One of the challenges we face, as educators, is aligning competing goals. High stakes assessment is a good example of competing goals. Is the goal of an assessment to promote learning or to determine if […]
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A Non-Hierarchical Model for Learning in the Health Professions…The “Rhizogogy” Chain
( This is the second in a series on the unbounded, non-hierarchical structuring of knowledge. Check out part 1 here– Jonathan (@sherbino) By Daniel Cabrera (@CabreraERDR) and Damian Roland (@Damian_Roland) In our last post we discussed […]
ICE Book Review – The One World School Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
By Felix Ankel (@felixankel) Salman Khan. 2012 The One World School Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined. Twelve Books. One of the highlights of the 2014 ICRE conference was Rishi Desai’s keynote presentation about personalized learning in medicine. Rishi […]
How do we structure knowledge? … Enter the rhizome
(From the editor-in-chief: A welcome to our newest members of the editorial board of the ICE blog.) By Daniel Cabrera (@CabreraERDR) and Damian Roland (@Damian_Roland) This is the first post in a short series on rhizomatic […]
#KeyLIMEPodcast 73: Maybe it’s time for patient outcomes (!?) to be included in assessment of trainees
The KeyLIME podcast this week dips into the controversy over the appropriate metrics for assessing competence in learners. David Cook has argued, appropriately, that patient outcomes (specifically in regards to program/curriculum evaluation) are heavily confounded […]