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Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship
CONTEXT: Solutionism is the all‐too‐common human propensity to jump to a solution before adequately understanding the nature of a problem. Solutionism has long been prevalent in efforts to improve education at all levels, including medical education. THESIS: Educational design research (EDR) is a ge...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7754301/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32564385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/medu.14280 |
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description | CONTEXT: Solutionism is the all‐too‐common human propensity to jump to a solution before adequately understanding the nature of a problem. Solutionism has long been prevalent in efforts to improve education at all levels, including medical education. THESIS: Educational design research (EDR) is a genre of research that features the gaining of in‐depth understanding of a problem before any prototype solution is designed and tested. It is different from other forms of scientific inquiry because it is committed to the simultaneous development of both theoretical insights and practical solutions, together with stakeholders. This approach is powerful for theory building because it privileges ecologically valid studies that embrace the complexity of investigating learning in authentic (as opposed to laboratory) settings. When conducted well, both the research process and its outcomes generate valuable contributions to practice. PREVIEW: This article constitutes an expository essay on EDR, comprised of three movements. First, the approach is defined, its origins are presented, and its characteristics are described. Second, a generic model for conducting EDR is offered, and illustrated with examples from the field of medical education. Third, pathways towards advancing this form of inquiry are discussed, including ways to address inherent challenges and limitations, as well as recommendations for the medical education community. Although EDR is no panacea, this article illustrates how it can serve medical education research in a wide variety of geographic and disciplinary contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-77543012020-12-23 Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship McKenney, Susan Reeves, Thomas C. Med Educ Strategies for Overcoming Solutionism CONTEXT: Solutionism is the all‐too‐common human propensity to jump to a solution before adequately understanding the nature of a problem. Solutionism has long been prevalent in efforts to improve education at all levels, including medical education. THESIS: Educational design research (EDR) is a genre of research that features the gaining of in‐depth understanding of a problem before any prototype solution is designed and tested. It is different from other forms of scientific inquiry because it is committed to the simultaneous development of both theoretical insights and practical solutions, together with stakeholders. This approach is powerful for theory building because it privileges ecologically valid studies that embrace the complexity of investigating learning in authentic (as opposed to laboratory) settings. When conducted well, both the research process and its outcomes generate valuable contributions to practice. PREVIEW: This article constitutes an expository essay on EDR, comprised of three movements. First, the approach is defined, its origins are presented, and its characteristics are described. Second, a generic model for conducting EDR is offered, and illustrated with examples from the field of medical education. Third, pathways towards advancing this form of inquiry are discussed, including ways to address inherent challenges and limitations, as well as recommendations for the medical education community. Although EDR is no panacea, this article illustrates how it can serve medical education research in a wide variety of geographic and disciplinary contexts. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-08-05 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7754301/ /pubmed/32564385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/medu.14280 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Medical Education published by Association for the Study of Medical Education and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Strategies for Overcoming Solutionism McKenney, Susan Reeves, Thomas C. Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title | Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title_full | Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title_fullStr | Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title_full_unstemmed | Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title_short | Educational design research: Portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
title_sort | educational design research: portraying, conducting, and enhancing productive scholarship |
topic | Strategies for Overcoming Solutionism |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7754301/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32564385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/medu.14280 |
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