Networked Learning and Network Science: Potential Applications to Health Professionals' Continuing Education and Development

Margolis, Álvaro; Parboosingh, John

doi:10.1002/chp.21295

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“…A social learning space is seen by Margolis and Parboosingh [6] as a place of 'genuine encounter among learners where they can engage their experience of practice' and the findings of this research suggest that tweetchats are a way of creating this social learning space. The results of this international Twitter focus group demonstrate that where people feel facilitated and welcomed in an online discussion forum, there is great potential for constructive change at individual, local, national and international levels that may culminate in developments that impact positively on patients, professionals and services.…”

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Physiotalk: connectedness and constructive change – a qualitative study

Thomas

McVey

Bulley

2017

European Journal of Physiotherapy

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“…This is, but also goes beyond, continuing professional development for participants. Margolis and Parboosingh [6] suggest that connections are enhanced by 'network weavers' and the facilitators during a tweetchat may be acting in this respect.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physiotalk: connectedness and constructive change – a qualitative study

Thomas

McVey

Bulley

2017

European Journal of Physiotherapy

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“…A more complete description of the social network metrics that could be used for analysis is in (Margolis and Parboosingh, 2015). In summary, at the individual level, each participant has a certain "degree centrality", referring to the number of connections the person has.…”

Section: How To Process the Network Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social learning in large online audiences of health professionals: Improving dialogue with automated tools

Margolis¹,

López-Arredondo²,

Garcia³

et al. 2019

MedEdPublish

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) bring about the opportunity to reach large international audiences of health professionals. However, change in clinical practice eventually needs social interaction, to validate the new knowledge with trusted peers, in the agreement and adoption phases of change. How can meaningful dialogue take place without scaling up expert tutoring? The extensive experience from social network applications such as Facebook or Twitter provides an opportunity to improve dialogue among peers and with experts automatically and seamlessly, as part of what is called social learning analytics (SLA). Large amounts of data about prior relationships among participants in a course-similar to Facebook and other social applications-, among participants and course materials-similar to Netflix or Amazon-, as well as natural language processing, could be obtained, and then analyzed and used to improve the educational processes and outcomes. In this paper, a series of examples with pilot uses of SLA in the context of massive online courses for physicians and other health care professionals are described. They include: 1) Forecasting of academic accomplishment. 2) Teambased face-to-face learning as part of massive online courses. 3) Analysis of existing connections, to ensure the most connected discussion groups of course participants. 4) Facebook-like dialogue with other course participants who are previously related, as well as with the Course Faculty. 5) Crowdsourcing and friendsourcing, for recommending useful study materials or future courses. 6) Natural language processing, to classify posts in online discussions. The intent of this manuscript is to create awareness in the medical education community that this type of analysis is possible and potentially useful, to receive feedback on the possible functionalities as well as critique these developments, and to create a space for collaboration in research and innovation projects with other interested

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“…Neither of them posed a problem, because they are readily available in any online platform. How to process the network information A more complete description of the social network metrics that could be used for analysis is in (Margolis and Parboosingh, 2015). In summary, at the individual level, each participant has a certain "degree centrality", referring to the number of connections the person has.…”

Section: How To Gather Network Data For Social Learning Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social learning in large online audiences of health professionals: Improving dialogue with automated tools

Margolis¹,

López-Arredondo²,

Garcia³

et al. 2019

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In reply to the reviewers' comments, the following changes were made: -References were added and the text was completed in relation to these references, particularly about communities of practice and the revolution of interaction triggered by the new information and communication technologies. -The results were summarized and the discussion was extended. -A clarification was made regarding social media in CME and the scope of the article. -A reference published in MedEdPublish about the same topic after the first version was added AbstractMassive open online courses (MOOCs) bring about the opportunity to reach large international audiences of health professionals. However, change in clinical practice eventually needs social interaction, to validate the new knowledge with trusted peers, in the agreement and adoption phases of change. How can meaningful dialogue take place without scaling up expert tutoring?The extensive experience from social network applications such as Facebook or Twitter provides an opportunity to improve dialogue among peers and with experts automatically and seamlessly, as part of what is called social learning analytics (SLA). Large amounts of data about prior relationships among participants in a course -similar to Facebook and other social applications-, among participants and course materials -similar to Netflix or Amazon -, as well as natural language processing, could be obtained, and then analyzed and used to improve the educational processes and outcomes.In this paper, a series of examples with pilot uses of SLA in the context of massive online courses for physicians and other health care professionals are described. They include: 1) Forecasting of academic accomplishment. 2) Teambased face-to-face learning as part of massive online courses. 3) Analysis of existing connections, to ensure the most connected discussion groups of course participants. 4) Facebook-like dialogue with other course participants who are previously related, as well as with the Course Faculty. 5) Crowdsourcing and friendsourcing, for recommending useful study materials or future courses. 6) Natural language processing, to classify posts in online discussions. It should be noted that the article does not address the use of Facebook or Twitter in continuing medical education (CME), but instead, the use of their approaches in CME.The intent of this manuscript is to create awareness in the medical education community that this type of analysis is possible and potentially useful, to receive feedback on the possible functionalities as well as critique these developments, and to create a space for collaboration in research and innovation projects with other interested parties.

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Networked Learning and Network Science: Potential Applications to Health Professionals' Continuing Education and Development

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Physiotalk: connectedness and constructive change – a qualitative study

Physiotalk: connectedness and constructive change – a qualitative study

Social learning in large online audiences of health professionals: Improving dialogue with automated tools

Social learning in large online audiences of health professionals: Improving dialogue with automated tools

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