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Online Collaborative Learning To Enhance Clinical Training For 3rd Year Medical Students In Pediatrics, Erik E. Langenau, Louise Jones, Paula M. Gregory, Robert Lee
Online Collaborative Learning To Enhance Clinical Training For 3rd Year Medical Students In Pediatrics, Erik E. Langenau, Louise Jones, Paula M. Gregory, Robert Lee
Erik E. Langenau
Online Collaborative Learning (OCL) provides great opportunity to engage leaners at remote clinical training sites. Through OCL, learners participate in a variety of eLearning activities such as online content review, discussion boards, interactive blogs, wikis, webconferencing, self-reflection and group activities. OCL affords the opportunity to reach students at different clinical training sites, ensure a basic level of comparable learning experiences, and augment face-to-face clinical training experiences.
We describe a 3rd year clinical rotation in pediatrics facilitated partially online: blended learning. The program combines online collaborative learning with asynchronous discussion boards and blogs, podcasts, video demonstrations, didactic presentations, scenario-based instruction, …