Lindsay Davidson
"The online course modules have been extremely effective, not only from
the point of view of the students, but from my point of view as a teacher."
Lindsay Davidson coordinates the Musculoskeletal Course in the first year of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Over the past 2 years, she has worked with Amy Allcock to develop online learning modules to complement the in-class learning of her course. She reports, "The online modules are a key component of the blended e-learning Musculoskeletal Course. The modules are interactive and web-based and include static images and video to illustrate concepts. These online modules, which students complete prior to scheduled classes, allow for enhanced classroom activities, emphasizing problem solving, active learning and higher order problems than presented previously at this stage". The student response to these online modules has been extremely positive with 98.8% of students in the 2007 class agreeing with the statement, "The course website modules helped me to learn and better understand the course material." (90% of students completed the course survey where this quotation was obtained.)
