Category: Conference
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Who is responsible for building the software stack we use in higher education?
There was an interesting conversation in one of the sessions I attended, after a participant asked who is responsible for building the software we use in higher education. Universities aren’t in the business of building software, so it seems reasonable to think that we’re not going to do this well. Companies and organisations are designed…
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A culture of iterative improvement in healthcare
Lucas, B., & Nacer, H. (2015). The habits of an improver: Thinking about learning for improvement in health care. Health Foundation. For several decades we have known about the importance of education which builds improvement capability. But, looking across the professions and occupations that plan and deliver health and social care services in the NHS,…
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Evolving and disrupting disciplinary technology and pedagogical technology
People seem happy to accept that their disciplinary technologies and processes evolve and are disrupted over time, but they’re less happy to accept that their pedagogical technologies and processes need to evolve and be disrupted at the same time.
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Specifics of digital infrastructure matter less than your process
I’ve seen a few sessions at the conference, where I felt like there was too much of an emphasis on the specifics of the technology being used. For example, talking about how we can use Twitter (or LinkedIn, or YouTube, or TikTok) to build community. This can’t be the point. Because tomorrow there’ll be different…
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‘Thinking about’ vs ‘participating in’ the curriculum
There were some interesting ideas around shifting the learner paradigm to one where they’re participating in the curriculum, rather than merely thinking about it. When students think about the curriculum, the focus tends to be on the content we’ve included (what they’re learning). However, a paradigm shift towards participation might get them thinking more about…
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Posters at AMEE
in ConferenceI can’t believe that this is what constitutes a conference ‘poster’. We should be ashamed that we’ve gone along with this madness.
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It depends
in ConferenceThe answer to the question, “Is Technology X good for achieving Outcome Y?” is always, “It depends”.
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Technology that includes…
in ConferenceOne of the things I found most frustrating about today’s sessions on TEL, was the uncritical position taken by many (most?) of the presenters. While they talked about the challenges faced when using technology, I don’t remember anyone talking about how technology might actually be bad. If technology can be used to include, it can…
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A criticism of the #meded community
In my experience, the #meded community suffers (a lot) from a Not Invented Here bias, where research findings from outside the community are ignored. Or maybe they’re simply assumed not to exist. Or probably, there’s an acknowledgement of their existence but a belief that, because the research wasn’t done in the context of medical education,…
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History and development of ALiEM
Teresa Chan presented on the history and development of the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) community. I first came across this group through the KeyLIME podcast, although I’m not quite sure how / if Teresa was involved at all. Teresa made some useful comments about the practical challenges of building and growing a learning…
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Tao Le: OER as part of a curricular ecosystem
I enjoyed this presentation by Tao Le, on a system of modular curricular components that can be put together a bit like Lego bricks. I especially liked the presentation because I saw some parallels with my own thoughts about building an open-source, hackable, curriculum. “Humans are built to share” (or something like that). The work…
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Course: Becoming an Expert Educator in the Healthcare Professions
Presentation by Rakesh Patel on a MOOC that he developed while at Nottingham. He basically took the MSc programme he was running at the time, and converted it into an open online course. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/expert-educator-health-professions “Connect with a global network of multi-professional educators in healthcare, and gain new perspectives on your teaching strategies and values as…
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Conference: AMEE 2023 in Glasgow
I’ll be attending the AMEE 2023 conference in Glasgow from 27-30 Aug. I’ll be posting my thoughts and notes at this stream over the course of the conference, and I’ll share a few summaries afterwards as well. I’m really looking forward to this conference, in a way that I haven’t felt for a long time.…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (Point of view) | Human replacement by artificial intelligence: An heretical point of view
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. I should note that my intention with this submission was to take an extreme position on a topic, to test our collective assumptions. I’m not convinced that the claim (i.e. health professions workers will be replaced by AI) is true. But I’m also not convinced…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (workshop) | ChatGPT and its implications for health professions education
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Background The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was accompanied by an explosion of interest in both mainstream and academic media. It has simultaneously been described as the saviour of higher education, and the beginning of the end. The fact is, it could be both.…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough? Preparing for clinical practice in the age of artificial intelligence
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core value. The introduction of artificially intelligent tools (AI-based systems) into clinical practice has led to resistance in the face of perceived threats to clinician autonomy (Jussupow…
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Announcement: In beta 2022 unconference
In 2019 Ben, Guillaume and I ran the first In beta unconference at HESAV in Lausanne, which was, in my opinion, a great success by any measure you choose. Thanks in part to the generous support of colleagues at HESAV we were able to run a 2 day meeting at no cost for any of…
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What would a conference look like if we thought of it as a retreat?
What would academic conferences look like if we thought of them as retreats?
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Physiotherapy clinicians’ perceptions of AI in clinical practice – SAAHE conference
In 2019 I conducted a survey of international physiotherapy clinicians, asking what they thought of the introduction of AI and machine learning into clinical practice. I didn’t do much data analysis in 2020 (because, Covid) but have now completed an initial round of thematic analysis on the responses. In this presentation at the SAAHE 2021…