BMS Teaching Seminar: SoTL in Health Sciences Education - getting your next education research project started
Welcome to our Basic Medical Sciences Teaching Seminars!
Topic: SoTL in Health Sciences Education - getting your next education research project started
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm ET
Room: ACR (MS 2377)
Speakers: Dr. Danielle Bentley
Are you an educator interested in enhancing your teaching practices through the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)? Do you feel uncertain or overwhelmed about where to begin? We invite you to join an engaging online seminar led by an experienced education researcher that will focus on practical strategies for designing and initiating your own educational research project within your course(s).
In this interactive seminar, we will cover:
- The Importance of Educational Research: Discover how engaging in scholarship can elevate your teaching effectiveness and improve student learning outcomes.
- Getting Started: Learn the essential steps to initiate your research project, including how to identify a relevant research question that aligns with goals as a scholarly educator.
- Simplifying Logistics: Gain valuable insights into efficient project design that leverages course deliverables, ethical considerations such as student consent and compensation, and project management strategies tailored for busy educators.
- Real-World Examples: Hear about successful projects from fellow health educators and learn how they navigated various challenges along the way.
By the end of this seminar, participants will be equipped to confidently finalize their SoTL project ideas and embark on their research journey.
Please REGISTER online .
About Dr. Bentley
Dr. Danielle Bentley is an Assistant Professor, teaching stream in the Division of Anatomy.
As an educator, she designs and implements evidence-based courses in gross anatomy, embryology, and human dissection to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students studying in the Faculties of Medicine, Arts & Science, & Kinesiology. Drawing on her breadth of experiences across health professions education, her courses emphasize the clinical applicability of foundational knowledge.
As an education researcher, she is the founder and lead-PI of the Advances in Teaching and Learning in the Anatomical Sciences (ATLAS) Research Lab (www.atlasresearchlab.ca). Together with her team of student researchers, the overarching objectives of her program of research are to enhance student learning via 1) evidenced-based in-class approaches to teaching, 2) meaningful student assessments, and 3) vocationally relevant course design.
