This presentation was delivered in International Surgical Conference in lahore, in the session of Medical Education.

1. JAVED IQBAL, FCPS, FRCS,
MCPS-HPE
Professor of Surgery &
Director, Department of Medical Education
Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur,
Pakistan

2. E-learning

3. Do you have a smart
phone with internet
connection, right now?

4. Do you have a personal
‘tablet’ or ‘I-pad’?

5. Do you have internet
available at your work
place and home?

6. If you want to know
about the safely of a
drug in pregnancy, can
you find it out now?

7.  Do you have a smart phone with internet
connection, right now?
 Do you have a ‘tablet’ or ‘I-phone’?
 Do you have net available at your work place and
home?
 If you want to know about the safely of a drug in
pregnancy, can you find it out now?
You already are involved in e-
learning

8. E-learning is the use of
information and
computer technologies
to create a learning
experience
Horton W, 2006 E-learning by design. Pfeiffer, San Francisco

9. E-learning is also called:
Web-based learning
Online learning
Distributed learning,
Computer-assisted instruction
Internet-based learning.

10. But: According
to the literature
E-Learning as a technical Jorgen is a strategy of
using computers, internet and electronic devices
as a part of a structured program…
……….and not just random use of the devices.
Ruiz J G and Mintzer M J: 2006: The Impact of E-Learning in
Medical Education: Academic Medicine, Vol. 81, No. 3

12. Behaviorist approach
Teacher centered strategy

13. Constructivist approach
Student Centered strategy

14. Social
Constructivism

16. E-learning is actually
one of the tools to create
learning experiences.
Following the social constructivist
theory of learning and principles of
adult learning

17. LEARNING CYCLE
Learning
goals
Learning
experience
assessmentEvaluation
Feedback
E-
learning

25. So is the education
Everything is changing

26. So Should we

27. Why e-
learning?

28. Most of the major journals are going to be
electronic in very near future.

29. Many post-graduate courses have
their major chunk learned through
e-learning.

30. Knowledge is expanding so fast that it is
impossible to cope with it through hard copies.

31. One can not travel all over the world: But
can be everywhere electronically

32. Why e-learning?
• Most of the major journals are going to be
electronic in very near future.
• Many post-graduate courses have their major
chunk learned through e-learning.
• Knowledge is expanding so fast that it is impossible
to cope with it through hard copies.
• One can not travel all over the world: But can be
everywhere electronically

33. Advantages
Learners have control over:
• The Contents
• learning sequence
• Pace of learning
• Time
• Media
It allows them to tailor their experience to meet
personal learning objectives.

36. How to start?

37. • To make a decision
• To design a curriculum
• To design the activities
• To monitor the activities
• To assess the out come

38. A case scenario

39. Curriculum for a 25 days rotation of final
year MBBS in a surgical unit
• Outcome 1
• Outcome 2
• Outcome 3
• Outcome 4
• Outcome 5
• Outcome 6
• Outcome 7
• Students are able to describe management of
carcinoma breast at various stages of disease

40. Activities
• E-mail them the study guide and reading material
• Online discussion forum
• Facebook page of the group for sharing the ideas
• Providing them with web-sites of guidelines etc
• Arranging a video link lecture of a expert

41. Assessment
• On line standardized assignments assessed by peers
and teachers

42. Feedback
• On line corrective feedback

45. The challenges
• Too much data
• Time waste

47. The challenges
• Too much data
• Time waste
• Requires Intense faculty development
• Development of IT department
• Development of Department of Medical Education

48. Directions for the Future
Developments in e-learning and technologies are
creating the groundwork for a revolution in
education, allowing learning to be individualized
(adaptive learning), enhancing learners’ interactions
with each other (collaborative learning), and
transforming the role of the teacher (from
disseminator to facilitator).
Piemme TE. Computer-assisted learning andevaluation in medicine. JAMA. 1988;260:367–
72.

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50. Thank You very much