Educational Crowdsourcing: Developing RadExam

Crowdsourcing in health professions education: What radiography educators can learn from other disciplines

“…The lesson planning paper, written by Penciner 30 , describes how crowdsourcing had been used at an international emergency medicine conference to guide the delivery of a group conference session. Penciner 29 acknowledged that in traditional conference proceedings it is assumed that a single presenter has knowledge to share with the group. Hence conference session titles and content are predetermined by a single expert or narrow group of individuals.…”

“…However the study does have limitations as the definition of expert is complex with participants self-reporting their level of expertise. Furthermore there are challenges with ensuring all voices are heard which is evident when comparison was made in this study 29 between the number of contributors to the crowdsource activity and the frequency of their contributions with some being more active than others. This "power law distribution" 44 or group dominance is important to note as one of the advantages cited for crowdsourcing as a group consensus technique is that it does not adopt a hierarchal management process.…”

“…Data regarding crowdsource aims, sample numbers, crowdworkers, crowd motivation and study location were also documented. The papers were read and categorised by theme by the lead author with groupings representing educational context, lesson planning, instructional material design, assessment identified-table one (27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43). Of these one paper examined lesson planning, three addressed instructional material design, eleven concentrated on the role of crowdsourcing in the assessment of basic non-complex surgical skills and a further two studies focused on the recruitment of learners onto a surgical training programme.…”

“…From the 209 documents reviewed, 40 unique definitions of crowdsourcing were identified and used to develop a final 8-point classification tool, which defines 'crowdsourcing'. However using this typology meant that three papers did not meet this established definition of crowdsourcing (shaded grey in table one) 27,28,29 . All of these related to instructional material design-as they did not use the on-line environment to apply the crowdsource nor was the assigned task completed in the on-line environment.…”

Strength in numbers: Crowdsourcing the most relevant literature in pediatric cardiology

“…Within the medical field, crowdsourcing has been utilized in health care and biomedicine to assist in assessment of public health information, to further the diagnosis and management of patients, to generate study materials and educational tools and to design continuing medical education. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Collaboration within the practice of medicine, and more specifically, medical education, is becoming increasingly common, and an essential part of medical training. A wide variety of free, easy-to-use,…”