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HOW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN CHINESE MEDICAL SCHOOLS PERCEIVE DISTANT LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- Source :
- Advanced education : збірник наукових праць, Вип. 18
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Kyiv Politechnic Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the perception of international medical students of e-learning in China, since medical teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic had to adapt to challenges, and students had to cope with the new teaching modality, more so international students. Therefore, the opinion of students with their first contact to a fully virtual education will be helpful to modify e-teaching to better suit the students’ needs. Method: Four hundred seven medical students, in China, were recruited via social media and were asked to complete structured questionnaires, regarding technical and content aspects of their e-courses. Findings: Most issues reported were of technical nature, especially for students attending the school distantly and network instability/unavailability was frequently (52.48%). Moreover, the audio was less helpful than texts/images and the senior students were less satisfied with the technical (0.005) and content (p=0.001) aspects. They also were more critical of their teachers’ performance (p=0.042). Clinical cases and scenarios also received the lowest score. Implications for research and practice: Overall students did not feel confident with the e-learning, comfortable implementing it to patients and were reluctant to embrace it. Both technical difficulties and understanding issues impeded international students from embracing e-learning medical teaching, in China and efforts need to be made to acclimatise them to this new reality.
- Subjects :
- First contact
Medical education
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
electronic learning
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e-courses
General Engineering
medical students
virtual medical teaching
Medical teaching
Distant learning
Distance Electronic Learning
Perception
Pandemic
International students
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Social media
China
Psychology
General Environmental Science
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 24108286 and 24093351
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advanced Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e8a822b374a8ac210f440d0d40d33e9