Rae Mark G, O'Malley Dervla
a Department of Physiology , University College Cork , Cork , Ireland.
Med Teach. 2017 Mar;39(3):250-254. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1270436. Epub 2016 Dec 27.
There is increasing concern amongst educators that the provision of recorded lectures may reduce student attendance of live lectures. We therefore sought to determine if the provision of prerecorded lecture video podcasts (VODcasts) to first-year Graduate Entry to Medicine (GEM) students, affected attendance at 21 Physiology lectures within three separate pre-clinical modules.
Data on lecture attendance, utilization of VODcasts, and whether VODcasts should replace live lectures were drawn from three surveys conducted in academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 on all first-year GEM students in two first-year pre-clinical modules where prerecorded Physiology VODcasts were available for viewing or downloading prior to scheduled live lectures.
A total of 191/214 (89%) students responded to the three surveys, with 84.3% of students attending all 21 lectures in the study. Only 4% of students missed more than one lecture in each of the three lecture series, with 79% indicating that VODcasts should not replace lectures.
Therefore, we conclude that the attendance of pre-clinical GEM students at live lectures is not significantly impacted upon by the provision of lecture VODcasts, with most students viewing them as useful revision tools rather than as a replacement for live lectures.
教育工作者越来越担心提供录制好的讲座可能会减少学生参加现场讲座的次数。因此，我们试图确定向医学研究生入学第一年（GEM）的学生提供预先录制的讲座视频播客（VODcasts）是否会影响他们在三个不同临床前模块中21场生理学讲座的出席情况。
关于讲座出席情况、VODcasts的使用情况以及VODcasts是否应取代现场讲座的数据，来自于2014 - 2015学年和2015 - 2016学年对两个临床前一年级模块中所有一年级GEM学生进行的三项调查，在这些模块中，预先录制的生理学VODcasts可在预定的现场讲座之前供学生观看或下载。
共有191/214（89%）名学生回复了这三项调查，84.3%的学生参加了研究中的所有21场讲座。在三个讲座系列中，每个系列只有4%的学生错过超过一场讲座，79%的学生表示VODcasts不应取代讲座。
因此，我们得出结论，向临床前GEM学生提供讲座VODcasts对他们参加现场讲座的情况没有显著影响，大多数学生将其视为有用的复习工具，而不是取代现场讲座。
