https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/new-courses/#health-sciences-and-technology
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/new-courses/
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-13-the-human-brain-spring-2019/
The Age of AI and Our Human Future — a technological triple threat (book review, The Financial Times)
- 'In previous eras, the most powerful strategic technologies tended to have two of three characteristics, but none had all three ... AI is clearly dual use, it can be easily developed and deployed (being in essence no more than lines of computer code) and has enormous destructive power.' - quoted from book review of The Age of AI and Our Human Future — a technological triple threat by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, in The Financial Times, by John Thornhill, available on link above, accessed online on 28 October 2021.
Neubauer, A.C. (2021). The future of intelligence research in the coming age of artificial intelligence – With a special consideration of the philosophical movements of trans- and posthumanism. Intelligence.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289621000477
García-Morales VJ, Garrido-Moreno A, Martín-Rojas R. The Transformation of Higher Education After the COVID Disruption: Emerging Challenges in an Online Learning Scenario. Front Psychol. 2021 Feb 11;12:616059. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616059. PMID: 33643144; PMCID: PMC7904694.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616059/full
https://london.ac.uk/news-opinion/london-connection/q-and-a/online-learning-post-covid-19
Ng, P.T. Timely change and timeless constants: COVID-19 and educational change in Singapore. Educ Res Policy Prac 20, 19–27 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-020-09285-3
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10671-020-09285-3
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/
Geoffrey Dick, Asli Yagmur Akbulut & Vic Matta (2020) Teaching and learning transformation in the time of the Coronavirus crisis, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 22:4, 243-255, DOI: 10.1080/15228053.2020.1861420
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228053.2020.1861420
'Technology in Health Sciences Education during COVID-19: Gains, Loses, and Transformations' - a follow up IAMSE Cafe Session conversation to 'focus session' at IAMSE 2021 on this topic
Sol Roberts-Lieb and Poh-Sun Goh
16 November 2021, 10am - 11am EST (Eastern Time - New York)
11pm - 12am Singapore Time 16 November 2021, Tuesday
The COVID-19 pandemic which is still an ever-present reality in our professional and personal lives has accelerated and transformed the adoption of Technology in Health Sciences Education.
The IAMSE Cafe Session format is an ideal opportunity for our Community of Interest (COI) and Community of Practice (COP) to informally engage with and have a deeper and wider ranging conversation on what we feel we have gained, lost, and been transformed - to share our individual experience, 'aha' moments and insights from reflection and practice, and take part in a collective sense making and even intentional design process for our future.
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Opening thoughts: to build on IAMSE 2021 session on this topic
the theme and message is still, and even more, relevant : Gains, Losses and Transformations
- we are coming to the 2 year anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic onset
- for many TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) was an enforced, default option/fallback
- whether belonging to 'haves', or 'have-nots' (less resourced - tech, bandwidth, faculty ready etc), as a community, and members of the human race, we have 'coped with', 'managed', even thrived sometimes
- lets drill down on our experiences of our IAMSE community at this IAMSE cafe session (gains, losses, transformation)
- we will also share what Sol and I have personally learnt, as well as from our wider engagement at our institutions, and through participation in faculty development at conferences and other institutions
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- clearly the EdTech 'Matthew effect' applied - for those who have more, gained more
'... Two of the most reliable findings from the history of education technology are that educators use new technologies to extend existing practices and that new technologies tend to accrue most of their benefits to already advantaged learners.' - Justin Reich, Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education (quote from Conclusion Chapter, page 236-237).
'... New Technologies can contribute (to stepwise incremental, rather than radical transformation) ... in two important ways ... the technologies themselves can aid learning ... in informal contexts or in formal settings ... stepwise ... rarely transformative .... (and) the novelty of education technologies opens space for new conversations about the practice of teaching ... ' - Justin Reich, Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education (quote from Conclusion Chapter, page 245).
