Mazzoleni M Cristina, Rognoni Carla, Finozzi Enrico, Giorgi Ines, Pagani Marco, Imbriani Marcello
Salvatore Maugeri Foundation IRCCS, Pavia, Italy.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;169:238-42.
The paper reports the findings of the analysis of a sample of 829 online Continuous Medical Education (CME) enrolments aimed at inspecting users' preferences and behaviours. The contents of the analyzed course are provided as online SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) resources together with the corresponding Pdf downloadable versions allowing different usage patterns (online only, Pdf only, online AND Pdf, mixed online OR Pdf). The results point out that there is not a specific preference for one of the four patterns and that most of the users access both navigable modules and Pdf documents. Demographic characteristics and initial knowledge level do not influence the choice of a specific usage pattern that probably depends on internal or context factors. From the point of view of knowledge acquisition, the four patterns are equivalent. As regards users' behaviour, the analysis has pointed out two issues: 1) the attitude to conclude the course in a short time and to reach good test scores, but not the excellence; 2) learning activity tracing data were not available for all the enrolments. Cues for discussion are proposed.
本文报告了对829个在线继续医学教育（CME）注册样本的分析结果，旨在考察用户的偏好和行为。所分析课程的内容以在线SCORM（可共享内容对象参考模型）资源的形式提供，并配有相应的可下载PDF版本，允许不同的使用模式（仅在线、仅PDF、在线且PDF、在线或PDF混合）。结果指出，对于这四种模式中的任何一种都没有特定的偏好，并且大多数用户既访问可导航模块又访问PDF文档。人口统计学特征和初始知识水平不会影响特定使用模式的选择，这可能取决于内部或环境因素。从知识获取的角度来看，这四种模式是等效的。关于用户行为，分析指出了两个问题：1）倾向于在短时间内完成课程并取得良好的测试成绩，但不是优异成绩；2）并非所有注册都有学习活动跟踪数据。文中还提出了讨论要点。
