Capturing great quotes from learners can be a challenge even for the most experienced CME/CE professional. If you find yourself struggling to ask good open-ended questions, you won’t want to miss “‘If You Build It, They Will Come’: Amplifying Learner Voices in Outcomes” (Friday, Jan. 10, from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in Osceola B). In this session, you’ll learn to move beyond traditional outcomes numbers to amplify learner voices in your outcomes to stakeholders. Here are just a few reasons why you should attend:
- Forget Your Boring Didactic: We won’t talk at, you; we want to talk with you. This session will include discussion prompts for small group work and large group discussions.
- Discussing Your Experience: There’s a good chance that what works best for you and your learners may work for someone else, too. Use this time to share personal experiences with collecting qualitative data, effective skills and strategies used to collect this data, and how it was used to support outcomes with stakeholders.
- Learn the Benefits of Using Mixed-method Assessments: Traditionally, outcomes have emphasized quantitative metrics to answer if the learner had knowledge or competence gains. Questions related to the learner’s attitudes, beliefs, misconceptions and overarching thoughts as they experience an educational activity are often left unanswered by numbers, highlighting the need for mixed-method assessments.
- Share Challenges and Opportunities: Outcomes are not for the faint at heart. It takes planning, pivoting and a lot of work to design good assessments that hopefully lead to good data. The challenges we face provide an opportunity to learn what may work better next time. We hope you’ll share some of your challenges and insights so we can all learn from each other.
- Valuable Takeaways and Resources: We’ll provide takeaways and resources that you can review when you have to decipher your conference notes or share them with your CE team. Our goal is to empower you and your team members to consider when and how to use qualitative questions in your educational design, what questions would best support your knowledge and competence assessments, and how using a mixed-methods approach could improve the overall educational experience for your clinician learners, while elevating the quality of your CE outcomes for stakeholders.
All levels of outcomes experience are welcome to take this opportunity to connect with colleagues and learn from each other. We look forward to discussing how, together, we can improve outcomes across our industry by amplifying learner voices. Can’t wait to see you there!
Ready to amplify learner voices and improve outcomes? Register now for the Alliance 2025 Annual Conference, taking place Jan. 8–11, 2025, in Orlando, Florida.