Category: Teaching & Learning
Building Soft Skills
For a Range of Brains Build strategies to help strengthen communication, organization, and boundary‑setting with learners and colleagues alike. Practice implementing these skills through case-based scenarios with faculty colleagues. Featuring expertise from: Dana RamlAssistant Professor, UNMC Department of PsychiatryDirector, Adult Outpatient Division, UNMC Department of Psychiatry Aleisha NabowerAssociate Professor, UNMC Division of Hospital MedicineProgram Director, […]
Sep 14, 2026
What’s My Lane
The Role of Today’s Educator In a rapidly shifting health‑sciences landscape, educators are navigating more lanes than ever. Let’s pause at the metaphorical construction zone, reassess our path, and clarify the evolving responsibilities of teaching, mentoring, and modeling professional identity. Featuring expertise from Dr. Geoffrey Talmon Professor, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and ImmunologySenior Associate […]
Sep 10, 2026
Let’s Get Reel
Toolkit for Educational Videos Featuring visiting expert, Karen Costa Level up your courses with Karen Costa, educator and author of 99 tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos. This session will deliver practical tips backed by research and brought to life with illustrative examples. Build confidence and skills to enhance your online courses and […]
Aug 25, 2026
AI Resource Hub – NU ITS
This hub is designed to help you learn how to utilize the AI tools available to you at the University of Nebraska. It provides a variety of resources and supports, including prompts you can use for common tasks and guidance on using AI effectively.
Aug 20, 2026
Tech Skills Tune-up
Start the semester off right with a refresher on your tech skills! Get the latest from the experts about high-yield academic technologies available at your fingertips. The hub in the link below is designed to help you learn how to utilize the AI tools available to you at the University of Nebraska. It provides a […]
Aug 18, 2026
A Story Worth Telling
The art of telling a good story depends on one crucial fact: who’s listening? Inside every good story is the idea worth spreading, Joe will unpack his experience as a scientist, a patent lawyer, and a TEDx speaker to provide some practical tips on finding and spreading that idea.
Apr 9, 2026
Learner Agency
Your goal goes beyond dispensing technical knowledge. Empower your learners to develop agency and intrinsic motivation to recognize their own knowledge gaps, engage in problem solving, and independently direct their learning Featuring expertise from: Trek Langenhan, MDAssistant ProfessorInternal Medicine, Hospital Medicine Cory Rohlfsen, MDAssistant ProfessorInternal Medicine, General Medicine Zach SlocumInstructional DesignerInternal Medicine Education
Mar 12, 2026
CoPilot for Course Files
The April 24, 2026 deadline is closer than it appears… CoPilot has tools to help you with accessibility of your PowerPoints and Word files. Make your life easier and learn how to use them! Featuring expertise from: Mikeala Peterson, Technoloy Trainer, University of Nebraska, Learning Experience Division Julie Gregg, Instructional Designer, UNMC IT Academic Technologies […]
Feb 13, 2026
Saving Time & Energy with AI
10 real tips from 10 real UNMC AI users Overwhelmed by the AI information saturation?Sift through the noise and gain practical, immediately actionable tips to integrate AI into your work.
Jan 9, 2026
Make Your Teaching More Engaging
An Advice Guide from the Chronicle of Higher Education By Sarah Rose Cavanagh Consider a student in an introductory math class — let’s call him Alex. Alex had some unpleasant experiences with math in high school. When he got to college, he tested into a math course below the level that would count toward his general-education requirements. […]
Dec 22, 2025