Videokonference:
A light at the end of the tunnel: the potential impact of new learning technologies on medical education.
Abstract:
Changes in medical education have not kept pace with changes in the practice of medicine. The surgical operating theatre, for example, has been revolutionised in the last century but until recent years the classroom and teaching in the clinical context has remained relatively unchanged. In response to a variety of pressures and facilitated by the use of new learning technologies, we can look forward now to new opportunities.
The challenge today is to apply learning technologies not only to support sustaining innovations in medical education where we have modest incremental changes achieving more efficiently and effectively what we are already doing at present, but to harness the technologies to bring about a paradigm shift in education.
A vision for the future of medical education facilitated by learning technologies can be represented by the CRISIS acronym
- Convenient – “Just-in-time” learning
- Relevant – Authentic learning
- Individualised – “Just-for-you” learning
- Self-assessment – Adaptive learning
- Integration – The learning continuum
- Systematic – Outcome-based-education
Such disruptive innovations, however, challenge many incumbents who lack the necessary peripheral vision If the developments are to succeed they will require close collaboration between all of the stakeholders including computer technologists, instructional designers, educationists, education psychologists, medical teachers, curriculum developers, deans and other leaders and those with funding responsibilities.