Student Rank:

• Juniors & seniors

 

Course Focus:

• Leadership in Healthcare Management (required)

• Leadership skills, attributes & behaviors in health services

 

UDLI Strategies Utilized:

• Team-based Learning (TBL)

  • Class time was dedicated to teamwork & IF-ATs (immediate feedback assessment technique)

• Learner-centered

  • Choice

  • Authentic experiences/contexts

• Integration of technology (course management site (CMS), padlet, textbook website)

  • Provided tablets for in-class use/encouraged use of own laptops & tablets

• Multiple means of representation

  • Textbook, textbook website, videos, powerpoints, industry websites & journal articles

• Multiple means of action & expression

  • TBL (collaboration, discussion, designated roles)

  • Choices (how team engaged in topic; how team expressed what was learned; technologies used in engaging & sharing learning)

• Multiple means of engagement

  • Role plays, career-focused reflections, individual career/community focus 

 

Examples of Student Work:

• Padlet walls

• Powerpoint presentations

• Reflection papers

 

 

Student Feedback/Course Review:

• Strengths

  • Variety of teaching and learning methods

  • Allowed different formats for assignments

  • Group work and flexible assignments

  • Authentic – learned about my home town

  • E-Portfolios used in career search

  • Good communication with students about changes in deadlines or expectations

  • Rubrics with enough information to guide the student towards understanding the assignment

• Concerns

  • Course lacked organization

  • Assignment criteria not explained well

  • Differences in student learning (comprehension, expression, engagement, etc.)

  • Dysfunctional teams

 

On-going Strategies to Enhance Course & Student Learning:

• Review team-based teaching strategies

• Strategies for varied learning styles and abilities of students

• Strategies to improve the perspective of lacking organization while maintaining student choice