Writing About Writing
-
Khan Academy, Medical Ed, and Patient Engagement #ICRE2014 #MEDX
Read more: Khan Academy, Medical Ed, and Patient Engagement #ICRE2014 #MEDXOne of the things needed for successful patient engagement is education. Patients need to understand various aspects of their medical condition and system in order to be engaged patients. Today, I was reminded of the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), as many tweets crossed my twitter stream. I then was surprised to learn that…
-
Why I continue to participate even though I’m failing the assessments #medx
Read more: Why I continue to participate even though I’m failing the assessments #medxFor those of you who are following along, you will see that I have been making weekly posts about the content of the Patient Engagement Design MOOC. What you may not know is that I’m failing the assessments. I attribute this to two things: (1) the assessments are poorly designed, and (2) I don’t agree…
-
Participatory Research – what it’s really about #medx
Read more: Participatory Research – what it’s really about #medx“the key element of participatory research lies not in the methods but in the attitudes of researchers, which in turn determine how, by and for whom research is conceptualized” (Cornwall & Jewkes, 1995, p. 1667). This week in the MedX course Patient Engagement Design, we are talking about participatory research – or at least that…
-
The neuroscience of engagement – my chemo/exercise Ulysses contract #medx
Read more: The neuroscience of engagement – my chemo/exercise Ulysses contract #medxThis weeks presentation in the Patient Engagement course was on the neuroscience of patient engagement. I really liked how the presenter – David Eagleman provided a concrete tool to support patient engagement. Through this course, I’m learning that for at some people, patient engagement equals patient compliance – that is, patient engagement is being equated with patients…
-
Making it social – exploring gendered motivations #medx
Read more: Making it social – exploring gendered motivations #medxIn this weeks presentation in the MedX course “Patient Engagement Design” Dennis Boyle from IDEO gave a brief presentation on designing tips for patient engagement. Unfortunately, the video clip does not appear to be available outside of the course shell – so I cannot link to it directly in this post. You can see the…
-
Starting with the wrong school of psychology – why patient engagement shouldn’t begin with behaviourist theories – #medx
Read more: Starting with the wrong school of psychology – why patient engagement shouldn’t begin with behaviourist theories – #medxThis week’s topic for discussion on the Patient Engagement Design MOOC began with a presentation by a patient that discussed that from a patient perspective, that level of engagement varies. I really liked how Dana Lewis (the patient) used Maslov’s hierarchy of needs as a way to present patient needs. When an issue is life…
-
Patient engagement – what type of problem is it? #medx
Read more: Patient engagement – what type of problem is it? #medxIn looking at the topics for the Patient Engagement Design course, one sees patient engagement as a design problem, a cognitive psychology problem (study of motivation more specifically), a behaviour change problem, and a measurement problem. However, that isn’t how I see patient engagement. Upon reflecting on it, I immediately saw it as an education problem…
-
My thoughts on patient engagement definitions – #medx
Read more: My thoughts on patient engagement definitions – #medxI’ve been thinking about how I will be blogging as I work through the Patient Engagement Design MOOC. I’ll be posting on this blog my general comments on the MOOC, and my feedback on the MOOC itself as I progress through it. I will be blogging at http://bcbecky.com my specific experience as a patient that is undergoing…
-
Branching out – a MOOC on a completely different topic
Read more: Branching out – a MOOC on a completely different topicThe other day I saw a MOOC advert cross my twitter stream – a MOOC on Patient Engagement Design. Interestingly enough its put on by the folks at Stanford Medicine (OK, that is probably why it crossed my Twitter stream – cause I follow Stanford Medicine). When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, I…
-
Is it time to stop calling cMOOCs MOOCs?
Read more: Is it time to stop calling cMOOCs MOOCs?OK, so this post may already be late – as I noticed in a post by Maha Bali today that she referred to rhizo14 not as a cMOOC but rather as a ‘connected course’. This morning, before seeing her post I had jotted down a ‘note to self’ regarding this post, commenting that perhaps it…
-
Part 1: Epistemological Mismatch – Why you shouldn’t do Educational Design Research (EDR/DBR)
Read more: Part 1: Epistemological Mismatch – Why you shouldn’t do Educational Design Research (EDR/DBR)There is a lot of literature out there now, and some great examples, and even a textbook, of how to do Educational Design Research (EDR), otherwise known as Design-Based Research (DBR) as a PhD Study. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to talk to you about why you should not be doing EDR.…
-
Reclaim hosting review
Read more: Reclaim hosting review[Update – Sept 16, 2014 – Reclaim Hosting has changed their automated backups to use a different server, such that your backups are no longer counted in your quota! This is an example of the awesome level of customer support they provide – although I still say, if you are using a lot of photos,…
-
Helping grad students succeed #rhizo #ccontect
Read more: Helping grad students succeed #rhizo #ccontectIn the #rhizo community, a struggling masters student asked for some help today. Now my life has been a little crazy lately, and I have hardly spend time focusing on things that were non-essential to either my survival (I am a breast cancer warrior) or just getting my academic and professional lives back on track. But…
-
Can a PhD (in Education) be about creating something?
