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Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize home page and nominations
Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize home page and nominations
| Recipient(s) | Title |
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 Robert Bain Elizabeth Moje |
Learning and Teaching the Disciplines through Clinical Rounds (The Rounds Project)This project borrows the idea of rounds from medical and nursing training and applies it to the process of preparing secondary school history and social studies teachers. Over three semesters, teacher candidates work in a professional program that integrates discipline-specific literacy, history/social science content and high-leverage teaching practices while they “rotate” through a series of carefully scaffolded and closely supervised clinical experiences. Traditionally, would-be teachers acquire disciplinary content in LSA, encounter pedagogical theory in SOE, and struggle to… more Poster |
| Recipient(s) | Title |
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 Lloyd M. Stoolman J. Matthew Velkey |
Virtual Microscopy in Life Sciences EducationThe goal… create an interactive laboratory experience while removing impediments to learning such as malfunctioning microscopes, aging slide sets, and inconsistent tissue sections. The solutions… produce high resolution digital replicas of optimal tissue sections. compile online image repositories. deploy intuitive, computer-based "viewers" that improve upon microscopes. The user experience… web-based laboratory syllabi link directly to virtual slides and, in some cases, directly to annotated structures of interest buried deep in tissue sections. computer-… more Poster |
 Perry Samson |
Innovations for Larger Classes: LectureTools and Online Textbooks (XamPREP)LectureTools is designed as an alternative to ‘clickers’ and provides a wider range of question types for instructors. Additionally, LectureTools allows students to pose questions during lecture, and GSIs in the room can answer their questions for them in real time. Students can also type their notes synchronized to the instructor’s slides and even draw on the slides with a Mac or PC. The tool originated from Samson’s desire to expand the use of student discussion in large lecture classes and the realization that clickers could not accommodate the kinds of questions he wished to pose,… more Poster |
 Philip Myers |
Promoting Student Inquiry and Active Learning: Animal Diversity Web (ADW) and QuaardvarkThe ADW database contains thousands of detailed descriptions of species that have been contributed by students from over 40 institutions in North America. A specially designed template allows non-experts to enter data that will be amenable to structured searches. Each section has a place for free text, along with associated keywords and data fields for quantitative summaries. Authors also attach bibliographic citations. Since 2007 Quaardvark has provided a powerful new way for students to construct queries and download ADW data to explore natural history patterns and test hypotheses.… more Poster |
 Arno K. Kumagai Rachel L. Perlman |
The Family Centered Experience Program: Patients as Teacher in Fostering Empathy and Patient-Centered CareThe Family Centered Experience (FCE) is an innovative two-year program that is part of the required curriculum at U-M’s medical school and involves using the power of patients’ stories to foster empathy and patient-centered care. In the FCE, pairs of medical students make scheduled visits over two years to the homes of volunteer patients and their families in order to listen to the volunteers’ stories about chronic illness and its care. These home visits, as well as readings, assignments, and small group discussions, serve as a foundation for the students to explore the experience of… more Poster |
 Shaun Jackson William Lovejoy |
Experiential Cross-Disciplinary Learning: Integrated Product Development (IPD)IPD recreates the competitive environment that real businesses face every day. In 12 short weeks, interdisciplinary teams of students from the Schools of Business, Engineering, Architecture, and Art & Design develop fully functional, customer- ready products and subject them to assessment by voters in simulated markets. IPD is the only course in the country to juxtapose these requirements, and it has been repeatedly identified by Business Week magazine as one of the top design courses in the world. Each team works together on the market research, design, manufacturing, and costing of… more Poster |
