RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology
Authors' conclusion
RheumMadness created an online CoI that fostered social constructivist learning about rheumatology.
Study context
- Population
- Participants in RheumMadness, an online tournament of 16 rheumatology concepts58 of 107 survey responses
- Outcome
- Educational experience (cognitive, social and teaching presences) on adapted 34-item CoI survey; engagement by direct analytics and self-report
Methodological detailssurvey and analytics, online tournament, adapted 34-item community of inquiry (CoI) survey
- Survey and analytics
- Online tournament
- Adapted 34-item CoI survey
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Brackets submitted
- 100
- Mean views per scouting report
- 92
- Mean downloads per podcast episode
- 163
- Tweets about #RheumMadness
- 486
- Users tweeting
- 105
- Survey response rate
- 54%
- Agreement, cognitive presence
- 70.3%
- Agreement, social presence
- 61.7%
- Agreement, teaching presence
- 84.9%
- Correlation of reported engagement with overall CoI survey scores
- r = 0.72, P < 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
RheumMadness: Creating an Online Community of Inquiry in Rheumatology. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 11 April 2023. doi:10.
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