Pearl Session: Do or do not: Activity in Health Education TechnologyRachel 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

practicecognition

outcome

theory

intervention

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)

Encoded, constructed, symbolic

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 TechnologyRachel Ellaway PhDNorthern Ontario School of Medicine