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The use of the iCollaborative’s Pre‐Health Collection online resources to enhance competency development in undergraduate pre‐health and STEM students (530.2)
Author(s) -
Jakubowski Henry,
Zapanta Laura,
Page Jen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.530.2
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , open educational resources , metadata , world wide web , educational resources , data collection , computer science , knowledge management , medical education , multimedia , psychology , medicine , pedagogy , sociology , philosophy , social science , epistemology
Online educational resources, whether used either in exclusively online courses such as massive open online courses (MOOCS) or more traditional or blended courses as supporting educational resources, must be both high quality and user‐friendly to promote student learning. Characteristics of high quality web resources include common metadata to tag content, balancing expert and community definitions of quality to provide a curated collection of resources, and input from both submitters and users whose comments can evolve the quality of the collection. The Pre‐health Collection, a new addition to MedEdPORTAL’s iCollaborative (an established, free and open access platform provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges that is dedicated to the sharing of innovations that are being developed, implemented and tested within the health education) meets these characteristics. The Pre‐health Collection instructional materials are cataloged by instructional methodology, format type, and student competencies that will be tested in the new MCAT2015 exam and that are also embraced by other organizations such as the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Chemical Society. These competencies move past prescribed content to higher order reasoning and inquiry skills articulated by leaders in science education reform. The organization and use of the collection will be presented.