AMEE Guide 32: e-Learning in medical education. Part 1: Learning, teaching and assessment
(russian version edited by Z.Z. Balkizov)
AbstractIn just a few years, e-learning has become part of the main stream in medical education. While e-learning means many things to many people, at its heart it is concerned with the educational use soft technology. For the purposes of this guide, we consider the many ways that the information revolution has affected and remediated the practice of health care teaching and learning.
Deploying of e-learning introduces tensions. Some wish to use it merely to perform pre–existing activities more efficiently or faster. Others pursue new ways of thinking and working that the use of such technology affords them. Medical Education, as with most fields, is grappling with these tensions; the AMEE Guide to e-Learning in Medical Education hopes to help the reader, whether novice or expert, navigate them.
This Guide is presented both as an introduction to the novice, and as are source to more experienced practitioners. Each section is concluded with a brief «Take Home Message», which serves as a short summary of the section. The Guide is divided into two parts. The first part introduces the basic concepts of e-learning, e teaching, and e-assessment, and then focuses on the day-to-day issues of e-learning, looking both at theoretical concepts and at practical implementation issues. The second part examines technical, management, social, design and other broader issues in e-learning, and it ends with are view of emerging forms and di-rections in e-learning in medical education.
Meditsinskoe obrazovanie i professional’noe razvitie [Medical Education and Professional Development]. 2012; (2): 21–56.