Read more: Can a PhD (in Education) be about creating something?I’m just wondering, can a PhD in education be about building something? If not, is there another field where a PhD is about building things? Creating things that were not there before? Rather than about analyzing things that already exist? I guess I’m just trying to explore the different ideas, and trying to figure out…
-
Pondering the PhD
Read more: Pondering the PhDWhen I was diagnosed with breast cancer, one of my first decisions was to put my PhD on hold. I had the opportunity to take a one year (maybe longer) leave of absence in the program (that is, to stop the clock). This was a pretty clear decision as my data collection was not complete, and…
-
‘the curriculum has become the community’ #rhizo14
Read more: ‘the curriculum has become the community’ #rhizo14When asked ‘what is the difference between #rhizo14 and other MOOCs’, I’m reminded of the community. A phrase that has been used for the ‘course’ is “the community is the curriculum”. Some rhizoers don’t necessarily feel like what we have is community, but I certainly do. Two weeks ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer…
-
An xMOOC measure I’d like to see – $/student #MOOC
Read more: An xMOOC measure I’d like to see – $/student #MOOCReading Jonathan Rees’ latest rant about MOOCs “MOOCs and the promise of higher education“, a new measure of effectiveness occurred to me. I totally disagree with Jonathan’s comments about a need for a denominator. MOOCs are such that I don’t think the number of students who initially sign up is a measure of anything, except…
-
Does Ed Tech have a ‘man problem’ too?
Read more: Does Ed Tech have a ‘man problem’ too?A New York Times article ‘Technology’s Man Problem’ cross my stream today. As a women with a computer science degree who used to work in telecommunications (verification analyst, post-sales engineering, and product management), I found it depressing to hear stories of it being worse than it was 15 years ago when that was my primary…
-
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should have a Domain of One’s Own
Read more: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should have a Domain of One’s OwnJim Groom’s experiment with Domain of One’s Own crosses my RSS feeds and Twitter stream regularly. I agree with the empowerment of students to create their own spaces on the web, but I find myself wondering if it is a good idea to set people free to create stuff on the Internet without first educating…
-
When teaching online doesn’t mean ‘at a distance’
Read more: When teaching online doesn’t mean ‘at a distance’I was introduced to the study of education through an online masters degree. My masters was an excellent program, and as such, it has set my context for what good Masters level online education should look like. When I have had the opportunity to design and teach online courses, I took many of the lessons…
-
What digital literacy skills do adjuncts need? #adjunctchat
Read more: What digital literacy skills do adjuncts need? #adjunctchatTomorrow (Tuesday, 4 pm EDT) I will be hosting a twitter discussion at #adjunctchat. #AdjunctChat is a weekly gathering of adjunct, contingent, part-time, visiting, and non-tenure track instructors, along with their supporters and allies, in higher education (see http://adjunctchat.wordpress.com/about/). This week, we shall be discussing “What digital literacy skills do adjuncts need?” The discussion will be built…
-
Preliminary Report on My Hour of Code Experiment
Read more: Preliminary Report on My Hour of Code ExperimentThis is a preliminary report on my Hour of Code experiment. I am exploring the option of a formal evaluation of the entire EDU 5287 Emerging Technologies and Learning course. If I get approval to complete the evaluation, and ethics approval for the research, I shall update this post with more detailed learner reflections and…
-
Creating Living Curriculum #ccme14 #dcm
Read more: Creating Living Curriculum #ccme14 #dcmToday I attended a session entitled “Does Curriculum Matter?” Unfortunately, the panel was asked the wrong question – as there were too much agreement. A better question would have been “how do we effectively create/manage curriculum?” or “how do we create living curriculum?” As an eLearning developer, I have been involved in several projects to…
-
What digital literacies do physicians need? #ccme14
Read more: What digital literacies do physicians need? #ccme14View the story “What digital literacies do physicians need? #ccme14” on Storify
-
Universal Design – Lowest Common Denominator Education 🙁
Read more: Universal Design – Lowest Common Denominator Education 🙁I recently watched a TED talk (Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore by Leyla Arcaroglu – Note if you watch this, she is missing an important part of the equation – people like plastic more than paper, so they are less likely to use re-usable if they have plastic as an option – if…
-
Rhizomatic learning and connectivism #rhizo14
