Faculty Showcase 2018: Small Steps to Big Leaps in Student Engagement
The Faculty Showcase is University of Miami’s premiere teaching and learning event! Join us for the annual gathering where faculty share, network, and discover the ways in which their colleagues are enriching student experiences through innovative pedagogies and learning technologies. Led by faculty for faculty, this mini-conference aims to support faculty development and impact student learning. A key goal for the Faculty Showcase is to promote collaboration and impact educators across the University of Miami.
This event is hosted by Academic Technologies, a department focused on the teaching and learning side of IT.
The Guardrails Prevention Initiative is a disease-prevention system focused on combatting the burden of chronic disease and improving overall well-being. Guardrails follows a unique, service-based research paradigm, whereby 1) patients receive personalized wellness plans using a novel methodology, which provides lifestyle recommendations for effective and healthy weight loss in the physician’s office; 2) premedical and graduate nutrition students earn practicum hours; and 3) data is collected on the Initiative’s efficacy. Annually, Guardrails has been used to assess cardiovascular, metabolic, musculoskeletal, nutritional, and overall health in approximately 2,000 patients in the University of Miami and South Florida Community.
