RECENT ARTICLES

• Teaching with QR Codes: Accessible Technology for the Novice Educator

  By Elizabeth V Schulz, Katherine M Ottolini

  

  Quick response (QR) codes allow for quick and easy accessibility of just-in-time training (JiTT) for a variety of online materials.

  
  

• Transitioning to and Navigating Virtual Conferences as a Result of COVID

  By Jamie Geringer

  

  Medical conferences are a form of continuing medical education. But the pandemic made it impossible to conduct traditional in-person conferences.

  
  

• Maintaining Social Support in the Era of Social Distancing: Transitioning an in-person family-oriented wellness event to a virtual venue

  By Fei Chen, Sania Rahim, Rob Isaak, Brooke Chidgey, Emily Teeter, Harendra Arora, Susan M. Martinelli

  

  Medical residency programs try to provide tools to combat burnout. But often overlooked is the lack of understanding about the stress residents face.

  
  

• Teaching Tracheostomy Management Using VoiceThread: Reflection on the evolution of our blended coaching approach

  By Jennifer C. Benjamin, Weichao Chen, Satid Thammasitboon

  

  Medically fragile children need doctors skilled in tracheostomy management. At Texas Children’s Hospital VoiceThread was used to teach those skills.

  
  

• Blended Learning Technologies in Dental Education: A case study in orofacial pain

  By James Mark Hawkins, Drew Fallis, Steven Durning

  

  Four educational strategies are examined that were successfully utilized to teach a postgraduate dental orofacial pain course.

  
  

• Blended Teaching in Health Professions Education

  By Anita Samuel

  

  This special issue explores how educators in different healthcare professions have adapted their teaching to the online environment.

  
  

• Finding the Right Tools for Your Classroom's Tech Needs

  By Georgia Konstantinou

  

  In Educational Duct Tape, Jake Miller compares, contrasts, and selects technology tools for educators in a creative and entertaining way.

  
  

• Inclusion Rather Than Exclusion: An interview with Simos Retalis on accessibility

  By Begum Sacak

  

  A discussion on the approaches and characteristics of edtech tools that can help accommodate learners with disabilities.

  
  

• Design Thinking and Thinking by Design

  By Damien Michaud

  

  Clark Quinn's "Make It Meaningful" provides a primer and a playbook for educators to reflect upon and improve their personal practice.

  
  

• Cross-institutional Leadership Collaboration: Toward the development of a peer-mentoring framework of practice in adult online education

  By Haijun Kang, Rachel Ohmes

  

  As education institutions look for efficient ways to serve adult learners, a peer-mentoring framework of practice can help.

  
  

RECENT OPINIONS

Closing the Assessment Excellence Gap: Why digital assessments should go beyond recall and be more inclusive

By Gavin Cooney, John Kleeman

Stakeholders in digital assessments have requirements and expectations that technology implementations do not always meet. This is the "Assessment Excellence Gap." This article explains why digital assessment is important and focuses on two particular aspects with a call to action to make assessments more inclusive and to write questions that go beyond recall when creating assessments.

Supporting Online Teaching Faculty Beyond the Pandemic: A “faculty concierge” model

By Anita Samuel

Higher education is faced with a shifting milieu that actively embraces online education. This environment requires robust faculty support. Enter the faculty concierge model of faculty support, which extends the instructional designer-focused concierge model of online support proposed by McCurry and Mullinx through a faculty-centered lens. The faculty concierge model aims to provide high-touch, individualized faculty support. Faculty concierges respect the experiences and expertise of the faculty members they work with; they start with small changes and focus on offering simple and accessible support.