Assessment in Healthcare EducAtion goes Digital
▶Summary
Innovation approaches such as digital assessment are expected to drive the modernisation of education systems in a rapidly increasingly digital world (Kapsalis et al. 2019), and as a result of the...
▶Objectives
The project AHEAD aimed at enhancing digital assessment in the field of health care education across four European countries, namely Ireland, Germany, Poland and Georgia. It was mainly related to area 3 and 4 of the Framework for Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu): (i) teaching and learning and (ii) assessment. The AHEAD project focus on mainly two sub-elements of assessment (Redecker, 2017): (1) assessment strategies, and (2) feedback and planning and it addressed three target groups: school-based teachers, practice-based teachers and learners in health care education. The objectives of the AHEAD project were as follows: *Engaging participants and encourage them to become involved in the transformation towards digital healthcare assessment *Fostering digital assessment that is in-line with ongoing Higher and VET education and EU Digital Education agendas *Addressing knowledge and skills gaps, hopes and concerns of teachers and learners, and develop their capabilities in the area of digital assessment *Developing video-based self-assessment and peer assessment by means of innovative technologies (AI) and software, *Rewarding learning by means of open source digital badges / micro-credentialing.