E-LEARNING IN HIGHER PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL EDUCATION: WHAT DO STUDENTS THINK ABOUT IT?

Аннотация

The trend in the development of modern medicine is the use of telecommunications and electronic (computer) technologies. The aim of the study was to investigate the views of the higher medical school students on the prevalence and acceptability of different methods of pedagogical influence and control of educational activities of using traditional and computer technologies. According to the methodological principles of quantitative sociology in order to obtain standardized and comparable assessments, ensuring anonymity of the responses, the authors conducted a survey involving students of the pediatric and general medicine faculties of the Ural State Medical Academy, USMA (n = 625) in October 2012.

The authors found that students actively accepted new educational technologies, preferring to use a differentiated approach to learning and problem-solving tasks, demonstrating the high level of testing as an effective tool for monitoring training activities. At the same time to obtain more objective data it is necessary to know teachers’ motivation, and barriers between new and "old" technologies.