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RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology.

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Leverenz, DL; Garren, AU; Katz, G; Saygin, D; Witt, A; Harper, R; Sparks, MA; Criscione-Schreiber, L
Published in: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
November 2023

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the educational impact of RheumMadness, an online tournament of rheumatology concepts grounded in social constructivist theory, as viewed through the community of inquiry (CoI) framework. METHODS: The curricular scaffold of RheumMadness was a bracket of 16 rheumatology concepts competing as "teams" in a tournament. Participants could create and review "scouting reports" about each team, listen to a RheumMadness podcast, discuss on social media, and submit a bracket predicting tournament outcomes according to the perceived importance of each team. Engagement was measured with direct analytics and through self-report on a survey. The survey also assessed participants' educational experience using an adapted 34-item CoI survey, which describes the cognitive, social, and teaching presences in a learning activity. RESULTS: One hundred brackets were submitted. On average, each scouting report was viewed 92 times, each podcast episode was downloaded 163 times, and 486 tweets were sent about #RheumMadness from 105 users. The survey received 58 of 107 responses (54%). Respondent agreement with prompts related to each CoI presence was: 70.3% cognitive, 61.7% social, 84.9% teaching. Reported engagement in RheumMadness correlated strongly with overall CoI survey scores (r = 0.72, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: RheumMadness created an online CoI that fostered social constructivist learning about rheumatology.

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Published In

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)

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EISSN

2151-4658

Publication Date

November 2023

Volume

75

Issue

11

Start / End Page

2248 / 2258

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Self Report
  • Rheumatology
  • Humans
  • 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Leverenz, D. L., Garren, A. U., Katz, G., Saygin, D., Witt, A., Harper, R., … Criscione-Schreiber, L. (2023). RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 75(11), 2248–2258. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25108
Leverenz, David L., Akrithi U. Garren, Guy Katz, Didem Saygin, Allen Witt, Robert Harper, Matthew A. Sparks, and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber. “RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology.Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 75, no. 11 (November 2023): 2248–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25108.
Leverenz DL, Garren AU, Katz G, Saygin D, Witt A, Harper R, et al. RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Nov;75(11):2248–58.
Leverenz, David L., et al. “RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology.Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), vol. 75, no. 11, Nov. 2023, pp. 2248–58. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/acr.25108.
Leverenz DL, Garren AU, Katz G, Saygin D, Witt A, Harper R, Sparks MA, Criscione-Schreiber L. RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Nov;75(11):2248–2258.
Journal cover image

Published In

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)

DOI

EISSN

2151-4658

Publication Date

November 2023

Volume

75

Issue

11

Start / End Page

2248 / 2258

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Self Report
  • Rheumatology
  • Humans
  • 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences