Category: Teaching
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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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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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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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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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When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
TL;DR (generated by Claude, lightly edited by me). The rise of abundant expertise in the form of generative AI questions the university monopoly on expertise provision and validation. Leadership in the creative deployment of AI for learning, teaching, and assessment will require a change in mindset and a shift towards a new paradigm, which universities…
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Full stack teacher
I love analogies that help me think differently about learning, teaching, and assessment, and this is a great one from Brendyn Hadfield. In computing, a software stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to create a complete platform that applications can run on top of. And a full stack developer works in…
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Link: Should your publications be web books?
https://electricbookworks.com/thinking/publishing-websites-for-impact/ This is such a great post from Arthur Atwell at Electric Book Works. I have so many thoughts on how I want to use these ideas, but the main one is that all of our teaching materials should be web-first. I’ve captured the list, but you really should read the full post by Arthur.
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Resource: 12 key ideas – An introduction to teaching online
12 key ideas – An introduction to teaching online is a short book (presented as a course) by Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil, on the topic of making the transition to online teaching. From the Introduction: This course is an attempt to re-frame the idea of what it means to start teaching online. It will…
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Making websites feel more welcoming
My take is that the web could feel warmer and more lively than it is. Visiting a webpage could feel a little more like visiting a park and watching the world go by. Visiting my homepage could feel just a tiny bit like stopping by my home. Webb, M. (2020). Social attention: a modest prototype…
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Resource: Creating an online community, class or conference – A tech guide
Are you creating an online course, event or conference? If you’re not a programmer, and if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, this guide will get you started. Read it from top to bottom to get a step-by-step guide to what you can do to set up your course or event. Then…
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Critical digital pedagogy: Theory and practice
Update (12-02-18): You can now download the full chapter here (A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education) and the edited collection here. This post is actually about setting up the context for a few other posts, all related to my upcoming book chapter for the Critical Physiotherapy Network. The idea I pitched for…
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Stop curating content for students
There’s no point in spending any time curating content for students. Think of all the time you spend searching for, filtering, aggregating, and collating content for students. Then the time you need to spend keeping that list updated. Every year there’ll be new resources available, which means you need to start comparing what you have with what…
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I have spread my dreams under your feet…
I try to keep this in mind whenever I give feedback.
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Accepting the default configuration
In almost every situation we come across in learning, we accept the default configuration. It’s not because we’re lazy but probably that we’re not even aware that alternative configurations exist. The first time this came to my attention was when I realised in the late 1990s that Windows was not the only computer operating system that…
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10 suggestions for health professions educators
Here are 10 suggestions for teachers in health professions education. These are not rules but rather a set of ideas that I think are powerful for enhancing students’ learning. There are others that are just as valuable but these are some that I like. Challenge students to do work at a higher level than they…
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Teaching as improv performance
About a year ago I was introduced to the concept of using improv as a way of changing my thinking around teaching in the classroom, and the idea has been evolving at the back of my mind ever since. I thought it was time to get it out again. I’m not a fan of improv theatre in the…
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Teaching physiotherapy in Kenya
A few weeks ago I visited colleagues in the Physiotherapy Department at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi. I was invited as an external examiner and also to give advice on their developing MSc programme, which they are going to offer with both online and face-to-face components. This is just a short post of a few things…