https://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/matthew-effect-educational-technology
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/why-digital-poverty-deserves-greater-attention
https://news.nus.edu.sg/why-digital-poverty-deserves-greater-attention/
https://www.nus.edu.sg/newshub/news/2021/2021-10/2021-10-15/POVERTY-st-pA18-15oct.pdf
https://telmeded.blogspot.com/2020/12/tel-in-meded-during-covid-19-looking.html
- yet human ingenuity and bootstrapping worked too - working with what is at hand, and available, in less well resourced, and resourced challenged settings
- we, individually, and collectively, pushed the envelope of what is possible through use of existing tech, in our local settings
- we are now integrating hard lessons learnt in our own local practice, sharing experiences, planning for, and envisioning futures
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For me, COVID-19 has turbocharged the global widespread adoption of TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) - in majority of settings at 'emergency' engagement levels, using what is available, to reproduce existing teaching, training and learning activities, using TEL to widen access - to content and opportunities; and connect us to each other. I have been pleasantly surprised with the relative ease to build engagement and 'trust' using the live video feature of online platforms (like Zoom), with individuals and groups I have never met in person before. Literally feeling the person or groups I am interacting with are sitting opposite me in the same space (having a face to face live discussion, or cup of coffee!) - in undergraduate, postgraduate, faculty development, and even professional individual and group 'coaching' settings. Building and maintaining 'engagement' however requires much more effort online, compared with the 'effortless' live face to face interactions we have in person, where catching non-verbal cues, and reading 'the whole person' or group is much easier.
Widespread adoption of telemedicine will be a game changer (building on above).
Building the pedagogy and evidence of good practices, and rediscovering the pedagogy (and theories) of peer learning particularly in postgraduate and lifelong learning / faculty development settings in COP (Communities of Practice) using TEL is an ongoing scholarly exercise.
Widespread digitalisation of healthcare at both local small scale and system wide levels (including informed progressive use of AI), increasing adoption of wearable technology, and consumer technology (AR, VR), as well as incremental increase in use of robotics and automation; to free bandwidth for us to double down on our humanity and being human, the human connection and human touch will be transformative.
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Focus Session blog at IAMSE 2021 on this topic below
https://telmeded.blogspot.com/2021/03/technology-in-health-sciences-education.html
https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/overview-differentiation-evolutionary-steps-web/35103
https://en.itpedia.nl/2018/11/12/web-4-0-the-internet-of-things-en-ai/
Almeida, Fernando. (2017). Concept and Dimensions of Web 4.0. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY. 16. 7040-7046. 10.24297/ijct.v16i7.6446.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321366810_Concept_and_Dimensions_of_Web_40
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/goodbye-digital-age-hello-fusion-era
Further Reading for my session, before next session:
Goh, PS. 'The vision of transformation in medical education after the COVID-19 pandemic'. Korean J Med Educ. 2021;33 (3): 171-174. 2021 August 27 https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2021.197
Goh, PS. 'Medical Educator Roles of the Future'. Medical Science Educator. Online publication 30 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01086-w
Poshmaal Dhar, Tetyana Rocks, Rasika M Samarasinghe, Garth Stephenson & Craig Smith (2021) Augmented reality in medical education: students’ experiences and learning outcomes, Medical Education Online, 26:1, DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2021.1953953
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10872981.2021.1953953
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/education/mete/
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/virtual-reality-gaming-for-medical-students-in-the-time-of-pandemic/
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/nur/rapids/wbs.html
Yin, Jun Hao & Chng, Chin-Boon & Wong, Pooi-Mun & Ho, Nicholas & Chua, Matthew & Chui, Chee-Kong. (2020). VR and AR in human performance research―An NUS experience. Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. 2. 381-393. 10.1016/j.vrih.2020.07.009.
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/nursing/
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/meddnr/
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/circ/
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/cenmed/
https://www.nuh.com.sg/Pages/Home.aspx
https://www.nuhs.edu.sg/Pages/Home.aspx
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For me, COVID-19 has turbocharged the global widespread adoption of TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) - in majority of settings at 'emergency' engagement levels, using what is available, to reproduce existing teaching, training and learning activities, using TEL to widen access - to content and opportunities; and connect us to each other. I have been pleasantly surprised with the relative ease to build engagement and 'trust' using the live video feature of online platforms (like Zoom), with individuals and groups I have never met in person before. Literally feeling the person or groups I am interacting with are sitting opposite me in the same space (having a face to face live discussion, or cup of coffee!) - in undergraduate, postgraduate, faculty development, and even professional individual and group 'coaching' settings. Building and maintaining 'engagement' however requires much more effort online, compared with the 'effortless' live face to face interactions we have in person, where catching non-verbal cues, and reading 'the whole person' or group is much easier.
Widespread adoption of telemedicine will be a game changer (building on above).
Building the pedagogy and evidence of good practices, and rediscovering the pedagogy (and theories) of peer learning particularly in postgraduate and lifelong learning / faculty development settings in COP (Communities of Practice) using TEL is an ongoing scholarly exercise.
Widespread digitalisation of healthcare at both local small scale and system wide levels (including informed progressive use of AI), increasing adoption of wearable technology, and consumer technology (AR, VR), as well as incremental increase in use of robotics and automation; to free bandwidth for us to double down on our humanity and being human, the human connection and human touch will be transformative.
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Samarasekera D, Goh D, Yeo S, Ngiam N, , et al. 2020, 'Response and Lessons Learnt Managing the COVID-19 Crisis by School of Medicine, National University of Singapore', MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 92, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000092.1
Balakrishnan Ashokka, Say Yang Ong, Kwang Hui Tay, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Chen Fun Gee & Dujeepa D. Samarasekera (2020) Coordinated responses of academic medical centres to pandemics: Sustaining medical education during COVID-19, Medical Teacher, 42:7, 762-771, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1757634
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1757634
Goh P.S, Sandars J. (2020) 'A vision of the use of technology in medical education after the COVID-19 pandemic', MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 49, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000049.1
https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/2943
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-vision-of-transformation-in-medical.html
(above presented at KSME 2021, 3 June 2021)
Goh, PS. 'The vision of transformation in medical education after the COVID-19 pandemic'. Korean J Med Educ. 2021;33 (3): 171-174. Publication Date (Web): 2021 August 27
https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2021.197
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Sandars, J., Correia, R., Dankbaar, M., de Jong, P., Goh, P.S., Hege, I., Masters, K., Oh, S.Y., Patel, R., Premkumar, K., Webb, A., Pusic, M. (2020). 'Twelve tips for rapidly migrating to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic'. MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 82, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000082.1
https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/3068
This ’12 Tips’ Paper - published in MedEdPublish last year on the 29 April 2020, has been viewed over 24,000 times [24,286 times (as of 29 August 2021, 0540am, Singapore Time]. I believe that this paper has resonated with the readership of MedEdPublish, and the AMEE community of educators, because it articulates, and reflects the collective experience of a wide cross section of practitioners and ‘applied’ practice [i.e. is relevant and useful] due to the fact that the majority of each ‘tip’ is based on an existing published ’12 Tips’ paper in either Medical Teacher or MedEdPublish, and that each ‘Tip’ mentioned in this paper reflects the passion for technology enhanced learning and focused ‘real-world’ expertise of the 12 authors [who are current members of the AMEE TEL committee], their roles in active educational and training practice, as faculty developers, and in either advisory or collaborative/executive leadership roles in local and international organisational settings. Reflecting our multiple roles (of the participants in this workshop) as individuals, in groups [communities of practice and communities of interest, COP or COI], and as members of organisations - adaptive learning organisations [organisational learning] is underpinned by master adaptive ‘individual’ learners - who ‘show up’ and engage in an open, flexible, grounded and resolute manner.
Poh-Sun Goh, 29 August 2021, 0551am, Singapore Time
" ... adaptive learning organisations [organisational learning] is underpinned by master adaptive ‘individual’ learners - who ‘show up’ and engage in an open, flexible, grounded and resolute manner. " Poh-Sun Goh, 29 August 2021, 0551am, Singapore Time
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Am writing narrated 'script', and posting this online [to make most efficient use of session time], and to engage in 'Micro-Scholarship' (small chunks of open access, accessible for peer review and critique, and to build upon-add to - digital content). Poh-Sun Goh, 29 August 2021, 0602am, Singapore Time
Edje L, Price DW. Training Future Family Physicians to Become Master Adaptive Learners. Fam Med. 2021;53(7):559-566. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2021.192268.
https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2021/july-august/edje-2020-0567/
Cutrer WB, Miller B, Pusic MV, Mejicano G, Mangrulkar RS, Gruppen LD, Hawkins RE, Skochelak SE, Moore DE Jr. Fostering the Development of Master Adaptive Learners: A Conceptual Model to Guide Skill Acquisition in Medical Education. Acad Med. 2017 Jan;92(1):70-75. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001323. PMID: 27532867. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27532867/
Yvonne Steinert, David M. Irby & Diana Dolmans (2021) Reframing faculty development practice and research through the lens of adaptive expertise, Medical Teacher, 43:8, 865-867, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1931081 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2021.1931081
Pusic M, Boutis K, Cutrer W, Santen SA. How does Master Adaptive Learning ensure optimal pathways to clinical expertise? Chapter 16, pp 174-192 In: Cutrer W, Pusic MV eds. The Master Adaptive Learner, Amsterdam, NL. Elsevier Publishing Group. Nov 2019
https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-master-adaptive-learner/cutrer/978-0-323-71111-1
Major Approaches & Models of Change Management. Cleverism 2019. Available at: https://www.cleverism.com/major-approaches-models-of-change-management/. Accessed Aug 27, 2021.