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AMEE 2013 #FOAMed Workshop
Today I’m running a workshop on #FOAMed with at AMEE 2013, along with my colleagues Annalisa Manca and Ellie Hothersall from Dundee and Laura-Jane Smith from UCL. We’ll be giving a brief introduction...
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What did I learn from #FOAMed yesterday
I loved this series of tweets that appeared in my Twitter timeline this morning from Nick Smith. Great to see #FOAMed in action and a super example to refer to and quote in workshops on #FOAMed and...
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Exploring rhizomatic learning on #rhizo14
A new year, a new MOOC! Over the next few weeks Dave Cormier is running a cMOOC on rhizomatic learning over on the Peer2Peer University platform. I’m hoping to dip in and out of this MOOC as I’m...
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Damian Roland on #NHSChangeDay
Earlier today I had the privilege of chatting to Damian Roland, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Leicester University, about NHS Change Day. Damian is one of the key...
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Are MOOCs the new evening class?
I see that FutureLearn have published some preliminary data on participation on the first eight of their MOOCs. They’ve attracted a fair bit of interest with high enrollment rates. I was struck by...
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Attention & students checking out of the flipped classroom
by Brett Jordan Following a couple of conversations with students over the past week and reading a few articles in Clinical Teacher and Medical Education I’ve been thinking about attention in...
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Some reflections on day one of Jisc #digifest14
Today I’ve been at the Jisc Digital Festival being held in Birmingham and here are few quick reflections following the opening keynote from Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of Educause who looked at...
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More reflections of day one of Jisc #digifest14: Part 2
So here’s part two of my reflections on the first day of the Jisc Digital Festival meeting following on my post earlier this evening with part one of my reflections on the opening keynote. After the...
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Building an open source learning ecosystem: does anyone want to?
Last week I saw a few tweets in between sessions whilst I was at the ASME annual scientific meeting (#ASMEASM2014) from the annual Blackboard World get together. Over the weekend I read a few articles...
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Summary of #amee2014 symposium on the importance of educational theories
Last week I was at the annual AMEE conference, which is probably the largest international conference in medical education attracting delegates from across the health care professions and the continuum...
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Anyone going to follow Clay Shirky & ask students to put laptops away?
Not Allowed! By My Sideways World on Flickr Back in February I blogged about attention and and whether students were checking out of the flipped classroom. In the post I mentioned the work Howard...
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Post Script to #AMEE2014 #PCW16 Workshop on Personalising Learning
Here’s the second of my post AMEE blog posts which focuses on the pre-conference workshop I ran with John Sanders from the University of Sheffield on ‘How to create personalised learning opportunities...
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Healthcare education TEL Hack – Leeds 7-8 March #hetelhack
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is playing a growing role across the continuum of healthcare professions education supporting both formal and informal learning. Virtual learning environments,...
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Learning subjectives – things that glisten
I’ve not got a good track record with MOOCs, I sign up for them, start a few, lurk a bit but invariably don’t finish them as I never seem to have enough time to commit to them. Last year I managed...
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John Seely Brown on entrepreneurial learners
This talk from John Seely Brown is 3 years old now but still much food for thought. Seely Brown’s book on ‘The New Lanscape of Learning‘ (co-authored with Douglas Thomas) is one that I suggest to my...
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Student created OER and FOAMed for #openeducationwk
This week is Open Education Week so it seems appropriate to share some work recently completed by one of our Year 3 Medical Students at Dundee as part of our 4-week SSC The Doctor as Digital Teacher....
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Medical art student showcase – sketchnotes, animation and 3D printing
Over the past few years at Dundee we’ve had growing opportunities to work with our colleagues in medical art and suggest project ideas to students studying the Masters programme. There have been some...
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Highlights and food for thought from #AMEE2016
Following the example set by Andrew Coggins who shared his pearls from AMEE 2016 here are some of my AMEE highlights and the things that have left me with food for thought. AMEE in Barcelona was busy...
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Having had a bit of hiatus in blogging, (it’s almost a year since I last posted!) it’s time to get blogging again and particularly so as I’ve finally made the move to get my own domain on Reclaim...
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