Gain Confidence (+ Relief)
with data-driven curriculum decisions
APPLICATION: Curriculum Revision
Revising curriculum is not for the faint of heart. If you’ve been through (or even contemplated) the process, you know. Goals must be specific and public. The painstaking process of gathering and analyzing data must be transparent. And the resulting changes had better be convincingly validated.
Consider these real-life stories.
Improve step scores by shortening Step 1 from 24 months to 18 months
After a year of three people gathering data at the session level--from faculty across several campuses--along with course objectives, competencies and standards terminology, the resulting reports from an inherited platform were unhelpful. The curriculum committee needed validation to move forward.
Leveraging artificial intelligence, mapEDU analyzed everything from the faculty’s Blackboard courses (e.g., PowerPoints, notes, all written material) against the required outcomes. The top 5 items covered aligned almost perfectly with the committee’s earlier analysis. The curriculum committee and leadership team accepted the mapEDU reports as validation for the proposed course of action and used them to determine the revised curriculum scope and sequence.
Modernize the curriculum to be interdisciplinary
Proving legitimacy of curriculum changes to colleagues
mapEDU produced two key reports. At a glance, everyone could see the number of sessions that map to the 43 content categories--easily identifying both gaps and redundancies. Further, each session’s effectiveness against each content category can be seen. Now this school will be looking to mapEDU for continuous curriculum analysis and answers to more granular questions. For example, they plan to direct students’ core curriculum in accordance with clerkships’ expectations for them. “What diseases are you wanting our students to know about?”
APPLICATION: Accreditation
Curriculum mapping is one of the most time-consuming requirements for professional accreditation. Gathering and organizing the data is every bit as problematic as curriculum reform and revision.
Frustrated with the tedious process and resulting complex spreadsheets, many deans and associate deans search for a better solution.
Curriculum map for approaching accreditation visit
Need curriculum map fast. Course directors hate Excel spreadsheets and wouldn’t use them.
At an AAMC conference, an associate dean stumbled upon mapEDU’s “eye-catching” approach that was less expensive and easier than any alternatives. All text-based info of courses was quickly collected from Canvas and organized around lectures--material and course lecture dates. The resulting reports showed detailed data for outcomes coverage. Now this school is looking forward to continued use as they work with mapEDU to submit to AAMC Curriculum Inventory.
