All throughout the course, I feel like I have learnt so much and in many different ways. In a general way, I have learned again what it is to study and exercise my brain in a very real sense. More specifically, I have learned to engage with study materials in this day and age, as […]

For this week, we were asked to create our own data based on activities that we undertake connected to our learning, but in an analogue way. The ‘Dear Data’ project (Lupi & Posavec 2015) was an introduction to this and I really like the idea of this project and the way these two talented women […]

Big data and data analytics are an ever growing part of society, now that so much of our everyday lives take place online. They are also becoming more commonplace in education, which has become more ‘digitised and datafied’ (Williamson 2017). This week, the articles we have been reading are around learning analytics, which is described […]

‘Digitising’ and ‘Datafying’ (Williamson 2017) are becoming more commonplace in society and education; they work together and strengthen each other. The use of digital learning creates opportunities for data to be mined which then leads to the use of the data or ‘datafication’ which can then be imported into the e-learning systems. It is quite […]

We were asked to get involved with Twitter this week and to answer questions that the tutors posted using the tweet #mcsidel. I found this an interesting way of teaching and learning which was slightly challenging, being a novice to Twitter myself. I managed to reply to the incorrect person only once though and forgot […]

During this weeks’ reading about Big Data and ‘datafication’ (Williamson 2017) of education, this episode of Doctor Who where a businessman named John Lumic uses data he has collected in technology to take control of all of  London sprang to mind. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/196176   “The human race, for such an intelligent lot, you aren’t half susceptible! […]

Before this week, I was not familiar with badges being used for online education and after the reading we have done and looking into the badge for ‘Taking your Teaching Online’ on the Open Learn Courses from the Open University, I have not warmed to the idea. As a runner, I have an account on […]

Open Learn Courses from the Open University, has quite a few courses which are awarded by a badge once completed. The course I looked at was ‘Taking your teaching online’ which aims to help teachers with the transition to online teaching. The article by Ahn et al. (2014) looks at badges and their relation to […]

One of the newer things that we have been doing with our learners at the CEP is using reality televisions as a tool for learning. There are a surprising amount of (reality) TV shows that involve medics and the clinical environment. Some use has also been made of dramatized medical TV, but the use of […]

The Clinical Educator Programme (CEP) that I work for has undergone quite a few changes in the last year or so and not all of these are directly related to the current pandemic. The Programme provides CPD and is an open and free resource for those clinical teachers that teach in the South East of […]