Tag: collaboration
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BIP Digital Health – Technology to support the intervention process
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Christian Grüneberg, Franziska Weber and I, explore the impact of technology on physiotherapy practice. We discuss patient- and person-centred care, the role shift for physiotherapists, and the importance of digital health literacy. Participants were encouraged to innovate and identify steps to integrate digital technologies in practice, enhancing…
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Technology platforms aren’t communities
You can use an outstanding technology platform that will facilitate engagement, interaction, sharing, collaboration, etc. but without engaged, interactive, generous people who want to work with each other in community, the technology won’t do much at all. Conversely, a group of like-minded people who want to do interesting things will manage even if they have…
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‘Structured serendipity’ in collaborative writing
In this video I’m talking to Ben Gordon, a physiotherapist in Boston with an interest in the role of machine learning in clinical practice. Ben and I have been working on the very early stages of writing an article together, and quickly became frustrated with the limitations of working collaboratively in Google Docs. We started…
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Comment: DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too
DeepMind’s agents are not really collaborating, said Mark Riedl, a professor at Georgia Tech College of Computing who specializes in artificial intelligence. They are merely responding to what is happening in the game, rather than trading messages with one another, as human players do…Although the result looks like collaboration, the agents achieve it because, individually,…
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Link: How AI Will Rewire Us
Radical innovations have previously transformed the way humans live together. The advent of cities…meant a less nomadic existence and a higher population density. More recently, the invention of technologies including the printing press, the telephone, and the internet revolutionized how we store and communicate information. As consequential as these innovations were, however, they did not…
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I enjoyed reading (February)
Disrupting the diploma (Reid Hoffman): I love the idea of a certification as a “communication device”. …we need to apply new technologies to the primary tool of traditional certification, the diploma. We need to take what now exists as a dumb, static document and turn it into a richer, updateable, more connected record of a…
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Posted to Diigo 05/22/2012
Stigmergic Collaboration, The Evolution of Group Work, and Lessons for Creating Mobile Communities « Michael Sean Gallagher Mark Elliott writes about stigmergic collaboration and the evolution of group work Pierre-Paul Grasse first coined the term stigmergy in the 1950s in conjunction with his research on termites. Grasse showed that a particular configuration of a termite’s…
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Jan Herrington’s model of Authentic learning
A few days ago I met with my supervisor to discuss my research plan for the year. She suggested I look into Jan Herrington’s work on authentic learning so I thought I’d make some notes here as I familiarize myself with it. To begin with, there are 9 elements of authentic learning (I believe that in…
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AMEE conference (day 2)
accreditation, AMEE, AMEE11, anatomy course, athol kent, clinical competencies, collaboration, competence, dental students, distance education, Distance Learning, encyclopaedia, fictional city, gaming in education, global medical education, global medicine, globalisation, interanationalisation, international medical education, language, learning resources, lexicon, life-long education, life-long learning, mobile devices, mobile learning, portfolios, professional culture, reflective journals, self-directed learning, virtual city, virtual clinical encounterThese are the notes I took on the second day of AMEE. One of the things I noticed is that in most of the presentations the speakers talk about “doctors”, and that little is said about “health professionals”. There seem to be few people here who understand that effective healthcare can only be delivered by…
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Sharing? Collaboration? No thanks
Last week I took our third year students to see a demonstration of the management of a patient with spinal cord injury as part of the Movement Science module that I teach. I noticed that during the demonstration many of them were taking pretty comprehensive notes, and thought that this would be a great opportunity…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-06
5 Myths About Collaboration http://ow.ly/1ttN1Z # Agile learning: How ‘making do’ can evolve into ‘making good’ http://ow.ly/1tpUmg # Acceptable Use Policies in Web 2.0 & Mobile Era http://ow.ly/1tpUiP # The personalisation of a learning environment: student-led connections online and offline http://ow.ly/1tpUgD # Future of Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://ow.ly/1tpUbw # Twitter Releases One-Click Subscription Button http://ow.ly/1tpTRm…