Read more: Rhizomatic learning and connectivism #rhizo14There has been much reflection of late within the #rhizo community about the connection between rhizomatic learning and connectivism. So, to that end this post was inspired by Keith Hamon’s post – not that I actually read his post before writing this, just that his opening sentence caused me to reflection on the connection between…
-
At the intersection of academia and practice
Read more: At the intersection of academia and practiceI’ve been reflecting on where am I am and where I want to be. I’ve gone to several conferences lately, in hopes of finding my place and finding my tribe. More and more, I am discovering that I am at the intersection – neither in nor out. I stand in the middle of the academic…
-
Where are the real Ed Tech Academics? #et4online
Read more: Where are the real Ed Tech Academics? #et4onlineI came to the Sloan Consortium – Emerging Technologies for Online Learning (#et4online) conference hoping to find some clarity in where I might go with my career after I complete my PhD. Being a little disillusioned about tenure track faculty positions (seeing an Ed Tech Assistant Professor job listed for $50,000 per year did not…
-
Teaching Teachers to use Tablet Computers: Creating an Effective Faculty Development Program
Read more: Teaching Teachers to use Tablet Computers: Creating an Effective Faculty Development ProgramNext week I'll be presenting at the Sloan Constorium Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium. I'll be talking about a faculty development program that I've been working on as part of my research. I'm not sure the slides make much sense without the presentation – but for those who are virtual attendees, this presentation is…
-
Permission to play, an age-old problem?
Read more: Permission to play, an age-old problem?In working on my thesis project, I have been contemplating the theories behind technology teaching and learning. It does not take long to come across the whole idea of the "net generation" and "digital natives". Concepts that have since been debunked in the literature, but are still rather prevalent in the discourses of practitioners and…
-
The value of blogging and MOOCs
Read more: The value of blogging and MOOCsRecently, one of my students wishing to continue a discussion on the value of educational blogging asked this question: Yesterday, I had a patient who happens to be a professor in English Literature from Cape Breton University. He was reading Hunger Games, as his specialty is in teenagers literature.He is planning to include this book…
-
Using APA to write about technology
Read more: Using APA to write about technologyStorify by Rebecca Hogue Sat, Mar 01 2014 17:45:03 Using APA to write about technology I created this Storify after marking a bunch of papers written by MA and M.Ed students to help them write better. Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin…
-
A framework for describing MOOCs
Read more: A framework for describing MOOCsI am working on an article that provides a framework for describing MOOCs. I was inspired to do this after reading several case studies that failed to adequately describe the context for the MOOC in which they were reporting. As an instructional designer and educational researcher, I need to understand the full context of the…
-
Educational Design Research, PhD Proposals, and Ethics
Read more: Educational Design Research, PhD Proposals, and EthicsIn a chat today, I was asked about ethical approval and writing an educational design research proposal. The concern was around doing interviews before receiving ethics approval. Generally, we are told that we cannot do this, however, it is not possible to write a research proposal for participatory research (and educational design research is definitely…
-
Microsoft Word Tutorials
Read more: Microsoft Word TutorialsOver the last few years I've created a series of tutorials on how to use Microsoft Word. If you are an academic writer and you don't know about Styles yet or how to manage complex page layouts, you really need to take a look at some of these tutorials! To make it easier for you, I've…
-
My “hour of code” experiment
Read more: My “hour of code” experimentStorify by Rebecca Hogue Mon, Jan 20 2014 22:31:58 My "hour of code" experiment The availability of some great activities have encouraged me to incorporate "an hour of code" into my Education Graduate course "Emerging Technologies and Learning" Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin…
-
Finding Stuff on the Internet – Effective Searching
Read more: Finding Stuff on the Internet – Effective SearchingStorify by Rebecca Hogue Mon, Jan 13 2014 18:12:16 Finding Stuff on the Internet – Effective Searching In considering digital literacies, I think one key literacy is the ability to effectively find stuff on the Internet. So this Storify is a collection of resources to help us find stuff on the Internet.…
-
YouTube is your friend
Read more: YouTube is your friendOften, when a question comes up, one of the expressions we use is "Google is your friend" meaning that you can find the answer by searching on Google. In yesterday's post by Clouducation "For these kids, YouTube is Google…", the author comments that this generation is turning to YouTube to learn "how" to do things.…
