{"id":3466,"date":"2021-06-24T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/CESI\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:46:22","slug":"learning-and-teaching-conference-2021-enhancing-the-student-experience-and-supporting-staff-the-creation-of-a-digital-medical-education-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/learning-and-teaching-conference-2021-enhancing-the-student-experience-and-supporting-staff-the-creation-of-a-digital-medical-education-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning and Teaching Conference 2021- Enhancing the student experience and supporting staff: The creation of a Digital Medical Education Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated efforts to establish a comprehensive digital education strategy across the sector. At Cardiff University, the abrupt shift to remote learning has resulted in a university-wide restructuring of our technological support infrastructure. The School of Medicine\u2019s Learning Technology Unit (LTU) has been instrumental in overseeing the provision of e-learning across programmes, particularly postgraduate courses. Given pandemic-related pressures placed on the LTU over the past 16 months, a group of academics within the School of Medicine took the initiative to create and formalise a Centre for Medical Education (C4ME) Digital Education Group.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group, chaired by Dr Athanasios Hassoulas, has been recognised for the support that it has offered to students and staff over the past year. Specifically, a series of workshops were hosted to support staff with the transition to remote teaching and blended learning. Student digital education representatives were also recruited to collate data on the student body\u2019s experiences during the pandemic and to liaise with the group in addressing issues that students encountered, in an effort to enhance the individual as well as collective learning experience. The group has since formed two operational sub-groups a) a student C4ME Digital Education arm, and b) a Junior Doctors arm responsible for contributing to the School\u2019s bank of e-learning resources.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Dr Athanasios Hassoulas and Prof Marcus Coffey have initiated a number of international digital education collaborations, evidencing the group\u2019s emerging international reputation as a leader in digital medical education. Recent developments have highlighted the need for a new Centre for Digital Medical Education (C4DiMEd), overseeing e-learning provisions across all institutes and programmes within MEDIC and supporting the emerging international partnerships. Furthermore, the Centre is proposed to liaise directly with the Centre for Education Support and Innovation (CESI) in ensuring that the C4DiMEd initiatives align the university\u2019s overall digital education strategy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Athanasios Hassoulas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Athanasios Hassoulas and Marcus Coffey will be presenting the work undertaken by the C4ME Dig Ed Group during the pandemic at the Learning and Teaching Conference. At 16:05 on the 1 of July, their talk is entitled \u2018Levelling the virtual playing field: C4ME Digital Education initiatives to support students and staff\u2019<\/em>. They will also be hosting a Pecha Kucha session at 10:20 on the 2nd<\/sup> of July, entitled \u2018The Centre for Medical Education\u2019s Digital Education Strategy: Developing a MEDIC Digital Education Hub\u2019.<\/em> \u00a0Register for the conference <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mae pandemig COVID-19 wedi cyflymu ymdrechion ar draws y sector i sefydlu strategaeth addysg ddigidol gynhwysfawr. Ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, mae’r newid sydyn i ddysgu o bell wedi arwain at ailstrwythuro ein seilwaith cymorth technolegol ledled y brifysgol. Mae Uned Technoleg Ddysgu (LTU) yr Ysgol Meddygaeth wedi bod yn allweddol wrth oruchwylio darpariaeth e-ddysgu ar draws rhaglenni, yn enwedig cyrsiau \u00f4l-raddedig. Oherwydd pwysau o ganlyniad i\u2019r pandemig ar yr LTU dros yr 16 mis diwethaf, penderfynodd gr\u0175p o academyddion yn yr Ysgol Meddygaeth greu Gr\u0175p Addysg Ddigidol y Ganolfan Addysg Feddygol (C4ME).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mae’r gr\u0175p, dan gadeiryddiaeth Dr Athanasios Hassoulas, wedi cael ei gydnabod am y gefnogaeth y mae wedi’i chynnig i fyfyrwyr a staff yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf. Yn benodol, cynhaliwyd cyfres o weithdai i gynorthwyo staff gyda’r pontio i addysgu o bell a dysgu cyfunol. Recriwtiwyd cynrychiolwyr myfyrwyr addysg ddigidol hefyd i goladu data ar brofiadau myfyrwyr yn ystod y pandemig. Bu\u2019r rhain yn cysylltu \u00e2’r gr\u0175p i fynd i’r afael \u00e2 materion y daeth myfyrwyr ar eu traws, mewn ymdrech i wella profiad unigolion a grwpiau o ddysgu. Ers hynny mae’r gr\u0175p wedi ffurfio dau is-gr\u0175p gweithredol a) cangen Addysg Ddigidol myfyrwyr C4M , a b) cangen Meddygon Iau sy’n gyfrifol am gyfrannu at fanc adnoddau e-ddysgu’r Ysgol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ar ben hynny, mae Dr Athanasios Hassoulas a’r Athro Marcus Coffey wedi dechrau nifer o gydweithrediadau addysg ddigidol rhyngwladol, gan ddangos enw da rhyngwladol cynyddol y gr\u0175p fel arweinydd ym maes addysg feddygol ddigidol. Mae datblygiadau diweddar wedi tynnu sylw at yr angen am Ganolfan Addysg Feddygol Ddigidol (C4DiMEd) newydd, gan oruchwylio darpariaethau e-ddysgu ar draws yr holl sefydliadau a rhaglenni o fewn MEDIC a chefnogi’r partneriaethau rhyngwladol sy’n dod i’r amlwg. Ar ben hynny, cynigir y dylai’r Ganolfan gysylltu’n uniongyrchol \u00e2’r Ganolfan Cefnogaeth Addysg ac Arloesedd (CESI) i wneud yn si\u0175r bod mentrau C4DiMEd yn alinio strategaeth addysg ddigidol gyffredinol y brifysgol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ysgrifennwyd gan Athanasios Hassoulas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bydd Athanasios Hassoulas a Marcus Coffey yn cyflwyno’r gwaith a wnaed yn ystod y pandemig gan Gr\u0175p Addysg Ddigidol C4ME yn y Gynhadledd Dysgu ac Addysgu  am 16:05 ar 1 Gorffennaf. Teitl eu cyflwyniad yw \u2018Gwastat\u00e1u\u2019r cae chwarae rhithwir: Mentrau Addysg Ddigidol C4ME i gefnogi myfyrwyr a staff’<\/em>. Byddant hefyd yn cynnal sesiwn Pecha Kucha am 10:20 ar 2 Gorffennaf, o\u2019r teitl \u2018Strategaeth Addysg Ddigidol y Ganolfan Addysg Feddygol: Datblygu Hwb Addysg Ddigidol MEDIC’.  <\/em>Cofrestru ar gyfer y gynhadledd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated efforts to establish a comprehensive digital education strategy across the sector. At Cardiff University, the abrupt shift to remote learning has resulted in a university-wide […]","protected":false},"author":1799,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[391],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lt-conference-2021"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":3466},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KqgK-TU","meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/06\/woman-working-at-computer-P353ES6-scaled.jpg","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}