Faculty reflections contributed by: Annette Miles, PhD, Helen Krauthamer, PhD, and Uzma Amir Designing a learning experience is too often treated as a workflow task rather than a relational practice. It
To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. My objective was to become more skilled in facilitating learning in the area of providing care for a variety of populations; in this case, those with psychiatric symptoms.
Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator’s ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition.
Some may believe that research and teaching are mutually exclusive responsibilities within academia (see Coate et al., 2001 for a review). However, leading research labs