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  • 2022 Partnered in Teaching and Learning Seed Grant, Office of the Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning, McMaster University, Project: “Virtual Reality User Experience and Learning Outcomes in Anatomy Education”, ($4000), Duration: September 2022 – August 2023
    Ilana Bayer (PI), Peter Helli (Co-PI), Irena Rebalka (Co-PI), Evan Varlese, Kevin Shao, Zahra Abdallah
  • Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellowship, MacPherson Institute, “Innovation by Design: Engaging Learners and Faculty in Course Design and Development”, 2019-2021 
    Ilana Bayer (PI)
  • eCampus Ontario Research and Innovation Grant, “Evaluating the effectiveness of an online mental health course for faculty on their knowledge, willingness and confidence to act to support student mental health in the postsecondary setting”, 2017-2018
    Principal Investigator: Catherine Munn, Co-Investigators: Allison Drew-Hassling, Natasha Snelgrove, Ilana Bayer, Allan Fein
  • MIIETL Priority Areas for Learning and Teaching Research (PALAT) Grant, “Videos in Anatomy Learning”, 2016- 2017
    Principal Investigator: Alexander Ball, Co-Investigators: Bruce Wainman, Ilana Bayer, Peter Helli, Tony Chen, Maxwell Ng, Abirami Kirubarajan, Katerhine Kuo
  • MIIETL Priority Areas for Learning and Teaching Research (PALAT) Grant, “The Basic Science of Chemotherapy: Electronic Learning”, 2016- 2017
    Principal Investigator: Ghazaleh Kazemi, Co-Investigators: Som Mukherjee, Ilana Bayer, Jason Lamb
  • Bayer, I., Elma, A., Nasser, M., Grierson, L. (2022). Empathy for the Health Professional in Online Asynchronous Graduate Education: An Initial Design Thinking Approach to Program Improvement. Discover Education. 1, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-022-00009-8
  • Kim, S., Bayer, I. Gewurtz, R., Lariviere, N., and Letts, L. (2022). Occupational therapists’ application of the Do-Live-Well framework: A Canadian health promotion approach. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. Aug 22:84174221117717. doi: 10.1177/00084174221117717
  • Yilmaz Y, McDonald PJ, Locke S, Lal S, Bayer I, Tong XC, Kundi A, Chan TM. (2022) The Digital Transformation of Faculty Development: Responding and supporting academia during disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 42(3):e114-e120. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000439
  • Lal, S., Bayer, I., Yilmaz, Y., Chan, T. (April 2022) The Productive Engagement SPACE: A guide to improve critical learner interactions in e-learning environments. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 14(2):149-154.
  • Kim S, Bayer I, Gewurtz R, Larivière N, Letts L. (2022) Comparing Web-Based and In-Person Educational Workshops for Canadian Occupational Therapists and Understanding Their Learning Experiences: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Med Educ. 4;8(1):e31634. doi: 10.2196/31634. PMID: 34982719; PMCID: PMC8767476.
  • Kim, S-H., Gewurtz R.E., Bayer, I., Lariviere, N., and Letts, L. (2021) The development of theory- and evidence-based educational workshops for occupational therapists. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education. 5 (3):18. Https://encompass.eku.edu/jote/vol5/iss3/18
  • Bernard, J., Wainman, B., Walker, O., Pitt, C., Bayer, I., Mitchell, J., Bak, A., Saraco, A., Sonnadara, R. (2021) Grading OSPE questions with decision learning trees: A first step towards an intelligent tutoring system for anatomical education. AAAI-Humna.AI Symposium, Nov 4-6. https://aaai-human.ai/symposium-program
  • Bernard, J., Sonnadara, R., Saraco, A. N., Mitchell, J. P., Bak, A. B., Bayer, I., & Wainman, B. C. (2021). Automated Grading of Anatomical Objective Structured Practical Exams Using Decision Trees. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00502.
  • Yilmaz, Y., Lal, S., Tong, XC., Howard, M., Bal, S., Bayer, I., Monteiro, S., and Chan, T. (2020) Technology-enhanced faculty development: Future trends and possibilities for health sciences education. Medical Science Educator. 30;1787–1796. DOI: 10.1007%2Fs40670-020-01100-1
  • Murphy, A, Elit L, Bayer I. (2017) E-learning in gynecologic oncology for obstetrics and gynecology residents. Journal of Gynecology and Women’s Health, 2(3):555589.