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Chronicles of Athena: Chatty Theenie
I’m training Athena how to use Augmented and Assisted Communication tools (talk buttons!) Want to know more?
Education Research
Lessons in Course Design
By some counts (i.e. the number I list on my CV) I’ve led the design of about thirty higher education courses over the last few years. I asked Twitter what would be the most useful format for talking about those lessons . . .
This is that blog.
Education Research
The Gold Standard
This a blog about assessment and urine. I promise there’s more of a point than the punny title.
Education Research
Anything You’d Like to Share With The Class?
The first university of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference was on the 20th June and I enjoyed myself immensely. There’s lots I want to reflect on from the conference, but it will likely come in dribs and drabs. One of the ways I am trying to practice some ‘academic kindness’ Read more…
Uncategorized
Gie Us a Grant?
I’ve just submitted a little grant proposal! (Everyone go ‘woo!’) One of the things I talked about in the grant proposal was my outreach activities. I like to think of my science as quite transparent. But I am definitely less good at talking about the grant writing part of science. Read more…
Knowledge Transfer
The Finnish Lesson
For the record, I managed two whole plenaries in AMEE before I was overcome with opinions and had to blog about it. First things first, AMEE 2017, an International Association for Medical Education, has been a bit of a revelation for me. Sitting in a crowd of 3800 medical educators, Read more…
Tea Break
Purity, Application and Function: The Real Problem in Science
Science is in crisis. We’ve been hearing this from a wide range of fields, from students to professors, and perhaps most alarmingly, from two of the world’s largest democracies rejecting evidence based policy to elect anti-science policy makers. The culprit is claimed to be peer review, or badly understood Read more…
Knowledge Transfer
MOOCs as a mechanism for behavioural change
Have you always wanted to hear my opinions on MOOCs but been unable to bring yourself to search through the MOOCs tag of this blog (or read the papers, or look at Twitter, or . . . never mind). Well it’s good news for you! The Human Behavioural Change for Read more…
