Tag: learning
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A better game: Choosing what to amplify with AI
I keep seeing posts cataloguing AI’s failures and questioning tech companies’ motives. That’s one way to engage. Here’s another: demonstrate thoughtful use, critique from practice, and amplify what matters to you. The question is what you choose to amplify as a practical alternative to performative critique.
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Health Professions Education with AI – SUPSI
In this workshop presentation, I argue that using AI to support learning represents an opportunity to explore an alternative educational paradigm where we reimagine what’s possible, rather than doing the same thing, only better.
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In Beta podcast: Generative AI in health professions education
#33 – Generative AI in health professions education In this conversation, Ben and I speak to Lambert Schuwirth to get his take on the impact of generative AI in health professions education. The conversation covers the development of HPE-Bot from a pedagogical perspective; the potential impact of generative AI on HPE teaching, learning, and assessment;…
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Guide on the side, or sidelined?
in AIWe talk about the need for teachers to move from being the ‘sage on the stage’ to the ‘guide on the side’, and how this is a positive approach that positions the student at the centre of their learning rather than the teacher. But another way of viewing this is that students’ use of AI…
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Open-access textbook: AI for teachers
https://www.ai4t.eu/textbook The link takes you to a page to download the open-access textbook on AI for teachers. The book is available in a range of formats (PDF, epub, etc) and in multiple languages. An Erasmus+ K3 project designed by France, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg to contribute to training on AI in education for and…
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In Beta podcast: Digital health and learning
Last week I met with Joost van Wijchen to brainstorm a joint session we’re offering on an Erasmus+ funded Blended Intensive Programme on Digital Health. We recorded the session for later reflection but decided to also publish it as a podcast. Here’s a great outline that Joost very generously put together, covering some of the…
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An AI-first approach to higher education in the UK
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-university.html Donald Clark proposes a vision for an AI-first university, tackling the pressing need for high-quality, low-cost online education in the UK. Here’s a distilled list of 25 transformative ideas, drawing inspiration from other successful educational models: I couldn’t agree more. For me, AI has the potential to massively scale personal learning, and for that…
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In Beta podcast: Assessment and learning
http://inbetaphysio.com/2023/06/29/31-assessment-and-learning/ In this conversation, Ben and I had discuss the assessment process, linking it to broader themes of learning, curriculum design, and student experience. We talk about the centralisation of assessment and explore the tensions between institutional control and the autonomy of teachers. We discuss student satisfaction and the influence of risk aversion in educational…
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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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In Beta podcast on generative AI and assessment
It’s been a long time since Ben and I sat down to record something for the In Beta podcast, but I think this episode on Generative AI is a good one. As usual, Ben asks some great questions that really push me to think about what I’m thinking. This was a wide-ranging conversation that explored…
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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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(Teacher+AI) + (Student+AI) = better outcomes
I think that teachers who use AI well, combined with students who use AI well, will outperform those who don’t use AI at all. And I don’t mean “outperform” on the assessment tasks that universities typically use e.g. MCQs, essays, and Q&A-type formats. I’m not sure how much longer university assessment tasks (in their current…
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Don’t plan on a career in prompt engineering
I’ve said before that prompt engineering is a dead end, and here’s further support, for similar reasons. A more “enduring and adaptable skill is problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.” I agree, although even this may only be true in the relative a short-term. I’ve mentioned before the work being…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (workshop) | ChatGPT and its implications for health professions education
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Background The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was accompanied by an explosion of interest in both mainstream and academic media. It has simultaneously been described as the saviour of higher education, and the beginning of the end. The fact is, it could be both.…
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Generative AI in higher education – HELTASA conference
This is a recording of a presentation I gave at the HELTASA conference, on the topic of generative AI in higher education. The focus of the talk was on ChatGPT but I tried to think about generative AI more broadly, including image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. I also tried to avoid making this…
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The seductive appeal of measuring outcomes in edtech research – SAAHE SIG webinar
In this SAAHE webinar, I discuss the limitations of comparative study designs in education technology research, which often fail to control for confounding variables and focus too much on specific outcomes. Instead, I propose decoupling teaching from learning, suggesting that research should consider whether observed student behaviours align with established good learning practices, rather than…
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What would a conference look like if we thought of it as a retreat?
What would academic conferences look like if we thought of them as retreats?