Abstract
Objective: We are currently training a generation of students who cannot remember the days before Internet, are learning in digital environment, will practice in a predominantly e-health world. We think they are ready to learn online, but are they? The aim of this study was to determine the students’ readiness for e-learning in terms of the technologies they have with the skills for online learning. Methods: This is a descriptive study with survey method by using a scale of university students’ readiness for e-learning. The research was done with volunteer 4th-year medical students. Results: The results show that e-learning readiness for medical students is enough for five sub-scales, and almost enough for one sub-scale. The medical undergraduates have smartphones(92.3%), laptops(81.6%) and tablets(26.7%) only 0.9% of the undergraduates have no hardware. The participants have regular internet connection(92.1%) and mobile internet connection(80.89%). Male undergraduates’ readiness is significantly higher than females. The undergraduates who use internet for studying and learning during the day or several times in a day have statistically higher readiness levels than others. Conclusion: Medical students’ e-learning readiness level is moderately high. They use Internet daily with own hardware. The organizational readiness is well in terms of resources, learning management systems.
Highlights
Participants The 4th year medical students were selected as the study group and we aimed to reach all of them without sampling in May 2017
Medical students’ e-learning readiness levels The second research question was technology ownership and usage situations of the group and the results were given in several steps to get a perspective about the study group
An acceptable level was found for e-learning readiness at undergraduate medical students
Summary
Research Model This is a descriptive study aimed to reveal the e-learning readiness of medical students by using a valid and reliable scale of university students’ readiness for e-learning. Participants The 4th year medical students were selected as the study group and we aimed to reach all of them without sampling in May 2017. The ethical approval was taken from Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Gazi University. We selected this group because in the following year one of the 5th year clerkship will offer a flipped learning strategy. Data Collection Tool The e-Learning Readiness Scale (e-LRS) for students [14] has 33 seven-point. The Cronbach’s α reliability of the total items was .93 in original scale and for the factors, it changes between .84 and .95. The distribution of data and homogeneity of variances were tested before conducting parametric tests
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