On-Demand Workshop Videos
While many opportunities for training and professional development are synchronous, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers this collection of videos for those who cannot attend our workshops or want an on-demand overview. Additionally, our collection of brief video tutorials can be found on the Toolkit Shelf. And the CTL Blog also offers some videos in its Quick Look series.
Workshop videos listed below are arranged chronologically. Use the drop-down menu to navigate to videos for a specific academic year. Optionally, you can search our entire collection by title and/or key words.
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July 2024
K. Brennan
This was a 2024 Picnic PD (Professional Development) with BSPH CTL summer series workshop. In this workshop recording, CTL’s Senior Video Producer, Kevin Brennan, overviews CTL video services and explains how best to use them in crafting or updating your courses.
Keywords: lecture, video, production, zoom, interviews, support, idea, conception
Three Ways to Use Generative AI in Your Public Health Teaching (44 min) | Automated Transcript (.txt)
July 2024
B. Klaas
This was a 2024 Picnic PD (Professional Development) with BSPH CTL summer series workshop. Generative AI has a lot of promise — and peril — in the context of education. This workshop recording showcases three different ways that you can use generative AI in your teaching: scenario creation, quiz building, and student-centered reflection.
Keywords: Teaching, Generative AI, ChatGPT
October 2024
George Haines (VoiceThread Client Representative)
VoiceThread is an amazing tool for many reasons: sharing a presentation asynchronously, collaboration, discussion, and more. During this special session, a certified trainer from the VoiceThread support team provided training that showcased a variety of examples from real courses. They also reviewed basic VoiceThread features: adding media, commenting, and navigating. Special attention was given to creating and managing VoiceThread Groups and copying and sharing VoiceThread presentations.
October 2023
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This workshop introduced some simple, basic skills that, when turned into good habits, can go a long way toward creating and editing materials that are accessible, sustainable, and better for everyone. Focusing on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, this session provided concrete steps that don't just meet, but go beyond, the built-in accessibility checkers. By the end of the workshop participants should be able to: meet the minimum digital accessibility expectations of Johns Hopkins faculty; know what tools are available in Microsoft products to help get there; understand why we can’t rely on automated checkers alone; and know the value in employing these skills all the time, with every document, and not just “when you have time” or “when it really matters”.
Analyzing Student Course Evaluations | Transcript (txt) | Worksheet (.docx)
January 2024
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This workshop discusses why student feedback is essential to the course revision process and then a method is shared for analyzing qualitative student course evaluations. This method is applied in a guided hands-on activity to identify actionable items for proposed course revisions. The session will leave you with a clear path forward on how you can improve your course and ultimately improve the learning experience for you and your students.
All Academic Years (AY)
July 2024
K. Brennan
This was a 2024 Picnic PD (Professional Development) with BSPH CTL summer series workshop. In this workshop recording, CTL’s Senior Video Producer, Kevin Brennan, overviews CTL video services and explains how best to use them in crafting or updating your courses.
Keywords: lecture, video, production, zoom, interviews, support, idea, conception
July 2024
A. Pinkerton
This was a 2024 Picnic PD (Professional Development) with BSPH CTL summer series workshop. Critical reflection is the process of making meaning by connecting academic content with personal experience and context. This workshop recording will equip you to help your learners create meaning in their academic work. Our session will delve into the advantages of critical reflection and explore practical techniques for integrating this valuable practice into online and in-person courses.
Keywords: critical reflection
June 2024
K. McAvoy, H. Schwitalla
This was a 2024 Picnic PD (Professional Development) with BSPH CTL summer series workshop. Human beings crave a sense of belonging and a desire to feel like an accepted member of a group. Fostering this type of welcoming learning environment is important as it allows students to feel emotionally connected and highly motivated to engage on a deeper level with course content. However, creating this type of environment can be especially difficult when teaching an online class. This workshop recording goes over teaching strategies for online courses that build a feeling of community which allows students to engage with course material in a meaningful way. You’ll walk away from this workshop recording with tangible artifacts to transform the learning environment of online classes from disengagement to a place of social belonging.
Keywords: belonging, community, connection
March 2024
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This recurring workshop was held just in time for Term 4 's start. The video includes a tour of some common tools and CoursePlus (CP) features as well as a tour of what's new in CoursePlus.
Overview: 1:18
Need to Know CP Tools 1:45 (Faculty Tools, Syllabus Builder, Email, Announcements, Discussoin Forums)
LiveTalks 10:45
More Tools 13:02 (Sign-up Sheets, Groups, Gradebook, Reports)
CoursePlus Updates: 17:20
February 2024
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This workshop, for faculty and teaching assistants, focused on improving a core component of effective teaching and learning. The session provided evidence regarding the importance of giving meaningful feedback before guiding attendees on techniques to provide clear, substantive, and constructive communications that encourage and guide students. A hands-on activity was demonstrated (see worksheet) incorporating an Effective Feedback Checklist, which participants used as they applied what they learned. Dive Deeper: The Rubrics: Benefits and Grading Strategies (September 2023) workshop, listed below, is a great accompaniment to this workshop.
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The Curious Learner: The Intersection of Curiosity and Adult Learning (36 mins) | Slides | Transcript (.txt)
June 2025
Amy Pinkerton
This 2025 Picnic PD workshop showcased an interactive exploration into curiosity and adult learning. Questions discussed included: What role does curiosity play in adult learning? How can curiosity be sparked in adult learners? And how can we foster curiosity in both virtual and face-to-face classrooms? Watch to discover how to create a learning environment that encourages inquisitiveness and lifelong learning.
Keywords: curiosity, adult learning, motivation
June 2025
Emily Haagenson, Heather Schwitalla
This 2025 Picnic PD workshop relied on adult neurodevelopment research to explore 5 tips for teaching and reaching the adult brain. According to research in brain-based learning, specifically for adults, the professional learning opportunities developed in the workshop included the promotion of memory activation, opportunities for self-regulation, and emotional and socio-emotional connection. These opportunities were optimally designed by prioritizing real-life applications and actively and intentionally organizing the material for adult learners. The session offered research-supported recommendations and provided practical strategies specifically for adult brains to inform small, discernible improvements to course activities. The practical suggestions and examples given demonstrated a variety of learning contexts, including synchronous, asynchronous, online, in-person, and open education courses.
Keywords: andragogy, neurodevelopment, memory, self-regulation
The BSPH Learner: Student data and trends and what this means for the Bloomberg School of Public Health (7 min) | Transcript
May 2025
Amy Pinkerton
This video introduces the Bloomberg School of Public Health Learner, focusing on student data and trends. It uses data from the JHU Graduate Student Composition (Fall 2024) report, the JHU institutional profile in the National Center for Education Statistics, and insights from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) 2024 Forum Conference to identify our students and what they expect from their graduate learning experience. It also explores what these data and trends mean for learner-centered teaching and learning at BSPH. While the focus of the data analysis is on BSPH, schools across the university can benefit from watching.