More and more medical schools are using technology, and the Internet, as teaching tools-and medical students are welcoming an infusion of technology into their educational experience. Most medical students today carry laptops and PDAs in addition to notebooks and stethoscopes.
Drexel University College of Medicine, in Philadelphia, has recently put all lectures for first- and second-year students online, and nearly 75 lectures for third- and fourth-year students. Drexel has also developed a series of Web-based innovations, inclucing Doc.com, a joint production with the American Academy on Physician and Patient, a society that works to help doctors and patients communicate better.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has digitized all of its lectures and put the information online. The lectures are indexed to the minute so students can quickly find any particular part of a lecture they want to review.
Despite fears of students opting not to attend the actual lectures, instructors say the overwhelming majority of students continue to attend lectures even though the content is also available online.
1. The lectures are indexed to the minute so students can quickly find any particular part of a lecture they want to review.
I think having the lectures available online for later review is a very valuable tool. Having them indexed is a bonus. I was wondering however how this impacts a student’s attentiveness during class. Knowing that you can later review the lecture and go directly where you need to, I would assume some students will not pay as close of attention or not take as good of notes as they would have in "the old days".
Posted at 12:19PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by lpn