Category: PhD

PHT402: Final thoughts and moving forward

Sep 3, 2013

in Assessment, Curriculum, Learning, PhD, pht402, Physiotherapy, Social media

This is a short review post for the PHT402 Professional Ethics course that was recently completed by physiotherapy students from the University of the Western Cape and qualified physiotherapists who participated through Physiopedia. We believe that this is the first time that a completely open, online course in professional ethics has been run as part…
Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output

Apr 15, 2013

in Conference, PhD, Research, Technology

academic publishing, beyond the pdf, force11, open access, phd, publication, publishing, research, research communication, research dissemination, scholarly communication

“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…
PhD project using design research

Oct 21, 2012

in PhD, Research

design research, design-based research, phd, research

I’m supposed to be submitting my thesis in about 3 weeks time, so obviously I’m getting distracted by anything that means I can avoid that nightmare. Which is why I spent about an hour this morning making this nice flowchart. Putting complex things into pictures makes them easier for me to understand, so making this…
Social media and professional identity: Part 3 (Mendeley)

Sep 18, 2012

in PhD, Research, Social media, Technology

mendeley, Online identity, professional development, professional identity, social media

Academic social networks: Mendeley Everyone is familiar with Facebook and many people have heard of Google+ so I’m not going to spend much time reviewing them, other than to say that for me, neither of them is currently a big part of my own professional presence. I use Google+ a lot but in a personal…
Posted to Diigo 06/15/2012

Jun 15, 2012

in Learning, Note, PhD, Research

disruptive innovation, educause, educause review, impact factor, knowledge, learning, publication, randy bass, research, social construction, social pedagogy, writing

Social Pedagogies « Randy Bass we have only begun to understand the ways that the “social life of information” and the social construction of knowledge can reshape the ways we create learning experiences in the formal college curriculum we define social pedagogies as design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we…
Blended learning in clinical education

Jun 4, 2012

in Education, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research

blended learning, clinical education, phd, research, teaching and learning

Later today I’m presenting a progress report on my PhD, at the UWC “Innovations in Teaching and Learning” colloquium. Here is the presentation: Blended learning in clinical education View more presentations from Michael Rowe.
Blogging taking a back seat for now

May 22, 2012

in PhD, Research

articles, blogging, phd, research

I’m in the process of writing up the final parts of my PhD and am hoping to submit a first full draft in August, in preparation for a final submission in November. I’m doing it by publication and so am focusing my attention on the last 2 articles I need to complete. I’ve published two,…
Results of the first round of my Delphi study

Apr 4, 2012

in PhD, Physiotherapy, Research

article, Delphi, research, wordle, writing

I’m away on a 3 day writing retreat where I’m trying to put together a full draft of the Delphi study that I’m busy wrapping up. I thought I’d take a break from writing and do something different (from writing, I mean). I took the full text of the open-ended responses from the first round…
The Delphi method in clinical research

Apr 2, 2012

in PhD, Research

clinical practice, delphi approach, delphi method, delphi study, research

Thank you to Conran Joseph for his contribution to this post. We began developing this content as part of another project that we’re working on (more to come on that later) and then extended it as I made notes for a paper than I’m writing for my PhD. Introduction The Delphi method was developed in…
Jan Herrington’s model of Authentic learning

Jan 24, 2012

in Assessment, Learning, PhD, Research, Teaching

articulation, assessment, authentic activities, authentic assessment, authentic learning, authentic tasks, collaboration, Complexity, Jan Herrington, reflection, scaffolding

A few days ago I met with my supervisor to discuss my research plan for the year. She suggested I look into Jan Herrington’s work on authentic learning so I thought I’d make some notes here as I familiarize myself with it. To begin with, there are 9 elements of authentic learning (I believe that in…
Workshop on facilitation techniques using the Conversational Framework

Jan 20, 2012

in Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Teaching

adaptive, clinical education, conversational framework, discursive, facilitation, interactive, laurillard, phd, reflection, reflective, research, rethinking university teaching

How do we get students to think more deeply about learning in an academic context? I’m giving a workshop later today. The idea is that we’ll get all of the facilitators who’ll be working on the module we’re designing (and which I’m evaluating for my PhD) and help them get a grip on the approach…
Challenging students’ conceptual relationships in clinical education

