Dr. Gary Poole
Topic: Approaching self-directed learning as a challenging three-piece puzzle: Exploring cognition, motivation, and emotion
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm (Lunch will be served at DHCC)
Locations:
- Diamond Health Care Centre 2267 (Host site)
- IRC 305
- MSB 107
- KGH CAC 237
- NHSC 9-374
- Manning Room at Central City
Abstract
Interviews with medical students have helped us learn more about how students construe their sense of self as a result of a self-directed learning (SDL) experience. These interviews also revealed that cognition is but one important piece in the SDL puzzle. We learned that the nature of motivation, before and during the experience, is a defining characteristic of self-direction. Further, we have begun to learn more about the significant role emotion plays in self-directed learning processes, where personal investment tends to be quite high. In this session, we will look at each of these three puzzle pieces—cognition, motivation and emotion—to explore their nature and the many ways they inter-relate. A Venn diagram will be compulsory.
Biography
Gary Poole is the Associate Director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Senior Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship at the University of British Columbia. He is a past-president of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by both of those organizations. He is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and he is the co-editor of Teaching and Learning Inquiry. His current scholarly work focuses on self-directed learning, primarily within the context of medical education.
Accreditation:
As an organization accredited to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development designates this educational program as meeting the accreditation criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 1.5 Mainpro-M1 credits (per session). This program has been reviewed and approved by UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the activity.
Accreditation Statement:
The CHES Research Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
