5 Tech Trends Reshaping Education During the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2016 conference in Denver this past week, educational technology expert Jason Ohler presented his view on the “5 Tech Trends Reshaping Education”. These trends were: 1. Big Data 2. Augmented Reality 3. The Semantic Web 4. Extreme BYOD 5. Transmedia While Read More…
Category: iMedEd Release Notes
iMedEd Release Notes Version 6.24.16
UCI Center for Engaged Instruction The UCI Center for Engaged Instruction (CEI) is a main campus unit whose mission is: to improve the quality of teaching and learning through pedagogical development for faculty, lecturers, postdoctoral fellows, and teaching assistants to promote the use of innovative teaching techniques, including the use of instructional technology and to foster campuswide Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 6.17.16
Workshop: Integrating Audience Response into your Presentations using Poll Everywhere This workshop presents how to create polls using Poll Everywhere and highlights best practices/common uses for audience response. Thursday, June 30, 2016, 10 to 11 a.m., Conference Room A1000, Medical Education Building (Irvine) Friday, July 22, 2016, noon to 1 p.m., ITC Classroom, Grunigen Medical Library Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 6.10.16
Mobile Resources from the Grunigen Medical Library A collection of useful mobile, clinical resources are available to all UC Irvine Health faculty, staff and students at no charge through the Grunigen Medical Library’s institutional subscriptions. Follow instructions on the GML Mobile Resources in Medicine page to access apps such as UpToDate (a point-of-care medical resource), Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 6.6.16
Congratulations to the Class of 2016 @ UCIrvineSOM! On Saturday, June 4, 2016, the UC Irvine School of Medicine Class of 2016 graduated in a bright and uplifting commencement ceremony in Aldrich Park. 112 medical students and 11 masters students participated in this ceremony, marking the beginning of their career service to healthcare. The Class Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 5.27.16
Team-Based Learning in Medical Education Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a format for small-group learning that complements a flipped classroom model. It provides a structured opportunity for educators to implement active learning, even with a large numbers of students. TBL is comprised of the following components (see Figure 1): Pre-session content Readiness assessment comprised of two parts: Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 5.20.16
Welcoming a New Cohort of Medical Students into the Clerkships On Monday, May 16, 2016, a new cohort of MS3’s returned for orientation in preparation for beginning their clinical years of medical school. As a part of this orientation, students were introduced to Google Glass, a wearable device enabling first-person perspective video recording. Google Glass Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 5.13.16
The New Doctor’s Bag Technology is fundamentally changing the way that physicians and patients approach medicine and healthcare. Some proponents of technology would claim that the physical exam is no longer the primary source for all diagnoses and “classic” physical examination skills are unnecessary and falling by the wayside. Many would argue that aspects of Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 5.6.16
Students and faculty of UC Irvine and the UCI School of Medicine have created a one-stop shop for relevant articles on the uses of technology in healthcare. Our blog, HealthEdIT (health + education + innovative technology), provides access to information about the latest thinking and research on the uses of technologies in medicine. Topics range Read More…
iMedEd Release Notes Version 4.29.16
Create Presentations using the Assertion-Evidence Approach The Assertion-Evidence Approach presents an alternative to the bullet-list approach common in many presentations. This approach promotes a structure where a presentation slide includes a sentence that headlines the main message of the slide, the assertion, and the body of the slide includes visual evidence such as photos, drawings, Read More…