how to fight lecturalgia
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Presentation delivered as part of a faculty planning mini-conference in Tallahassee.TRANSCRIPT
How to Fight
Lecturalgia
Kevin A. Clauson, Pharm.D.
Who am I?
Who are you?
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Which program are you from?
1. Allied Health Sciences
2. Arts and Sciences
3. Business
4. Education
5. Engineering
6. Journalism
7. Law
8. Nursing
9. Pharmacy
10.Other
Objectives
Discuss the underlying causes,
symptomatology, and treatments for
lecturalgia
Explore the benefits and hurdles with
the audience response system (ARS)
Formulate a plan to increase student
interaction and engagement with ARS
What is Lecturalgia?
1. Word from Latin for
‘painful lecture’
2. Endangered species
of microplankton
3. Type of nail fungus
4. Word I just made up
Med Educ 2001;35(12):1135-42.
Causes of
lecturalgia
Poor judgment
Poor
organization
Poor
delivery
Symptoms of lecturalgia to
watch for…
Tinnitus
Loss of consciousness
And of course…
texting
After exposureBefore exposure
How do we combat lecturalgia?
What is the most effective
method for learning?
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Face-to-face clas... Online self-paced...
Online synchronou...
1. Face-to-face
classroom courses
2. Online self-paced
courses
3. Online
synchronous
courses
Solutions to treat lecturalgia are
not always clear
Proceedings of World Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
2008 (4709-4717).
Gamble that what you’ve always
done still works?
Sometimes it’s best to dive right in
Ultimately, it’s just
one more tool
Use as part of a
blended approach
to teaching
Student
populations are
increasingly
diverse with
accompanying
differences in
learning styles
Example Demographics
Gender Age
Female 64.3% Average: 25
Male 35.7% Range: 20-49
208 first year pharmacy students
196 completed the survey
12 declined to participate
Ethnic Group (%)
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
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100
White Hispanic Asian Other Black
35.7 35.7
19.9
5.1 3.6
First or Best Language
English 62.8%
Spanish 23.5%
Other 6.1%
Vietnamese 4.6%
When was ARS introduced
into medical education?
1. Early 1970s
2. Early 1980s
3. Late 1980s
4. Late 1990s
First generation student clicker
Mayo Clin Proc 1973;48:294-7.
Mayo Clin Proc 1977;52:556-60.
What do we
think we know?
versus
What do we
actually know?
Clinical Teacher 2008;5(4):218-21.
How frequently do you need to
reengage your audience?
1. Every 3 minutes
2. Every 7 minutes
3. Every 15 minutes
4. Every 30 minutes
Every
Minutes
Strategies for implementing
ARS in the classroom
Customize the learning experience
What ARS strategy are you
MOST looking forward to using?
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Medical Teacher 2008;30(2):146-9.
1. Factual questions to evaluate outside readings and content
2. Conceptual questions to drive discussion
3. Linkable pre- and post-test questions
4. Creating questions on the fly to gauge student understanding
5. Real-time course evaluations
Additional ARS Strategies
• Administer low stakes quizzes
• Analyze data generated and map to
objectives or outcomes
• Assess participation
• Elicit (anonymous) opinions on sensitive
topics
• Increase direct interaction with students
• Take attendance
Am J Pharm Educ 2008;72(4):77.
What type
of bacteria
is this?
1. Staphylococcus
2. Streptococcus
3. Meningococcus
What color is the cerebellum?
1. Blue
2. Green
3. Purple
4. Red
5. Yellow
Hurdles
with ARS
What will the biggest hurdle be
here for using ARS?
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0% 1. Acquisition and maintenance costs
2. Requirement to change teaching style
and existing lecture
3. Student resistance to change
4. Technology malfunctions
5. Time investment by faculty to learn
software and hardware
What color elicits the strongest
placebo effect for depression?
1. Green
2. Red
3. Yellow
4. Pill color does not
alter response
BMJ 1996;313:1624-26.
Pilot study using ARS to
connect three campuses
Survey Item SA/A
(%)
U
(%)
SD/D
(%)
Use of ARS encouraged
me to participate in class
89.8 5.1 5.1
Because of ARS I
participated more than I
usually do
84.5 4.5 11.0
I valued that ARS let me
respond anonymously
93.2 3.4 3.4
The use of ARS made
some topics clearer
72.0 15.4 12.6
The use of ARS was
distracting
12.0 11.4 76.6
SA=strongly agree, A=agree, U=unsure, SD=strongly disagree, D=disagree
Survey Item SA/A
(%)
U
(%)
SD/D
(%)
ARS helped me focus
when professor was at a
different site
76.0 13.1 10.9
ARS made it easier to
participate when professor
was at another site
84.5 9.7 5.8
When ARS were used I
felt more connected to the
class
73.1 17.1 9.8
SA=strongly agree, A=agree, U=unsure, SD=strongly disagree, D=disagree
In healthcare – if
you didn’t document
it, then you didn’t
do it
In education – if
you didn’t assess it,
you might as well
not have done it
Pay attention to the details
Summary Points
• ARS is one tool in our arsenal to increase
student engagement
• Proactively managing the hurdles will
result in a better learning experience
• Results at institutions that have
implemented have been positive across
the board
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