Tag: phd
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Weekly digest 28
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Compress a PhD+experience into 3-6 months
https://www.quantumleap.education/joinus/founding_learning_engineer.html “Quantum Leap is building the world’s best system for rapidly acquiring expertise. Our first courses will be on large language models and AI safety, for which we’re aiming to compress a PhD and several years’ experience into 3-6 months using accelerated learning methods developed by the US military.” Whether you agree that it’s possible…
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How I used to get an overview of a new topic, compared to using ChatGPT
The other day I was in a meeting where participants were talking about different routes our institution offers towards a PhD, and I realised that I didn’t have a strong sense of the differences, and relative merits of each route. What I would usually do in a situation like this is something like the following:…
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SAAHE podcast 01 – Patient-centredness, with Elize Archer
I recently launched a new SAAHE initiative where we have conversations with people doing interesting work in health professions education. In this conversation, I talk to Elize Archer, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Stellenbosch. Elize conducted her research on patient-centred approaches to clinical practice among medical students. In our conversation, we discuss…
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Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output
“Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses” – Beyond the PDF 2 I’ve started a process of creating a case study of my PhD project, using my blog as an alternative means of presenting and sharing my results. Most of the chapters have already either been published or are under review with peer-reviewed journals, so…
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PhD project using design research
I’m supposed to be submitting my thesis in about 3 weeks time, so obviously I’m getting distracted by anything that means I can avoid that nightmare. Which is why I spent about an hour this morning making this nice flowchart. Putting complex things into pictures makes them easier for me to understand, so making this…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-16
in DigestUniversity lectures are a legacy of our pre-digital past http://t.co/RSOuMHuo via @zite # Presentation: The need for engagement in education (redux) http://t.co/DlXe0zjp via @zite # Research Zebra: Seven things you need to know when your partner is doing a doctorate http://t.co/dJJCcHS3 #
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Blended learning in clinical education
Later today I’m presenting a progress report on my PhD, at the UWC “Innovations in Teaching and Learning” colloquium. Here is the presentation: Blended learning in clinical education View more presentations from Michael Rowe.
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Blogging taking a back seat for now
I’m in the process of writing up the final parts of my PhD and am hoping to submit a first full draft in August, in preparation for a final submission in November. I’m doing it by publication and so am focusing my attention on the last 2 articles I need to complete. I’ve published two,…
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Workshop on facilitation techniques using the Conversational Framework
How do we get students to think more deeply about learning in an academic context? I’m giving a workshop later today. The idea is that we’ll get all of the facilitators who’ll be working on the module we’re designing (and which I’m evaluating for my PhD) and help them get a grip on the approach…
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Challenging students’ conceptual relationships in clinical education
I just wanted to share a thought while preparing our case notes for the Applied Physiotherapy module we’re developing. One of the designers made a note of the “guideline answers” for facilitators to some of the questions that we might use to trigger students’ thinking. I wrote the following as a comment and didn’t want…
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From “designing teaching” to “evaluating learning”
Later this month we’ll be implementing a blended approach to teaching and learning in one module in our physiotherapy department. This was to form the main part of my research project, looking at the use of technology enhanced teaching and learning in clinical education. The idea was that I’d look at the process of developing…
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Teaching and learning workshop at Mont Fleur
applied physiotherapy, assessment, clinical education, concept mapping, conceptual relationships, content, curriculum development, evaluation, feedback, graduate attibutes, healthcare education, intended learning outcomes, learning, learning outcomes, module development, mont fleur, organising knowledge, peer evaluation, phd, physiotherapy, research, rubrics, scientific method, self-assessment, solo taxonomy, stellenbosch, structured observation of learning outcomes, teaching, teaching activity, teaching and learning, workshopA few weeks ago I spent 3 days at Mont Fleur near Stellenbosch, on a teaching and learning retreat. Next year we’re going to be restructuring 2 of our modules as part of a curriculum review, and I’ll be studying the process as part of my PhD. That part of the project will also form…
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Developing case studies for holistic clinical education
This is quite a long post. Basically I’ve been trying to situate my current research into a larger curriculum development project and this post is just a reflection of my progress so far. It’s probably going to have big gaps and be unclear in sections. I’m OK with that. Earlier this week our department had…
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Results of my Delphi first round
I’ve recently finished the analysis of the first round of the Delphi study that I’m conducting as part of my PhD. The aim of the study is to determine the personal and professional attributes that determine patient outcomes, as well as the challenges faced in clinical education. These results will serve to inform the development…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-21
Papert: “…the practice of segregating children by age into “grades” will be seen as…old-fashioned, and inhumane” http://t.co/pvXVRayG # Great way to learn physics http://t.co/oNRel2Qm # Scientists invent lightest material on Earth. What now? http://t.co/i1BF632n via @zite # The Top 10+1 apps in the Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle! http://t.co/oVT6cva8 via @zite # Dave Cormier: Explaining Rhizomatic Learning…
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Graphically representing a curriculum
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately, owing to the fact that I’ve been putting a lot of time into the next phase of my PhD. This post is in part an attempt to summarise and try to make sense of what’s going on there, as well as to assuage my feeling of…
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TEDxStellenbosch: designing spaces
A few months ago I attended TEDxStellenbosch at Spier wine farm near Stellenbosch. It was one of the better TEDx events I’ve been to during past few years and I enjoyed it immensely. During the day I re-tweeted comments from other participants, mainly as a record of speakers and the comments that resonated with me.…