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E-Learning: Is There Anything Special about the "E"?

2008; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 51; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/pbm.2008.0007

1529-8795

David A. Cook, Furman S. McDonald,

Problem and Project Based Learning

E-learning has been widely utilized in medical education and suggested by some proponents to represent a fundamental advance in educational methodology. We challenge this conclusion by examining e-learning in the context of broader learning theories, specifically as they relate to instructional design and methods. Core tenets of educational design are applied to e-learning in a unified model for instructional design, and examples of e-learning technologies are examined in the context of medical education, with reflections on research questions generated by these new modalities. Throughout, we argue that e-learning is a tool that, when designed appropriately, can be used to meet worthy educational goals.