JAVED IQBAL, FCPS, FRCS,

MCPS-HPE

Professor of Surgery &

Director, Department of Medical Education

Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur,

Pakistan

E-learning

Do you have a smart phone with internet

connection, right now?

Do you have a personal ‘tablet’ or ‘I-pad’?

Do you have internet available at your work

place and home?

If you want to know about the safely of a

drug in pregnancy, can you find it out now?

Do you have a smart phone with internet

connection, right now?

Do you have a ‘tablet’ or ‘I-phone’?

Do you have net available at your work place and

home?

If you want to know about the safely of a drug in

pregnancy, can you find it out now?

You already are involved in e-learning

E-learning is the use of information and

computer technologies to create a learning

experience

Horton W, 2006 E-learning by design. Pfeiffer, San Francisco

E-learning is also called:

Web-based learningOnline learningDistributed learning,Computer-assisted instructionInternet-based learning.

But: According to the literature

E-Learning as a technical Jorgen is a strategy ofusing computers, internet and electronic devicesas a part of a structured program…

……….and not just random use of the devices.

Ruiz J G and Mintzer M J: 2006: The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education: Academic Medicine, Vol. 81, No. 3

Behaviorist approach

Teacher centered strategy

Constructivist approach

Student Centered strategy

Social Constructivism

E-learning is actually one of the tools to create

learning experiences.

Following the social constructivist

theory of learning and principles of

adult learning

LEARNING CYCLELearning

goals

Learning experience

assessmentEvaluation

Feedback

E-learning

So is the education

Everything is changing

So Should we

Why e-learning?

Most of the major journals are going to be

electronic in very near future.

Many post-graduate courses have

their major chunk learned through

e-learning.

Knowledge is expanding so fast that it is

impossible to cope with it through hard copies.

One can not travel all over the world: But

can be everywhere electronically

Why e-learning?• Most of the major journals are going to be

electronic in very near future.

• Many post-graduate courses have their major

chunk learned through e-learning.

• Knowledge is expanding so fast that it is impossible

to cope with it through hard copies.

• One can not travel all over the world: But can be

everywhere electronically

AdvantagesLearners have control over:

• The Contents

• learning sequence

• Pace of learning

• Time

• Media

It allows them to tailor their experience to meet

personal learning objectives.

How to start?

• To make a decision

• To design a curriculum

• To design the activities

• To monitor the activities

• To assess the out come

A case scenario

Curriculum for a 25 days rotation of final

year MBBS in a surgical unit

• Outcome 1

• Outcome 2

• Outcome 3

• Outcome 4

• Outcome 5

• Outcome 6

• Outcome 7

• Students are able to describe management of

carcinoma breast at various stages of disease

Activities• E-mail them the study guide and reading material

• Online discussion forum

• Facebook page of the group for sharing the ideas

• Providing them with web-sites of guidelines etc

• Arranging a video link lecture of a expert

Assessment• On line standardized assignments assessed by peers

and teachers

Feedback• On line corrective feedback

The challenges• Too much data

• Time waste

The challenges• Too much data

• Time waste

• Requires Intense faculty development

• Development of IT department

• Development of Department of Medical Education

Directions for the Future

Developments in e-learning and technologies arecreating the groundwork for a revolution ineducation, allowing learning to be individualized(adaptive learning), enhancing learners’ interactionswith each other (collaborative learning), andtransforming the role of the teacher (fromdisseminator to facilitator).

Piemme TE. Computer-assisted learning andevaluation in medicine. JAMA. 1988;260:367–

72.

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Thank You very much