Open AccessParadigm shift in teaching-learning from classroom to virtual mode – Challenges and opportunities
Author(s) -
Nivedita Sirdesai,
Chhaya Saraf,
Shubhada Gade
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of education technology in health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4396
pISSN - 2393-8005
DOI - 10.18231/j.jeths.2021.023
Subject(s) - paradigm shift , the internet , online teaching , mathematics education , medical education , virtual classroom , online learning , psychology , computer science , multimedia , world wide web , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
Since the unprecedented declaration of lockdown there has been a paradigm shift in medical education from chalk and board to virtual mode imposing both challenges and opportunities to faculty and students alike. As guest lecture is an innovative way of pedagogy we addressed them through an online talk to analyse the preferences towards sudden change in medical education. Students and faculty were addressed about the paradigm shift in teaching learning methods through an online guest lecture and the attendees answered a feedback questionnaire on different Teaching Learning methods. Based on responses to the questions results were plotted in Microsoft Excel and completed questionnaires were analyzed for statistics. : 90% of students and 100% of faculty found online guest lecture interesting and opined positively about having more online lectures in academic year. As far as teaching learning method is concerned both faculty and as students preferred offline/ traditional/ classroom teaching. : Online guest lecture offers more opportunities than challenges for both faculty and students. Arranging online guest lectures is economical, cost effective, has ease of attending from place of convenience provided robust internet connection is ensured, eliminates travel time as well as reduces the programme budget. Hence more number of virtual guest lectures can be arranged in an academic year for benefit of medical undergraduates. It is a novel platform for student teacher interaction and arrangement of more and more online guest lectures from eminent speakers excelling in various superspecialities should be encouraged.