Show Notes
In this episode, Angela and guests, Gabriela Illa Acevedo, Samantha Pratt, and Jessica Bishop-Royse discuss their experiences teaching and learning in Rush University's Online Teaching & Course Design (OTCD) course, designed and developed by CTEI. OTCD is a 5-week, fully asynchronous online teaching training course provided for Rush University faculty who teach any course that is 50% or more online. So far, about 280 Rush faculty members have graduated with an OTCD 1.0 credential! Our guests discuss the many benefits of learning together in OTCD and how it challenged their assumptions and changed their teaching practices for the better. If you are Rush University faculty and have not taken OTCD but would like to, reach out to CTEI at [email protected]. We'd love to have you! A huge thank you to our wonderful guests for sharing their experiences! Gabriela Illa Acevedo is a proud Chicagoan and health law practitioner. Since 2011, she has worked to address issues including community emergency preparedness, access to health coverage and reproductive healthcare, childhood lead exposure prevention, support for survivors of domestic violence, and more. Currently, Gabriela currently runs Integrity Legal Services, a solo healthcare law firm, and holds a faculty appointment at Rush University where she teaches health law and ethics. Gabriela also serves on the board of directors for Saint Anthony Hospital. Samantha Pratt is an Assistant Professor with Rush University’s College of Nursing and is the assistant program director of clinical education for the nurse anesthesia training program, where she focuses on ensuring diverse and effective educational opportunities for clinical trainees. She earned her MSN in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014, and her DNP through Rush University in 2021. She also holds a post-master’s teaching certificate in nursing pedagogy (2021). Samantha teaches chemistry and physics to first-year nurse anesthesia students, provides hands-on point-of-care ultrasound training to trainees and anesthesia staff, supports nurse anesthesia student clinical curricular development, and advises DNP projects. Jessica Bishop-Royse is an Associate Professor in the Rush University College of Nursing’s AHGN Dept. She teaches statistics and consults with RUCON faculty on their research and scholarship. She earned a PhD in Sociology in 2010. She joined RUCON in 2022.
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