Jan 13, 2012

in Assessment, Education, PhD, Physiotherapy, Teaching

academic learning, applied physiotherapy, clinical education, clinical learning, concept mapping, conceptual relationships, conversational framework, laurillard, phd, pht203, research, rethinking university teaching

I just wanted to share a thought while preparing our case notes for the Applied Physiotherapy module we’re developing. One of the designers made a note of the “guideline answers” for facilitators to some of the questions that we might use to trigger students’ thinking. I wrote the following as a comment and didn’t want…
Using the Community of Inquiry in online learning environments

Jan 12, 2012

in Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Teaching

cognitive presence, collaboration, communication, community of inquiry, discourse, experiential learning, groupwork, knowledge construction, kolb, online learning, peer evaluation, reflection, self-assessment, social networks, social presence, teaching presence, zone of proximal development

I’m in the process of putting together a workshop for the facilitators of one of our modules that we’re restructuring in order to use a blended learning approach. Here are the notes that I’ve been putting together on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) for the workshop. Bear in mind that these notes are my attempt…
From “designing teaching” to “evaluating learning”

Jan 10, 2012

in Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Teaching

case-based learning, cbl, clinical practice, conversational framework, knowledge, laurillard, learning, phd, physiotherapy, research, rethinking university teaching, teaching, understanding

Later this month we’ll be implementing a blended approach to teaching and learning in one module in our physiotherapy department. This was to form the main part of my research project, looking at the use of technology enhanced teaching and learning in clinical education. The idea was that I’d look at the process of developing…
Developing case studies for holistic clinical education

Nov 23, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Education, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Teaching, Technology, Workshop

case-based learning, cbl, curricular alignment, curriculum, curriculum development, delphi study, document analysis, phd, research, survey, systematic review

This is quite a long post. Basically I’ve been trying to situate my current research into a larger curriculum development project and this post is just a reflection of my progress so far. It’s probably going to have big gaps and be unclear in sections. I’m OK with that. Earlier this week our department had…
Results of my Delphi first round

Nov 21, 2011

in PhD, Physiotherapy, Research

anxiety, attitudes, attributes, awareness, confidence, delphi method, delphi study, emotion, fear, hidden culture, knowledge, personal, phd, professional, research, skills, values

I’ve recently finished the analysis of the first round of the Delphi study that I’m conducting as part of my PhD. The aim of the study is to determine the personal and professional attributes that determine patient outcomes, as well as the challenges faced in clinical education. These results will serve to inform the development…
TEDxStellenbosch: designing spaces

Nov 3, 2011

in Curriculum, Education, Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Teaching, Technology

blended learning, city spaces, cityafrica, learning, learning spaces, phd, research, stafford massie, steve vosloo, teaching, tedxstellenbosch

A few months ago I attended TEDxStellenbosch at Spier wine farm near Stellenbosch. It was one of the better TEDx events I’ve been to during past few years and I enjoyed it immensely. During the day I re-tweeted comments from other participants, mainly as a record of speakers and the comments that resonated with me.…
“Reading” less and thinking more

Oct 4, 2011

in PhD, Research

flipboard, long format, reading, research, rss feeds, writing

“It may seem counter-intuitive that at a time when we know more than we have ever known, we think about it less.” I spend an enormous amount of time reading, a lot of it online using RSS feeds. I used to think that I was pretty good at filtering the content to find what was…
Complexity theory: learning in unfamiliar contexts

Sep 27, 2011

in Education, Learning, PhD, Research, Teaching, Technology

complex cases, Complexity, complexity theory, context, practice knowledge, professional practice, unfamiliar scenarios

The following are notes I took while reading Fraser, SW & Greenhalgh, T. (2001). Coping with complexity: educating for capability. During the past 6 months or so I’ve found myself thinking more and more that the way we teach health professionals (at least, in my experience) has had too much of a focus on technical…
Blended learning in clinical education (AMEE presentation)

Aug 30, 2011

in Conference, Education, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research

AMEE, AMEE11, blended learning, clinical education, phd, presentation, prezi, research, systematic review

This is the presentation that I gave at the AMEE conference earlier today. It’s the results of a systematic literature review I did as part of my PhD, where I looked at the use of blended learning in clinical education. The abstract doesn’t give much information owing to the fact that I had to be…