Social media quality in undergraduate medical education: A reconceptualisation and taxonomy. [PDF]
Abstract Background Social Media (SoMe) as a learning tool, though ubiquitous in society and popular within medical education, is often criticised as superficial. Its limitless output has been blamed for encouraging shorter attention spans and shirking in‐depth reflection. The evidence base is itself superficial and lacking rigour or meaning.
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Comparison of virtual reality and physical simulation training in first-year radiography students in South America. [PDF]
OSCE assessment results from student radiographers show a statistically significant difference exists between students trained using virtual reality (VR) simulation compared to students trained with traditional simulation. This was seen in the time to complete the OSCE, the number of movements of the X‐ray tube, the number of incorrect movements of the
Rowe D, Garcia A, Rossi B.
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Connectivism Theory in Safety and Health Education in Classical Universities
Planet Earth, humanity in general and the education system in particular, in the first quarter of the XXI century have faced a large number of problems and situations that require regulation. The use of modern technologies based on connectivism theory in
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George Siemens and Stephen Downes developed a theory for the digital age, called connectivism, denouncing boundaries of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
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Languaging Network Learning: The Emergence of Connectivism in Architectonic Thought
As technological advancements and online education transform higher education, the achievement gap among students is widening rather than closing. Critics suggest that we need to reassess the promises of online education and the connectivism or network ...
Jeremy Dennis
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Exploring creative pedagogical practices in secondary visual arts programmes in Ghana
Abstract Secondary visual arts education provides learners with opportunities to develop critical thinking, and their creative potential, as part of their personal growth. This development happens when visual arts teachers actively integrate creative pedagogies to target creative thinking in learners.
Enock Swanzy‐Impraim +3 more
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A Historical Interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy
This paper delves into AI development’s historical and philosophical dimensions while highlighting the symbiotic relationship between philosophy and AI from a technological perspective: philosophy furnishes foundational concepts, and AI supplies ...
Youheng Zhang
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African philosophy for successful integration of technology in higher education
Abstract Due partly to the multimodal and multiscalar nature of technology applications, there lacks theories to explain successful technology integration in teaching and learning in higher education. Such multidisciplinary theories developed primarily within Western contexts as behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism, connectivism, collaborationism,
Teklu Abate Bekele +2 more
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Proposing an integrated research framework for connectivism: Utilising theoretical synergies
Connectivism is receiving acknowledgement as a fresh way of conceptualising learning in the digital age. Thus, as a relatively new instructional framework, it is imperative that research on its applicability and effectiveness in a variety of educational ...
Bopelo Boitshwarelo
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Learning to work with the black box: Pedagogy for a world with artificial intelligence
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrating into our society. University education needs to maintain its relevance in an AI‐mediated world, but the higher education sector is only beginning to engage deeply with the implications of AI within society.
Margaret Bearman, Rola Ajjawi
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