Opportunities and Obstacles for Providing Medical Education Through Social Media

Opportunities and Obstacles for Distance Education in Agricultural Education

A nationwide study using delphi techniques was conducted to develop consensus andprovide focus and direction for future research activities concerning the adoption of electronic communication, information, and imaging technologies for instructional use in agricultural education settings. A panel of 61 distance education experts were identified The four objectives were to identify the: I)positiv...

Advancing social media in medical education.

Facebook and the others. Potentials and obstacles of Social Media for teaching in higher education

Social Media tools are seen by many authors as powerful drivers of change for teaching and learning practices, in terms of openness, interactivity and sociability. However, extensive surveys about actual use that are carried out with large samples at a national level are rare. This study reports the results of a survey addressed to the Italian academic staff, with the aim of identifying the use...

Social Media and Free Open Access Medical Education: The Future of Medical and Nursing Education?

Future evolution of traditional journals and social media medical education.

Over the past two decades, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool for the dissemination of medical knowledge. The routine online publication of peer-reviewed journals and the standardisation of the portable document format (.pdf) marked a coming of age for Internet technology allowing readers, authors and editors to quickly access articles old and new and share them efficiently. Although t...