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Fostering Durable Skills In A Hybrid Accelerated Program: Insights From Doctor Of Physical Therapy Education For A Practical Approach For Teaching Essential Professional Competencies, Rajiv Dalal, Vicki Lafay, Steven Hammons

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Durable skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and self-management are essential in today’s professional world. These skills should be reinforced through various educational platforms. This application from a hybrid Doctor of Physical Therapy program highlights AI-driven simulations and innovative strategies adaptable across disciplines, offering practical methods to prepare career-ready students.

Teaching Durable Skills In A School Principal Certification Program, Kevin Hub

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) offers principal certification through a specialized Principal Certification Cohort Degree program. One component within this academic program is teaching durable skills through a deeper dive into curriculum, a broader range of field experiences, and the development of durable skills through a series of experiential learning assignments.

Exploring Faculty And Student Experiences With Languages: Building Durable Skills Through Multilingual Engagement, Ali Yaylali, Cui Zhang, Sara Rico-Godoy

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This creative activity focuses on students’ and multilingual faculty members' real-life experiences navigating linguistic and cultural diversity. The informal dialogue across multiple undergraduate courses in a third space strengthens student learning by enhancing multiple durable skills such as intercultural communication, career readiness, and the understanding of different cultural backgrounds.

Teaching Transfer: Building Durable Skills For All Learners, Jilliane Mccardle, Jessica Spears, Ty Shouse, Amber Catron

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Transfer tasks in educational settings offer opportunities for durable skill development in areas including critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. This article explores research and the implementation of transfer tasks at a university and the affiliated P12 lab school, highlighting the role in fostering authentic assessment and enhancing durable skills.

Book Clubs: Building Communication, Critical Thinking, And Leadership Skills, Erin Eliassen

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This brief report describes the structure of a book club in the college classroom to build specific durable skills, reflects on an assignment in a nutrition research course, and identifies benefits of a book club in a college classroom. Applications are versatile based on course content and student learning outcomes.

Durable Skill Development Through Creative Audio Projects: Student Podcasting, Meg Gravil, Jeff Reed

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Students in two classes, one face-to-face and one asynchronous online, created podcasts to meet course objectives while engaging in durable skill development. Creating podcasts enabled students to navigate cultural, developmental, and familial differences through discussion with others. Student feedback on podcasting as a course assessment was reflective and positive.

Table Of Contents: 2025 Pedagogicon Proceedings, Russell Carpenter, Kevin Dvorak, Marie A. Mater, Shirley O'Brien, Jamie Shaffer, Melony Shemberger, Sarah Wackerbarth, Jj Wallace

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

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Harnessing Ai For Medical Education: A Faculty Development Series For Pre-Clinical And Clinical Educators, April Hatcher, Tama The

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This manuscript describes a faculty development series designed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into medical education. Faculty participants discussed practical applications of AI, student perspectives on their use of AI, and innovative collaborative projects with local faculty. This short series was scaffolded as an introduction to AI for medical educators.

Tek Faculty Fellows: Building Faculty Confidence In Teaching Durable Skills Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Shawna Felkins, Madeline Aulisio Miller, Trey Conatser, Diane Parr

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

The TEK Faculty Fellows program was created to support faculty in the design of new courses or enhancement of existing courses to engage students in transdisciplinary learning and skill-building. This paper shares early evaluation findings and practical strategies to support faculty in making durable skills more visible in the classroom.

The Fcom (Frist College Of Medicine) Experience: A Faculty Development Strategy In A New Medical School, Jamie Shaffer, Hope Terhaar

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

The FCoM Experience is a faculty development initiative designed to improve teaching quality, technological fluency, and culture at a new medical school. Grounded in peer observation and the Communities of Practice model, it fosters durable teaching skills through simulation, feedback, and reflection—offering a scalable model for medical education innovation.

Learning In The Open: Empowering Employability And Social Justice Through Open Pedagogy, Karina Christopher

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Open Pedagogy (OP) is a practice which enhances comprehension and employability skills by allowing teachers and learners to be co-creators in learning experiences and scholarship. This didactic practice is used in a variety of degree programs. This article provides examples of OP adopted in multiple food and nutrition courses.

From Discussion To Dialogue: Enhancing Engagement With Peer-Reviewed Assignments, Rebecca Crawford, Mary Sciaraffa, Ann Eason

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This article explores how peer-reviewed assignments can replace traditional discussion boards to foster authentic engagement, deeper learning, and durable skill development. Using a child development course case study, it offers strategies, tools, and student feedback to support implementation across formats while promoting communication, collaboration, and academic integrity in higher education.

Learning By Doing: The Client/Patient Assessment Interview, Marie A. Mater

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (2024) identifies “communication” as a required competency for a career-ready workforce. One crucial type of communication with clients or patients is the assessment interview. This paper discusses a strategy for teaching the durable skill of “Client/Patient Assessment Interviews” in hypothetical face-to-face classroom situations.

I Know I’Ve Written This Before: Encouraging Students’ Use Of Feedback Through Intentional Laboratory Course Design, Cynthia Tran

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

This work outlines improvements in student receptivity, incorporation, and production of constructive feedback in upper-level forensic science laboratory courses. Through single-loop revisions, real-time instructor input, and peer review, students practiced engaging with feedback to build foundational skills, improve performance, and increase reflection and engagement. These adaptable approaches promote feedback literacy.

Case & Effect: Building Durable Skills Through Strategic Partnerships & Curriculum, Jonathan Vorbeck, Stephanie Ashley

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Drawing on two undergraduate case studies, this paper illustrates how campus-wide collaboration and innovative curricular design integrate durable skills. Strategies emphasizing civil discourse, networking, and professional facilitation offer practical approaches for embedding sustainable, workforce-ready skills across disciplines while engaging students in meaningful, real-world experiential learning.

