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Dr. Nader Moniri, Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Mercer College of Pharmacy, will lead a grant writing seminar via Zoom. The seminar will be geared toward federal (mainly NIH) grants, but the grant writing section will be of help for any grant submission, including guidance and tips for grant writing. The session…

Attend this session to learn specific techniques you can use to improve your in and out-of-class student groups. This is a Zoom session. Group work can be affected by student personality type, energy and tasks assigned. Specific strategies to improve group discussion will be presented, including pre-reading, brief in-class preparation work, timing, and more. Additionally,…

In this Zoom session, Jason Gildner will demonstrate new features of Echo360, including: *the ability to embed polls in videos, not just slides *edit videos by adding in clips from other sources *change the thumbnails of your videos as shown in your library *work with Collections (formerly Groups) and other new analytics and student engagement…

The best questions enable and encourage students to participate in class. The best questions focus the students' attention and draw out either their misconceptions or their accurate grasp of concepts. This session will present 10 categories of questions that faculty members can use to improve student participation. Faculty members who attend the Zoom session will…

Join Dr. Robbie Marsh, Assistant Professor of Special Education in the Tift College of Education at Mercer University, to learn how faculty members can work with student accommodations to improve student success. Dr. Marsh will discuss what accommodations mean and how to approach them using the Universal Design for Learning framework. About Dr. Marsh: Dr.…

Responding to students reflectively can create a habit of speaking back to students so that they, in turn, will participate more. Rewarding learner participation in ways that are not contrived or specifically praise-oriented and that foster personal reflection on the part of the student will help support emerging student initiative and further participation. This session…