COVID 2019 pandemic: a true digital revolution and birth of a new educational era, or an ephemeral phenomenon?

Owing to COVID 19 pandemic, all educational institutions including medical colleges were closed by the second week of March 2020 in Kerala, India. This college started online classes using various e-platforms by the third week of March. In this study, we report the barriers and perceptions of undergraduate students by an online questionnaire after 2.5 months of e-classes. The study participants were 364 students who responded in a week’s time. Most of the faculty used platforms like Google class room or recorded YouTube videos. The department of Physiology used the Impartus platform. Among the respondents 72.8% were using mobile data and 17.8% were using broadband facilities. Among network providers Jio was the most used. Only first year students were exposed to 3 different online platforms. Among those students, 63.6% reported in favor of Impartus, followed by YouTube and Google class room. Most of the students preferred recorded classes (69.2%) over live classes (33.5%). Submissions were mainly through the online platform itself (69.5%), email submission to the department (17%) or to the faculty (13.5%). Forty seven percent of the students wanted the classes to be of 30 to 45 minutes duration and 42% felt that the classes should be short and below 30 minutes. Only 28.3% of the students favored centralized online class by the university. Providing education to students cannot be discontinued for long. In the present study students are able to follow the online classes and have good learning experience on in the Didactic part. The medical educators could rise up to the challenge of continuing to teach even in times of crisis.

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“…Conducting effective distance education in the background of inexperience and immediate need is a real challenge. 17…”

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The Pedagogical Shift During COVID 19 Pandemic: Online Medical Education, Barriers and Perceptions in Central Kerala

Rafi

Varghese

Kuttichira

2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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“…This difference can be attributed to the difference in the groups' average age, with the youngest being more familiar with digital technology. Although young people assimilate the use of digital technology easily (10), the present study's exciting finding was that students did not express professors' enthusiasm with this teaching method, declaring that the absence of practical classes unmotivated them as one of the causes. Also, a previous study (20) observed that students' most significant interest occurred when the subject of didactic classes was taught together with clinical activities.…”

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“…As there are still no specific therapies (6,7), classic public health measures, such as social isolation, have been recommended by health authorities to contain the spread of the virus (5,8,9). Thus, to avoid gatherings, these measures directly affected educational institutions' closure worldwide (3,6,(10)(11)(12).…”

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“…With the suspension of activities in the classroom, so that learning was not interrupted, alternatives were created through the improvement and implementation of distance learning (5,(9)(10)(11). Distance learning has been conducted electronically using tools available through digital platforms and using electronic devices (e.g., computers, tablets, and cell phones) and the internet (5,12).…”

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“…It is essential to consider that, in the distance learning model, classes are based on essentially didactic content (10,13), so the teaching of students in professions that depend on practical training has been directly affected (13,14), including Dentistry (13). In Dentistry, laboratory activities and clinical care are of paramount importance for training students' manual ability and fine motor skills, in addition to handling and patient-care training.…”

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confidence: 99%

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