Beyond Readability Formulas: Writing Clear and Effective Patient-Centered Educational Materials

This face-to-face course will explain the principles of creating patient education materials and consent forms in plain language. Through the use of real-life examples participants will master language and formatting guidelines that meet the needs of people with all levels of health literacy.

Beyond Research Data Management for Biomedical & Health Sciences Librarians - Feb-April 2020

The major aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the support of data science and open science with the goal of developing and implementing or enhancing data science training and services at participants’ institutions.

Beyond Systematic: The Librarian’s Role in Shaping Reviews

Melissa Rethlefsen, AHIP, Whitney A. Townsend, and Joey Nicholson discuss how systematic reviews have evolved and when to consider other types of reviews.

Beyond the List: Unpacking the Predatory Publisher

This face-to-face course enables learners to think in a deep way about how librarians can evaluate the published biomedical literature they find and make decisions about quality.

Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles*

Health data is the new frontier and now is the time to act. This course will help you understand issues of big data in clinical outcomes and roles you can take in this service area. Course content inc. Using Data to Improve Clinical Patient Outcomes forum, article reviews, and Big Data Fundamentals.

Bravery & Brevity: Developing Effective Presentation Skills

Get over fear of public speaking: Practice is the cure! In this face-to-face course, you will practice speaking in public, and learn to edit yourself by focusing on your main idea and stating it in two minutes or less.

Build a Better Class with Instructional Design*

This is a 7-week online class that covers the basics of instructional design (ID). ID is a systematic approach to creating lessons that meet learner needs. There are many models of instructional design; this class will focus on one of the most well-known, ADDIE.

Charting a New Course: Practical Data Visualization for Librarians

Gain practical and immediately useful skills in creating attractive and informative visualizations of qualitative and quantitative data using Microsoft Excel, through a series of hands-on activities.

Cheap, Fast, and Good: Instructional Videos and Open Educational Resources (Recording)

Molly Higgins addresses ways to create instructional media when you don't have time or money.

Chemicals, Drugs and Genetics: Searching PubMed and Beyond*

This specialized class will help improve your effectiveness in searching PubMed and related NLM and NIH databases for literature information on chemicals, drugs and genetics.