COVID-19: Strategies for Engaging Remote Learners in Medical Education

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Learner Engagement; Distance Education; Electronic Learning; Student Centered Learning; Online Courses; Medical Students; Teaching Methods; Medical Education; Crisis Management; Student Role; Communities of Practice; Computer Mediated Communication; Large Group Instruction; Hospitals; Cooperative Learning; Mentors; Mental Health; Health Services; Electronic Publishing; Web Sites; Electronic Libraries; COVID-19; Pandemics; Disease Control

The COVID-19 outbreak across the globe has forced educational institutions including medical schools to suspend campus learning in order to curb the spread of the virus. This has forced the teaching community to think of new avenues and alternate strategies for engaging our students. Many institutes of higher education including medical colleges have shifted to online-mode to ensure continuity of teaching-learning and assessment processes. Online mode or e-learning mode is not just conducting videoconferencing sessions or sharing the PowerPoint slides, videos and documents to learners. Online education can be effective only if it promotes active learning in learners by providing opportunities to read, write, discuss, think, ask questions, solve problems, analyze and create new things depending on the learning content. This document discusses about the different strategies for ensuring higher levels of online student engagement in medical education. [For an older version of this article, see ED604168.]

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2020

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