You Can Lead a Horse to Water . . . Changing the Data Science Culture for Veterinary Scientists
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r teaching
veterinary and medical education
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In education research, knowledge recall is often considered the easiest aspect of learning, and the creation of new knowledge is the most challenging. Skill development therefore often requires learners to consistently ‘do’ the skill and receive feedback from experts to allow them to fully enter a new culture of practice. This is particularly challenging for those who are interdisciplinary and have limited control over their workload, such as medics and field scientists. In this talk, an educational scientist describes the previous 10 years of supporting veterinary scientists to adopt open science practices surrounding data science. What worked, what failed miserably, and reflections on why it can be so hard to get a horse to drink.
Abstract
In education research, knowledge recall is often considered the easiest aspect of learning, and the creation of new knowledge is the most challenging. Skill development therefore often requires learners to consistently ‘do’ the skill and receive feedback from experts to allow them to fully enter a new culture of practice. This is particularly challenging for those who are interdisciplinary and have limited control over their workload, such as medics and field scientists. In this talk, an educational scientist describes the previous 10 years of supporting veterinary scientists to adopt open science practices surrounding data science. What worked, what failed miserably, and reflections on why it can be so hard to get a horse to drink.
Behind the scenes
I was amazed when posit accepted my talk, and I immediately started panicking. There’s many, many versions of this talk where I spend the first 13 minutes explaining how I’m no good at stats, R, my job, and how you shouldn’t listen to me. I really credit the folk at Articulate Inc for the the brilliant coaching they provided, and I would strongly encourage folk to submit talks to Posit because this entire experience was very valuable.