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Teaching As A Contact Sport
After nearly two decades in higher education as a faculty member and based on my experiences and research, here is what I believe to be the ingredients for good learning experiences and great teaching....
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The Impact of Technology and Learning Styles on the Teaching/Learning...
In my twenty-plus years of teaching in higher education, I have seen a shift from strictly face-to-face classes and the straight lecture mode to hybrid and online courses, and the use of case study and...
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When Student Learning Styles and Courses Misalign: Can this Marriage be Saved?
Higher education instilled most of us with the belief that it is the instructor’s responsibility to provide an optimum learning experience to ensure student success. This aspiration includes the...
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Teamwork in Online Courses: How Can We Encourage Effective Participation?
Why does the thought of teamwork assignments make entire classes of students and professors cringe? Despite years of research and numerous articles emphasizing the need for teamwork experiences in...
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A Plague of Plagiarism
Technology has brought us many wonders, among which are iPhones, iPads, and online education. Born into an era of these constantly evolving gadgets, is it any surprise that Generation Y has a culture...
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This is Your Brain on Fiction: Why Teaching with Case Studies Works
A health care management case study is a short story depicting an organizational scenario which can be non-fiction or fiction. As in all short stories, it should have a beginning, middle, and an end....
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Rehearsing for the Real World: Case Studies and Role Play
Last month I wrote about the importance of good case studies to engage readers’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and that the case study method is an example, par excellence, of problem-based...
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Interview with Nancy Borkowski, Co-editor of Case Studies in Organizational...
Over the past two months, I’ve been writing about the importance of good case studies to engage readers’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and that the case study method is an example, par...
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Discussion Boards: How Can We Improve Them?
If you teach in a fully online or a hybrid class, you know the Discussion Board, Forum, or Threads, whatever name they go by, are considered the “heart” of the online classroom. At least that’s what...
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Employability: If You Don’t A.S.K., You Don’t G.E.T
When we speak to students about careers in health care management, we often talk about the perfect storm we now have of demand for services and the retirement of baby boomers, leaving our health care...
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Copyright and Piracy
Once upon a time, before the Internet, the only pirates authors worried about were the handsome, dashing ones in movies and novels. Fast forward a few decades and not only do we have pirates of the...
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Got Rubrics?
As an educator and a professional writer, one of my hobby horses is writing competencies. I wrote about this in a previous blog and asked whose responsibility it is. Over a year later, in online forums...
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Developing Reflective Practitioners
Upon graduation, health care management students are expected to be confident, competent, reflective practitioners. We are also expected to provide data to support our assertion that we have...
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HIPAA Hooray–Or Is It?
Many years ago when I was an Intravenous (IV) Therapist in training at a major teaching hospital, I sat down to a thirty minute dinner break with my fellow IV team members in the hospital cafeteria....
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Teaching About Violence in Healthcare Settings
Almost daily, it seems the media is filled with reports of violence, so much so that we almost become numb to them. An active shooter in a popular mall. A disgruntled employee returns to his former...
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Never Say No
As part of the capstone experience in our graduate program, students are required to interview a minimum of three executives or healthcare managers using a structured interview format published in...
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Academic Integrity and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Each fall, as we return to classes we have an opportunity to reflect on previous successes–and failures. One of the more persistent failures we seem to have with our students is instilling a sense of...
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Bioterrorism and Health Care Managers
Four years ago, I posted a blog asking the question, “Are health care professionals prepared for disasters?” and closed with the following: In light of intelligence findings that smaller targets will...
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Just Culture and Speaking Up
Many years ago in the late 1970’s when I was an intravenous (IV) therapist at an upstate New York academic health center, a patient who worked with rabies virus in the New York State Laboratory across...
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Are Students Our Customers?
Ask a faculty member about how the customers are doing in her course and you are likely to receive the following responses: confusion, disbelief, and annoyance. Much like waving a red flag at a bull,...
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