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TEAL-MEd Fellowship
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TEAL-MEd Fellowship

The Technology-Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) MEd Fellowship is an exciting opportunity for innovative highly skilled medical educators to enhance their ability to lead, design, and scale technology-enhanced innovative instruction. Applicants who complete all required didactic and creative components will be awarded a certificate of Fellowship in TEAL-MEd.

  Discovery learning

  Educators will participate in collaborative, experiential exercises, gradually gaining enhanced fluency with new instructional media, such as electronic games, simulations, learning modules, mobile apps, and other healthcare information technology training tools. Importantly, participants will also be provided with opportunities to develop peer networks, and share tools and resources.

  Project-based learning

  Educators will work closely with trainer-mentors to master a specific four-step process for leading, implementing and evaluating TEAL-MEd innovations. Instructor- mentors are TEAL-MEd program faculty. By the end of the institute, innovators will present capstone projects to peers.

  Certification

  Upon completion, participants will have the knowledge to design and lead multimedia, gamified, or technology-enhanced learning initiatives within their institutions. Graduates are School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (SOMA) TEAL-MEd scholars and will remain in a members-only colloquium structure with TEAL-MEd program faculty. Annual TEAL-MEd conference attendance is limited to current TEAL-MEd scholars and fellows.

  • Learning objectives +

    • The stepwise program has been developed to equip participants with the skills, research, resources, network, and entrepreneurial perspectives necessary to scale innovations beyond initial designs. Participants will: Explore gamification & technology-enhanced learning in medical education

      • Review the benefits of active learning and gamification
      • Apply learning theories such as situated learning and cognitive engagement
      • Articulate a vision for implementing technology-enhanced learning
      • Select an area of specialization
      Design technology-enhanced activities
      • Select or develop a TEAL project to implement
      • Develop learning objectives
      • Design the learning environment
      • Develop a plan to train faculty for their role as “guide on the side”
      • Integrate collaborative learning into a technology-enhanced learning
      • Optimize user experience and interface for a given learner technology
      • Implement the innovation and obtain peer and mentor feedback
      • Outline a process for identifying and addressing technology glitches
      Evaluate technology-enhanced activities
      • Develop research questions
      • Conduct action research for a TEAL innovation
      • Improve the innovation through PDSA cycles
      • Develop a plan to scale the intervention
      Envision, lead, and scale a TEAL initiative
      • Assess the culture of an academic institution
      • Outline leadership strategies for successful project completion
      • Inspire investment in the project and process
      • Implement a successful project launch
      • Draft a plan to support and scale the project

  • Seminar dates +

    • TEAL-MEd Fellowship participants will meet four times in person and once via video conference.

      Date Location Hours
      Oct. 24-25, 2015 Mesa, Ariz. 16 hours
      Jan. 30-31, 2016 Mesa, Ariz. 16 hours
      April 6-9*, 2016 AACOM Conference, Washington, D.C. 2-hour event
      July 16-17, 2016 Via video conference and “flipped” online learning 4 hours
      Oct. 15-16, 2016 Mesa, Ariz. 16 hours
      *One of these dates

  • Apply +

    • Application deadline: June 30, 2015 Tuition: $5,000 Eligibility: Experienced healthcare educators, generally with three or more years of direct medical education experience including medical school faculty status. Priority afforded to applicants who are responsible for implementing technology-enhanced learning in pre-clinical or clinical environments.

      Application instructions

      • Download and complete the TEAL-MEd Fellowship application (pdf)
      • Submit one letter of recommendation from a professional colleague.
      • Submit a one-page letter or essay describing your prior background in technology-enhanced instruction, new skills you would like to learn, and a photograph of one of your classroom environments.
      • Submit your curriculum vitae.
      • Fax or send application materials via scanned pdf to lmccoy@atsu.edu.
      Download and review the TEAL-MEd brochure (pdf).

  • Mission +

    • The mission of the TEAL-MEd Fellowship is to inspire a culture of experiential learning, continuous evolution of new instructional practice, and innovation. Its goal is to refine the standard of healthcare education through experimentation with new teaching techniques, education technology projects, and learning-centered approaches.

  • Faculty development focus +

    • The TEAL-MEd Fellowship curriculum was developed over a five-year period by a core of medical educators at A.T. Still University-School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU-SOMA). SOMA’s unique model of distributed education with central control of educational offerings required early planning, development and research evaluation of sophisticated TEAL approaches. The concepts for this program evolved from the original TEAL-MEd initiative launched in 2010 to infuse educational games, simulations, and other technology-enhanced activities into the medical school curricula. TEAL-MEd was funded in part by a grant from the Health Resources Service Administration.

      Values

      • Humanization of technology for medicine and education
      • Quality teaching practices, based on learning science and scholarship of teaching
      • Authentic assessment, enhanced by frequent feedback and rich mentorship
      • Creativity inspired through generative projects and varied learning activities
      • Integration, fostered by collaborative projects and interdisciplinary curricula
      • Consensus decision-making, highlighting evidence-based, tolerance, respect, and transparency
      • Outcomes, aligned to national goals
      • The whole learner, including social determinants, frame of reference, and unique talents

  • Technology-Enhanced Active Learning +

    • Technology-enhanced active learning (TEAL) is a growing trend in higher education that supports learning centeredness. The current generation of students requires interactive, technology-enhanced learning approaches that support a wide variety of learning styles and modalities. Education research studies point to the potential benefits of simulations and games for health or healthcare education. Interactive technology-based activities allow students to take responsibility for their learning, apply skills in context, and engage in collaborative discussion. Actively engaging students allows them to retain information longer as it promotes deeper learning. McCoy L, Pettit RK, Lewis JH, Bennett T, Carrasco N, Brysacz, S, Makin IRS, Hutman R, and Schwartz FN. Developing Technology-Enhanced Active Learning for Medical Education: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2015;115(4):202-211 doi:10.7556/jaoa.2015.042