How social media can change health professional education
1. How Social Media can
change Health
Professional Education
Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, MB, BCh, MPH
Academic Lead for eLearning
Institute of Medical Education, Cardiff University
19. What do
students learn
from?
Textbooks
Online content
from other
universities
Lectures
Online content
made by other
students
Tutorials YouTube
20. The problem?
Too much
content!
What is
good
quality?
What is
relevant?
21. The solution? âŚâŚ ď Curation
Social
media
Peer-reviewed
content
Student
generated
content
Curator filters and adds commentary - posts
resources to Scoopit
23. How are we using it?
CBL group pages
Case âmasterâ pages
Subject-specific pages
24. What does it take to be a good curator?
â˘Accuracy
â˘Relevance
â˘Framework
Know
subject
â˘Ease of
access
â˘Right level
Know
audience
25. What are your learners
using?
HEA Visitors and Residents Project
26.
27.
28.
29.
30. âThere is a divide between formal and informal learning.
Students navigate the dissonance between these â with or
without our support.â
Catherine Cronin
35. âTransformative
learning is not
imposed upon the
participants,
but built into the
very operating
principles and
everyday social
textures of
these activitiesâ
Engestrom 2009
http://www.helsinki.fi/cradle/documents/Engestrom
%20Publ/Wildfire%20activities%20paper.pdf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucedaley/3339957
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36. Social Production
Runaway Object
⢠Nature
of
object
Knots in mycorrhizae
⢠Locus of
agency
Negotiation and
Peer Review
⢠Co-ordinating
mechanism
Expansive swarming
engagement,
multidirectional
pulsation
⢠Mode of
Learning
38. âLearning in wildfire activities is
learning by swarming that crosses
boundaries and ties knots between
actors operating in fractured and
often poorly charted terrains.â
EngestrĂśm, Y., & Sannino, A. Studies of expansive learning:
Foundations, findings and future challenges. Educational
Research Review (2010)
39. #FOAMed as wildfire activity
Object
⢠Medical
education
Movement
⢠#FOAMed
Community
⢠Clinicians
⢠Students
⢠Educators
43. #JusticeforLB as wildfire activity
Object
⢠Support for
people with
Learning
Disabilities
Movement
⢠#JusticeforLB
Community
⢠Families
⢠Carers
⢠LD nurses
So to start. Who am I? Iâm a GP from Northern Ireland who for the last 12 years has worked in medical education in Cardiff University. My job there now involves helping my teaching colleagues, and our students, make decisions about how best to use technology in their education. Back in 2008 I went to two medical education conferences and thought wouldnât it be great if I could stay in know more about what the people who are attending this event are thinking about and reading and doing every day. I came home and started looking online and discovered that social media might be the answer.
Challenges for healthcare. We know that they will need to be collaborative- to work in teams- and able to find answers in new places. We need a global village to raise these doctors
Unfortunately, many of our students (NIs) rarely get the opportunity to learn & develop their skills for networking & networked learning within formal education.
In all our attempts to build learning platforms, to tame the wild & open web, we may be reinforcing a lesson with unintended & negative consequencesâŚ
Students must navigate the dissonance between these:
Informal / everyday / open
Formal / institutional / bounded
Our message: Donât rely on Google. Donât use Wikipedia.
Discuss in forum in VLE (which will disappear in 3 monthsâŚ)
Here are 6 videos & 12 readings to useâŚ
But the barriers to sharing this kind of local practical information are not only technical, they are more likely to be social. After all email has been around for years. If we were truly happy sharing about our practice then we would have been doing this already. Some of the reasons that we donât share our practice are concerns about who we are talking to- who is in control? Who has power? What will be the implications of sharing for how we see ourselves and how others see us?