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Pearl Session: Do or do not: Activity in Health Education Technology. Rachel Ellaway PhD Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Helterskelter. What’s the most important part?. Helterskelter. What’s the most important part ? Design? Structural integrity? Cost? Decoration? Business case?.
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Pearl Session: Do or do not: Activity in Health Education Technology Rachel Ellaway PhDNorthern Ontario School of Medicine
Helterskelter • What’s the most important part?
Helterskelter • What’s the most important part? • Design? • Structural integrity? • Cost? • Decoration? • Business case?
Activity is • The things we do • Active and deliberate behaviour • In philosophy: agents with beliefs, desires, intentions engaging in behaviours • Complex, contested, useful, apparent?
Paying attention • As health professional educators we tend to be concerned with outcomes, competence and expertise and the business of running complex educational programs • Activity abstracted, disregarded
Black boxes outcome intervention practice cognition theory
Where is activity in ed-tech? • Teachers often don’t think about what they and their learners do • There is often little regard in med-ed as a whole given to what learners and teachers actually do can do (affordance) vs should do (instruction)
Educational technology • Actions – click, select • Infrastructure • Information management • Beyond these aspects? • Are we only engineers who leave once it’s built?
Activity and MedBiq • What is the role of activity in the work of the MedBiquitous community? • Activity Report: compile and exchange CE/MoC data • Medical Education Metrics: messaging of CE data • Virtual Patient: online simulation activity triggers
Questions for you • What aspects of your work involve designing or supporting activities? • What are your main challenges in working with activity and technology? • What role should activity design play in standards development?
Questions for you • What aspects of your work involve designing or supporting activities? • What are your main challenges in working with activity and technology? • What role should activity design play in standards development?
Questions for you • What aspects of your work involve designing or supporting activities? • What are your main challenges in working with activity and technology? • What role should activity design play in standards development?
Pearl Session: Do or do not: Activity in Health Education Technology Rachel Ellaway PhDNorthern Ontario School of Medicine