Gupta Subhangi, Dabas Aashima, Swarnim Swarnim, Mishra Devendra
Medical Student, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Associate Professor (Paediatrics), Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Med J Armed Forces India. 2021 Feb;77(Suppl 1):S79-S84. doi: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2020.12.008. Epub 2021 Feb 2.
The lockdown imposed due to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in adopting electronic learning (e-learning) as the means of education in various institutions all over India. This study aimed to collect the experiences of faculty and students regarding e-learning in medical colleges during COVID-19 and to analyse the likely perceived benefits and problems to choose blended learning activities after the COVID crisis.
A survey-based study was conducted among undergraduate students and faculty members in medical colleges of Delhi-NCR.
Two hundred forty-eight medical students and 23 faculty members participated in the study. Two hundred twelve (85.4%) students considered medical education to be severely affected during the lockdown and 219 (88.3%) students found the online classes to be useful. Poor connectivity followed by lack of human interface and poor sound or acoustics were the major hindering factors, whereas convenience and access were reported as important facilitating factors. In the postlockdown phase, 135 (54.4%) students want online classes to be continued in addition to classroom teaching for the cognitive domain, 42 (16.9%) students want it for both cognitive and psychomotor domain and 60 (24.1%) do not want online classes. The majority of the faculty members (65.2%) were in favour of including online teaching modules in routine curriculum and 69.6% suggested a 70%:30% distribution of traditional and online classes after the COVID lockdown.
Implementation of e-learning within the existing curriculum is bound to be challenging; however, it remains the only solution during COVID-19 imposed lockdown for maintaining the chain of learning.
2019年新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）疫情导致的封锁使得印度各地的各类院校都采用电子学习（在线学习）作为教育手段。本研究旨在收集医学院校师生在COVID-19疫情期间关于在线学习的体验，并分析在疫情危机过后选择混合式学习活动可能感知到的益处和问题。
在德里-国家首都辖区的医学院校的本科生和教职员工中开展了一项基于调查研究。
248名医学生和23名教职员工参与了该研究。212名（85.4%）学生认为在封锁期间医学教育受到严重影响，219名（88.3%）学生认为在线课程有用。网络连接差，其次是缺乏人际互动以及声音或音响效果不佳是主要阻碍因素，而便利性和可及性被报告为重要的促进因素。在解封后阶段，135名（54.4%）学生希望除了课堂教学外，认知领域的在线课程也继续开展，42名（16.9%）学生希望认知和心理运动领域的在线课程都继续开展，60名（24.1%）学生不希望开展在线课程。大多数教职员工（65.2%）赞成在常规课程中纳入在线教学模块，69.6%的人建议在COVID-19疫情封锁过后传统课程和在线课程按70%:30%的比例分配。
在现有课程中实施在线学习必然具有挑战性；然而，在COVID-19疫情封锁期间，它仍然是维持学习链条的唯一解决方案。
