Category: Learning
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AI is a means of transforming information
AI-powered information transformation extends beyond simple summarisation. When we view recorded lectures as raw material, students can engage with content through multiple transformations: translation, simplification, connection, personalisation, expansion, and critique. This approach shifts learning from passive consumption to active engagement, preparing students for real-world information adaptation.
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AI in physiotherapy education – Canadian Physiotherapy Association
This workshop introduces clinical instructors to state-of-the-art generative AI applications in physiotherapy education, with a focus on practical implementation strategies for educational content development. Through interactive demonstrations and guided exercises, participants will explore how AI tools can enhance their teaching practice while maintaining high educational and clinical standards. The workshop addresses three key areas: content…
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Health Professions Education with AI – SUPSI
In this workshop presentation, I argue that using AI to support learning represents an opportunity to explore an alternative educational paradigm where we reimagine what’s possible, rather than doing the same thing, only better.
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Efficiency in teaching is important, but learning is importanter
When we focus solely on how AI can automate teaching tasks, we miss its transformative potential for learning. The question isn’t whether AI can grade papers faster, but whether it might help learners navigate complexity, connect diverse perspectives, and construct meaning in ways previously unimaginable in traditional educational environments.
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Thinking with AI: A framework for active engagement
Thinking with AI requires intentional engagement rather than passive consumption. This post presents a four-level framework—from using AI as a sounding board to developing systematic comparative analysis—to help health professions educators maintain active collaboration with AI tools while preserving human agency and critical thinking skills.
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Using AI as a thinking partner to support learning
Instead of outsourcing your thinking to AI, discover how it can create supportive learning environments for deeper work by generating scenarios, providing alternative perspectives, organising your insights, and offering feedback on your ideas.
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Introduction to AI for Learning – BIP AI for Students
In this presentation for the 2025 Blended Intensive Programme on AI for Students, I explore how the integration of AI in health professions education transforms learning by serving as a coach, creative partner, research assistant, and clinical companion. This collaborative approach enhances students’ abilities to handle complex clinical scenarios while maintaining professional judgment as the…
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Weekly digest 44
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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More details on HPE-Bot
HPE-Bot is a fantastic project being driven by someone deeply committed to health professions and medical education. If you think that generative AI is over-hyped, or that it doesn’t really have a place in HPE, consider playing around with this tool. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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Context matters: Misleading Headlines and Generative AI
Misleading headlines about generative AI can distort public perception. While you could reasonably claim that the capabilities of AI are overestimated in some areas, it’s actually underestimated in others (like education). This post critiques an article’s clickbait title, emphasising the importance of reading beyond headlines, especially if you’re going to share further. It argues for…
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Generative AI and student learning
As generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools continue to evolve and become more sophisticated they present opportunities and risks to student learning. In this video, Sydney University’s Danny Liu takes us through some of the ways students could be using and misusing gen AI for assessment, and offers some thoughts on how to address these…
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
The Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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Report: Assessment reform for the age of AI
TEQSA’s report “Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence” outlines principles and propositions for reforming higher education assessment practices in response to AI. It emphasizes integrating AI ethically, focusing on systemic approaches, learning processes, collaboration, and security. The report aims to guide institutions in adapting to AI while maintaining academic integrity.
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What’s the academic version of these Steph Curry drills?
The best performers in sport have drills they use to keep improving. What do academics do to improve? What’s our version of these drills?
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Weekly digest 37
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Generative AI and the cognitive apprenticeship model for developing clinical reasoning
This post explores how generative AI can support cognitive apprenticeship in developing clinical reasoning skills. Using a structured approach, I show how AI can enhance various aspects of learning, from providing domain knowledge to simulating patient scenarios, ultimately creating a comprehensive framework for AI-assisted clinical education.
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Claude, create an interactive website
Claude can create interactive educational websites with minimal prompting. This post demonstrates how Claude generated a physiotherapy website with an SVG image, MCQ, and matching activity. While the content is simple, it showcases the potential for rapid development of personal learning materials using AI.
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Complexity as a theory of education
Complexity theory is presented as an emerging transdisciplinary approach that is well-suited to making sense of the complex, adaptive, self-organising phenomena studied by educational researchers. The authors provide a theoretical framework for understanding the complex nature of learning environments, particularly in the context of digital innovation and blended learning.