-
A surprise outcome which reminds me why I love teaching
Read more: A surprise outcome which reminds me why I love teachingFriday I taught the only face-to-face class in my Emerging Technologies and Learning course. The remainder of the course is online; however, I will likely offer a few face-to-face tutorials for those students who want a little extra coaching with new technologies. The three hour class included introductions and an overview of the course material.…
-
Simulation as a Learning Tool
Read more: Simulation as a Learning ToolStorify by Rebecca Hogue Tue, Jan 07 2014 06:05:56 Simulation as a Learning Tool Simulation is the use of imitation of real-world activities. Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin Share by email Simulation is often used in Health Professions education (Nursing and Medicine in…
-
Personal Learning Networks/Environments (PLN/PLE)
Read more: Personal Learning Networks/Environments (PLN/PLE)Storify by Rebecca Hogue Mon, Jan 06 2014 18:22:38 Personal Learning Networks/Environments (PLN/PLE) Personal learning networks (PLNs) represent an emerging technology in education. Closely related is the concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) which represents the technology that supports PLNs. Add to story or collection Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest…
-
Gamification and ‘Serious Games’
Read more: Gamification and ‘Serious Games’My next Storify in my series on ‘big ideas’ in Emerging Technologies for Education. Storify by Rebecca Hogue Sun, Jan 05 2014 17:34:56 Gamification and 'Serious Games' Gamification as a 'big idea' in Emerging Technologies for Learning. This storify is part of a series on 'big ideas' in Emerging Technologies. Add to story…
-
MOOCs as a ‘big idea’ in Emerging Technologies in Education
Read more: MOOCs as a ‘big idea’ in Emerging Technologies in EducationI've decided to try out Storify as a way to capture some key news and concepts relating to 'big ideas' for the Emerging Technologies in Learning class that I'm teaching this semester. This is the first in my series. I'm finding the process quite enjoyable – it is making it easy to capture and share my thoughts…
-
My 2013 Digital Footprint
Read more: My 2013 Digital FootprintIn a discussion thread from the #wweopen13 MOOC (the Facebook discussion is still active), Penny (thanks) pointed out a fun app – http://www.tagxedo.com/. It is similar to Wordl, but it puts the words into shapes. With one of the shapes being a foot, I felt I just had to take all my blog posts from 2013…
-
Adjuncts – an alternate discourse #phdchat
Read more: Adjuncts – an alternate discourse #phdchatIt seems that almost daily there is another report in the higher education news about the horrid working conditions of the adjunct professor. We hear of poor pay, no benefits, and no job security. Today's post was from the Atlantic, reporting that this is the "Worst Time of Year to be an Adjunct". I expected…
-
Impostor in the room #mri13
Read more: Impostor in the room #mri13Last week I attended an amazing conference – the MOOC Research Initiative in Arlington Texas. Unlike the AACE eLearn MOOC symposium, I felt a little out of place at this conference. At the AACE symposium, most of the attendees were new to MOOCs. The focus was very much on the Americanization of MOOCs (the xMOOC).…
-
Confessions of a Conference Junkie #phdchat
Read more: Confessions of a Conference Junkie #phdchatI have to confess, I really enjoy presenting at and attending academic conferences. My first conference as a PhD student was in October 2011. A paper that I co-authored was accepted to IAMLEARN's mLearn conference in Beijing. Our paper was scheduled for presentation on the first day of the conference in the very first time…
-
Going Mobile: Part 4 Apps
Read more: Going Mobile: Part 4 AppsOn mobile devices, the term used to describe the software applications that run on the devices is apps. Apps that run on mobile devices can be divided into two categories: (1) native apps and (2) web apps. In addition, apps can work in conjunction with special websites to provide a Cloud-based service. Native Apps Native…
-
Going Mobile: Part 3 Mobile Ecosystems
Read more: Going Mobile: Part 3 Mobile EcosystemsEcosystem refers to the combination of hardware, operating system, and application purchasing method. There are currently four common mobile ecosystems: Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows. By far, the two most common are Apple and Android. The images below describe the different components of the Apple and Android ecosystems. Choosing an ecosystem – For organizations The two…
-
Going Mobile: Part 2 Mobile Architecture
Read more: Going Mobile: Part 2 Mobile ArchitectureThis is a very high level view of the architecture of mobile devices, intended to help you better understand how mobile devices work. It isn't a technically detailed overview, and as such, I am not presenting the OSI model as it applies to mobile devices. This is intended to be just-enough to help those interested…
