Practical guidelines to build Sense of Community in online medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Sense of Community (SoC) refers to the cognitive or emotional connections established between physically separated learners; it is essential for study success. The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for practical guidelines to facilitate building a SoC in online medical preclerkship education in the Netherlands. Therefore, this qualitative study aims to (a) examine perceptions of SoC from both students' and teachers' perspectives in an online elective course during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to (b) provide a conceptual framework with practical guidelines to medical educators on how to build SoC in online education.

Methods

The study had an exploratory qualitative design. Semi-structured focus groups with student (n = 15) and teacher (n = 5) voluntee

SUBMITTER: van der Meer GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359221 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature