Tag: educators
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With great power comes great ambiguity – ENPHE conference
I was invited to give a keynote address at the 2023 ENPHE conference, on the topic of AI in health professions education, I used the metaphor of the antihero to emphasise the complex ethical implications of this technology. By rejecting simplistic views of AI as solely beneficial or harmful, I advocate for nuanced human-machine partnerships.…
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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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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17
“Encouraging educators to blog” http://bit.ly/2X2hO # Article on PLoS re. management of large digital libraries for academics, together with adding “social” to research http://bit.ly/CWgHE # Blog post discussing different challenges for researchers / scientists in managing their digital libraries http://bit.ly/xrBOT # To err is human: building a safer healthcare system (free book from the National…
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Mozilla Open Education course: seminar 6
I know that this is all out of sync but the audio for sessions 4 and 5 aren’t up yet and I haven’t had a chance to go through the slideshows yet. Today’s session was about the actual practice of teaching, using “open” as a framework. Here are my notes: Session 6 – Open pedagogy…
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Mozilla Open Education Course
I’m excited to be participating in an open education course that’s been organised by Mozilla, ccLearn and the Peer to peer university (P2PU). The course aims to provide educators with some foundational awareness of Creative Commons licensing, the educational aspect of the Mozilla foundation and the P2PU. There are three broad areas that will be…