Online medical education using a Facebook peer-to-peer learning platform during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring learner and tutor acceptability of Facebook as a learning platform.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, higher education institutions have been moving teaching online, accelerated by the pandemic. The Remote Learning Project (RLP), based at the Norwich Medical School (NMS) in the United Kingdom (U.K.), was a peer-to-peer teaching program developed to supplement medical school teaching during the pandemic. The teaching was delivered through Facebook using peer-to-peer teaching. Tutors were final year medical students, teaching medical student learners in lower years. Tutors and learners perception of peer-to-peer online learning delivered through the Facebook Social Media (SoMe) platform was investigated.

Methods

This qualitative study recruited tutor and learner participants from NMS by email, participation in the study was voluntary. Online semi-st

SUBMITTER: Chambers J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150675 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature