The Massive Online Needs Assessment (MONA) to inform the development of an emergency haematology educational blog series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Online educational resources are criticized as being teacher-centred, failing to address learner's needs. Needs assessments are an important precursor to inform curriculum development, but these are often overlooked or skipped by developers of online educational resources due to cumbersome measurement tools. Novel methods are required to identify perceived and unperceived learning needs to allow targeted development of learner-centred curricula.

Objectives

To evaluate the feasibility of performing a novel technique dubbed the Massive Online Needs Assessment (MONA) for the purpose of emergency haematology online educational curricular planning, within an online learning community (affiliated with the Free Open Access Medical education movement).

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Chan TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002288 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature