Upcoming Workshops on Micro-Scholarship

IAMSE 2022

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Virtual Pre-Conference workshop

Sunday, 22 May 2022, 12:00 - 15:00

https://julnet.swoogo.com/iamse2022/agenda

Micro-Scholarship as the 'missing piece' in a successful Scholar's Journey

Poh-Sun Goh and Sol Roberts-Lieb

1· Purpose: This workshop will focus on 'Micro-Scholarship', the small, doable, cumulative regular steps in a Scholar's journey, made 'visible' using open access digital platforms (like Blogger), to allow and facilitate peer review, and engagement with, by a community of Practice (COP); as the 'missing piece' in our faculty development efforts to support and promote more widespread successful Scholarship in Health Science and Medical Education. This workshop will explore accepted theoretical frameworks and metrics of Scholarship, (specifically applied to appointment, promotion and tenure decisions in academic settings), review successful case studies, and offer hands-on exercises to digitally document, display and disseminate our 'Micro-Scholarship' steps, to cumulatively stack up to a successful Scholar's journey. We will focus on simple, practical (micro) steps that participants can apply immediately, applying theory to actual practice.

2· Goals

o Introduce the concept of Micro-Scholarship to participants

o Introduce technology platforms and use for Micro-Scholarship

o Provide theoretical frameworks and resources to support the use of Micro-Scholarship.

o Provide step by step instructions to progress from idea to publication

o Help participants create a community of practice either through other participants or locally to promote Micro-Scholarship.

3. Timeliness and significance to the field

o The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused what many are calling the “lost year” for scholarship. While many large scale bench research projects have been on hold, there is a wealth of Micro-Scholarship available. This workshop will help participants capitalize on what they are already doing and provide ways to ‘publish’ this scholarship.

o Many faculty are also new to medical education scholarship.

Micro-Scholarship provides a lower bar to entry than a large scale project. This helps faculty find ways to use the work they are already doing to begin working in the field.

4· Workshop description including teaching methods and timeline for educational activities

o Health Sciences Education is ripe for Scholarship, but how do you get started? This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of Micro-Scholarship and technology platforms to share and promote their work.

The workshop will cover scholarship-based frameworks to help you brainstorm your ideas as well as step-by-step instructions on how to move from idea to dissemination and publication. Participants will work in individual, small groups, and large group sessions to explore technology platforms, look at scholarship frameworks, and understand the idea of Micro-Scholarship.

o Approximate Timeline

§ Part I – Micro-Scholarship

· Introduction to Micro-Scholarship – 20 min ➡ What is Micro-Scholarship? ⬅ and then ➡ Why (engage in) Micro-Scholarship? (for all), At its core, the heart of, and central practice of Micro-Scholarship 'is', and embraces all facets and categories of traditional "Scholarship' - including Discovery, Creation and Innovation - through iterative, cumulative small steps - experiments, prototypes, early drafts and thinking; through Integration - of existing work, both intra-disciplinary, and cross-dispciplinary or multi-disciplinary; Application (the Scholarship of) and Practice (including transfer to Practice, the Scholarship of Teaching and Training, or At its core - Micro-Scholarship incorporates 'all' the categories of traditional 'Scholarship', in essence Finding and discovering your (unique) voice, developing and refining this through public reflective (digital) practice, engaging a Community of Practice and Interest, through Micro-Scholarship, for this digital age Micro-Scholarship is an activity for this digital age, acknowledging and anchored on digital learning, digital reflection and digital conversations and engagement, amplifying these through digital practice, and aligning this to expression and exhibition of professional knowledge and skills as digital artefacts, output, and Scholarship, why Scholarship (and why Teach) Teaching (and training) others makes us better practitioners, deepens our own learning; (engaging in Micro-)Scholarship takes us further, providing deeper insights into (the Scholarship of) Practice, (Teaching), Application, Integration (of knowledge), Discovery (Creating and innovating 'new' knowledge), Scholarship and Learning are similar (processes) (fully) engaging in Scholarship 'is' engaging in learning, and a mastery training process, with Micro-Scholarship as the small, cumulative steps or the Categories of Scholarship encompass the processes of deep learning and mastering practice, ➡ Micro-Scholarship - choice of technology tools and platforms - Content, Own your work, Progress from Private to Public and Content, Core - Show (it), Say (it) - Text, Illustrations, Audio and Video - focus on granularity, modularity, reusability, ➡ See (one), Do (one), Teach (one) … Write (‘do’ Scholarship .. then ‘be’ a Scholar .. then) Teach (again), or (Micro-)Scholarship as the path to becoming an Expert and Mastery ⇨ ➡ Translating or transferring learning to practice through (Micro-)Scholarship, 👉 Example of implementing and 'doing' Micro-Scholarship during TeL in MedEd Workshop @ CenMED NUS 2022, accessible here TeL in MedEd Workshop @ CenMED NUS 2022, ➡ 👉 (engaging in) Micro-Scholarship produces better Scholarship, 👉 (engaging in) Micro-Scholarship refines the ingredients, and components making up Scholarship, 👉 (engaging in ) Micro-Scholarship deepens insights into practice, 👉 (engaging in) Micro-Scholarship deepens learning, 👉 (engaging in) Micro-Scholarship produces better Scholarship, Practice and Learning, 👉 (engaging in) Micro-Scholarship leads to better Scholarship, Practice and Learning, ➡ ↠ ⇾ ↠ ➡ At the core, the beating heart, of Micro-Scholarship is a Design Thinking, Action Research, process, 👉 At the core, the beating heart, of Micro-Scholarship is a Design Thinking, Action Research, process - attuned to user needs, usability, rapid prototyping, and iterative improvement, 👉 At the core, the beating heart, of Micro-Scholarship is a Design Thinking, Action Research, process - attuned to user needs, usability (testing), rapid prototyping, and iterative improvement - user(s) = audience = (members of a) CoP and CoI (Community of Practice and Interest), (rapid) prototype(s) = 'Micro-Assets', with 'Micro-Learning' = reflection (on and in practice), and 'Micro-Practice' = open (digital) activities and practices, ⬅ ☆, 👉 Practice (Performance/Teaching, Publishing/the Process of) makes Perfect(s) [Practice], 👉👉Practice (Performance/Teaching, Publishing/the Process of getting Published) makes Perfect(s) [Practice], ➡ Practice makes Perfect, Performance motivates Practice, Publishing (Process of getting Published) improves Practices, ➡ The Learning and Training Process to achieve Proficiency aspiring and aiming toward Mastery is similar to the process of (Micro-)Scholarship (Show, [use]TeL, Do, Share, Write), ➡ Task, Tech, Teach, Try, Transfer (Show, [use] TeL, Do, Share, Write)

· Individual Time – Brainstorm Micro-Scholarship – 5 min

· Small Group – Brainstorm and share Micro-Scholarship – 20 min

· Large Group – Share Micro-Scholarship Ideas – 15 min

§ Part II – Technology Platforms

· Introduction to Technology Platforms – 20 min ➡ Task, Tech, Teach, Try, Transfer (Show, [use] TeL, Do, Share, Write) or Why ('Jobs to be Done' - Clay Christensen) before What and How i.e. identify Why (Job), and then, and only then select (look for) available, accessible, usable (easy to use), familiar Tech (the What) and use this (the How)

· Individual Time – Explore one platform – 5 min Note-Taking App then (take) Screenshot of this to share on Instagram or engage in further conversations within a CoP on private messaging (e.g. WhatsApp #1 anonymised generic generalisable idea example and WhatsApp #2 anonymised generic generalisable idea example), email (anonymised generic generalisable idea example), online forums (e.g. MicroSoft Teams), or in public (e.g. on SlideShare then Combining SlideShare with Email [or WhatsApp] or Instagram, Blogger, Padlet etc.)

· Small Group – Share insight on the platforms. (Each group member will have a different platform) – 20 min

· Large Group – Share technology platforms – 15 min

§ Part III – Idea to Dissemination and Publication

· From Idea to Dissemination and Publication – 20 minutes

· Small Group – Explore and expand Micro-Scholarship ideas based on technology platform and need – 30 minutes

· Connecting Participants for Optional Community of Practice – 5 minutes

· Closing Thoughts – 5 min

o Teaching Methods

§ Didactic, small group, large group, individual time, audience response system, web resources (blog,

handouts), online collaboration document to form community of practice.

AMEE 2022

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Pre-conference workshop

Micro-Scholarship: An innovative approach to the Scholarship of being a Medical Educator

Poh-Sun Goh, Sol Roberts-Lieb, and John Sandars

Background

This AMEE Technology Enhanced Learning Committee’s workshop has a focus on Micro-Scholarship, which provides an innovative and proactive approach to the development and presentation of medical educator scholarship. The core feature is the small step-by-step processes to create, collect and collate, and share a wide variety of content. Specific content can be presented as evidence of scholarship and subjected to open peer review. An essential aspect of Micro-Scholarship is reflection and meta-reflection with active engagement in a community of practice. The use of technology, including blogs and social media, can greatly enhance all the activities associated with Micro-Scholarship.

This workshop will provide participants with the theoretical background of Micro-Scholarship, the process and potential use of a wide variety of technologies for Micro-Scholarship, and an opportunity to actively plan how they can develop and present their own scholarship of being a medical educator. In addition, participants will develop their approach to meta-reflection and identify supportive communities of practice and mentors.

Who Should Participate

All who are interested in exploring Micro-Scholarship for medical educators

Structure Of Workshop

The workshop will be arranged in four parts with a brief introduction and small group activities.

Part I – What is Micro-Scholarship?

Part 2 – The choice of Technology

Part 3 – The challenges of Micro-Scholarship

Part 4 - Planning to implement Micro-Scholarship

Intended Outcomes

By the end of the session, participants will:

Have an increased awareness of the process and outcomes of Micro-Scholarship

Critically choose technologies for Micro-Scholarship

Develop meta-reflection skills for Micro-Scholarship

Identify appropriate communities of practice and mentors for Micro-Scholarship

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