Great Teaching at University of Michigan

Online Course for Senior Medical Students

In order to teach senior medical students about medical theraputics, Cary Engleberg at the Medical School, has developed an online curriculum. This curriculum includes:

  1. interactive case‐based learning modules that incorporate explanatory feedback, images, video interviews with multiple faculty members, and links to medical references and guidelines at specific learning points in the materials
  2. weekly hour‐long seminars conducted via Adobe Connect to provide an interactive learning experience with multiple faculty members on numerous therapeutic topics
  3. online quizzes that are taken online and are designed to test problem solving and critical thinking skills
  4. student research presentations (usually a PowerPoint document) that are submitted electronically via Sitemaker

The entire course is accessed via a CTools site and takes advantage of the CTools environment and tools (e.g., announcements, assignments, resources, rosters, etc.) to efficiently administer the course.

 

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Web-Based Curriculum for Teaching the Fundamentals of Diagnostic and Service Coding to Medical Trainees

In order to provide an accurate, consistent level of training in coding that is accessible to all internal medicine residents, Dr. Chick generated a web‐based complete coding curriculum ("Coding 101") designed to instruct internal medicine residents in the principles of diagnostic and service coding. Learners can watch videos or read cases and practice coding their own services.

Coding 101 is designed to perform well both as an interactive stand‐alone adult learning tool and as an instructional tool used by faculty within another curriculum. As such it includes both a Learner's guide and Teacher's guide to facilitate use of the curriculum.

The site has been made available to the public at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/coding101.
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Students Learning (and Teaching) the Universe through Wiki-style Pages

As a way to encourage students to integrate information from a variety of sources, students in one of Douglas Northrup's (LSA's history and Near Eastern studies department) courses create a set of wiki-style pages as the primary, semester-long assignment. Students collaborate to construct, revise, peer-review, and then interlink web modules that are hosted on the Exhibit Museum of Natural History's webpage.

Each group’s module aims to teach an unspecified public audience online how their discipline “works”, including:
  • how it approaches evidence
  • what kinds of sources it uses
  • what questions it asks
  • what is at stake in the answers
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Video Practice Sheets for Piano Instruction

Using flip cameras, GSIs and instructors for the Pre-College Piano Program as well as the College Class Piano course create digital practice sheets for students. Videos and practice instructions are uploaded to Ctools and are accessible by students and their families through the internet. Students can track their progress on the skills highlighted and correspond with their instructor through the site. 

For more information, contact John Ellis in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.

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Michigan’s Comprehensive Research Responsibility and Ethics (RRE) Podcast Library

Kate F. Barald in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, coordinated an online repository for resources aimed at aiding course directors at all levels (undergraduate to postdoc) devise RRE (Research Responsibility and Ethics) courses that are both interdisciplinary and relevant to specific groups of students. The podcast library of lectures, panel discussions, mock IRB boards and interviews with researchers and ethicists are available to course directors through the Program in Biomedical Sciences CTools site.

Subjects for the podcasts include:

  • ethical and moral reasoning and values presented by faculty from the Philosophy Department
  • issues of mentoring, fraud, fabrication and plagiarism
  • specific problems in social science research
  • professional ethics and regulatory issues

An improved website will soon provide vignettes on RRE issues in the languages of the majority of our international students, and this course will soon be offered at the Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute (SHJTJI).

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