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Microlearning Miniseries

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Bite-sized educational content for your busy day

AACP’s Microlearning Miniseries provides learners with educational content in brief (ranging from 1 to 10 minutes), accessible and engaging modalities that will improve your scholarship, leadership, and teaching.

In weekly videos shared via email to AACP members and catalogued here, you’ll hear directly from experts within the Academy address the following topics:

  • Leadership Series - Inclusive Leadership
  • Good Pedagogy Series - Improving Lectures
  • SOTL Series - Improving Educational Survey Results

Watch and learn as they are released or on-demand at your convenience.

Microlearning Videos are Available on AACP Learn

Ep. 17: Administrative Leadership

In this edition of our Microlearning Miniseries, deans from schools of pharmacy across the country discuss their perspectives on the important qualities that foster successful leadership.

 

Ep. 16: 3 Best Practices for Online Teaching

Overcome information overload, explore different learning methods and learn how to actively engage students with the 3 best practices from today’s 3.5-minute Microlearning Miniseries episode.

 

Ep. 15: See One, Teach One, Research One

Inviting students as research collaborators can build their confidence in research skills, interest in academia in more. Faculty gain diverse student viewpoints and can grow their mentorship skills. 

Reference:

  • Franks AM and Payakachat N. Positioning the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Squarely on the Center of the Desk. Am J Pharm Educ. 2020 Sept;84(9):8046. 
  • Kassab SE, Taylor D, and Hamdy H. Student Engagement in Health Professions Education: AMEE Guide No. 152. Med Teac. 2022;1-17.
  • McLaughlin JE, Dean MJ, Mumper RJ, Blouin RA, Roth MT. A Roadmap for Educational Research in Pharmacy. Am J Pharm Educ. 2013;77(10):218. 

 

Ep. 14: Critical Thinking

What is critical thinking? What are the "core skills" required to do it? Explore the building blocks of critical thinking, as well as common teaching and assessment methods to engage students in it, in this 3.5-minute installment of the AACP Microlearning Miniseries.

Ep. 13: 5 Steps to Build a Thinking Classroom

In this 2.5-minute installment of our Microlearning Miniseries, explore 5 steps to building a thinking classroom, and help your students develop critical thinking and the confidence to solve complex problems.

Ep. 12: Demonstrate Real-World Applications

In this 3.5-minute installment of our Microlearning Miniseries, learn to define the levels, their types of data and how to effectively analyze each.

Ep. 11: Survey Analysis - Levels of Measurement

In this 3.5-minute installment of our Microlearning Miniseries, learn to define the levels, their types of data and how to effectively analyze each.

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