Nine University of Iowa
faculty members will receive the 2004-05 Instructional
Improvement Award to support seven projects designed
to improve classroom teaching. The University’s
Council on Teaching presents the awards each year.
Gary Russell, marketing, Tippie College of Business,
will purchase a site license for a data mining software
package in support of the college’s Data Mining
in Marketing course. The new software will help MBA
students gain hands-on understanding of the strengths
and limitations of data mining in the emerging field
of customer relationship management.
Ahmed Souaiaia, religious studies, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will hire a skilled graduate student
to help him develop and implement a talking dictionary
of key terms in Islamic ethics and philosophy. On
a secure web site, students will have an index of
key terms from readings and lectures, a list of translations
and definitions of the terms, and recordings of clear
pronunciations of each term.
Jean Gordon and Kirrie
Ballard, speech pathology
and audiology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
will help undergraduates make the leap from classroom
to clinic with a multimedia library of materials
based on actual cases of brain-damaged patients with
speech-language disorders. Video clips will depict
patients in the clinic setting and demonstrate techniques
practitioners use to diagnose cases and develop treatment
plans.
Ying Zhang, biostatistics, College of Public Health,
will prepare a new course called Introduction of
Data Mining in Health Informatics. The funds will
pay for software and hiring a graduate student to
prepare appropriate data sets for study in the course.
Scott Vogelgesang and Christopher
Dyer, internal
medicine, Carver College of Medicine, will purchase
sophisticated patient simulator models for a course
called Medical Procedures: Skills and Knowledge Based
Instruction. Older models let students practice the
sequence of events used in invasive medical procedures
but provide inadequate training in realistic anatomical
relationships, training that is necessary for the
safe performance of the procedures.
Suhas Kalghatgi, anesthesia, Carver College of
Medicine, will create videos that provide guidelines
for preparing anesthesia machines and responding
to equipment problems. The videos will supplement
the Department of Anesthesiology’s traditional
hands-on instruction, and students and hospital staff
will find the videos available on a secure web server
as well as on DVD.
Teresa Boese, nursing, will purchase equipment vital
to the establishment of an environment that simulates
the care of critically ill children. All pre-licensing
nursing students will use the equipment during their
two semesters in the College of Nursing’s clinical
simulation laboratory.
compiled by Gary Kuhlmann
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