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Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened peer-review processes.
Preclinical studies are an important part of biomedical research, often guiding future trials in humans. Failure to replicate research results suggests a need to increase the quality of studies.
Artificial intelligence makes it possible to create a highly adaptable, module-based curriculum backed by a system that actively guides students’ choices based on their desired jobs.
As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Just because students are given the freedom to learn, it does not mean they will.
Students prefer videos that are simply produced, convenient to watch and with a narrative that’s delivered in an informal conversational way.
A learner’s digital education experience can be very different from the seamless user-friendly world of the social internet. Replicating the old classes online isn’t good enough. A rethink is needed.
Young people with gender dysphoria have high rates of mental health issues which makes conducting ethical research trials complex.
Once upon a time, a group of disheartened scientists found their tearoom bereft of teaspoons. They explored the problem with a longitudinal study design.
Any field that collects and analyzes data relies on statistical techniques to make sense of it all. Modern, more accurate methods should supplant the old ways… but in many cases, they haven’t yet.
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Adjunct Research Fellow Victoria University of Wellington; Head of the Quality Assurance Institute and Senior Lecturer, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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Vice Rector in Gjøvik, CQUniversity Australia
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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PhD candidate, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Education Innovation, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
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Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Systems, Western Sydney University
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State
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Professor of Statistics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences