InnovatED Symposium

Generative Artificial Intelligence has many potentials beyond solving problems and generating content. This workshop will walk you through step-by-step on how to assemble an application using AI tools to structure the app in a user-friendly version. You will also see examples of AI building an application based off the problem given.

Presenter

Victor Winter, PhD, Professor, College of Information Science & Technology, UNO

Location & Time

Main Event Hall at 10:30 a.m.

Preparing students for a successful career is at the heart of the UNMC mission. To increase Career Services utilization and make resources more accessible, the College of Public Health embedded Career Services into a Master of Public Health core course. This presentation will describe how they established the relationship between the class and the service, lessons learned and student feedback on the requirement.

Presenters

Shelley Strong, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, College of Public Health 

Brenda Nickol, MPH, Director of Career Services, College of Public Health  

Location & Time

Room C at 10:30 a.m.

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) is a growing topic across campus and the nation. At UNMC, diversity inventories will be required for continuing accreditation. In this session, you'll discover how the College of Pharmacy is creating the assessment templates and will conduct the inventories. You'll also learn about the determination of the assessment factors necessary to conducting the inventories of JEDI activities. 

Presenters

Ally Dering-Anderson, PharmD, RP, FAPhA, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy 

Brooke Taylor Maeda, PharmD Candidate, College of Pharmacy

Anh Tran, PharmD/MBA Candidate, College of Pharmacy 

Location & Time

Room D at 10:30 a.m.

Recent advances have propelled biological research to new heights, creating a deluge of incoming data. Unfortunately, this often leads to a data analysis bottleneck. Luckily, cloud-based interactive pipeline tutorials, with real-world example analyses, can overcome these hurdles and provide equal training and computational resource opportunities. In this session, you'll learn about 12 cloud-based computational tutorials that are designed to overcome research bottlenecks and facilitate portable bioinformatics across diverse research topics.

Presenter

Jordan Rowley, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine  

Location & Time

Room C at 11:30 a.m. (speed presentation)

Get ready to bridge the gap between in-person and online learning. Join us to discover how a built-in camera system in the library's hybrid classrooms (Wittson Hall, Rooms 6023 and 6033) provides an immersive, up-close experience with 3D objects no matter where your students are located — and how you can use similar camera systems in other buildings to provide an immersive experience your students will never forget.

Presenters

Erin J. Torell, MA, Assistant Professor and Rare Books Librarian, Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library 

Darby Kurtz, MA, Assistant Professor, Archivist and Public Historian, Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library 

Location & Time

Room C at 11:30 a.m. (speed presentation)

What happens when your online materials are informative, but student summative assessments are low? It's time to deploy ADDIE. The Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation instructional design model can be used to evaluate and enhance the reliability of summative assessments. This session will describe how the uBEATS program standardized, rewrote and re-evaluated their assessments using ADDIE — and increased summative assessments by 13% points.

Presenter

Zuzi Greiner, MSEd, Instructional Technologist, Interactive E-Learning 

Location & Time

Room C at 11:30 a.m. (speed presentation)

Every voice should be valued and heard. In this session, you’ll learn how to create an inclusive classroom where students and faculty have a sense of belonging regardless of identity, learning preferences or education. Experts will share examples of inclusive classroom strategies and highlight their top 20 inclusive classroom examples and tools to help you create your inclusive experience.

Presenters

Peggy Moore, MSEd, Director, E-Learning; Assistant Professor, College of Allied Health Professions 

Tanya Custer, MS, RT(R)(T), Director of Distance Education and Associate Professor, College of Allied Health Professions 

Kim Michael, MA, RT(R), RDMS, RVT, FSDMS, Anderson Distinguished Professor, Program Director Diagnostic Medical Sonography; Professor, College of Allied Health Professions

Analisa McMillan, PhD, MSEd, Director, UNMC Distance Education; Assistant Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning, College of Public Health

Location & Time

Room D at 11:30 a.m.

Don't let a hectic schedule keep you from incorporating experiential learning into your teaching. In this two-part workshop, you'll learn the ins and outs of simulation-based education. First, we will cover core components with real-life examples that have been successfully implemented in the iEXCEL program. Second, you'll have the chance to ask experts questions regarding your own simulation-based training sessions.

Presenters

Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, MD, Educational Research Specialist, iEXCEL; Assistant Professor, College of Medicine

Paul Dye, MSEd, Manager, Educational Technology & Design, iEXCEL

Samantha Rogers, MSA, CHSOS, Manager, Clinical Simulation Program, iEXCEL 

Randi Peavy, Manager, Surgical Simulation Program

Sarah Kriss, Manager, Advanced Human Simulation Program

Location & Time

Main Event Hall at 1:15 p.m.

Explore the hurdles and triumphs of creating an interprofessional training program that incorporates e-learning, synchronous learning and blended learning modalities. In this session, you’ll hear about how the U.S. Public Health Service D-SAFE (Deployment Safety Academy for Field Experiences) program prepares federal first responders for infectious disease deployments while unveiling strategies to be incorporated in future public health training and education opportunities.

Presenters

Sara Donovan, MPH, Project Manager, Global Center for Health Security  

Louriann Nieman, MEd, Instructional Designer, Interactive E-Learning 

Location & Time

Room C at 1:15 p.m.

Imagine giving your students a learning experience that's as engaging as it is enlightening. In this session, you'll learn about an innovative way of teaching theory using a thinking cap analogy. This innovation can advance students' use of theory to guide professional reasoning in practice. Although told through the lens of occupational therapy education, these techniques can apply to all topics.

Presenter

Stacy Smallfield, DrOT, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, Associate Professor, College of Allied Health Professions

Location & Time

Room D at 1:15 p.m.

Make Artificial Intelligence work FOR you, not against you. This session is designed to help higher education faculty harness the power of ChatGPT to enhance their own productivity and support student learning outcomes. You will learn about the capabilities of ChatGPT and explore practical ways to integrate it into your teaching and research.

Presenters

Analisa McMillan, PhD, MSEd, Director, UNMC Distance Education; Assistant Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning, College of Public Health 

April Elker, MSEd, Instructional Designer, College of Public Health 

Janet Skogerboe, Instructional Technologist, College of Public Health 

Location & Time

Main Event Hall at 2:15 p.m.

Bring e-learning to life like never before with the use of storytelling. In this session, you'll learn tips and tricks on blending captivating narratives with educational content to create engaging e-modules. Discover how an interprofessional team incorporated storytelling about characters experiencing social determinants of health into classroom materials to provide an immersive educational experience for students in health care and associated professions.

Presenters

Jana Wardian, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor for Research, College of Medicine 

Leah M. Stade, OTD, OTR/L, Assistant Professor, College of Allied Health Professions 

Sarah E. Nelson, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, UNO 

Location & Time

Room C at 2:15 p.m.

The United States is facing a primary care physician (PCP) shortage. The Primary Care Cup was designed to provide fourth-year medical students with a case-based approach to learning best primary care practices. In this session, you'll discover how a group-based, friendly competition is reinforcing practical approaches to gamification in a low-stakes environment.

Presenters

Amy Dreessen, MD, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine 

Cory Rohlfsen, MD, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine 

Location & Time

Room D at 2:15 p.m.