tailieunhanh - The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education

A recent review of school-based programs in developing countries (FOCUS, 2001) found strong evidence of the effectiveness of such programs in improving YRH outcomes. Seventeen of 19 school programs that had undergone relatively rigorous evaluation were effective in improving young people’s knowledge of sexual and reproductive health, including contraception and HIV/AIDS prevention. Nine of 14 school programs were effective in improving YRH behaviors such as delaying sexual debut, decreasing the number of sexual partners, and increasing condom use among youth who are sexually active. The FOCUS review includes a description of three Nigerian programs. Although different in. | IT in Medical Education The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education Jorge G. Ruiz MD Michael J. Mintzer MD and Rosanne M. Leipzig MD PhD Abstract The authors provide an introduction to e-learning and its role in medical education by outlining key terms the components of e-learning the evidence for its effectiveness faculty development needs for implementation evaluation strategies for e-learning and its technology and how e-learning might be considered evidence of academic scholarship. E-learning is the use of Internet technologies to enhance knowledge and performance. E-learning technologies offer learners control over content learning sequence pace of learning time and often media allowing them to tailor their experiences to meet their personal learning objectives. In diverse medical education contexts e-learning appears to be at least as effective as traditional instructor-led methods such as lectures. Students do not see e-learning as replacing traditional instructor-led training but as a complement to it forming part of a blended-learning strategy. A developing infrastructure to support e-learning within medical education includes repositories or digital libraries to manage access to e-learning materials consensus on technical standardization and methods for peer review of these resources. E-learning presents numerous research opportunities for faculty along with continuing challenges for documenting scholarship. Innovations in e-learning technologies point toward a revolution in education allowing learning to be individualized adaptive learning enhancing learners interactions with others collaborative learning and transforming the role of the teacher. The integration of e-learning into medical education can catalyze the shift toward applying adult learning theory where educators will no longer serve mainly as the distributors of content but will become more involved as facilitators of learning and assessors of competency. Acad Med. 2006 81 207-212. Today s