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OpenLabyrinth: a platform for medical education research & evaluation David Topps Jean Rawling Heather Armson Medbiq 2015 http://openlabyrinth.ca Slide 2 Notices & Disclaimers Declaration of Interest I advocate the use of OpenLabyrinth I am the OpenLabyrinth Dev Consortium lead Open source project I (sadly) do not make money from this Copyright disclaimer Most images are Creative Commons Remainder used under Section 29 (Fair Dealing) Copyright Act of Canada (2012) Do not assume you can reuse these images Slide 3 Education research tool Annotated bibliography 130+ items http://tiny.cc/OLab3bib broad application Slide 4 Downsides of long cases Complex branching VP cases Powerful narratives Learning by discovery & reflection Not time efficient Only 2-3 key points of learning or evaluation in 20-30 minute case Slide 5 Speed limit Slide 6 Speed up! Slide 7 Assessment Not fact retention Clinical reasoning Script Concordance Testing Situational Judgement Testing Moving beyond Best-of-Five answers Slide 8 Why not SurveyMonkey? Not just questionnaires Data stored on local servers Keeps ethics happy Control over Access Reports Any similarity to existing faculty members is completely coincidental Slide 9 Flexible exam emulator SAMP Learning Environment (SAMPle) Short answer management problems CFPC Key Feature Questions MCC-QE Slide 10 Time pressure Lots of studies on critical tasks What about routine chores? Rushing Roulette cases Series of lab tests In-Tray exercise Slide 11 Adaptive testing Conditional logic from branching cases Layered triplets vs isolated questions and stems Slide 12 Path analysis Slide 13 Play nice with others Linking to other tools OAuth Slide 14 Play nice with others Linking to other tools IMS-LTI Slide 15 Play nice with others Linking to other tools xAPI Medbiq interest group http://medbiq.org/mailman/listinfo/xapi_medbiq.org Easier but harder LRS analytic tools Funder hesitance Slide 16 Automatic item generation Game changer xAPI pull, not just push qBanq Also pull, not push Nobody wants to push! Slide 17 Who wants to play? New multi-part funding xAPI item sharing info@openlabyrinth.ca