Our course redesign was inspired by
a desire to transform the educational
experiences of our students and to
meet students’ requests for enhanced
in-class active learning exercises.26,27
At the time, an increasing number of
classroom innovations were permeating
the University of North Carolina (UNC)
Eshelman School of Pharmacy as the
result of a collective awareness that
the methodologies employed in our
classrooms, which consisted mainly of
traditional lectures, had remained largely
unchanged for decades. The goals of
our course redesign were to improve
students’ learning and develop students
as critical thinkers, problem solvers, and
team players; fully engage students
and instructors throughout the learning
process; and stimulate higher-order
thinking through the use of creative
technologies and applied learning.