Program Evaluation: Applying data-driven approaches to examine effectiveness and efficacy of educational activity (e.g., curriculum) for continuous monitoring and quality improvement processes, accomplished using statistical software and data visualization tools

Educational Research: Investigating curricula and educational interventions for the purpose of scholarly dissemination

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Curriculum Development: Engaging in curricular design processes to support educational programming

Educational Technology: Supporting the integration of technology for classroom and personal use to ensure faculty, staff, and study can access and make effective use of appropriate technological tools and devices

Instructional Design: Developing teaching and learning objects to help our teachers to teach and our learners to learn. Consultations and ongoing support for projects involving course, lesson, session design/redesign with technology enhancement; Design and development of effective eLearning multimedia

Integrating opportunities for coaching and collaboration to help faculty achieve their research and instructional goals, and foster the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively pursue future educational endeavors.

Program evaluation allows us to determine program quality and effectiveness related to established internal (LSI) and external (accreditation) standards in an effort to prepare medical students for the profession. Through program evaluation we can understand strengths and areas of improvement, and make decisions using data to better serve our medical students.

Faculty can utilize OCS services at any phase in the Program Evaluation process to assist in the following steps:

• Project Design
• Data Analysis/Statistics
• Literature Search
• Survey Development
• Generating Research Ideas
• Test Development/Item Writing
• Navigating IRB
• Performance Assessment Development
• Project Management
• Help in Writing Project Methods and Results
• Data Management
• Disseminating Project Results
• Writing Project or Grant Proposal
• Publication Support

Schedule a consultation with one of OCS's Education Resource Specialists.

OCS members have a range of expertise to engage faculty in the design, development, and delivery of effective curricula and instruction. The educational technology (EdTech) team in OCS utilize established principles of instructional design and technology integration to help faculty shape in class and online learning experiences. Using Articulate, Top Hat, Mediasite and other technologies, the EdTech team provide support to ensure curricula across the College of Medicine prepare students to become health sciences professionals professionals. Their support spans consultations, faculty development, and ongoing technical support.

A full description of our educational technology and instructional design services, including our scope of work (capabilities), collaborations and project prioritization (capacity) can be found here.

Contacts

Technical
Faculty: edtech@osumc.edu
Staff: myprogress@osumc.edu
Students: lectures@osumc.edu

Instructional and Project
Academic Program, Faculty, Staff: edtech@osumc.edu

After devoting much time to designing a study, gathering information and developing conclusions, you are now ready to begin work on publication. Preparing a research project for publication is an exciting experience, but it can also be a daunting task. This menu of resources has been assembled to help the prospective author wade through the publication process from start to finish.

Whether you'd like an idea of which journals publish education research, need general formatting information or seek additional writing or editorial assistance, the following resources will aid you on your path to publication. To work one-on-one with an Education Resource Specialist, trained and educated in the research and publication process, schedule a consultation.

• Project Design
• Data Analysis/Statistics
• Literature Search
• Survey Development
• Generating Research Ideas
• Test Development/Item Writing
• Navigating IRB
• Performance Assessment Development
• Project Management
• Help in Writing Project Methods and Results
• Data Management
• Disseminating Project Results
• Writing Project or Grant Proposal
• Publication Support

We define instructional design as a systematic and intentional process used to develop information, resources, and activities that successfully accomplish a defined goal. Health sciences educators can look at the instructional design/redesign process as an opportunity to think about how students are organizing and retaining information, and applying their knowledge and skills to solve new and complex problems. We’re here to help you accomplish your instructional goals.

We can help if you want to:

• Design a new course, training program, class session(s)
• Improve a current offering with a redesign
• Brainstorm ideas for creating a new teaching-learning moment
• Make learning more engaging for my students
• Use technology to enhance my teaching

We use the backwards design approach to drive our instructor consultations with you. Backwards design is a way for faculty to design a course. One model frames backwards design process as a three stage process (Wiggins & McTighe, 1998).

• Stage 1: Determine the learning goals, objectives, and outlines, including alignment to established standards (e.g., competency-based standards). Important to identifying the desired end results is formulating observable and measurable learning objectives (e.g., SMART).
• Stage 2: Identify/Design assessments that will provide evidence that students have achieved the course goals and objectives.
• Stage 3: Plan specific learning activities and appropriate instructional methods that align with objectives and make connections to other components of the course.

Critical to the design process is a focus on helping learners foster higher order thinking skills. One framework utilized by our instructional designers integrates Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and the SAMR model.

Digital Bloom and SAMR (PDF)

Credit: Ruben Puentedura, PhD and Ron Carranza. Adapted by Adam McCash

Schedule a 1:1 consultation with us today: edtech@osumc.edu.

The education technology team at the Office of Curriculum and Scholarship (OCS) provides a variety of educational technology and instructional design services for faculty, staff and students at the College of Medicine. Whether you want to incorporate a new technology into a class to enhance student learning, develop an online module, or design/revise a course, we are here to help.

For help/questions with the following services, contact us at edtech@osumc.edu.

We offer the following services:

• Articulate
• Canvas
• CarmenConnect
• Mediasite
• Top Hat
• Video Projects and Digital Storytelling

Technology Integration Services supports and provides training for a number of edcuational technologies, including iPads, iPhones, and laptops. Specifically, their iPad/iPhone (iOS) Support program helps equip medical students with software resources available for both clinical and non-clinical use. For faculty interested in lecture capture/Mediasite and remote access to Epic, please contact us at edteach@osumc.edu.

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