Category: Research
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Weekly digest 38
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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Weekly digest 35
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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MyRA for qualitative data analysis
MyRA is a tool for AI-supported qualitative data analysis. It’s currently in beta.
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Semantic Reader update
A brief overview of some of the skimming features available in Semantic Reader.
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I disagree. Beyond ’10 myths’ of AI in education
In this post, I critique a recent paper on AI myths in education, arguing that it presents unfounded ‘myths’ without evidence and uses outdated studies to support its claims. The author’s tendency to conflate different AI concepts is also disappointing and unhelpful, and the article fails to clarify important ideas about AI in education.
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AI for research – African Doctoral Academy (2)
Here are the slides from my session on generative AI in research for participants in the African Doctoral Academy programme. It was an updated version of a similar talk I gave earlier this year. Abstract This presentation explores the applications and implications of Generative AI (GenAI) in research. The talk covers the fundamental nature of…
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Generative conversations – IFOMPT focused symposium
The IFOMPT symposium on generative AI in physiotherapy explored its impact on clinical practice, education, and research. Participants discussed AI’s capabilities in diagnosis, personalised treatment, and data analysis. The event highlighted opportunities like improved efficiency and risks including potential misdiagnosis, emphasising the need for human-AI collaboration in physiotherapy.
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Generative conversations – IFOMPT pre-conference workshop
This presentation from the IFOMPT pre-conference workshop discusses AI’s role in clinical decision-making, patient interactions, educational materials creation, and research processes. We explored how AI can augment human capabilities in physiotherapy while maintaining ethical, human-centred care.
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ChatGPT, turn my article into a public radio-type conversation
I asked ChatGPT to 1) summarise my article for a lay audience, 2) create a transcript of a public radio-type conversation, 3) generate a downloadable audio file of the conversation. It took 10 seconds.
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IFOMPT conference activities: Generative AI in physiotherapy
This overview of IFOMPT conference activities on the topic of generative AI and physiotherapy, includes pre-conference surveys, an all-day workshop, and a focused symposium. These events aim to gather insights on opportunities, risks, and challenges in practice and education. The process will culminate in an open-access discussion document for the physiotherapy community.
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Turn academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions
Google has an experimental product called Illuminate, which turns academic papers into short, AI-generated audio conversations. It’s quite limited at the moment but with a few additional features could be an incredible product for busy academics.
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Trying to read a paper a day
I’m trying to re-commit to the practice of reading original research papers, instead of relying solely on summaries and overviews. I’ve reconfigured my daily schedule to build a daily reading habit that will enable me to engage with difficult ideas more deeply.
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Generative AI in education and research – RCOT
In this presentation for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, I explore the key features of GenAI, its potential applications, and the challenges associated with its integration into academic and clinical settings.
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What does a ‘lecturer’ do?
This infographic shows the diverse roles of a typical lecturer, spanning responsibilities across teaching, research, and service. The balance between these areas varies, highlighting the multifaceted nature of the role.
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Most papers should be blog posts
“Most books should be papers, most papers should be blog posts, most blog posts should be tweets, and most tweets should be answers given in long-form interviews.” Robert Wiblin (2021)
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Claude, give me feedback on my research proposal
Comments from a postgraduate student who used Claude to get feedback on a research proposal draft. Even though the student didn’t have a paid account, the response from Claude was still very useful. It commented on the proposed title, structure, sentence length, logic and flow of ideas. It recommended explaining terms and pointed to relevant…
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Generative AI for research – Stellenbosch University physiotherapy division
Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude are rapidly improving next-word predictors capable of generating multimodal content. They share similarities with humans, including biases and hallucinations. Treating GenAI as an expert research assistant for idea generation, literature review, writing, and data analysis requires critical evaluation of outputs.
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BIP AI – AI in research: Opportunities and challenges
In this Blended Intensive Programme on AI, Guillem Jabardo and I explore the potential of generative AI to support all stages of the research process. However, while extremely powerful, these tools still have limitations, necessitating critical review. The ability of generative AI to augment human cognition represents a paradigm shift for academia.
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Link: The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/20/the-latest-crisis-is-the-research-literature-overrun-with-chatgpt-and-llm-generated-articles/ “Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for publishing a paper that contains a clearly ChatGPT-written portion of its introduction. The first sentence of the paper’s Introduction reads, “Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:…” To date, the article remains unchanged, and unretracted.“
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Resource: Using generative AI during a PhD
“This session will look at how a set of generative AI tools can be used to support various aspects of research, such as ChatGPT, Ellicit and DALL-E (although the final selection of tools will be made nearer to the workshop). Opportunities will be provided to try out the tools alongside discussion with other participants. The…