BMC Medical Education | |
Validating e-learning in continuing pharmacy education: user acceptance and knowledge change | |
Research Article | |
Samuel Edelbring1  Tadeusz Librowski2  Krzysztof Nesterowicz2  | |
[1] Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Radioligands, Medical College, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jagiellonian University, Medyczna 9 Street, 30-688, Krakow, Poland; | |
关键词: E-learning; Continuing pharmacy education; Lifelong learning; Just-in-time learning; | |
DOI : 10.1186/1472-6920-14-33 | |
received in 2013-07-01, accepted in 2014-01-24, 发布年份 2014 | |
来源: Springer | |
【 摘 要 】
BackgroundContinuing pharmacy education is becoming mandatory in most countries in order to keep the professional license valid. Increasing number of pharmacists are now using e-learning as part of their continuing education. Consequently, the increasing popularity of this method of education calls for standardization and validation practices. The conducted research explored validation aspects of e-learning in terms of knowledge increase and user acceptance.MethodsTwo e-courses were conducted as e-based continuing pharmacy education for graduated pharmacists. Knowledge increase and user acceptance were the two outcome measured. The change of knowledge in the first e-course was measured by a pre- and post-test and results analysed by the Wilcoxon signed–rank test. The acceptance of e-learning in the second e-course was investigated by a questionnaire and the results analysed using descriptive statistics.ResultsResults showed that knowledge increased significantly (p < 0.001) by 16 pp after participation in the first e-course. Among the participants who responded to the survey in the second course, 92% stated that e-courses were effective and 91% stated that they enjoyed the course.ConclusionsThe study shows that e-learning is a viable medium of conducting continuing pharmacy education; e-learning is effective in increasing knowledge and highly accepted by pharmacists from various working environments such as community and hospital pharmacies, faculties of pharmacy or wholesales.
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© Nesterowicz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
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