Online Distance Learning Outcomes Compared to Traditional Classroom Learning in Medicine

NCT ID: NCT03079349

Last Updated: 2017-03-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 274 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2017-03-01

Brief Summary

To test whether the investigator's educational methodology is associated with increasing learning of participants. The investigators second objective is to test the hypothesis that learning in an online classroom would result in similar outcomes as the traditional classroom.

Detailed Description

Subjects will be randomized into a "control" group attending a traditional classroom and a "trial" group of equal numbers participating in an online synchronous Internet streaming classroom.

Main outcome measures: Pre and post multiple choice examinations of Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR), Movement, Head Turns, Head Tremor, Neurodegeneration, Inferior Olivary Complex, Collateral Projections, Eye Movement Training, Visual Saccades, Head Saccades, Visual Impairment, Walking Speed, Neuroprotection, Autophagy, Hyperkinetic Movement, Eye and Head Stability, Oscilllatory Head Movements, Gaze Stability, Leaky Neural Integrator, Cervical Dystonia, Interstitial Nucleus of Cajal (INC) and Head Tilts, Visual Pursuits, Optokinetic Stimulation, Vestibular Rehabilitation.

Methods: All candidates will take a pretest examination of the subject material. Two 9-hour and one 8-hour sessions over 3 consecutive days will be given live in the classroom or synchronously in the online classroom using the Adobe Connect e-learning platform. Subjects randomized to the online classroom will attend the lectures in a location of their choice and will view the sessions live on the Internet. A posttest examination will be given to all candidates after completion of the course.

Conditions

Educational Problems

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Traditional Classroom

Medical Education

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Medical Education

Intervention Type: OTHER

All candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a post course test.

Medical Intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

All candidates in the Experimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in theExperimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a post course test.

Online Synchronous Classroom

Medical Education

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Medical Education

Intervention Type: OTHER

All candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a post course test.

Medical Intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

All candidates in the Experimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in theExperimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a post course test.

Interventions

Medical Education

All candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in the Active Comparator: Traditional Classroom will take a post course test.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Medical Intervention

All candidates in the Experimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a pre course test of the subject material followed by two 9-hour and one 8-hour educational sessions given over 3 consecutive days. Following the educational sessions all candidates in theExperimental: Online Synchronous Classroom will take a post course test.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Licensed Health Care Professional, Active Practice

Exclusion Criteria

• Non Licensed Health Care Professional, Non Active Practice

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Frederick R Carrick, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in Association with the University of Cambridge

References

Carrick FR, Abdulrahman M, Hankir A, Zayaruzny M, Najem K, Lungchukiet P, Edwards RA. Randomized Controlled Study of a Remote Flipped Classroom Neuro-otology Curriculum. Front Neurol. 2017 Jul 24;8:349. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00349. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 28790966 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CI #20170222001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id