Using Technology to Improve Learning Engagement and Access

LIVE WEBINAR DATE: MAY 8, 2024
SPEAKERS: Melissa Altman-Traub

Event Info:

Explore strategies drawn from higher education to enhance audience preparedness and active participation in classes. Discover how these ideas are applicable not only in community and corporate settings but across diverse professional landscapes. Finally, learn how to use quick and efficient methods to gather feedback from sessions. These ideas from higher education can be used for community, corporate, and many other settings.

Participants will earn 1 CPEU. (Available for three years after the date of the event)

Learning codes:

Performance indicators:

9.3.2 Develops a variety of learning activities based on a plan of action and the needs of individuals, groups, communities and populations

9.3.5 Uses a variety of strategies to deliver education

9.5.1 Develops and uses evaluation instruments to assess education outcomes

Learning Objectives:

1. Select tools and plan activities in order to improve participation preparation before an event.
2. Create activities to use during sessions in order to enhance engagement and learning
3. Assess the session in order to continually improve your program

Speaker Bio:

Melissa Altman-Traub is an Associate Professor of Allied Health at the Community College of Philadelphia. She has taught online nutrition classes for 20 years and now also teaches HyFlex courses. She has been a part-time academic adviser, led several faculty learning communities, and completed the CCP Leadership Institute. As a Student Success Outreach Specialist for a Title III education grant, she works collaboratively with faculty and staff to develop new ways to improve student success and retention. Melissa has also been an adjunct faculty member at LaSalle University.

Her background includes clinical nutrition in hospitals, long-term care facilities, dialysis centers, nutrition support, and outpatient nutrition counseling.

Melissa is the IDEA liaison for the Cultures of Gender and Age Member Interest Group. For the Nutrition Educators of Health Professionals Dietetic Practice group, she helped to plan and moderate the last three online diversity symposia. Melissa serves as a mentor for the Diversity in Dietetics and Black Scholars Mentorship program at CCP. She loves to share her plant-based recipes on her food blog.

Melissa holds a B.S. in Nutrition from Pennsylvania State University, completed a dietetic internship at the University of Cincinnati Hospital, and earned an M.S. in Health Education at Arcadia University.