The Transom: You Can't Spill Mustard on a Blog

Savage, William W.

doi:10.1353/scp.2007.0005

“…[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Despite their parallels to traditional resources such as textbooks and lectures, 13 few tools have been developed to assess blogs and podcasts for use in medical education. The Social Media Index is a tool that aggregates social media and Web-analytic metrics to rank Web sites by their relative impact.…”

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Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogs and Podcasts: Establishing an International Consensus on Quality

Thoma

¹

,

Chan

²

,

Paterson

³

et al. 2015

Annals of Emergency Medicine

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Twitter: @Brent_Thoma. Study objective: This study identified the most important quality indicators for online educational resources such as blogs and podcasts.Methods: A modified Delphi process that included 2 iterative surveys was used to build expert consensus on a previously defined list of 151 quality indicators divided into 3 themes: credibility, content, and design. Aggregate social media indicators were used to identify an expert population of editors from a defined list of emergency medicine and critical care blogs and podcasts. Survey 1 consisted of the quality indicators and a 7-point Likert scale. The mean score for each quality indicator was included in survey 2, which asked participants whether to "include" or "not include" each quality indicator. The cut point for consensus was defined at greater than 70% "include."Results: Eighty-three percent (20/24) of bloggers and 90.9% (20/22) of podcasters completed survey 1 and 90% (18/20) of bloggers and podcasters completed survey 2. The 70% inclusion criteria were met by 44 and 80 quality indicators for bloggers and podcasters, respectively. Post hoc, a 90% cutoff was used to identify a list of 14 and 26 quality indicators for bloggers and podcasters, respectively. Conclusion:The relative importance of quality indicators for emergency medicine blogs and podcasts was determined. This will be helpful for resource producers trying to improve their blogs or podcasts and for learners, educators, and academic leaders assessing their quality. These results will inform broader validation studies and attempts to develop user-friendly assessment instruments for these resources.

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“…Social media, online courses, blogs, podcasts and other digital products have since changed the way we teach, disseminate, and discuss scholarly ideas. Their exclusion from traditional scholarly frameworks, combined with a lack of standards to ensure their quality, may explain why they are generally not viewed as scholarship by members of the academic establishment (Brabazon 2006;Hendricks 2010;Kirkup 2010;Savage 2006).…”

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Educational Scholarship in the Digital Age: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Scholarly Products

Thoma¹,

Chan²,

Benı́tez³

et al. 2014

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Boyer's framework of scholarship was published before significant growth in digital technology. As more digital products are produced by medical educators, determining their scholarly value is of increasing importance. This scoping systematic review developed a taxonomy of digital products and determined their fit within Boyer's framework of scholarship. We conducted a broad literature search for descriptions of digital products in the medical literature in July 2013 using Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, PSYCHinfo, and Google Scholar. A framework analysis categorized each product using Boyer's model of scholarship, while a thematic analysis defined a taxonomy of digital products. 7422 abstracts were found and 524 met inclusion criteria. Digital products mapped primarily to the scholarship of teaching (85.4%) followed by integration (7.6%), application (5.5%), and discovery (1.5%). A taxonomy of 19 categories was defined. Web-based or computer assisted learning (41%) was described most frequently. We found that digital products are well described in medical literature and fit into Boyer's framework of scholarship and proposed a taxonomy of digital products that parallel traditional forms of the scholarship of teaching and learning. This research should inform the development of tools to examine the impact and quality of digital products.

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Educational Scholarship in the Digital Age: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Scholarly Products

Thoma¹,

Chan²,

Benítez³

et al. 2014

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Boyer's framework of scholarship was published before significant growth in digital technology. As more digital products are produced by medical educators, determining their scholarly value is of increasing importance. This scoping systematic review developed a taxonomy of digital products and determined their fit within Boyer's framework of scholarship. We conducted a broad literature search for descriptions of digital products in the medical literature in July 2013 using Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, PSYCHinfo, and Google Scholar. A framework analysis categorized each product using Boyer's model of scholarship, while a thematic analysis defined a taxonomy of digital products. 7422 abstracts were found and 524 met inclusion criteria. Digital products mapped primarily to the scholarship of teaching (85.4%) followed by integration (7.6%), application (5.5%), and discovery (1.5%). A taxonomy of 19 categories was defined. Web-based or computer assisted learning (41%) was described most frequently. We found that digital products are well described in medical literature and fit into Boyer's framework of scholarship and proposed a taxonomy of digital products that parallel traditional forms of the scholarship of teaching and learning. This research should inform the development of tools to examine the impact and quality of digital products.

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The Transom: You Can't Spill Mustard on a Blog

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Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogs and Podcasts: Establishing an International Consensus on Quality

Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogs and Podcasts: Establishing an International Consensus on Quality

Educational Scholarship in the Digital Age: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Scholarly Products

Educational Scholarship in the Digital Age: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Scholarly Products

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