Faculty of Wellbeing Education and Language Studies, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Centre for Research in Digital Education, School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Med Teach. 2022 Mar;44(3):244-248. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1898571. Epub 2021 Mar 17.
Educators play a critical role in designing, facilitating and delivering an online medical education experience. Their teaching decisions and practices shape learners' experiences and affect their achievements. This is true even in large-scale, open educational contexts such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are designed based on self-regulated and collaborative learning. Thus, it is particularly important to explore the ways in which educators can effectively support online or blended learning through their interactions with learners. The 12 tips in this article aim to provide medical educators with guidelines for creating engaging online discussions that both support and challenge learners' understanding. The advice draws on a recent study examining the experiences and activities of 24 educators in MOOC discussion areas, and how their learners engaged with them. It provides practical recommendations on facilitating online discussions, producing engaging discussion tasks, and creating a balanced educator presence.
教育工作者在设计、促进和提供在线医学教育体验方面发挥着关键作用。他们的教学决策和实践塑造了学习者的体验，并影响了他们的成就。即使在大规模的开放教育环境中，如大规模开放在线课程（MOOC），这种情况也是如此，因为这些课程是基于自我调节和协作学习而设计的。因此，探索教育工作者如何通过与学习者的互动，有效地支持在线或混合学习尤为重要。本文中的 12 条建议旨在为医学教育工作者提供指导，帮助他们创建有吸引力的在线讨论，以支持和挑战学习者的理解。这些建议借鉴了最近一项研究的经验，该研究考察了 24 名 MOOC 讨论区教育工作者的经验和活动，以及他们的学习者如何与他们互动。它提供了关于促进在线讨论、制作吸引人的讨论任务以及创建平衡的教育者存在的实用建议。
