Digital health education and research team win teaching innovation award

A team from the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) has won an Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Innovation Award, recognising their exemplary and research informed use of technologies for teaching and learning in the tertiary education sector.

The team's web-based interactive computing platform “The Hitchhiker’s guide to Jupyter notebooks: innovative cross-disciplinary informatics learning for digital health enthusiasts” looked at the use of Jupyter Notebooks in professional development education.

Through this platform, learners are able to work with real world hospital data in a hands-on and practical manner, and to explore the complexities of working with real data and understand the process of making data research-ready.

The platform gives learners the opportunity to undertake complex analytical tasks in a graphical interface, making it accessible to a variety of users without a computational background.

Learners can undertake exploratory data analysis on a variety of data visualisations and come to understand how machine learning models are developed and facilitate interpretation of the performance metrics for various models.

The team includes Sathana Dushyanthen, Kayley Lyons, Wendy Chapman, Douglas Pires, Daniel Capurro, Kathleen Gray, Professor Graeme Hart, Meg Perrier, Kit Huckvale, Chris McMaster, Meredith Layton, Mahima Kalla and Kara Burns.

The team has been invited to present their innovation at the annual ASCILITE conference later this year.

ASCILITE celebrates the creative and innovative use of educational technologies in higher education.