What I’m working on now

Presentations

I’m working on presentations for the following upcoming talks:

• 18 Mar: AI in Healthcare masterclass (IDP Education)
• 19 Mar: AI and the business of physiotherapy practice (IPPTA)
• 03 Apr: AI for health professions education (SUPSI workshop)
• 23 Apr: AI in healthcare (Nursing and HCA conference)
• 02 May: AI in physiotherapy education (Canadian Physio Association)
• 21 Nov: Distributed agency and physiotherapy: Preparing for AI agents in healthcare (CSP conference; Founder’s Lecture)

You can find all previous presentations here.

Head Space

At the end of last year I completed a full visual redesign of the website, published the course on Generative AI for Academics, and committed to updating every lesson in every course, based on a survey of course participants. I’m halfway through the course updates and am pleased with the results.

This year, I’d like to launch two new courses; a 30-day writing challenge, and a course on learning to learn.

And I’ve started writing a book on the topic of emergent scholarship. This is an idea I’ve had at the back of my mind for the past couple of years, and I’ve decided to give it a go. There’s a lot I want to say on the topic, as well as the process, but for now I’ll just say that there’s a (mostly broken) website, some principles, and a very rough idea for how I want to write this thing.

This website

Ever since I started this blog (on 05 June 2008) I’ve treated it as a bit of a scratch pad; a dumping ground for links, passing thoughts, bits and pieces of things that interested me, and every now and again, something that I put effort into.

I’ve recently decided that, by putting just a bit more effort into each post, I can update the site to make it a more useful resource. This is going to take ages though, as I have almost 1600 posts to date. So it’ll be an ongoing project for the foreseeable future.

Digital innovation

I have a bit of an awkward dynamic with the work I’m employed to do and the work I share here; there’s a significant overlap and it’s really hard for me to differentiate between them. This is just a simple list of the bigger pieces of work I’m involved with at the university, as it has some relevance here.

• Guiding school policy on generative AI in learning, teaching, and assessment, and supporting faculty development.
• 360 virtual reality filming, including the development of internal capacity to do this work in-house in the future.
• Starting up a simulation programme (almost) from scratch.
• Implementing a digital transformation project
  • Phase 1: Move all internal documentation from all the different places it was collected, into a new digital infrastructure.
  • Phase 2: Use the new infrastructure to support more efficient and effective workflows.
  • Phase 3: Explore opportunities for automation of tasks and information flow.
• Support staff in the school with blended learning.