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  • Titulo Artículo: Curriculum Mapping with Academic Analytics in Medical and Healthcare Education
  • Resumen: Background: No universal solution, based on an approved pedagogical approach, exists to parametrically describe, effectively manage, and clearly visualize a higher education institution's curriculum, including tools for unveiling relationships inside curricular datasets. Objective: We aim to solve the issue of medical curriculum mapping to improve understanding of the complex structure and content of medical education programs. Our effort is based on the long-term development and implementation of an original web-based platform, which supports an outcomes-based approach to medical and healthcare education and is suitable for repeated updates and adoption to curriculum innovations. Methods: We adopted data exploration and visualization approaches in the context of medical curriculum innovations in higher education institutions domain. We have developed a robust platform, covering detailed formal metadata specifications down to the level of learning units, interconnections, and learning outcomes, in accordance with Bloom's taxonomy and direct links to a particular biomedical nomenclature. Furthermore, we used selected modeling techniques and data mining methods to generate academic analytics reports from medical curriculum mapping datasets. Results: We present a solution that allows users to effectively optimize a curriculum structure that is described with appropriate metadata, such as course attributes, learning units and outcomes, a standardized vocabulary nomenclature, and a tree structure of essential terms. We present a case study implementation that includes effective support for curriculum reengineering efforts of academics through a comprehensive overview of the General Medicine study program. Moreover, we introduce deep content analysis of a dataset that was captured with the use of the curriculum mapping platform; this may assist in detecting any potentially problematic areas, and hence it may help to construct a comprehensive overview for the subsequent global in-depth medical curriculum
  • Autores: Daniel Schwarz, Andrea Pokorná , Nabil Zary, Ladislav Dušek, Martin Víta, Christos Vaitsis, Martin Komenda , .
  • Titulo Revista: PLoS One, .
  • Numero: 2
  • Volumen:8
  • Fecha de publicación: 2015.
  • Base de Datos Bibliográfica: Medline-PubMed , .
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  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Página Inicial: 283 Página Final: 0
  • ISBN: 1932-6203