Crowdsourcing in health professions education: What radiography educators can learn from other disciplines

St John-Matthews, J.; Newton, P. M.; Grant, A. J.; Robinson, L.

Abstract

© 2018 Objectives: Crowdsourcing works through an institution outsourcing a function normally performed by an employee or group of individuals. Within a crowdsource users, known as the crowd, form a community who voluntarily undertake a task which involves the pooling of knowledge resources. A literature review was undertaken to identify how the tool is being used in health professions education, and potential for use in radiography education. Key Findings: 17 papers were returned. Literature identified was assessed against an established crowdsourcing definition. Reviewing these yielded four themes for discussion: student selection procedures, lesson planning, teaching materials and assessment. Conclusion: Crowdsourcing is associated with innovative activities through collective solution seeking via a large network of users. It is increasingly being adopted in healthcare training and maybe transferable to educational activities within the field of radiography education.

• Journal Article Type: Review
• Acceptance Date: Nov 16, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 11, 2018
• Publication Date: May 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 12, 2019
• Journal: Radiography
• Print ISSN: 1078-8174
• Electronic ISSN: 1532-2831
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 164-169
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2018.11.006
• Keywords: crowdsourcing, wisdom, teaching
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/846451
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2018.11.006
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the accepted manuscript. The final published version is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2018.11.006
• Contract Date: Jan 21, 2019