Category: Research

Short commentary on our institutional open access repository

Oct 14, 2013

in Open access, Research

article repository, open access

I was recently asked to give a brief commentary on my experiences with using the institutional open access article repository. Here’s the brief clip:
If basic research were conducted under the conditions of educational research

Sep 6, 2013

in Research

basic research, educational research

Note: A few years ago I came across the text below as part of a handout on a short course I was doing. Recently I thought that I’d link to it on my blog but couldn’t find a record of it anywhere on the web. This is unprecedented for me since I’ve always at least…
Writing a research proposal for T&L

Aug 9, 2013

in Research

denise wood, project, proposal, research, teaching and learning

Writing a research proposal for teaching and learning Prof. Denise Wood (18 July, 2013) Here are my notes from a presentation by Prof. Denise Wood on developing a research proposal for projects looking at T&L. Understanding the funding body is important when it comes to applying for funding. Disciplinary specific proposals may not be successful…
New South African online T&L journal (CriSTaL)

May 22, 2013

in Research

cristal, critical studies in teaching and learning, publication, research

We’re really happy to announce the launch of CriSTaL (Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning), a new South African online journal on the scholarship of teaching and learning. From the home page: Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles and essays that describe, theorise and reflect on teaching…
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…
Why I’ll keep using Mendeley…for now

Apr 9, 2013

in Research

elsevier, mendeley, zotero

Well, it finally happened…Mendeley has been acquired by Elsevier. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Mendeley has never been open source (“free” does not equal “open source”), they’ve always been a commercial company and have never suggested that they were anything else. This day was always coming. I’ll be honest, my immediate reaction…
Storytelling for academics

Mar 25, 2013

in Conference, Research

academic presentations, research, stories, storytelling

In 2012 I gave a short presentation on a few elements of giving a conference presentation, using images from Pixar movies (see bottom of post). I wanted to convey the idea that sharing academic research needn’t be boring, a problem that I think is rife among academics. That’s why I was delighted to come across…
Using Google Translate for international projects

Mar 4, 2013

in Education, Research, Technology, Workshop

gmail, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive, google groups, google sheets, google translate, research, thunderbird

In preparation for the FAIMER residential session in Brazil, the coordinators spent months sharing documentation and ideas, and discussing every detail that goes into planning something like this…and they’ve been doing it in Portuguese. Initially I thought that this would mean I’d have no idea what was going on until I got there, but then…
Design principles for clinical reasoning

Jan 14, 2013

in Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Technology

blended learning, capability, clinical education, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, design, design research, learning spaces, online learning, phd, physiotherapy education, principles, research

Clinical reasoning is hard to do, and even harder to facilitate in novice practitioners who lack the experience and patterns of thinking that enable them to establish conceptual relationships that are often non-trivial. Experienced clinicians have developed, over many years and many patients, a set of thinking patterns that influence the clinical decisions they make,…
Skills we want our students to have

Jan 8, 2013

in Learning, Physiotherapy, Research, Technology

physiotherapy, reasoning, skills, technology, thinking

This post was inspired in part by this article on the 10 skills that every student should learn. These are some of the skills that we’re intentionally trying to help our students develop, as a way of integrating them into the culture of professional clinical practice. Reading carefully. If you can read you can learn…
Social media and professional identity: Part 4 (ResearchGate)

Dec 12, 2012

in Research, Technology

academic identity, Online identity, professional identity, research, researchgate, social media, technology

Over the past few months I’ve been working towards my final PhD submission, and so haven’t had much opportunity to continue my my series on using social media to develop a professional online identity. Now that I have at least a little bit of time again, I’m going to try and finish it up over…
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…
“Papers” aren’t really papers

Sep 14, 2012

in Research, Technology

academic publication, digital publication, research dissemination, research publication

Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu enhance access to open repositories? | Impact of Social Sciences: “The paper explores other possible reasons for the high visibility of these papers – and one possibility worthy of further investigation is the provision of many papers in HTML formats and not just PDF and MS Word. “ I don’t understand…
UWC “Scholarship of teaching and learning” colloquium

Jun 14, 2012

in Assessment, Conference, Curriculum, Education, Learning, Research, Teaching, Technology

colloquium, innovations in teaching and learning, research, teaching and learning, teaching and learning practices, university of the western cape, uwc

I presented at the UWC scholarship of teaching and learning colloquium last week. Here is the presentation I gave, which is essentially a progress report of my PhD research project. I posted my own presentation a few days ago and here are the notes I took during the colloquium. Can universities be caring? A meditation…
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…
Bring your own device

Mar 9, 2012

in Learning, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Students, Teaching, Technology

bring your own device, byod, empower, information management, power, self-directed learning

For the past 2 months we’ve been operating under a bring–your–own–device (BYOD) policy in one of the modules I’m co-ordinating. Actually, it’s the module that I’m evaluating for my PhD, and the BYOD policy is just one component of a completely restructured approach to the curriculum. Some background: Physiotherapy students work to solve clinical problems…