Table 2.
Attribute | Description of learning activity | Color |
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1. Real-world relevance | Demonstrates the clinical relevance of the material, including clinical decision making, public health, or social determinants | Purple |
2. Competency based | Allows learner to assess progress through frequent feedback or rich mentorship | Red |
3. Collaboration | Focuses on consensus, teamwork, peer discussion, consensus decisions, and respectful communication | Blue |
4. Deliberate practice | Provides opportunities to memorize, rehearse, review, study, and digest new concepts in the pursuit of critical thinking | Green |
5. Technology/multimedia | Integrates health information technology, informatics, bioinstrumentation, or multimedia to introduce a more 3D experience, electronic media (vodcasts, electronic games, videoconferencing, EHR, virtual simulation, electronic databases, mobile apps, etc) | Yellow |
The authors developed this categorization, 2017.