Comparison of Face to Face Lecture, Interactive Internet Based and Computer Based Teaching

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: 3rd Year Medical School's Students

Treatments: Other: Teaching Methods

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01269775

10764 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators carried out a randomized controlled trial comparing three methods of teaching. These three instructional methods consist of face to face lecture, interactive internet based teaching and computer based teaching (lecture synchronized with presentation).

The hypotheses tested were: a) whether there is a difference between these three methods in knowledge achievement and b) whether there is a difference between Students satisfaction in three groups.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 3rd year medical school's students

Exclusion criteria

• It must be their first experience of the course and they must have no previous elective or obligatory study about teaching topic (multiple myeloma).

Trial design

84 participants in 3 patient groups

Face to face lecture

Experimental group

Description:

The lecturer allocated 1.5 hours for delivering the lecture by using provided slides about the topic and 0.5 hours for question and answer.

Treatment:

Other: Teaching Methods

Internet based teaching

Experimental group

Description:

For providing materials for interactive internet-based group the professor's lecture was converted to an interactive electronic content. This content started with a case introduction followed with asking questions and then based on each student's answer a learning pathway would be assigned to his/her.

Treatment:

Other: Teaching Methods

Computer based teaching

Experimental group

Description:

For providing material for computer-based group the lecture of the same professor was recorded in studio environment and was synchronized with the slides that were similar to those for lecture-based group. Then the lecture and the slides were converted to a CD as a multimedia CD.

Treatment:

Other: Teaching Methods