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Individual Video Training iVT and Annotating Academic Videos AAV: two complementing technologies
No full textIndividual Video Training iVT and Annotating Academic Videos AAV: two complementing technologies
1. Recording communication skills training sessions and reviewing them by oneself, with peers, and with tutors has become standard in medical education. Increasing numbers of students paired with restrictions of financial and human resources create a big obstacle to this important teaching method.
2. Everybody who wants to increase efficiency and effectiveness of communication training can get new ideas from our technical solution.
3. Our goal was to increase the effectiveness of communication skills training by supporting self, peer and tutor assessment over the Internet. Two technologies of SWITCH, the national foundation to support IT solutions for Swiss universities, came handy for our project. The first is the authentication and authorization infrastructure providing all Swiss students with a nationwide single login. The second is SWITCHcast which allows automated recording, upload and publication of videos in the Internet. Students start the recording system by entering their single login. This automatically links the video with their password. Within a few hours, they find their video password protected on the Internet. They now can give access to peers and tutors.
Additionally, an annotation interface was developed. This software has free text as well as checklist annotations capabilities. Tutors as well as students can create checklists. Tutor’s checklists are not editable by students. Annotations are linked to tracks. Tracks can be private or public. Public means visible to all who have access to the video. Annotation data can be exported for statistical evaluation.
4. The system was well received by students and tutors. Big numbers of videos were processed simultaneously without any problems.
5. iVT http://www.switch.ch/aaa/projects/detail/UNIBE.7
AAV http://www.switch.ch/aaa/projects/detail/ETHZ.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Coordinating a nation-wide introduction of a new competency framework for the Swiss undergraduate medical curricula: development of a common implementation guide
No full textBackground: In 2018, Switzerland introduced a new version of its nation-wide framework of reference for the undergraduate medical curriculum named PROFILES. It is based on the 7 CanMeds roles, 9 EPAs and 265 situations as starting points; but in contrast to previous editions it does not list diagnoses or disciplines.To accompany the implementation process the medical faculties created a joint, national working group.Summary of Work: Delegates of the medical schools and the federal licensing exam met regularly over one year. The resulting implementation guide, basedon a thorough review of the current literature, describes contextualized strategies to support the implementation of the different elements of PROFILES. This non-binding approach respects the autonomy of each Swiss medical school, allowing them to adapt the implementation process to their specific context and challenges.Summary of Results:The PROFILES implementation guide covers four main chapters: Curriculum organisation:the transition from a content-oriented to a competency-based teaching program needs an integrated curriculum, active teaching formats and a longitudinal clinical exposure. Assessment:the introduction of EPAs along the CanMeds roles requires a ‘program ofassessment’ combining different assessment strategies, rather than a collection of isolated assessment events. Faculty development:such a profound change can only be achieved if faculty members are trained and informed, and eventually adhere to the new educational orientations. Strategies of implementation:the last chapter emphasizes the importance of developing a change management approach to support a successful implementation of PROFILES.Discussion and Conclusions:The framework of reference for the undergraduate medical curriculum in Switzerland has recently undergone an in-depth update. A collaborative work with delegates from all medical schools resulted in an implementation guide with strategies to address the challenging shift to a competency-oriented curriculum based on CanMeds and EPAs.Take-home Messages: A nation-wide, collaborative approach to define strategies and conditions for the implementation of a new framework of reference has the potential to lead to a clearer appreciation of the challenges and an increased effort towards using common processes and tools to modify the current undergraduate medical curricula
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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