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Vicki H.M. Dale LIVE Research Fellow, Lifelong Learning

About me

including a photo I like

What I hope to get out of this project

With a remit to explore lifelong learning, I'm really interested to see how the pathology residents engage with this resource. I also like evaluation research, so determining the usefulness of the resource as a teaching aid is of interest to me i.e. how can we validate it? I'm also interested in how we can replicate good face to face communication in an online environment.

My best learning experience

and why it was good

Pathology that interests me

As an Educational Technologist, as part of the CLIVE project, I authored a number of pathology computer-aided learning programs with veterinary pathologists at the University of Glasgow, mainly Dr. Hal Thompson. What I liked about the programs I developed with Hal is that they were largely visual, and he explained the pathology as he went over his storyboards, so I could understand it, which helped me to structure the learning activities in the CAL. He also saw a lot of interesting cases, including forensic pathology, which he brought into the teaching, along with his knowledge of the history of pathology. As a former archaeologist, this interested me greatly too.

Pathology that is difficult

I guess as a visual learner I find it easier to concentrate on gross pathology, or very noticeable clinical signs of disease. Once it starts getting to the microscopic level it starts to get tricky for me, as although it's visual, it's a bit more abstract.

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-Vicki H.M. Dale<br>
+Vicki H.M. Dale
 LIVE Research Fellow, Lifelong Learning
-== Contact me ==
-[mailto:vdale@rvc.ac.uk vdale@rvc.ac.uk]
-tel 01707 666439
 == About me ==
-I'm a Research Fellow in the [http://www.live.ac.uk LIVE Centre], appointed in April 2007 to explore lifelong learning in veterinary education. Therefore adult learning theory, continuing professional development, and career aspirations and choices are things that fall within my remit.
+including a photo I like
 == What I hope to get out of this project ==
-I'm really interested to see how the pathology residents engage with this resource. I also like evaluation research, so determining the usefulness of the resource as a teaching aid is of interest to me i.e. how can we validate it?
+With a remit to explore lifelong learning, I'm really interested to see how the pathology residents engage with this resource. I also like evaluation research, so determining the usefulness of the resource as a teaching aid is of interest to me i.e. how can we validate it?
-I'm also interested in how we can replicate good face to face communication in an online environment, as i think it's the 'personal touch' that will be most difficult to simulate online. As we discussed at the July 07 workshop, this can be simulated through reflection and personal anecdotes.<br>
+I'm also interested in how we can replicate good face to face communication in an online environment.
-I'd quite like to see a section established on teaching tips and pedagogy, so we can look at things like how we 'scaffold' learning (term coined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bruner Jerome Bruner]).
 == My best learning experience ==
-====Exploring virtual space ====
+and why it was good
-My best learning experience ....? This takes me back to being an archaeology student. We had this great lecturer, John Barrett. He was a bronze or iron age man (I can't actually remember now!), and he was very inspirational, especially on field trips. What I liked about John's teaching was that he encouraged us to thing about exploring archaeological sites in three dimensions i.e. imagine how the spaces would have been constructed, where the walls and doors would have been, and how people moved through space. I guess that's got implications for virtual space. How will people navigate through this virtual world that we're creating? How do they create meaning in a way that's personal to them?
 == Pathology that interests me ==
-As an Educational Technologist, as part of the [http://www.clive.ed.ac.uk CLIVE] project, I authored a number of pathology computer-aided learning programs with veterinary pathologists at the [http://www.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow], mainly [http://www.clive.ed.ac.uk/cliveContributor.asp?id=Thom180 Dr. Hal Thompson]. What I liked about the programs I developed with Hal is that they were largely visual, and he explained the pathology as he went over his storyboards, so I could understand it, which helped me to structure the learning activities in the CAL. He also saw a lot of interesting cases, including forensic pathology, which he brought into the teaching, along with his knowledge of the history of pathology. He had a good all-round knowledge, and stressed the importance of lateral thinking in terms of problem-solving, which I admired.
+As an Educational Technologist, as part of the CLIVE project, I authored a number of pathology computer-aided learning programs with veterinary pathologists at the University of Glasgow, mainly Dr. Hal Thompson. What I liked about the programs I developed with Hal is that they were largely visual, and he explained the pathology as he went over his storyboards, so I could understand it, which helped me to structure the learning activities in the CAL. He also saw a lot of interesting cases, including forensic pathology, which he brought into the teaching, along with his knowledge of the history of pathology. As a former archaeologist, this interested me greatly too.
 == Pathology that is difficult ==
-I guess as a visual learner I find it easier to concentrate on gross pathology, or very noticeable clinical signs of disease. Once it starts getting to the microscopic level it starts to get tricky for me, as although it's visual, it's a bit more abstract. It looks pretty though.
+I guess as a visual learner I find it easier to concentrate on gross pathology, or very noticeable clinical signs of disease. Once it starts getting to the microscopic level it starts to get tricky for me, as although it's visual, it's a bit more abstract.