The MERG Suite: Tools for discovering competencies and associated learning resources

BACKGROUND: As the demands for competency-based education grow, the need for standards-based tools to allow for publishing and discovery of competency-based learning content is more pressing. This project focused on developing federated discovery services for competency-based medical e-learning cont...

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Autores principales: Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja, Hersh, William R, Smothers, Valerie, Fordis, Michael, Greene, Peter S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2416363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18479525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-3-7
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author Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja
Hersh, William R
Smothers, Valerie
Fordis, Michael
Greene, Peter S
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description BACKGROUND: As the demands for competency-based education grow, the need for standards-based tools to allow for publishing and discovery of competency-based learning content is more pressing. This project focused on developing federated discovery services for competency-based medical e-learning content. METHODS: We built a tool suite for authoring and discovery of medical e-learning metadata. The end-user usability of the tool suite was evaluated through a web-based survey. RESULTS: The suite, implemented as an open-source system, was evaluated to identify areas for improvement. CONCLUSION: The MERG suite is a starting point for organizations implementing competency-based e-learning resources.
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spelling pubmed-24163632008-06-07 The MERG Suite: Tools for discovering competencies and associated learning resources Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja Hersh, William R Smothers, Valerie Fordis, Michael Greene, Peter S Source Code Biol Med Research BACKGROUND: As the demands for competency-based education grow, the need for standards-based tools to allow for publishing and discovery of competency-based learning content is more pressing. This project focused on developing federated discovery services for competency-based medical e-learning content. METHODS: We built a tool suite for authoring and discovery of medical e-learning metadata. The end-user usability of the tool suite was evaluated through a web-based survey. RESULTS: The suite, implemented as an open-source system, was evaluated to identify areas for improvement. CONCLUSION: The MERG suite is a starting point for organizations implementing competency-based e-learning resources. BioMed Central 2008-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2416363/ /pubmed/18479525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0473-3-7 Text en Copyright © 2008 Bhupatiraju et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Smothers, Valerie
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2416363/
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