How Web 2.0 will effect you and medical education

James B. McGee, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Assistant Dean for Medical Education Technology

Director, Laboratory for Educational Technology

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

mcgee@medschool.pitt.edu

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What is Web 2.0?

An approach to using the Internet and Web Syndicated internet resources Decentralized content production User-driven, user-guided websites Software that gets better, the more people use it Good concept; overused/hyped term

Tim O’Reilly Sep 2005

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2

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Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0

Web 1.0 ——|—— Web 2.0

Expert content, in silos ——|—— Distributed, user content

Static HTML ——|—— Dynamic, DB driven

Courseware ——|—— Personal & group sites

Live lectures ——|—— Podcasting

School websites ——|—— Student/faculty blogs

Exploits from few to many ——|—— Exploits ‘network effect’ of many

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otherstudents

mentor

Web 2.0

Collaborative Learning

Envronment

Web 1.0

Podcast oflectures

Just in Time

Learning

VirtualPatients

CurriculumWebsite

faculty

student

student

student

student

student

student

External DatabasesHEAL, MedEdPortal,

e-Journals

WikisBlogs

Group Sites

Documents

Requirements

Discussion, comments, assessment

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How do you control content?

You don’t The community (students, educators) control

via moderators, professionalism, social contract

Works best with like-minded members, not too many or too few

Is consensus knowledge (Wikipedia) - better or worse than an expert knowledge?

What else can we do with Web 2.0?

www.go2web20.net

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Questions

How will bias, commercial or otherwise, effect the quality?

Will the school be responsible for student-generated material? Copyright?

How do students know what will be on the test?

What about negative comments? Business model? If you build it, will they come?

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Answers Suggestions…

Network contribution is a professionalism issue Social networks police themselves Medical knowledge is a changing and inaccurate Curriculum and learning objectives become more

important Need new approaches to assess learning and

competence Teachers are needed more than ever; teach

information gathering; filter & focus learning

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Thank you

James B. McGee, M.D.mcgee@medschool.pitt.edu(412) 648-9679

Laboratory for Educational Technology:http://www.zone.medschool.pitt.edu/sites/let

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Build carefully

Create a culture of social contribution to learning

Course blogs Student group sites - small group, areas of

interest, social Student/faculty discussion (project-based) Subscription-based content