Category: Students

International collaborative undergraduate student project

Sep 16, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Students, Technology

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I’ve recently been invited to participate in a collaborative undergraduate physiotherapy project, hosted at Physiopaedia, for 2010. It will involve students from several countries and continents, and our students will be the only ones from a developing country, which should make for an interesting comparison of the final products at the end. Following the conclusion…
Reflective blogging assignment – finished

Jul 24, 2009

in Assignments, Social media, Students

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Earlier this year I gave my final year physiotherapy students a blogging assignment as part of their Professional Ethics module. The goal of the assignment was to read a selection of articles that were relevant to coursework that had been discussed in class, to reflect on those readings, and then to post a blog entry…
Assessment in an outcomes based curriculum

May 29, 2009

in Education, Students

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I attended a seminar / short course on campus yesterday, presented by Prof. Chrissie Boughey from Rhodes University. She spoke about the role of assessment in curriculum development and the link between teaching and assessing. Here are the notes I took. Assessment is the most important factor in improving learning because we get back what…

Category: Students

International collaborative undergraduate student project

Reflective blogging assignment – finished

Assessment in an outcomes based curriculum