Pivoting Healthcare Education Online: Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 November 2022) | Viewed by 14839
Special Issue Editors
Interests: faculty development; online distance learning; sense of belonging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an upheaval of higher education curricula across the globe, with many pivoting to online at very short notice. For health education, this challenge has been further exacerbated by competing priorities for clinicians involved in both healthcare delivery and teaching. Through all this, teachers have shown high levels of creativity, transferring what might previously have been thought only possible on campus or within a clinical setting to online. Many have felt empowered to try new things, such as virtual consultations. Alongside this, new networks have been formed, and conferences made accessible to many more by being virtual. Nonetheless, other challenges have been added to people’s daily lives—the increase in meetings, the lack of variation in the day, and disparity in access to hardware and internet bandwidth.
This Special Issue is seeking papers on perspectives and challenges in moving online during this time, and the opportunities it has created. It will draw together ways the community has operationalized this transition, from on-campus to fully online to blended. It will look at ways institutions have managed processes such as quality assurance, teaching and assessment adaptations, student and staff wellbeing, and accessibility issues. It will also provide an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to reflect on lessons learnt, and the positives we can take forward in future health education.
Topics covered and welcome for submission include the following:
- Supporting and developing health education faculty;
- Creating and maintaining a sense of belonging for online learners;
- Facilitating engagement for remote learners;
- Identifying and supporting struggling students;
- The challenges of pivoting assessment and solutions;
- Specific health education contexts including consultations and clinical skills.
Dr. Susie J. Schofield
Dr. Ahsan Sethi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- healthcare profession education
- online assessment
- faculty development
- virtual learning
- sense of belonging
- COVID-19
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