructors facilitating fully online programs do not come with training in online education and may not understand its unique benefits and challenges. One of those challenges is the struggle to build community with students and forge a pathway through the learning structure of online courses. This session focuses on faculty development work in collaboration with instructors to enact academic program improvement. Examples from online medical education, a graduate program in the Joint OHSU/PSU School of Public Health and undergraduate nursing at OHSU, exemplify strategies such as e-campus, teacher effectiveness trainings, and peer mentorship, which have led to successful program-wide changes and find application across disciplines, from the bottom up!
Objectives:
- To understand the challenges of doing faculty development work in an academic health setting.
- To collaborate with faculty to employ student-centered online learning strategies and access to services
- To learn about relationship building strategies for faculty development
In this session, we will discuss the challenges of doing faculty development work in an academic health setting. We will talk about strategies (e-campus, peer mentoring, micro workshops) for instructor training, learner engagement, and collaborative design of learning activities. Attendees will also learn tips for working with faculty in settings that are usually top-down and often place research and clinical practice above teaching.