posting by Terrie Lynn Thompson & Cathy Adams Digital technologies have been catalyzing a seemingly endless series of shifts and adjustments to our professional and personal worlds. Few are immune. Educators grapple with one-to-one laptop classrooms, mobile learning, and learning analytics. Healthcare professionals depend on an increasingly vast… Read more →
Simulation pedagogies are uncanny. For centuries, medical students, nurses and midwives have learned about caring for the humans by studying with an uncanny double of the human body: simulated bodies that replicate the human form in wood, stone, ivory, wax, cloth or plastic. Recently, however, the focus on simulated learning in healthcare professions is placed on making the simulated scenario… Read more →
Monika Nerland is a keynote speaker at the upcoming ProPEL conference. The title of the 2017 conference is Professional practice, learning and education: social and material entanglements. In this blog posting, Monika draws on social and material engagements with “paper work” and texts within professional work, to invite readers to expand conceptions of how one studies and questions the… Read more →