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DESCRIPTION:\n(9:00 - 10:00)\n	Allison Odger\, Postdoctoral fellow\n	Title TB
 D\n\n(10:00 - 11:00)\n	Anish Arora\, PhD\n\nDr. Anish K. Arora is a Postdoc
 toral Fellow in the Office of Education Scholarship in the Department of F
 amily and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. In this positio
 n\, he is leading the mixed methods evaluation of a Canada-wide continuing
  professional development program\, which aims to advance the skills of pr
 acticing clinicians in communicating with seriously ill patients and their
  families. Prior to this work\, Dr. Arora completed a PhD in Family Medici
 ne and Primary Care at 黑料社\, where he held a Vanier Canada G
 raduate Scholarship awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
  Additionally\, he completed a MSc in Family Medicine specializing in Medi
 cal Education from 黑料社. While at 黑料社\, Dr. Arora led the 
 design and preliminary validation for the Blended Learning Usability Evalu
 ation 鈥� Questionnaire (BLUE-Q)\, an innovative tool which seeks to systema
 tize program evaluation across health sciences education.\n\nThe Blended L
 earning Usability Evaluation Questionnaire (BLUE-Q) 鈥� Demonstrating its ut
 ility through a microlearning activity on 鈥渕icroaggressions鈥漒n\nAbstract 
 \n\nBackground: Blended learning programs (BLPs) are educational intervent
 ions that combine synchronous and asynchronous learning methods. BLPs are 
 becoming increasingly popular across the field of health sciences educatio
 n (HSE). However\, evaluations of BLPs remain few and disparate\, particul
 arly as HSE scholars have yet to widely adopt the use of standardized conc
 epts and instruments in this regard. Interestingly\, usability has been an
  instrumental construct in the development\, evaluation\, and evolution of
  e-learning programs. Although usability is commonly understood as the eas
 e with which something is utilized\, this conceptualization undermines the
  complexity and depth of this construct. Usability more accurately refers 
 to the effectiveness\, efficiency\, satisfaction\, accessibility\, organiz
 ation\, and user experience one has when engaging with a product and/or se
 rvice. Scholars have proposed that usability evaluation must take place to
  optimize the content of BLPs\, and their synchronous and asynchronous ele
 ments within HSE programming. As such\, we conducted a three-phase researc
 h program including a scoping review\, qualitative investigation with inte
 rnational experts\, and a Bayesian validation study to develop and initial
 ly validate the Blended Learning Usability Evaluation 鈥� Questionnaire (BLU
 E-Q). In this workshop\, we seek to share our experience in developing and
  validating the BLUE-Q and help participants learn how to use this innovat
 ive tool for BLP evaluations in their contexts.\n\nStructure of Workshop: 
 The workshop will begin with an engaging microlearning activity\, delivere
 d in a blended learning format\, focusing on the topic of 鈥榤icroaggression
 s.鈥� Following this\, participants will have an opportunity to evaluate the
  usability of the microlearning activity through the BLUE-Q. Then\, we wil
 l discuss why and how the BLUE-Q came to light\, explore the Bayesian vali
 dation process we took\, and converse on the opportunities the BLUE-Q enab
 les vis-脿-vis systematizing program evaluation across the HSE field.\n\nIn
 tended Outcomes: Alongside an opportunity to engage in an interactive lear
 ning program on microaggressions\, participants will gain the ability to u
 tilize the BLUE-Q for BLP evaluation. Participants will also learn about t
 he Bayesian validation process which enables an efficient\, yet rigorous\,
  approach to adapting questionnaires for various contexts and populations.
 \n\nAuthors and Affiliations\n\nDr. Anish Kumar Arora1 (anish.arora [at] m
 ail.mcgill.ca)\n	Dr. Tamara Carver3 (tamara.carver [at] mcgill.ca)\n	Dr. Tib
 or Schuster2 (tibor.schuster [at] mcgill.ca)\n	Dr. Catherine Jarvis2 (cathe
 rine.jarvis [at] mcgill.ca)\n	Dr. Michelle Elizov4 (michelle.elizov [at] mc
 gill.ca)\n	Dr. Charo Rodriguez2\,3 (charo.rodriguez [at] mcgill.ca)\n\n\n	Of
 fice of Education Scholarship\, Department of Family and Community Medicin
 e\, Temerty Faculty of Medicine\, University of Toronto\n	Department of Fam
 ily Medicine\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences\, 黑料社
 \, Montreal\, Qu茅bec\, Canada\n	Institute of Health Sciences Education\, Fa
 culty of Medicine and Health Sciences\, 黑料社\, Montreal\, Qu茅
 bec\, Canada\n	Faculty Development Office\, Faculty of Medicine and Health 
 Sciences\, 黑料社\, Montreal\, Qu茅bec\, Canada\n\n
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