THE AMEE Technology Enhanced Learning Committee
This Committee guides AMEE on enhancing teaching and learning through the use of general education technologies with special emphasis on the education pedagogies underlying their use.
The overall mission of the AMEE Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Committee is to guide AMEE’s TEL and related activities. The focus is on enhancing teaching and learning by the use of general education technologies with special emphasis on the education pedagogies underlying their use. It supports the AMEE Executive Committee in achieving its strategic goals by providing advice and support regarding the AMEE Conference, an eLearning symposium every 3 years, and online tools for AMEE membership activities.
Our Projects
The TEL community and its individual members give presentations and produce a range of publications dealing with the use of technology in medical education.Development of a consensus statement on emergent and current trends in eLearning.
Ongoing / Repeated Projects:
- AMEE conference abstract reviews and judging of ePosters
- Online meetings (1-2 times per year)
- Open meeting at the AMEE conference
- AMEE TEL Committee Innovation Development Grant
- ASPIRE-to-Excellence Award launched in 2021: The TEL ASPIRE Award recognises institutional excellence in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning
Completed Projects:
- TEL Symposium: Organised at AMEE Conference 2021 – The lessons learned for using Technology Enhanced Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Associated rapid review published in Medical Teacher
- At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to online education published ‘Twelve tips for rapidly migrating to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic’ in MedEdPublish
- AMEE Conference 2022: TEL Committee members provided several TEL themed sessions in the main AMEE Conference and have reviewed technology abstracts
- ePosters: The Committee has organised judging of ePosters to select the best ePoster presented at AMEE Conferences, 2018-2024
Our Committee
Regular Members:
- Raquel Correia, France (Co-Chair, Partnerships/Communications Lead)
- Ken Masters, Oman (Co-Chair, Conference & ePosters Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Rakesh Patel, UK (Co-Chair, Products & Education Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Poh-Sun Goh, Singapore (Scholarship/Research Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Martin Pusic, USA (Scholarship/Research Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Alexandra Webb, Australia (Scholarship/Research Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Dario Cecilio-Fernandes, Brazil (Conference & ePosters Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Eric Gantwerker, USA (Products & Education Sub-Committee Co-Lead)
- Michelle Aebersold, USA (Webinar Co-Lead)
- James Thomas, UK (Webinar Co-Lead)
- David Cook, USA
- Peter de Jong, Netherlands
- Monika Sobocan, Slovenia
- Stefano Sandrone, UK
- Julius Josef Kaminski, Germany
- Athanasios Hassoulas, UK
- Ligia Ribeiro, The Netherlands
- Marcos Rojas, USA
Special Members:
- Alexandra-Aurora Dumitra, Romania (Student for 1 year)
- Stella Goeschl, Austria (Student for 1 year)