Department of Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, LMU-Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80377 Munich, Germany.
Institute for Medical Education, LMU University Hospitals, LMU-Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80336 Munich, Germany.
Nutrients. 2021 Feb 27;13(3):775. doi: 10.3390/nu13030775.
Every encounter a healthcare professional has with new or expecting parents offers an opportunity for addressing improved early nutrition and lifestyle. Evidence-based qualification programmes via e-learning offer valuable tools for attenuating the world's huge double burden of both under- and overnutrition in early childhood. We evaluated use and learner satisfaction of a global e-learning programme on early nutrition and lifestyle addressing international healthcare professionals.
We implemented the Early Nutrition Specialist Programme (ENS) with six interactive e-learning courses on early nutrition building on more than ten years of experience with global e-learning platforms, expert knowledge and an international network in the subject field. We collected descriptive and explorative evaluation data on usage and learner satisfaction with a questionnaire and log data over three years among 4003 learners from 48 countries.
Results show high completion of the ENS programme, with 85.5% of learners finalizing the programme after enrollment into the first of six courses. Very good results were provided for learner satisfaction with the courses (96.7% of users), for increasing understanding of the topic (97.4%) and matching the indicated time investment (94.4%). Most predominant themes in the open text fields of user feedback questionnaires were "Increase interactivity or number of audio-visuals", "Content suggestions or more examples" and "Technical (quality) issues or navigation problems".
The ENS programme evaluation shows high completion rates and level of satisfaction by learners from numerous countries. The different needs for Continuing Medical Education (CME) of healthcare professionals in diverse healthcare system settings can be met by a joint e-learning qualification programme. Further optimizations will be implemented based on user feedback. More research with a learning analytics approach may help to further identify the most effective and efficient didactic and pedagogic elements of e-learning.
医疗保健专业人员与新父母或预期父母的每一次接触都提供了改善早期营养和生活方式的机会。基于证据的电子学习资格课程为减轻全球儿童期营养不足和营养过剩的双重负担提供了宝贵的工具。我们评估了一项针对国际医疗保健专业人员的早期营养和生活方式的全球电子学习计划的使用情况和学习者满意度。
我们实施了早期营养专家计划（ENS），该计划有六个关于早期营养的互动电子学习课程，基于十多年的全球电子学习平台、专家知识和该领域的国际网络经验。我们使用问卷和三年来的日志数据收集了 48 个国家的 4003 名学习者在使用和学习者满意度方面的描述性和探索性评估数据。
结果显示 ENS 计划的完成率很高，85.5%的学习者在注册完六个课程中的第一个课程后完成了该计划。学习者对课程的满意度非常高（96.7%的用户），对主题的理解（97.4%）和与所指示的时间投资相匹配（94.4%）。用户反馈问卷的开放文本字段中最主要的主题是“增加互动或视听数量”、“内容建议或更多示例”和“技术（质量）问题或导航问题”。
ENS 计划评估显示，来自众多国家的学习者完成率和满意度都很高。不同医疗保健系统环境中医疗保健专业人员的继续医学教育（CME）需求可以通过联合电子学习资格计划来满足。将根据用户反馈进行进一步优化。采用学习分析方法的更多研究可能有助于进一步确定电子学习中最有效和高效的教学和教学元素。
