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Jennifer Meka1, Alyssa Vigliotti
1The director of the Woodward Center for Excellence in Health Sciences Education and the director of the Cognitive Skills Program at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where she is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and humanities, and served as vice president for educational systems development at an international company for educational technology.
Abstract:
Internet technology makes information from both peer-reviewed sources and crowdsourced content, such as Wikipedia, instantly accessible. Health sciences education must adapt by providing learners with the skills needed to effectively and appropriately access and use information. In this article, we introduce a conceptual framework for teaching and learning using crowdsourced content. Using this framework, we show how educators can help learners develop the skills they need for critically assessing information quality, acquiring knowledge, and making clinical decisions.
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