Delivering a medical school elective with massive open online course (MOOC) technology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The educational technology of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been successfully applied in a wide variety of disciplines and are an intense focus of educational research at this time. Educators are now looking to MOOC technology as a means to improve professional medical education, but very little is known about how medical MOOCs compare with traditional content delivery.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of the course evaluations for the Medicine as a Business elective by fourth-year medical students at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU-SOM) for the 2012-2015 academic years was conducted. This course was delivered by small group flipped classroom discussions for 2012-2014 and delivered via MOOC technology in 2015. Learner ratings were

SUBMITTER: Robinson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4991885 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature