The role of hackathon in education: Can hackathon improve health and medical education?

Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein; Monsef, Sanaz; Javanmard, Shaghayegh Haghjooy; Yazdi, Youseph; Rarani, Mostafa Amini

doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_1183_20

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“…A word frequency analysis also discovered that innovation was the most occurring word in the dataset (total link strength = 33), disregarding the words “hackathon”, “hackathons”, “datathon”, and “education”. This finding was anticipated since hackathon events are viewed as an innovation contest for developing active education (Yarmohammadian et al, 2021 ). The fifth most relevant hackathon research in this dataset also implemented hackathons to provide innovation opportunities in the healthcare industry (Silver et al, 2016 ).…”

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confidence: 79%

Fostering an Innovation Culture in the Education Sector: A Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Hackathon Research

Garcia

2023

Innov High Educ

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Despite originating in the tech industry, hackathons have now been adopted in a variety of domains. However, little is known about the status of hackathon literature within educational research. As the number of studies grows, it is essential to develop an understanding of the current state and identify prevalent topics and trends shaping the literature. Toward this goal, this study conducted a bibliometric analysis and scoping review on hackathon research in the field of education. A total of 249 documents written by 1,309 authors and published in 180 unique sources for the period 2014–2022 were identified. Collectively, the dataset amassed 1,312 citations with an average of 6.69 citations per document. The most prevalent subject areas were computer science, social sciences, engineering, medicine, and business. Word frequency analysis showed that “innovation” was the most occurring word, which represents the fundamental objective of hackathon events. The most influential work was the analysis of hackathons as an informal learning platform. Engineering education was the most trending topic while healthcare is an emerging research cluster. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of the hackathon literature and its research landscape in an educational setting.

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Fostering an Innovation Culture in the Education Sector: A Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Hackathon Research

Garcia

2023

Innov High Educ

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“…Furthermore, the inclusion of mortality was used for quality assurance and could be compared to standard protocols (OECD 2004 ; OECD 2012 ). Importantly, standardisation should not limit creativity and should require individual assessments based on the overall goal of the Hackathon (Cropley 2015 ; Yarmohammadian et al 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Participatory hackathon to determine ecological relevant endpoints for a neurotoxin to aquatic and benthic invertebrates

Rasmussen,

Bosker,

Ramanand

et al. 2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The aim of this study is twofold: i) to determine innovative yet sensitive endpoints for sulfoxaflor and ii) to develop best practices for innovative teaching in ecotoxicology. To this end, a group of 52 MSc students participated in an environmental hackathon, during which they did creative toxicity testing on 5 freshwater invertebrate species: Daphnia magna, Chironomus riparius, Asellus aquaticus, Lymnaea stagnalis, and Anisus vortex. Involving the students in an active learning environment stimulated increased creativity and productivity. In total, 28 endpoints were investigated, including standard endpoints (e.g., mortality) as well as biomechanistic and energy-related endpoints. Despite high variances in the results, likely linked to the limited lab experience of the students and interpersonal differences, a promising set of endpoints was selected for further investigation. A more targeted follow-up experiment focused on the most promising organism and set of endpoints: biomechanistic endpoints of C. riparius larvae. Larvae were exposed to a range of sulfoxaflor concentrations (0.90–67.2 μg/L) for 21 days. Video tracking showed that undulation and swimming were significantly reduced at 11.1 μg sulfoxaflor/L after 9 days of exposure, and an EC50 = 10.6 μg/L for mean velocities of the larvae in the water phase was found. Biomechanistic endpoints proved much more sensitive than mortality, for which an LC50 value of 116 μg/L was found on Day 9. Our results show that performing a hackathon with students has excellent potential to find sensitive endpoints that can subsequently be verified using more targeted and professional follow-up experiments. Furthermore, utilising hackathon events in teaching can increase students’ enthusiasm about ecotoxicology, driving better learning experiences.

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“…The hackathon was a novel methodology for participants to come together and generate ideas and potential solutions to a problem (e.g., how to feasibly use HELM in schools). The use of a hackathon allowed Summit participants to engage in structured creative and innovative thinking for increased and distributed participation ( Yarmohammadian et al, 2021 ). Researchers ought to consider employing hackathons in future redesign work to promote collaborative teaming and idea generation that can inform redesign solutions to usability challenges and/or foreground aspects of the existing intervention that align with innovations emerging from the hackathon (e.g., the implementation database suggested by one hackathon group is a technological extension of implementation leadership and climate survey data).…”

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confidence: 99%

Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM): The iterative redesign of the Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) intervention for use in schools

Locke,

Corbin,

Collins

et al. 2024

Implementation Research and Practice

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Background Few “intervention agnostic” strategies have been developed that can be applied to the broad array of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in schools. This paper describes two studies that reflect the initial iterative redesign phases of an effective leadership-focused implementation strategy—Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI)—to ensure its acceptability, feasibility, contextual appropriateness, and usability when used in elementary schools. Our redesigned strategy—Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM)—is designed to improve principals’ use of strategic implementation leadership to support the adoption and high-fidelity delivery of a universal EBP to improve student outcomes. Method In Study 1, focus groups were conducted ( n = 6) with 54 district administrators, principals, and teachers. Stakeholders provided input on the appropriateness of original LOCI components to maximize relevance and utility in schools. Transcripts were coded using conventional content analysis. Key themes referencing low appropriateness were summarized to inform LOCI adaptations. We then held a National Expert Summit (Study 2) with 15 research and practice experts. Participants provided feedback via a nominal group process (NGP; n = 6 groups) and hackathon ( n = 4 groups). The research team rated each NGP suggestion for how actionable, impactful/effective, and feasible it was. We also coded hackathon notes for novel ideas or alignment with LOCI components. Results Study 1 suggestions included modifications to LOCI content and delivery. Study 2's NGP results revealed most recommendations to be actionable, impactful/effective, and feasible. Hackathon results surfaced two novel ideas (distributed leadership teams and leaders’ knowledge to support educators EBP use) and several areas of alignment with LOCI components. Conclusion Use of these iterative methods informed the redesign of LOCI and the development of HELM. Because it was collaboratively constructed, HELM has the potential to be an effective implementation strategy to support the use of universal EBP in schools.

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The role of hackathon in education: Can hackathon improve health and medical education?

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Fostering an Innovation Culture in the Education Sector: A Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Hackathon Research

Fostering an Innovation Culture in the Education Sector: A Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Hackathon Research

Participatory hackathon to determine ecological relevant endpoints for a neurotoxin to aquatic and benthic invertebrates

Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM): The iterative redesign of the Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) intervention for use in schools

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