Innovation in Teaching

Objective: Design effective learning environment using a variety of interactive educational and multimedia strategies which engage the learner in interdisciplinary and collaborative activities.

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Artifact 3: The Use of the Miro Collaboration Tool in Radiation Oncology Final Project from Multimedia and Emerging Technologies for Learning in the Health Professions Course (HPTT 604)

 

As healthcare and educational institutions transition into using more digital and hybrid learning platforms, there are numerous tools and resources available to help us work smarter and not harder. My final project for HPTT 604 concentrated on the implementation of an interactive tool called Miro into the clinical side of a radiation oncology department that includes a team of physicians, nurses, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and medical physicists. The Miro tool is a digital platform that allows teams to efficiently communicate and collaborate to complete tasks all in one place. The tool’s whiteboard feature allows users to meet, brainstorm, plan, design, and teach despite users’ physical locations. Their templates are helpful in creating mind maps, work flow charts, calendars, and goal progressions to be easily accessible and shared amongst all users. The overall goal of my final project was to use the Miro tool to better organize and monitor progression of a training schedule for a new patient positioning table system in our department. The Miro whiteboard also offered a convenient place to post links to training videos and supplemental information about the new equipment for all staff to review as needed. I truly enjoyed getting to better understand the Miro tool and all of its ‘fun’ functions through this process. I like to be more creative and this digital whiteboard app lets me do that, while also being productive.

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Artifact 4: Building Student Success in the CT Sim Microlearning Assignment from Multimedia and Emerging Technologies for Learning in the Health Professions Course (HPTT 604). 

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Microlearning enhances learning and performance through the use of shorter and more efficient lessons on smaller units of information. These lessons often utilize various interactive multimedia tools. I created a microlearning lesson for new radiation therapy students to help build success and confidence in their CT sim clinical rotation to overcome feeling frazzled and anxious when real patients are present. The overall objective of the lesson is to break down the steps of the workflow in the CT sim to increase student understanding. This short PowerPoint lesson included a pre-survey using Poll Everywhere to rank students’ current confidence in the CT sim, followed by a short instructional video created on Powtoons that covered “10 Tips for Success in the CT Sim,” and a post-survey on Poll Everywhere to assess knowledge gained from the short lesson. Lastly, students were assigned to create a video or narrated PowerPoint describing how they would simulate a patient from start to finish after viewing the micro-lesson. I liked being able to incorporate numerous types of multimedia tools into this assignment to not only teach a short lesson, but also to gain feedback from the survey polling questions. This served as a way to interactive with students to better measure where trouble areas and confusion still might be on the topic. This type of lesson would also be easy to implement as an out-of-class assignment that still offers a sense of community with students.