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The Emergence of a Real “Profession” in Continuing Education

The content in the embedded video below dates back to a talk I developed in 2011, shortly after I first read the Alliance's retrospective on its first 20 years. I recently recorded an audio track to archive the presentation and to begin to explore what's changed over the past 3-4

Posted on 21 Oct 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog

All good educational planning is agile educational planning

Having returned from the CBI Grants Forum in Philadelphia last week, I have had some time to reflect on one of the primary issues raised over the course of the two day meeting. In several sessions speakers referenced best practices in educational design - while the presentations themselves covered a myriad of case

Posted on 17 Sep 2014
By Collated Resource
In Blog, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Metacognition, ‘nudges’, and adult education

It appears nearly universally accepted that adult education is quite different than child and adolescent education. Adult learners are more aware, they operate from a broader base of experience, and they demand that their energies be invested in relevant content that connects back to individual needs. In a way these

Posted on 22 Jul 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog

What are the limitations of self-directed learning?

As a bit of background, the 'Zones of Proximal Development' is a concept introduced by Vygotsky in the early 20th century. In laymens terms the model might be best understand in the following way: The zones of proximal development describe the difference between what a learner can do without help and

Posted on 27 Jun 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Internet Trends: Reshaping The Future of Education and Healthcare

Mary Meeker, a Partner at KPCB (one of the world's leading venture capital firms), recently shared her annual report on Internet trends. For those unfamiliar with Meeker's highly regarded work, she produces one of the tech industry's most widely anticipated reports. Techies and tech investors alike wait with baited breath

Posted on 18 Jun 2014
By Joel Selzer
In Blog

Partnering to Distribute Smaller, More Flexible, (yet) Engaging CE

I am thrilled to share a big announcement from ArcheMedX, one that will provide the CE community with increasingly simple ways to leverage our flagship product, the ArcheViewer learning platform. Beginning this week, providers of continuing education for healthcare professionals can now leverage the ArcheViewer when developing smaller, more flexible,

Posted on 23 Apr 2014
By Collated Resource
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory, Online Learning

Why Adult Learning Theory Is Insufficient to Drive Learning?

I wanted to quickly share my opening talk from the first-ever #CMEPalooza - and give credit to Derek Warnick for conceiving and bringing to life such a wonderful professional development opportunity for the CME profession! There are 3 parts to this lesson, so if you care to skip around, feel free: Research identifying

Posted on 21 Mar 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Online Learning

EdTechReview’s ‘149 Amazing Google Tricks to Increase Effectiveness of your Search’

Here is a great resource that we might consider building CE around as a means of supporting the lifelong, natural learning actions of clinicians (and I bet you will want to share this with your colleagues too): EXCERPT: Google is the most popular search engine and most of the people use it

Posted on 3 Mar 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Education Technology, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

ReachMD Interview with ArcheMedX CLO, Dr. Brian S. McGowan

I had the pleasure of being interviewed on ReachMD as a part of their lifelong learning series. In this short interview topics range from Khan Academy to coaching to personal learning networks to doom loops in learning. (And please pardon the unsightly picture of my throat, apparently SoundCloud's embed functionality is

Posted on 28 Feb 2014
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Online Education Has A Very Bright Future

Multiple industry reports released over the past few weeks predict the continued rise of e-learning and the adoption of new technology and learning models, from higher education to corporate training. The 2014 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative shows that a rapidly increasing number of universities are incorporating online learning environments into courses of all kinds; making

Posted on 20 Feb 2014
By Joel Selzer
In Blog

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The Emergence of a Real “Profession” in Continuing Education

All good educational planning is agile educational planning

Metacognition, ‘nudges’, and adult education

What are the limitations of self-directed learning?

Internet Trends: Reshaping The Future of Education and Healthcare

Partnering to Distribute Smaller, More Flexible, (yet) Engaging CE

Why Adult Learning Theory Is Insufficient to Drive Learning?

EdTechReview’s ‘149 Amazing Google Tricks to Increase Effectiveness of your Search’

ReachMD Interview with ArcheMedX CLO, Dr. Brian S. McGowan

Online Education Has A Very Bright Future

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