Effectiveness of blending E-learning with field trip on Chinese herbal medicine education: quasi-experimental study.
Background: Chinese Medicine education is part of professional medical training in Hong Kong. An important element of this is herbal medicine, which requires both theoretical and practical knowledge. A field trip programme was adopted to provide students with direct experience of medicinal plants st...
| Published in: | BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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BioMed Central
8/10/2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=145078895&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 145078895 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 26627671 MFH8 jtl: BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies issn: 26627671 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 8/10/2020 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 145078895 145078895 145078895 10.1186/s12906-020-03034-y 145078895 ppf: 1 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Effectiveness of blending E-learning with field trip on Chinese herbal medicine education: quasi-experimental study. aug: au: Li, Lei Tam, Chi Wing Wang, Ning Cheung, Fan Zhou, Qing Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Chien-shan Xiong, Lei Feng, Yibin affil: School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China sug: subj: Education, Medical Hong Kong Medicine, Chinese Traditional Education Medicine, Herbal Education Plants, Medicinal Online Education Fieldwork Models, Educational Evaluation Student Satisfaction Human Prospective Studies Quasi-Experimental Studies Questionnaires Control Group P-Value Hong Kong Female Male Descriptive Statistics Convenience Sample Summated Rating Scaling Data Analysis Software Chi Square Test T-Tests Effect Size Funding Source Students, Medical Female Male ab: Background: Chinese Medicine education is part of professional medical training in Hong Kong. An important element of this is herbal medicine, which requires both theoretical and practical knowledge. A field trip programme was adopted to provide students with direct experience of medicinal plants studied in lectures. However, problems with the current programme were identified in learning outcome assessment and long-term knowledge management. To improve the teaching quality, a Moodle e-learning module was designed for augmentation. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of the Moodle module in supplementing the current field trip programme. Methods: Prospective quasi-experiment. Participants were 49 year-2 students in the Bachelor of Chinese Medicine programme. A Moodle module including five online activities regarding two groups of herbal plants was integrated before and after the field trip. Fill-in-the-blank questions were used to assess the learning outcome. Also, a questionnaire was developed to collect student feedback as the secondary outcome. Results: For herbal plants in Group A, the assessment score was higher in Moodle group (29.65 ± 5.0) than for the control group (21.65 ± 6.5) (P < 0.01). For herbal plants in Group B, the assessment score was higher for the Moodle group (28.68 ± 4.7) than for the control group (24.26 ± 7.7) (P < 0.01). The questionnaire results showed that students were satisfied with the Moodle platform. Conclusions: A specially designed Moodle module may be effective in augmenting the field trip for Chinese herbal medicine education. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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