Big data and Activity-based Learning

Big data gives us great opportunities!

But learning includes

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We do have assessment data

What if there were easier ways to collect more data?

ADL and the Experience API

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If you could track anything you wanted to about your learners' activities in a really simple way, what would you track?

How would concerns about student privacy and patient privacy impact attempts to track your learners?

Should MedBiquitous develop a profile of the Tin Can API focused on reporting health professions education activities? 

What if…

We don’t know what works in training. How can we better relate training to effectiveness? Gather data, see what works. Put in central line – how would you track that?

Currently board certification is the only outcome of the program. That should change. There is no way to identify training programs. Boards should be able to look back at the training program and its outcomes.

Use instruments in HIT to derive competencies. Teach students how to use HIT. There needs to be capability to report enough data to make assertions with

confidence. Standardize what comes out of the EHR for educational purposes. Speed of

consultations. There could be devices sending messages. And location based messages. Can include competencies in the messages. Track patient outcomes. What happened to the patient, what was the learner’s

role? Surrogates of competency/confidence. Healing is more than exam

performance. Analyze confidence through google glasses. Do we overvalue what we measure?

If you could track anything you wanted to about your learners' activities in a really simple way, what would you track?