The Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Health Professions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Blended learning, defined as the combination of traditional face-to-face learning and asynchronous or synchronous e-learning, has grown rapidly and is now widely used in education. Concerns about the effectiveness of blended learning have led to an increasing number of studies on this topic. However, there has yet to be a quantitative synthesis evaluating the effectiveness of blended learning on knowledge acquisition in health professions.

Objective

We aimed to assess the effectiveness of blended learning for health professional learners compared with no intervention and with nonblended learning. We also aimed to explore factors that could explain differences in learning effects across study designs, participants, country socioeconomic status, intervention duratio

SUBMITTER: Liu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4717286 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature