Category: Conference
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The first In Beta “Experiments in Physiotherapy Education” unconference
in ConferenceThe In Beta project may seem to have been quiet for the last few months but the fact is we’ve been busy organising a two-day In Beta unconference that will take place on 14-15 May 2019 at HESAV in Lausanne, Switzerland. If you’re planning on going to the WCPT conference (10-13 May) and have an…
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Supporting a student with visual impairment in the ICU
Another presentation that I gave at the SAAHE conference a few weeks ago. Supporting a student with visual impairment in the ICU from Michael Rowe
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Digital literacy in an international sample of physiotherapy students
This is one of the presentations that I recently gave at the 2016 SAAHE conference. Digital literacy of an international group of physiotherapy students from Michael Rowe
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Open Online Courses in Health Professions Education: A systematic review
This is the presentation that I gave at the recent SAAHE conference in Port Elizabeth. Open Online Courses in Health Professions Education: A systematic review from Michael Rowe
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SAAHE 2016 conference
in ConferenceI usually post my notes after a conference but this year at SAAHE I mainly used Twitter to keep track of my thoughts during the sessions, which was great because we probably saw more activity on Twitter in PE than ever before. Here is the conference feed using the #saahe2016 hashtag. Note : While it’s great that…
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Open online courses in health professionals education – A scoping review
in ConferenceI’ve been working with Stephen Maloney and Christian Osadnik at Monash University on a scoping review of open online courses in health professionals education, which we submitted to ER-WCPT. We’ve since changed the protocol to a systematic review (the main difference being the lack of critical appraisal in the scoping review) but I’ve left the…
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Digital literacy survey: Outcome of reliability testing
Earlier this year we started the International Ethics Project, a collaboration between physiotherapy departments from several countries who intend offering an online course in professional ethics to their undergraduate students. You can read more about the project here. In June we started the process of developing a questionnaire that we can use to establish some…
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Design principles for blended learning environments: a presentation
I’m going to be at the 2015 SAAHE conference for the next couple of days, which is being held in association with The Network: Towards Unity for Health. Yesterday I gave a workshop on Setting up and running an open online course, as well as a presentation on developing Design principles for blended learning environments.…
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Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Higher Education conference
Last week I attended the Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Higher Education conference at the UCT Graduate School of Business, which had a pretty impressive lineup of keynote speakers: Laura Czerniewicz Jan Herrington Victor Mbarika Nick Rushby Gilly Salmon George Veletsianos The general theme of the conference was the idea of “learning and…
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WCPT course: Creating and running an open online course
I’m in Singapore for the 2015 World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress, which is the largest gathering of physiotherapists in the world. I’ve never been to a WCPT Congress before, so I’ve really been looking forward to this for a while now. Tomorrow I’m presenting a half day course with Tony and Rachael Lowe from…
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Using the web to empower agents of change: Presentation at The Network – TUFH conference
These are the slides from the presentation I gave at The Network: Towards Unity for Health conference in Fortaleza, Brazil (2014). The talk looked at how we’re trying to prepare health professional students for an increasingly complex health system, but we’re still using teaching methods that originated centuries ago. I ask questions about how we…
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Council on Higher Education ICT colloquium
The Council on Higher Education in South Africa is an independent statutory body that advises the government on all aspects of higher education policy, and today they held a colloquium on the use of ICTs in higher education. Here are the notes I took during the session. Consonance and Dissonance in ICT and Higher Education…
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Starting new projects and catching up with old ones
It’s been a long time since I’ve updated my blog, for a few very good reasons. The first and most important is that in the middle of last year my daughter was born. I took time out from as many non-essential work-related activities as possible so that I could spend time with her whenever I could. During…
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My presentation at the 2014 SAAHE conference
Here is the presentation I plan on giving at the SAAHE conference tomorrow. It describes an open online course that I ran in collaboration with Physiopedia last year, and now presents some of the results obtained from student interviews.
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2014 SAAHE conference in Cape Town
One of the reasons that I’ve been quite on this blog lately is that I’m working on the SAAHE 2014 organising committee, and we’re starting to gear up for the conference in a little over a month. I thought I’d write a little progress update, just in case you’re considering registering but hadn’t made up…
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Presentation on an open, online course
Last year I ran an open online course in Professional Ethics, in collaboration with Physiopedia. Earlier today, I presented the process of designing and implementing that course at a conference on Transforming Education through Technological Innovation, hosted by Stellenbosch University. I really enjoyed the morning and thank the event coordinators for inviting me to present.…
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Faculty member on FAIMER Brazil (2014)
I’m spending a week in Fortaleza, Brazil as part of the FAIMER-Brazil programme for 2014. FAIMER is an international programme aimed at developing capacity in medical education and research, especially in developing countries. There are regional institutes in South Africa, Brazil, India and China, and the main organisation in Philadelphia. I was here in 2013…
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Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output
“Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses” – Beyond the PDF 2 I’ve started a process of creating a case study of my PhD project, using my blog as an alternative means of presenting and sharing my results. Most of the chapters have already either been published or are under review with peer-reviewed journals, so…