Cultivating Advocates: The Impact Of Early Student Advocacy On Future Professional Engagement And Community Involvement, Leah Simpkins, Geela Spira, Julie Duckart, Megan Speck Craig

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

It is important for students to understand what community advocacy is early on in their college experience and how it can impact future career achievements and advocacy for their profession. Early advocacy involvement for the profession is key to a lifelong progression championing advocacy. Development of advocacy occurs in segments

Rhetoric Meets Remedy: A Collaboration Of Health And Writing, Angela Hardin, Melanie Smith

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Explore how interdisciplinary projects like infographics, magazine articles, and PSAs merge media literacy with health education, inspiring high school students to think critically and creatively. This presentation highlights a collaborative approach that empowers students to address real-world health and safety challenges and engages them in meaningful and transferable experiences.

Simulating Success: Career-Ready Skill Development Through Interactive Learning, Thomas E. Stevens

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Online education presents challenges of engaging students and cultivating career-ready (“durable”) skills. Simulation-based learning in an online, synchronous environment may enhance student engagement while developing real-world skills. This study examines how simulation-based exercises can impact learning outcomes in online paralegal education and assist instructor assessment of those outcomes.

The Critical Role Of Faculty As Buffering The Impact Of Discrimination On College Student Aspirations, Kristen Campbell

Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings

Research reveals discrimination's negative impact on university students. Yet, positive faculty relationships can counter these effects. This research explores how trust in faculty buffers discrimination's impact. Results show discrimination correlates with stress and diminished belonging but trust in faculty mitigates these effects, emphasizing faculty's role in fostering supportive campus environments.

What Beginning Law Students Learn When Ai Gets Personal, Kristina Swanson

Journal Articles

From the Introduction

While legal writing and research professors wrestle with artificial intelligence (AI)'s impact on the skills we teach, one thing is clear: beginning law students cannot discern whether AI answers to legal questions are correct. AI-generated responses to legal questions sound right and are designed to bolster the beleaguered law student's confidence. Deliberately programmed to hook customers, AI-generated answers often begin by praising the brilliant question and expressing electronic empathy for the difficulty the student may have had answering it. The end result: students with the wrong legal answer and misplaced confidence.

Keynote Speaker Remarks From Ambassador Clint Williamson, Clint Williamson

Emory International Law Review

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Outsourcing War: Wagner, Private Military Actors, And The Accountability Gap In Modern Conflicts, Dr. Jelena Aparac

Emory International Law Review

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Remarks From Professor Robert C. Blitt, Robert C. Blitt

Emory International Law Review

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Shin-Chi’S Canoe (2008) By Nicola Campbell, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Picture Books

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries American and Canadian government agencies and Christian churches established Indian residential schools where hundreds of thousands of children were “reeducated” in English and Christianity. They were not allowed to use their native languages or given names, to practice their religions, or to communicate with their siblings or parents. They were made to work in crop fields, kitchens, laundries, and industrial workshops. Many were physically and sexually abused. Many never saw their families again. The nine picture books reviewed here are accounts of survivors of residential schools from eight different Indigenous nations. In addition to …

Not My Girl (2014) By Christy Jordan-Fenton And Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Picture Books

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries American and Canadian government agencies and Christian churches established Indian residential schools where hundreds of thousands of children were “reeducated” in English and Christianity. They were not allowed to use their native languages or given names, to practice their religions, or to communicate with their siblings or parents. They were made to work in crop fields, kitchens, laundries, and industrial workshops. Many were physically and sexually abused. Many never saw their families again. The nine picture books reviewed here are accounts of survivors of residential schools from eight different Indigenous nations. In addition to …

The Language Of Vulnerable Narcissism: Linguistic And Thematic Patterns Among College Students, Bradly Mcginnis

Dissertations and Theses

Narcissistic personality disorder, as currently described within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), emphasizes grandiose narcissistic traits, such as a need for admiration and an inflated sense of self-importance. However, the current conceptualization of narcissistic personality disorder within the DSM-5-TR does not explicitly include vulnerable narcissistic traits. Vulnerable narcissistic traits may also be mistaken for depressive symptoms due to similarities in their presentation. The present study used a mixed-methods approach to examine linguistic differences among these constructs and explore whether patterns in language could help disentangle their overlap. Quantitative analyses examined differences in linguistic features, including …

A Study Of The Impacts Of Infusing Data Analysis And Research In An Interdisciplinary Environmental Economics Course, Sean P. Macdonald

Publications and Research

This paper explores the impacts of introducing quantitative literacy skills in an interdisciplinary Environmental Economics course typically taught as an issues and policy course without a quantitative component. The study examines the effects of infusing an engaging, student-selected data collection and analysis assignment on students' quantitative reasoning skills, as well as their interest in and attitudes about data analysis and quantitative information. Using data gathered from a set of pre- and post-assessment questions designed to measure changes in quantitative reasoning skills and attitudes, the findings point to significant attitudinal impacts, gains, but smaller, insignificant gains in quantitative reasoning skills.

2026 Iapc Residential Summer Course Roster, Maughn Rollins Gregory

Documentation

This year we had seven IAPC staff members, six participants (from Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, and the US), and four visitors from Hawai'i.

Feasibility And Acceptability Of A Culturally Competent Digital Maternal Mental Health Intervention In Birmingham, Alabama, Nina Orihuela, Quincy Wilson, Gracie Haley, Layo George, Holly Horan

UAB Huntsville Research Day - All Presentations

2026 research poster

The Benefits Of Simwars In Second Year Medical Education, Daniel Patton, Peter Anthony, Lee Reagan, Todd Peterson

UAB Huntsville Research Day - All Presentations

2026 research poster